SEXIS WRONG

Editor’s Introduction
Everything you know about sex is wrong? Well, maybe not everything, but I hope you’ll allow for a little
poetic license. Besides, when you start seriously digging into the vast, wild, largely
uncharted world of sex, it can start to feel that way.
Masturbation is always a solitary activity. Nope.
Hardcore porn has only been around for a few decades. Uh-uh.
There are only two genders. Wrong.
Women’s sex drives shut down when they’re pregnant. Not hardly.
Everyone gets laid at an orgy. Porn is inherently degrading. Prostitutes and
strippers are victims. Writing good sex scenes is easy. You must have sensation in
your genitals in order to orgasm. Circumcision doesn’t affect your sex life. There’s
nothing sexy about chess. Or blood. All myths.
But this book is about much more than knocking down false beliefs. The
contributors tackle things you may not even have considered. Who knew that
being cold could be a turn-on? Or that a woman in her seventies and a man in his
twenties could have a great relationship? What’s sex like when you’re tripping
on LSD? What goes on inside one of the world’s largest dildo factories? Do
erotic dancers ever get turned on by their customers? Who is the “Miller” in the
Supreme Court’s famous Miller standard for obscenity? And—perhaps the least
obvious question of them all—is the rectum an Easter basket?
Still other writers in these pages are rescuing sexual knowledge in danger of
disappearing: The goings-on in the infamous but now extinct porno theaters of
Times Square. The legendary powers of the vagina. The work of the greatest
erotic folklorist of all time. Japan’s disappearing sex museums. The world’s biggest
collection of pornographic material. The most famous swingers’ club, long defunct.
The forgotten sex books published by bodybuilder Charles Atlas. The photo of
Jesus and the adulteress that Hustler wouldn’t run.
Maybe by reading some of these articles and essays, you’ll realize that you’re not
the only one who has experienced altered states of consciousness during sex, that
other people name their sexy bits, that at least one other person in the world gets
an erotic charge from popping pimples.
The subject of sex is practically infinite, and it touches on almost every other
aspect of existence—religion, language, politics, law, health, death, art, literature,
humor, history, love, violence, psychology, money, lies, truth.... Everything we
know about it may not be wrong, but we sure don’t know much.
–Russ Kick
Tucson, Arizona
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