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Note: These capsule biographies were written in the summer of 2005; therefore, they represent only the contributors' accomplishments up to and including that point. Comedian/writer Nick Adams has graced the stages of some of the nation's finest comedy clubs. And some of the not-so-fine ones. He's written for and appeared on Black Entertainment Television and the Oxygen Network. Making Friends With Black People, his hilarious collection of essays on race, will be published by Kensington Books in March 2006. No dead people were fucked for the writing of his essay. Steve Almond is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal, The Evil B.B. Chow, and Candyfreak. He lives and eats in Somerville, MA. Deborah Taj Anapol attended Barnard College, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley, and received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Washington in 1981. Dr. Anapol is the author of Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits (1997), Compersion (2000), and The Seven Natural Laws of Love (2005). She is currently at work on a book about harmonizing feminine and masculine energies. Dr. Anapol has organized and produced several conferences, as well as working with couples, families, and individuals who are exploring conscious relating, Tantra, and sexual healing. She leads seminars nationwide and is an inspiring and controversial speaker who has appeared on radio and television programs all across the US and Canada. Dr. Anapol is available for phone coaching, conference presentations, personal retreats, and public speaking engagements. Call her at 415.507.1739, email <taj@lovewithoutlimits.com>, or visit her in cyberspace at [www.lovewithoutlimits.com] or [www.sevenlawsoflove.com]. Lisa Archer's pseudonymous musings have appeared in Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (Alyson, 2004), Best Women's Erotica 2002 and 2004 (Cleis), Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology (Pluto, 2004), and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "A legendary name from the Golden Age of Pulps" (Fabio Cleto, Spine Intact, Some Creases), Victor J. Banis is the author of nearly 150 books and numerous shorter pieces. A native of Ohio and long-time resident of San Francisco, Banis now makes his home in the Blue Ridge of West Virginia and devotes his time to writing and gardening. Jennifer Bennett received her undergraduate degree in art history from Smith College and an MFA in writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She current resides in central Ohio. Most of her identity labels have shifted over time, but current practicing, non-theoretical I.D. tags include: bisexual, switch, poly, and girly tomboy. She has a predilection for sharp, shiny objects and has recently acquired a taste for 18g needles. Dr. Catherine Blackledge is the author of The Story of V, which was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in August 2003. The Story of V is about different views of the vagina—views from science and medicine, history, anthropology, art, mythology, and more. The Story of V is also published in the US, Belgium, Holland, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. It is due to be published in Spain, Japan, Italy, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and China. Eve Ensler says of the book: "The Story of V reveals the ancient and newfound powers of the vagina. It is full of mystery and secrets and truth. If we only knew what we had under our skirts! Learn the story-read this book." Eve is incorporating aspects of the book into The Vagina Monologues. Catherine says: "My hope is that, because of this book, you won't ever look at the vagina, and women, in quite the same way again." Catherine was born in 1968. Following a science degree and PhD, she worked as a science and medical journalist for print, TV, and radio publications. The Story of V is her first book. Since publication, Catherine has gone back to college to do an MA in the history of medicine and has begun researching her next book, looking at the history of another taboo topic. Joani Blank, MA, MPH has been working in the sex field for more than 30 years. She is the founder of Good Vibrations and Down There Press in San Francisco, and is the author or editor of nine books published by Down There. She lives in an urban cohousing community in downtown Oakland, California, with her lap-poodle, Bapu-ji. Violet Blue is an author, editor, robot mechanic, female porn expert, and professional pro-porn pundit. She is the assistant editor at Fleshbot [www.fleshbot.com] by day and a human blog by night. Violet has been a published sex columnist and trained professional sex educator since 1998, a member of Survival Research Laboratories since 1996, and she frequently lectures to students about human sexuality in UC's and community teaching institutions. She is the editor of five anthologies and the author of four books, two of which have been bestselling sex advice books since their release and have been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. Her influences are J.G. Ballard, David Sedaris, John Waters, Emir Kusturica, Mark Pauline, A.M. Holmes, Patrick Califia, and Patty Hearst. She has been interviewed, featured, and quoted as an expert by more magazine, Web, television, and radio outlets than can be listed here, including O (Oprah) magazine, NPR, CNN, Wired, Esquire, and WebMD. For more information visit her website [tinynibbles.com]. Jack Boulware is a journalist and author of two nonfiction books: Sex, American Style (Feral House) and San Francisco Bizarro (St. Martin's). He writes for many publications in the US and UK, and is currently working on a new book project. In a previous life, he was founding editor of the satirical investigative Nose magazine, where he had the opportunity to visit many heinous elements of the American experience, including Area 51, Roswell, Waco, Tijuana, and the Mustang Ranch. He lives in San Francisco, and is codirector of the Bay Area's Litquake literary festival. [www.jackboulware.com] Bill Brent founded Black Sheets magazine and edited all seventeen issues between 1993 and 2000. He's the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men (Cleis Press, 2002). His fiction appears in The Best American Erotica 1997, Tough Guys, Best Gay Erotica 2002 and 2004, Best S/M Erotica, and Rough Stuff, plus its sequel, Roughed Up. He coedited the Best Bisexual Erotica series with Dr. Carol Queen, the second volume being a finalist in the fourteenth Lambda Literary Awards. His articles have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Bay Times, other magazines, P.O.V., and at [goodvibes.com]. He has authored several chapbooks of poems and short prose, and published a number of books, including Hot Off the Net, edited by Russ Kick (see [www.blackbooks.com/catalog]). Want his email newsletter? Drop him a line at <verbose@comcast.net>, or check out [www.authorsden.com/billbrent] for more of his prose and other writing. Susie Bright edits the annual Best American Erotica series (started in 1993 and still going strong), and she edited the first three volumes of Herotica (1988, 1992, 1994), the groundbreaking collections of women-centered erotic fiction. Her numerous essays are collected in Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World (Cleis, 1990), Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader (Cleis, 1992), SexWise (Cleis, 1995), The Sexual State of the Union (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie (Thunder's Mouth, 2004). Her other books include How To Write a Dirty Story (Simon and Schuster, 2002), Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999), and the edited collection Three the Hard Way (Simon and Schuster, 2004). Additionally, Bright cofounded On Our Backs, the first lesbian sex magazine created by lesbians; wrote a column for Salon; was the subject of a documentary on Britain's Channel 4; lectures at America's top universities; and hosts In Bed With Susie Bright, a weekly online "radio" show at Audible.com. Her website is [www.susiebright.com], and her blog is [susiebright.blogs.com]. Vern L. Bullough, PhD, DSci, RN, is a State University of New York Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He also served for ten years as a dean at Buffalo State College. He was a founder of the Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge. Among other things, he is a past president and fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and has been awarded both the Kinsey Award and the Money Award by that society. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 50 books, has contributed chapters to more than 100 others, and has written more than 150 refereed articles. [www.vernbullough.com] Rachel Kramer Bussel [www.rachelkramerbussel.com] is senior editor at Penthouse Variations and a contributing editor at Penthouse, where she writes the "Girl Talk" column. She is the editor of Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, volumes 1 and 2, writes the "Lusty Lady" column for the Village Voice, and is an interviewer at Gothamist [gothamist.com]. Her writing has been published in over 60 erotic anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004, as well as AVN, Bust, Clean Sheets [cleansheets.com], Curve, Diva, Girlfriends, mediabistro.com, the New York Post, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Punk Planet, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, and others. Patrick Califia is the author of two collections of essays from Cleis Press, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex and Speaking Sex to Power. He also wrote Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. He's the author of several collections of short erotic fiction, two novels, a book of poetry, and a forthcoming memoir entitled Pioneer. [www.patrickcalifia.com] M. Christian is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, and Filthy (forthcoming). He is the editor of The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, the Best S/M Erotica series, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowski), and over fourteen other anthologies. His short fiction has appeared in over 150 books, including Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, and…well, you get the idea. He lives in San Francisco and is only some of what that implies. [www.mchristian.com] Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, and the Skeptical Inquirer, as well as several anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2005. She is the author of "Bending," an erotic novella published by Simon & Schuster in the three-novella collection Three Kinds of Asking For It, as well as the editor of Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. Her influential essay "Are We Having Sex Now or What?" has been reprinted several times and has been studied and cited by scholars, writers, and universities. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. Her Oscarology sign is West Side Story. You can visit her on the Web at [www.gretachristina.com]. Christen Clifford is a writer and performer in New York. Her work has appeared in Nerve, Salon, New York Press, and Blue. She has performed on Broadway and Off, in film and television, and in regional and international theaters. She is a visiting scholar at New York University and has received a couple of fellowships and residencies here and there. Her solo performance, 17 Guys I Fucked, was produced at the Culture Project, Women Center Stage, the BRIC Theatre, and the Oni Gallery. She created the performance series HEAT: Sexy Stories and Burlesque and is currently working toward an MFA from the New School. Michelle Clifford is an author and photographer. She was born
in South Boston and grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She escaped the
unbearable sunshine in 1985 to the grit of New York City. Just in time
to see the fall of decadent Rome in the form of Times Square. Clifford
teamed up with Bill Landis, a writer and known quantity in the Times Square
milieu. He had been the first to document the Deuce, and she liked his
style. They joined forces and became the tag team from Hell. Clifford
began photographing and taking copious notes of everything that the Deuce
had to display. She became the Margaret Mead/Alfred Kinsey two-headed
monster of Times Square, taking the histories of the performers in the
films that the decrepit movie houses were screening. Her research was
relentless and neverending. Like Marlow in search of Col. Kurtz in Heart
of Darkness, she became acquainted through Landis with the movie-house
workers that ran these films, the riffraff, the con artists, the whores
and their pimps. She listened to their stories and began her writing.
She has written for such diverse publications as Film Comment,
Screw, Hustler, Penthouse, and the Village Voice,
oftentimes leaving her name off of the byline for privacy. One Voice
cover story, "Body For Rent," was the most popular issue of
the newspaper that year. With the amount of material so overwhelming,
Clifford began the publication Metasex. No editing, no plot resolution,
no happy endings. She coauthored the HarperCollins book Anger,
the unauthorized biography of underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger in all
his artistic, masochistic, Satanic glory. Again leaving her name off the
byline. She then resurrected Bill Landis' magazine, Sleazoid Express,
after seeing him kill it off after his own involvement in pornography.
She completely overhauled it with a vengeance. The magazine changed from
a few-page mimeograph to a novella-length publication. She created covers
and content that brought the magazine back to life. Her latest book, Sleazoid
Express, published by Simon and Schuster, is currently stinking up
the universe in its second printing. It is included in syllabi at colleges
in classes as diverse as architecture and film history. She continues
to publish Metasex [www.metasex.org]
and Sleazoid Express [www.sleazoidexpress.com]. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Primarily a Surrealist, his masterworks include the paintings The Persistence of Memory (1931), Sleep (1937), One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate (1944), and Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954). Susan Davis is a folklorist. She is researching a book on Gershon Legman. Dirty Found. "We collect dirty found stuff: pervy Polaroids, sleazy birthday cards, raunchy to-do lists, nasty poetry on napkins, illustrations-anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's sex life. It's just like our sister, Found Magazine, only sleazier. We certainly didn't invent the idea of found stuff being cool. Every time we visit our friends in other towns, someone's always got some kinda unbelievable found note or photo on their fridge. We wanted to make a magazine so that everyone can check out all the strange, hilarious, and heartbreaking things people've picked up. After a few years of collecting all these finds, we ended up with a big, fat folder of pervy stuff, and now it's time to share the goods with you guys. For more info, check [www.dirtyfound.com] and [www.foundmagazine.com]. For Dirty Found orders in the US, send $10 (plus $3 shipping). For international orders (outside the US), send $10 (plus $6 shipping) to the address below. Send us your finds! Dirty Found, 3455 Charing Cross Road, Ann Arbor MI 48108-1911, USA." Albert B. Gerber, MA, JD taught high school English, practiced law, administered the First Amendment Lawyer's Association, and won competitions in handball, marksmanship, bridge, and fiction. He began his writing career as a columnist for Stars and Stripes. After the war he continued his writing with stories and articles in many newspapers and magazines. The Book of Sex Lists (1981) is his sixth book. He has written biographies and a novel. He also authored the classic study of obscenity, Sex, Pornography and Justice (1965), and the bestselling biography of Howard Hughes, Bashful Billionaire (1967). Stephen J. Gertz is an historian and bibliographer of erotic literature, writer, and antiquarian bookseller in Los Angeles. Poor, yet poverty-stricken, he accepts checks for work as soon as they can be cut. Jay A. Gertzman is author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). He is currently researching the distribution and prosecution of erotica in the Times Square area, c. 1940-75. He has a website on the subject: [home.earthlink.net/~jgertzma/BkshopsofTimesSq/index.html]. The easiest way to get to there is to type "bookshops of times square" in Google. He is also interested in the Philadelphia noir crime novelist of the 1950s, David Goodis. Jon Hart has written for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Village Voice. Fiona Horne is a practicing Witch of over fifteen years and author of several bestselling titles on Witchcraft. She is also an internationally successful television and radio personality and was once a rock star, as lead singer in the 1990s chart-topping Australian band Def FX. Fiona's talents as a performer have now extended into acting, with featured roles in theatrically released films. For more information on Fiona visit her website [www.fionahorne.com]. Debra Hyde discovered everything she knew about sex was wrong when, long ago, she kissed a boy and learned that everything her mother had told her was bullshit. Today, she mouths off regularly about sex and culture at her blog, Pursed Lips [www.pursedlips.com], and her erotic fiction appears in many major erotica anthologies. She thinks life's too short for prudery, sex-phobic thinking, and sexual stupidity, and writes to counter those voices that would like nothing more than a full return to the days of the Comstock Law. Ed Jacob is a Canadian freelance writer and translator living and working in Tokyo. He is currently writing a book about sex in Japan for Caffeine Society Press [caffeinesociety.com], which will be out in 2006. [www.quirkyjapan.or.tv] Earl Kemp, a national nuisance, has been known by many (dis)guises: adventurer, explorer, lover, beloved, literary rebel, First Amendment convict savant, and numerous others, mostly all bad. He is best known as the notorious producer, during the Golden Age of Sleaze Paperbacks, of more than 5,000 novels and half again that many Naked people magazines. In his dotage, he dribbles memoirs at [efanzines.com/EK/index.html] and has become The (uppercase) Chronicler of the entire genre. David Kerekes is editor/publisher of Headpress [www.headpress.com] and coauthor of the books Killing for Culture (Creation, 1994) and See No Evil (Critical Vision, 2000). He has contributed to numerous periodicals in the mainstream and alternative presses and lives in Manchester, Great Britain. Russ Kick. See the preceding section, "About the Editor." Paul Krassner is the author of One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist. His website is [paulkrassner.com]. Brenda Billings Love, author, counselor, international lecturer, and columnist, is noted for her contribution to sexology in the field of paraphilias by meticulously cataloging over 700 unusual sex acts. In 1984, she became a supervisor and counselor for the National Sexually Transmitted Disease hotline, providing medical information and referrals to hundreds of callers each year. She expanded her responsibility in 1986 to include a supervisory position for the National AIDS Hotline and later the San Francisco Sex Information switchboard. In 1997 she spent nine months working on the San Mateo Suicide Crisis Line. In 1992, her book, The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, was published after four years of extensive research. She is a lecturer and researcher for the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Her lecture and slide show was produced on video this same year by the Institute and distributed to sexologists around the world. She has also appeared as a guest on the Joan Rivers Show, the Richard Bey Show, the Al Goldstein Show, the Jenny Jones Show, People Are Talking, the Mo Show, and has been interviewed on over 400 radio programs. In 1994 the foreign rights to the Encyclopedia were sold to publishers in Germany, Japan, Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the UK. Love is a former member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the American Psychological Association. She is currently a writer and travels between her homes in Prague, Czech Republic and Charleston, South Carolina. Libby Lynn works for a large adult company in the United States. In between meetings and writing descriptions for every sexual device known to woman or man, she maintains a blog called Rollertrain [rollertrain.blogspot.com]. Rachel Maines is the author of The Technology of Orgasm (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and Asbestos and Fire (Rutgers University Press, 2005). She holds a doctoral degree in applied history from Carnegie-Mellon University and is a visiting scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. Laura Moore, the eloquent Southern belle who surprises and enchants everyone with her visionary "sexpertise," has been a science writer for Penthouse since 1997, and she has her own sex and fitness columns in Iron Man Magazine and Fitness Rx for Men. She is a freelance writer for dozens of publications, including Muscular Development Magazine, American Health and Fitness Magazine, and Fitness Rx for Women. Laura majored in psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, and she has been involved in the health and fitness industry since 1985, helping thousands of people, including NFL athletes, professional bodybuilders, and models, reach their physical goals. Laura was the editor of Southern Muscle Magazine and has authored and self-published The Ten Commandments of Health and Fitness (which is what originally gave rise to Sex Heals) and Fun, Creative, Motivating, and Relaxing Uses For Tiny Candy Coated Chocolates. Laura practices what she preaches. She was featured in Muscle Media Magazine just one month after the birth of her first son, and she won a VENUS Swimsuit Model Contest just five months after the birth of her second son. She was also chosen as Iron Man Magazine's Body of the Month for September 2001. Laura credits lots of orgasms, in addition to living a healthy lifestyle, for being in such spectacular physical shape. To find out more about Sex Heals, visit [www.thehealthysexymom.com]. Jill Morley wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl. It was produced in Manhattan for five years, and at San Francisco's Solo Mio Festival, the Texas Fringe Festival, and LA's HBO Workspace, plus it opened Women's History Month at NYU. True Confessions is published in The Best Women's Plays of 1998. Other works are published in More Women's Monologues For Women, By Women, Millennium Monologues, Young Women's Monologues From Contemporary Plays, and many other collections. Morley's critically acclaimed documentary film, STRIPPED, currently runs on the Sundance Channel and won "Best Documentary" at the Women's International Film Festival in Sydney. A contributing writer to the Village Voice, the New York Press, Penthouse, Inside Kung Fu, Martial Arts and Combat Sports, Shout magazine, and Gear magazine, Jill also coproduced two radio documentaries for The World and This American Life, which aired on NPR. Jill worked with Michael Moore as a producer and correspondent for The Awful Truth, and with Brazilian director Bruno Barreto, reworking dialogue on his newest film. She is currently developing a television show and working on a screenplay with Dustin Hoffman. Pagan Moss quit her high-paying corporate job in 2000 to work as an erotic dancer/lingerie model and peep show girl. Later that year, she started blogging on Dr. Menlo's Sensual Liberation Army [sensuallib.com]—one of the first sexblogs. In 2003, she started her own blog, Peep Show Stories [peepshowstories.com], which features detailed and often humorous stories and photos of her adult-business experience. She presently lives in Seattle and works for a group of psychologists. Jack Murnighan has worked as a medievalist, a magazine editor, a freelancer, a professor, a cook, and a vacuum cleaner salesman. His books The Naughty Bits and Classic Nasty try to show how fun and sexy literature is, his short stories and essays how fun and sexy life is. Jill Nagle has been published widely in anthologies, periodicals, and online. Her first book was the acclaimed Whores and Other Feminists (Routledge, 1997), a collection of writings by feminists in the sex industry, and she has since written two more, Efemmeral Flesh: corporeal utterances (Audacity Press, 2004) and How to Find An Agent Who Can Sell Your Book for Top Dollar: Jill's Guerilla Tips and Tricks (GetPublished, 2004). She is coeditor of Male Lust: Pleasure, Power and Transformation (Haworth, 2000). She is currently working on a number of book-length projects, some excerpts of which may be viewed at her blog [www.jillnagle.com]. She lives in the Berkeley Hills with her partner, Alex, and toddler, Cainan. Annalee Newitz writes about technology, sex, and pop culture. She is a contributing editor at Wired magazine and has published in Popular Science, Salon, New Scientist, The Believer, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She writes the syndicated column "Techsploitation" and is the editor of two anthologies, White Trash (Routledge, 1996) and Bad Subjects (NYU Press, 1998). Her forthcoming book, Pretend We're Dead (Duke University Press), is about monster movies and capitalism. She is also editor of the indie magazine Other. Breyer P-Orridge. Genesis P-Orridge was born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, England, on the 22nd of February 1950. ¶ In 1969 Genesis became the Founding Artist and Theorist of seminal British Performance Art group C.O.U.M. Transmissions in Shrewsbury, England. The project was terminated in September 1976 with a final but now infamous show called “Prostitution” at the I.C.A. Gallery in London. This was the first time that the general public would witness Punk Rock and Industrial culture firsthand. The event caused an uproar (the venue was owned by Queen Elizabeth II) that would result in controversial newspaper reviews, television talk show appearances, and even meetings in Parliament! ¶ Seminal cult band Throbbing Gristle was formed in 1975, of which Genesis was a Co-Founder and Linguistic Designer. Throbbing Gristle formed their own record label, Industrial Records, and coined the term “Industrial Music.” ¶ Sonic/Transmedia music and performance collective Psychic TV formed in Hackney, London with Alex Fergusson in 1981. ¶ Together with the formation of PTV, Genesis initiated an Art Actionist Project called Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY). Over its span of ten years, the TOPY network reached around the globe with over 10,000 participants. ¶ On December 23, 2002, TG 24 was released on Mute Records. This deluxe box set contains 24 CDs, each an original one-hour long recording of a live Throbbing Gristle set. A monograph book, Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge, was published by Soft Skull/Shortwave Press in January 2003. ¶ Genesis has worked with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, and Derek Jarman, among many others. ¶ In 2003 Genesis changed his name to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and began a performance/action series called “Breaking Sex” that was initiated by both he and his partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. This project is about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. This includes having cosmetic surgeries that blur the lines between their sexes and bring them nearer to being one physically. For example, the couple has undergone matching breast-implant operations for Valentine’s Day and their ten-year anniversary. ¶ Recently Genesis and Lady Jaye have been undergoing physical transformations largely via cosmetic surgery, although also through tattoos, as Breyer P-Orridge. These operations are designed to mutate their bodies into pandrogenous affirmations beyond the limits dictated by biology and by DNA, each continually transforming both into and beyond the other, creating a third body—THE PANDROGYNE. ¶ Breyer P-Orridge are currently working on a DVD called Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, which features footage of the artists’ various surgical procedures combined with calligraphy. [www.genesisp-orridge.com] Preston Peet is an accomplished author, actor, dj, musician, psychonaut, and explorer. Editor of Underground: The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History and Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs, editor of DrugWar.com, a long-time contributor to High Times magazine, and contributing editor to Disinformation's website [disinfo.com], not to mention author of over 100 articles and stories published in too many publications to list here, Preston has been known to take the more adventurous path when it comes to new experiences, whether they be drug-related or sexual, or other, in nature. Born Tracy Rich in Ft. Meyers, Florida on September 11, 1966, and given up at birth, lived in numerous foster homes, picked the name Preston at age three and was eventually adopted by the Peet family at age five. Preston has lived in the swankiest digs and the muddiest streets in cities around the world, including Sarasota, Orlando, Tampa, and Tallahassee, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Paris, France; Las Navas del Marqés, Spain; Bergen, Norway; Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Netherlands; and London, England. Upon arrival in New York City, Preston went from kicking cold turkey while squatting on the SUNY Purchase campus, to living strung out in Central Park and on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and now, with his life somewhat together, shares a small apartment in Manhattan with his beautiful vegan muse, soul-mate, and lover, Vanessa Cleary, and, at the moment, nine rescued cats. Preston is always on the lookout for ever more knowledge and experience, and is helping bring peace and adventure back in vogue. Diane Petryk-Bloom has won seven awards for investigative journalism and feature writing, including honors from the New York Associated Press, the New York Newspaper Publisher's Association, the North Carolina Press Association, and the Georgia Associated Press. She was news editor of the Sanford Herald in Sanford, Florida; assistant city editor of the Savannah Morning News in Georgia; and editor of the St. Ignace News in northern Michigan. While reporting for the New York Times' regional paper in Hendersonville, North Carolina, her investigation of a school-board pay scandal brought about the reform of a corrupt system. She holds a Master's degree in journalism from Michigan State University and studied comparative journalism in Croatia. She also worked as a subeditor for the New Zealand national daily The Dominion. As a reporter for the Press Republican in Plattsburgh, New York, she was part of a team honored by the Associated Press for its localized and comprehensive 9/11 coverage. Carol Queen got a PhD in sexology so she could impart more realistic detail to her smut. She's an award-winning author or editor of ten volumes of sex writing, including Real Live Nude Girl, 5 Minute Erotica, and Exhibitionism for the Shy. (For a full bibliography, see [www.carolqueen.com].) She lives in San Francisco, where she works as staff sexologist at Good Vibrations and founding director of the Center for Sex & Culture [www.sexandculture.org], a sex-ed center/library/archive. Audacia Ray is a New Yorker, polyamorous pervert, smut peddler, nakedteer, sex worker, safer-sex educator, and history of sexuality enthusiast who is pursuing a Master's degree in cultural history. She is the news and shorts editor of $pread magazine and prefers to spend her days in her underwear. [www.wakingvixen.com] Ann Regentin has written everything from reading-comprehension tests and reference material to poetry and music, but mostly she writes erotica. Her work has appeared in a handful of anthologies, magazines, and websites. She is the author of three e-books so far, and one of her poems has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in the American Midwest. Lori Selke lives in Oakland, California. Her work can be found in anthologies, such as Homewrecker, Glamour Girls, and Blowing Kisses. She no longer does phone sex except on an amateur basis. Simon Sheppard is the author of the books Sex Parties 101, In Deep: Erotic Stories, and Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion. His work has appeared in over 125 anthologies, including many editions of Best American Erotica and Best Gay Erotica, and he writes the columns "Sex Talk" and "Perv." He's at work on an historically-based anthology of gay porn-those with vintage smut are encouraged to get in touch. He's at [www.simonsheppard.com]. Jen Sincero is a musician, motivational speaker, and the author of The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping With Chicks and Don't Sleep With Your Drummer. She is happiest when informing people that if they believe in themselves and get off their asses to do the things they love, they will be victorious, regardless of how overwhelming or socially unacceptable those things may seem. Which is pretty much what both of her books are about. Go to [www.jensincero.com] for her books, essays, music, workshops, tour schedule, and advice on sex and relationships. David Steinberg writes frequently on the culture and politics of sex in America. His books include Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age, Erotic by Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, and The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self. His writing has appeared in Salon, Playboy, Boston Phoenix, Los Angeles Weekly, SF Weekly, Cupido, the Sun, Libido, the Realist, Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, Metro Santa Cruz, and Anything That Moves. His monthly column, "Comes Naturally," is available (free and confidential) from him at <eronat@aol.com>. He lives in Santa Cruz, California. John Stevens, nicknamed the "Erotic Professor," teaches Buddhism and Aikido at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, Japan. He is author of Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex (Shambhala Publications) and dozens of other books. Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, and sexuality activist. She is the author of various works of erotic fiction, including The Velderet and Black Feathers, and her short stories have appeared everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse. She has also edited dozens of anthologies of erotic fiction for Circlet Press, Masquerade Books, and Blue Moon Books. Find out more at [www.ceciliatan.com]. Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the author of three books: True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion (Cleis Press), Down and Dirty Sex Secrets (ReganBooks/HarperCollins), and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (Cleis Press), winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.com's #1 Bestseller in Women's Sex Instruction in 1998. She is director, producer, and star of two videos based on her book, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 1 and 2; the first video won two Adult Video News Awards and an XRCO Award in 2000. Tristan is series editor of thirteen volumes of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology series Best Lesbian Erotica. She is a columnist for the Village Voice, Taboo, and Velvetpark. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the nation's oldest lesbian-produced lesbian sex magazine. Tristan has been featured in over 200 publications and dozens of radio shows; she has appeared on CNN, HBO's Real Sex, the Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, MTV, and the Discovery Channel. She lectures at top colleges and universities around the country, teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world, and does private coaching sessions for individuals and couples. Her official website is Pucker Up [www.puckerup.com]. Jane Vincent is a dyke-identified bisexual woman who loves using the term fluid to describe her sexuality. She has a degree in sexuality, will soon be pursuing a Master's in the topic, and no, you can't be her lab partner. She is a sexuality educator, certified sex coach, and sex worker. She has had more sex in more combinations and circumstances in the last five years than most people will have in their lives. She is a knitter, potter, blogger, and creative mess. And she just turned 23. Read her exploits and learn a thing or two at [educatedslut.blogspot.com]. Jenny Wade, PhD, is a developmental psychologist who specializes in normal and altered states of consciousness, especially the naturally occurring changes in awareness that facilitate personal growth and transformation. A consultant to business on workplace applications of normal adult consciousness, she also teaches doctoral studies and research design at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. Richard Zacks is the author of The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Hyperion, 2002), and it's NOT some lame Peter Pan/Hollywood account of peg-legs and eye patches. The real Captain Kidd was a New York privateer (1654-1701), who was hired to chase pirates and then double-crossed by his backers. This is an authentic nautical adventure and has been translated into Finnish and Spanish. Zacks' first book, History Laid Bare (1994), delivers unusual accounts of sex, from Mark Twain's jokes about penis size to Joan of Arc's virginity tests. The New York Times gushed: "Zacks specializes in the raunchy and perverse." His second book, An Underground Education (100,000+ copies sold) explores a huge range of topics, from Edison's secret role in developing the first electric chair to Abe Lincoln's plan to ship out the freed slaves. His latest book is The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805 (2005). The author lives in Pelham, NY, with his wife Kristine and their kids, Georgia and Ziggy. |
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