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About the Author

SUSIE BRIGHT is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including
The Best American Erotica
series; the first three editions of
Herotica
;
Sexwise
; and
The Sexual State of the Union
. She has written for
Esquire
,
Playboy
,
The Village Voice
,
The New York Times Book Review
, and
Salon
. She lectures and performs at theaters and universities nationwide and lives in Northern California.

Praise for Susie Bright

Utne Reader
: “A visionary.”

San Francisco Chronicle
: “[America’s] X-rated intellectual.”

The Boston Globe
: “Susie Bright has explored and mapped every crack and crevasse of contemporary sexual culture. Few writers chronicle our collective sexploits with more gusto.”

The New York Times Book Review
: “A pro-sex, free-speech firebrand, Ms. Bright refuses to let the sexual controversies of our day poison her passion.”

Other Titles by Susie Bright

The Sexual State of the Union

The Best American Erotica, 1993–1999 Nothing But the Girl (with Jill Posener) Herotica 1, 2, and 3

Sexwise

Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World

CREDITS

Cover design by John Lewis

Cover image © Ko Fujiwara / Photonica

FULL EXPOSURE.
Opening Up to Your Sexual Creativity & Erotic Expression.
Copyright

© 1999 by Susie Bright. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™.

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Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader July 2003 eISBN 0-06-058989-2

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      s e x u a l i t y

      H o w d o y o u R E A L LY f e e l a b o u t s e x ?

      Hailed by
      Utne
      Reader
      as
      "
      a visionary
      "
      and the
      San Francisco Chronicle
      as
      "
      the X-rated
      imellecmal
      ,"
      Sus
      i
      e
      Bright
      is
      indisputably
      the
      sexpen of our
      times
      .
      Now
      ,
      in
      a
      frank
      and
      inti.mate look
      a
      l
      our own erotic experience
      ,
      she
      reveals the
      ways
      in
      which individual sexual expression
      h
      as
      the power to inspire
      ,
      c
      h
      a
      ll
      enge
      ,
      and transform all
      aspects
      of our
      lives
      .
      Bright
      exp
      l
      o
      r
      es so
      m
      e
      of the most
      complex
      questions
      about sexuality
      today
      ,
      including
      :

      • What are the real differences between men
        ·
        and women·s
        sen e of
        the
        erotic?

      • Why i it so threatening
        to
        conscious]\
        address
        sexual
        de ire?

      • I there a line to be drawn in
        er
        tic
        creativity-can you go
        100
        far?

      • How
        can
        articulate
        erotic eiqJre
        _
        ion make us heller lover
        and,
        more important, better pe pie?

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