Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships (44 page)

TRISTAN TAORMINO is an award-winning author, columnist, editor,
and sex educator. She is the author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn
and Perversion; Down and Dirty Sex Secrets; and The Ultimate Guide to
Anal Sex for Women and editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning
anthology series Best Lesbian Erotica. She is a columnist for the Village
Voice and Hustler's Taboo. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is currently an exclusive director for
Vivid Entertainment. For Vivid, she directs the reality series Chemistry,
winner of several awards, including the 2007 AVN Award for Best
Gonzo Release. She also helms Vivid's sex education imprint, Vivid-Ed,
for which she has written, produced, and directed four titles: The Expert
Guide to Anal Sex; The Expert Guide to Oral Sex 1: Cunnilingus; The
Expert Guide to Oral Sex 2: Fellatio; and The Expert Guide to the G-Spot.

Tristan has been featured in over 250 publications including the
New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly,
Details, New York Magazine, Men's Health, and Playboy. She has appeared
on HBO's Real Sex, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, and on
CNN, MTV, and The Discovery Channel. She lectures at top colleges
and universities, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, alternative relationships, and feminism. She teaches sex
and relationship workshops around the world and runs two websites,
puckerup.com and openingup.net. She lives in upstate New York with
her partner and their three dogs.