Best Sex Writing 2009 (25 page)
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Authors: Rachel Kramer Bussel
BRIAN ALEXANDER
is the author of several books including
America Unzipped:The Search for Sex and Satisfaction,
currently out in paperback. He has also written for many magazines and newspapers including the
New York Times,
the
Los Angeles Times,Wired, Esquire, Glamour, Science,
and many more. He writes the “Sexploration” col- umn for MSNBC.com, and has made many television and radio appearances.
VIOLET BLUE
is the
San Francisco Chronicle
’s sex columnist, a Forbes Web Celebrity, and one of
Wired
’s Faces of Innovation 2008. She is the best-selling, award-winning author and editor of more than two dozen books on sexual health and erotica, with translations world- wide. Blue writes about sexuality for publications such as
Forbes
and
O:The Oprah Magazine,
and lectures to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley, tech conferences (ETech), sex crisis counselors at commu-
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nity teaching institutions, and Google Inc. Her website is tinynibbles. com, her tech site is techyum.com, and her audio and ebooks are self-published with multiple authors at digitapub.com.Webnation la- beled Blue “the leading sex educator for the Internet generation.”
SUSANNAH BRESLIN
is working on a novel based on her ex- periences in Porn Valley. She has written for
Details, Harper’s Ba- zaar, Newsweek,
Salon, Radar Online, and many other publications. Her blog, Reverse Cowgirl (reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com), was named one of Time.com’s Top 25 Blogs in 2008.
KELLY DAVIS
is the associate editor for
San Diego City Beat
, the alternative newsweekly she helped cofound in 2002. Her report- ing focuses on subjects such as homelessness, drug addiction, and criminal-justice policies.
STACEY D’ERASMO
is the author of the novels
Tea
(2000),
A Sea- horseYear
(2004), and the forthcoming
The Sky Below
(2009). She is an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University.
TRACIE EGAN
is an editor at the women’s website Jezebel.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog Edie.
KEEGAN HAMILTON
is a native of Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Communica- tions, class of 2007. He was a recipient of the
Village Voice
Media
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Editorial Fellowship and has been a staff writer at the
Riverfront Times
since December 2007. His work has also appeared in the
Seattle Weekly
, the
Nashville Scene
and the
West Seattle Herald
.
JAMES HANNAHAM
is a staff writer in the culture department at Salon.com. His first novel,
God Says No,
published by McSweeney’s Books in 2009, contains more than one bathroom sex scene.
LYNN HARRIS
(www.lynnharris.net) is an award-winning jour- nalist and author. Her most recent novel is the satirical mystery
Death By Chick Lit.
She contributes frequently to
Glamour,
the
New York Times
, Salon.com, Nerve.com, Nextbook.org, and many oth- ers, and she is cofounder of the venerable website BreakupGirl.net.
DAGMAR HERZOG
is professor of history at the Graduate Cen- ter of the City University of New York. She is the author of, most recently,
Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics,
as well as two pioneering books,
Intimacy and Ex- clusion
and
Sex After Fascism,
as well as numerous scholarly articles on the history of sexuality.
TOM JOHANSMEYER
is a New York-based freelance writer who covers the adult entertainment industry. In addition to writing AVN Online’s “Money Matters” column, Tom has written several investigative pieces, from debunking the claim that tax stimulus checks were being spent on porn to the confiscation of adult nov- elty items from civilian contractors serving in Iraq. His work has appeared in
Boston
magazine,
Penthouse, Trader Monthly
, and
Cigar Report,
among others.
ALAN R. LEVY
is a senior associate in the New York City office of
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Sedgwick, Detert, Moran, & Arnold, LLP and is a member of the firm’s Media, Entertainment, and Sports Law Practice Group. He can be reached at
[email protected].
DAVID LEVY
is an internationally recognized expert on artificial intelligence. He is president of the International Computer Games Association and in 1997 led the team that won the Loebner Prize— the world championship for conversational computer software. In 2006, he became the first person ever to present papers on intimate relationships with robotic partners at an international conference. He is the author of
Love and Sex with Robots:The Evolution of Hu- man-Robot Relationships
and
Robots Unlimited
. Levy lives in London with his wife, Christine, and their cat.
KRISTINA LLOYD
is the author of three erotic novels,
Darker Than Love, Asking for Trouble,
and
Split,
all published by Black Lace. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines both in the United Kingdom and the United States, and her novels have been translated into German, Dutch, and Japanese. She has a master’s distinction in Twentieth Century Literature, and has been described as “a fresh literary talent” who “writes sex with a formi- dable force.” She lives in Brighton on the south coast of England. For more, visit http://kristinalloyd.wordpress.com.
MISTRESS MORGANA MAYE
is an experienced San Francisco- based BDSM professional and sex educator. Her workshops on BDSM have delighted thousands of kink-curious people of all per- suasions, and she is the cowriter and host of the instructional video
Whipsmart:A Good Vibrations Guide to SM for Beginning Couples.
Her writing has appeared in
Best American Erotica 2005
and
Politically Inspired.
Mistress Morgana believes that the current Bush adminis-
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tration is neither safe, sane, nor consensual and could learn a great deal from the ethics of BDSM play.
DAPHNE MERKIN
is a cultural critic who has made a name for herself with her often-unnerving candor and elegantly High/Low reflections on issues of family, religion, psychotherapy and sex. She was a staff writer for the
New Yorker
for five years, where she wrote a movie column, book reviews and articles about subjects as varying as Marilyn Monroe, Freud, and Bridget Jones. She is cur- rently a contributing writer for the
NewYorkTimes Magazine
, where she writes profiles and personal essays as well as on topics like the search for the perfect perfume and her obsession with handbags for the
Times
“T” sections; her work appears regularly in Slate and
Elle
and in a variety of other publications, including
Vogue, Travel
&Leisure,
and
Allure
. Ms. Merkin is the author of two books: an au- tobiographical novel,
Enchantment,
which won the Edward Lewis Wallant award in 1986 for the best new work of fiction based on a Jewish theme, and
Dreaming of Hitler,
a collection of essays. She lives in New York City with her daughter.
NewYork City-based DEBBIE NATHAN writes a lot about anxi- eties over boundaries—national, racial, ethnic, and gender-based— and about how these fears often get displaced into sex panics. She’s especially interested in child sex abuse hysterias and was one of the first journalists to critically cover the 1980s “satanic daycare center” panic. She is author of
Women and Other Aliens: Essays from the U.S.- Mexico Border
and co-author of
Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
. She’s currently working on a book about the making of the 1970s bestseller
Sybil
. Her blog is www.debbienathan.com.
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MARY ROACH
is the author of the
NewYork Times
bestsellers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Af- terlife,
and
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Stiff
has been translated into 16 languages, and
Spook
was a NewYork Times Notable Book of 2005. Mary has written for
Outside, National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist,
the
New York Times Magazine,
and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She has been a contributing edi- tor at the science magazine
Discover
, a frequent contributor to the
New York Times Book Review,
a National Magazine Award finalist, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant. Read more at www.maryroach.net.
AMANDA ROBB
is a contributing writer at
O: The Oprah Mag- azine,
currently at work on a book about the abstinence move- ment. Her journalism has also appeared in a the
New York Times
,
Newsweek
,
George
,
Marie Claire
, and
More
magazines. Robb won a 2008 Sexie Award for an op-ed that appeared in the
NewYork Times
about federal funding for abstinence-only education and a 2003 Writers Guild Award for scriptwriting on the soap opera “All My Children.”Today she lives with her husband and daughter in New York City.
“JOSEPHINE THOMAS”
is the pseudonym of a freelance writer whose work has appeared in
Health, Self, Redbook, Marie Claire, Par- ents,
and
Parenting.
She lives with her husband and two children.
DON VAUGHAN
is a freelance writer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. His work appears regularly in an eclectic array of pub- lications, including
Military Officer Magazine, Nursing Spectrum, Heal Magazine, Penthouse Forum,
and
Mad
Magazine. In addition,
Vaughan has written, cowritten, ghosted, or contributed to twenty- five books on topics ranging from the Civil War to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He is also the founder of Triangle Area Free- lancers (www.triangleareafreelancers.org), the largest organization in North Carolina devoted to freelance writing.
Milwaukee native
DAN VEBBER
served His Country as one of the first editors of the
Onion
before writing for
Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Daria, Futurama, American Dad,
and other such programs catering to the valuable stoned-kids-who-light-their-farts demo- graphic. He currently resides in Development Hell, where his proj- ects include a stapled, Xeroxed packet of his cartoons rejected by the
NewYorker
, due to be sent to his mother sometime in ’08.
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL
(www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is an author, editor, blogger, and reading series host. She has edited or coedited more than twenty books of erotica, including
Tasting Him; Tasting Her; Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica; Naughty Spanking Stories 1
and
2; Yes, Sir; Yes, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Caught Looking; Hide and Seek; Crossdressing; Rubber Sex; Sex and Candy; Ultimate Undies; Glamour Girls; Bedding Down;
and
Best Sex Writing 2008.
Her work has been published in more than one hundred anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004
and
2006,
Zane’s
Chocolate Flava 2
and
Purple Panties, Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, Single State of the Union,
and
Desire: Women Write About Wanting.
She serves as senior editor at
Penthouse Variations,
and wrote the popular “Lusty Lady” column for the
Village Voice.
Rachel has written for
AVN, Bust,
Cleansheets.com,
Cosmo- politan, Curve,
Fresh Yarn, The Frisky, Gothamist, Huffington Post,
Mediabistro,
Newsday, New York Post, Penthouse, Playgirl, Radar, San Francisco Chronicle,Tango,Time Out NewYork
, and
Zink,
among oth- ers. She has been quoted in the
New York Times, USA Today, Maxim UK, Glamour UK, GQ Italy, National Post
(Canada),
Wysokie Obcasy (Poland), Seattle Weekly,
and other publications, and has appeared on “The Martha Stewart Show,” “The Berman and Berman Show,” NY1, and Showtime’s “Family Business
.
” She has hosted In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series since October 2005, about which the
New York Times
’s UrbanEye newsletter said she “welcomes eroticism of all stripes, spots, and textures.” She blogs at lustylady. blogspot.com and cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com.