The Whole Lesbian Sex Book (51 page)
Read The Whole Lesbian Sex Book Online
Authors: Felice Newman
Tags: #Health & Fitness, #Sexuality, #Reference, #Personal & Practical Guides, #Self-Help, #Sexual Instruction, #Social Science, #Lesbian Studies
3333 California St., Suite 340,
San Francisco, CA 94118
Tel. (415) 502-5209
Fax (415) 502-5208
[email protected]
www.lesbianhealthinfo.org
Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services
Provides personalized health care and support services to women and transgendered people who lack access to quality care because of their sexual or gender identity, regardless of their ability to pay.
1748 Market St., Suite 201,
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 565-7667
Fax (415) 252-7490
TDD (415) 252-7499
[email protected]
www.lyon-martin.org
Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
Direct services to lesbians with cancer, their partners, and caregivers as well as community education and advocacy.
1707 L St., NW, Suite 500,
Washington, DC 20036
Voice/TTY (202) 332 5536
Fax (202) 332-0662
[email protected]
www.mautnerproject.org
Narcotics Anonymous
Twelve-step program for people in recovery from drug addiction.
World Service Office
P.O. Box 9999, Van Nuys, CA 91409
Tel. (818) 773-9999
Fax (818) 700-0700
[email protected]
www.na.org
The Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse
Provides counseling, support, legal advocacy, shelter referrals, safety planning, and peer support to lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trans folks who are surviving abuse. Also provides community education, training, and consultation about battering /abuse and homophobia. Leather friendly, wheelchair accessible. Website features directory of local resources throughout the United States, Canada, and other countries. ASL interpreters on request.
P.O. Box 20398, Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 568-7777
(206) 517-9670 TTY MSG
[email protected]
www.nwnetwork.org
Overeaters Anonymous
Twelve-step program for people in recovery from compulsive overeating.
World Service Office
P.O. Box 44020, Rio Rancho, NM 87124
Tel. (505) 891-2664
Fax (505) 891-4320
[email protected]
www.overeatersanonymous.org
Susun S. Weed
Website of herbalist Susun S. Weed, with articles about women’s health and information about courses offered by her Wise Woman Center.
www.SusunWeed.com
STD Information and Prevention
American Social Health Association
P.O. Box 13827,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
(919) 361-8400
[email protected]
www.ashastd.org
Lesbian, Bisexual Women and Safe Sex
www.avert.org/lesbiansafesex.htm
Centers for Disease Control National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849
(800) 342-AIDS
[email protected]
www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/nchstp.html
Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)
119 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
(212) 367-1000
[email protected]
www.gmhc.org
Lesbian AIDS Project (LAP)
LAP provides HIV prevention education and support for women who have sex with other women. GMHC publishes the
Safer Sex Handbook for Lesbians
(1995).
Lesbian Safer Sex
Safer-sex basics for lesbians, originally published by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center.
http://safersex.org/women/lesbianss.html
This is the site I recommend for information on lesbians, STDs, and safer sex. The goal of
LesbianSTD.com
is “to provide information and resources regarding sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases in women who have sex with women and to further our collective knowledge about lesbian STDs.” The site offers findings from past and current research done at the University of Washington, including a 5-year Vaginal Health Project that began in 2003.
www.lesbianstd.com
National AIDS Hotline
(800) 342-2437
(800) 344-7432 (Español)
National STD Hotline
(800) 227-8922
Planned Parenthood Lesbian Safer Sex
www.plannedparenthood.org/sti/lesbian.html
San Francisco Sex Information
Free information and referral switchboard providing anonymous, accurate, nonjudgmental information about sex. SFSI answers questions by telephone and online.
(877) 472-SFSI or (415) 989-SFSI
[email protected]
www.sfsi.org
Online Resources
Many of the listings throughout this resource guide have an online presence, whether a website, bulletin board, or email discussion list. Check the appropriate subject categories to find Internet resources of interest to you. The online resources below provide portals to extensive information on the Web or assistance in finding Internet resources, or just don’t fit into any of the specific subject categories and are too juicy to miss.
AltSex
Comprehensive site with information on all aspects of BDSM.
www.altsex.org
BMEZINE.COM
Body Modification Ezine is devoted to all forms of body modification. Contains photo galleries, articles, interviews, personal ads, and chat. Earn a free membership by submitting a photo or an article about your own body modification experiences.
www.bmezine.com
Dyke Planet
Pour les filles de Dyke PlaNET. Le premier site lesbien français.
[email protected]
www.dykeplanet.com
IRC Help
www.irchelp.org
Jane’s Net Sex Guide
Jane reviews hundreds of websites featuring “erotica, sexuality resources, escort services, telephone sex services, fiction, reality, art, anime, and alternative lifestyles.”
www.janesguide.com/index.html
KUMA
“Dedicated to Black same gender loving womyn everywhere, whether it be BDSM, Leather or Cherry-Vanilla.” Black lesbian erotic art, poetry, short stories and audio.
www.kuma2.net
Women-only community space with free membership, run by leatherdykes, for leatherdykes. Everything about this site, right down to the web-hosting company that hosts it, is owned by leatherdykes, and is done on a volunteer basis by BDSM-loving lesbians for other kinky dykes. Bulletin board, articles, mailing list, personals for members only.
www.leatherdyke.com
Large web portal.
www.lesbian.com
NOLOSE
The National Organization for Lesbians of SizE, ending the oppression of fat people and creating a vibrant fat queer community and culture. Trans inclusive. Annual conference, email list, events calendar with local listings, links to community members and supportive organizations, and LiveJournal community.
1204 Ave. U, Suite 1239, Brooklyn, NY 11229
(718) 622-7631
[email protected]
www.nolose.org
QueerNet
Provides dozens of email discussion lists for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, HIV/AIDS, and S/M communities, as well as offering email and web hosting for individuals, projects, and nonprofits in our communities under the auspices of its parent organization, Online Policy Group (
www.onlinepolicy.org
). The website gives detailed information on how to subscribe to the lists, which include many supportive lists for women exploring all facets of sexuality and gender. (You can start your own list, too, with the enthusiastic support of the folks at
QueerNet.org
.)
www.queernet.org
SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)
SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information on sexuality, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
130 West 42nd St., Suite 350,
New York, NY 10036
Tel. (212) 819-9770
Fax (212) 819-9776
[email protected]
www.siecus.org
Society for Human Sexuality
A comprehensive online library of sexuality resources—one of the most useful sites on the Web. The site includes guides to sex-positive resources in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, and San Francisco.
PMB 1276, 1122 East Pike St.,
Seattle, WA 98122
[email protected]
www.sexuality.org
Erotica and Pay Sites
CyberDyke Sex Network
Hosts a network of pay sites featuring explicit photos, illustrations, videos, and stories. DarkPlay (an artsy fetish and BDSM site) is the best known of the bunch; others include: Playbutch (butches stripping down), Shaved Dyke (“shaving head to…tail”), Big Beautiful Heaven (beautiful BBWs), Sappho’s Girls (“sweet like honey dust and a feather…”), and Posteriority (“for backdoor girls”). Membership in the network provides access to all—sign up on any of the sites.
www.cyber-dyke.net
Femmerotic Network
Includes Heather Corinna’s personal erotica site, Scarlet Letters, Scarleteen,
Femmerotic.com
, and more.
http://scarletletters.com/current/femmerotic.html
Pay porn site by lesbians for lesbians featuring video and photo galleries of real lesbians: butches, femmes, trannies, queers, and andros. Custom videos, too. Want a video of a hot lesbian porn star who calls your name?
[email protected]
www.sexysappho.com
Shades Beyond Gray
“Queer/pansexual erotic journal by and for the freaktribe,” made up entirely of submitted material, images, stories, poetry, and columns.
[email protected]
www.shadesbeyondgray.com
Transsexual-Man
Hot, hot, hot erotic images of Buck, a very hot (did I use that word already?) transman. Buck is not shy about putting his genitals on display—including his testosterone-enhanced clit. Photographs, downloadable videos, including explicit sex and S/M with both women and men. Pay site.
www.transexual-man.com
Mailing Lists
You can find an email discussion list to match just about any interest you can imagine. You’ll find information on specific email discussion lists throughout this resource guide.
Many email discussion lists of interest to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women are hosted by QueerNet, which provides a wonderful service by supporting mailing lists for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and BDSM communities. The 200 QueerNet lists serve more than 36,000 subscribers. QueerNet is supported entirely by donations. The complete list of lists (with technical instructions) can be found at:
www.queernet.org
.
Joan Korenman maintains a large list of “genderrelated” lists.
www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html
Lesbian.org
maintains the mother of all lesbian lists:
www.lesbian.org/lesbian-lists
Where to Meet Girls on the Web
A number of lesbian Web portal sites offer personal ads, either independently or through services like
www.match.com
. You’ll also find personal ads posted on community-specific sites catering to leatherdykes, older dykes, women of color, bisexuals, butches and femmes, and more. Below you’ll find a list of sites offering personal ads, bulletin boards, and other resources to help you hook up. C
lassic Dykes
www.classicdykes.com
Lesbians Click
Directory of links to online lesbian communities.
www.lesbiansclick.com/Online_Communities/index.html
Lesbotronic
www.lesbotronic.com
The Pink Sofa
www.thepinksofa.com