Books

• Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism
  Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol (eds.)
  ISBN 0-7453-0524-5
  

  "For well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration . . . 'Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures' puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments."

• Exhibitionism for the Shy
  Carol Queen
  ISBN 0-940208-16-4
  

  "'Exhibitionism for the Shy' (and the not so shy) demonstrates how to turn sexual modesty to your erotic advantage, whether you're single, partnered or in-between. To discover a new world of erotic experience, you don't have to shed your inhibitions - you just have to exploit them creatively."

• Femalia
  Joani Blank (ed.)
  ISBN 0-940208-15-6
  

  "Thirty-two full-color photographs of women's genitals reflect the diversity of women's bodies. Therapists, sex educators, women's health clinicians — and all women — will find this volume a welcome addition to their libraries."

• Heart of the Flower: The Book of Yonis
  Andrew Barnes and Yvonne Lumsden
  ISBN 978-0-646-47997
  

  "Heart of the Flower is an unflinching exploration of the beautiful diversity of women’s genitals, free of judgement, shame and embarrassment. Forty-two everyday women have posed for up-close and personal photographs that show their genitals from many different and rarely seen angles. Each woman writes candidly with wit, wisdom, passion, even despair, about her relationship with her vulva.

  "The book brings into light the ins and outs of the female sexual anatomy, and demystifies and challenges the way society views women’s genitals. Heart of the Flower is designed to normalise and celebrate diversity at a time when labial reconstructions have reached an all-time high and women’s body image is at an all-time low."

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• I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves
  Joani Blank (ed.)
  ISBN 0-940208-18-0
  

  "What particularly engages me as a woman as a sex educator is imagining what each of these subjects is feeling in her body, what pictures run through her mind as she masturbates and what her masturbation tells her about herself and the world around her. How does masturbation enhance her life in general and her sexual life in particular? Does it bring her satisfaction, elation, sadness, a sense of autonomy, loneliness, self-worth, power? All of these and much more?"

• Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 years as a Multimedia Whore
  Annie Sprinkle
  ISBN 1-57344-039-6
  

  "Part autobiography, part cultural history, part sex manual, Annie Sprinkle's 'Post-Porn Modernist' is an illustrated tour through one woman's tumultuous quarter century on the front lines of sexual discovery and revelation. From her humble beginnings as Ellen Steinberg (a shy girl frightened by boys) to her ultimate transformation into spiritual teacher and sexual healer, Annie Sprinkle reveals all in this extraordinary scrapbook of her amazing life."

• Real Live Nude Girl
  Carol Queen
  ISBN 1-57344-073-6
  

  "I bought my first brassiere in thirteen years. I grew my hair; I word skirts; I put on lipstick. The white lace that I'd squirreled away for my lover's delectation I began to wear in public. I mixed it with leather. My lovers began to get nervous. I hoped to become so outre that no one would notice, or care, what I did."

• Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate
  Lynne Segal and Mary McIntosh (eds.)
  ISBN 1-85381-385-0
  

  "This provocative collection of sixteen essays by British\, American and Australian feminists aims to open up the debate by looking at such issues as: the improbable alliance between the right and pro-censorship feminists in the USA and Britain; the displacement of heterosexual desire and its discontents on to pornography; a consideration of Andrea Dworkin's novel 'Mercy'; psychoanalytic reflections on fantasy; censorship in relation to AIDS work; the new lesbian and bisexual pornography; a reconsideration of racism and pornography in Robert Mapplethorpe's photography; Mae West and sexual icon and her brushes with the law; and the female nude in 'high' art."

• Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
  Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander (eds.)
  ISBN 0-86068-154-8
  

  "The authors are the experts - stress prostitutes, exotic dancers, nude models, escorts, porn actresses and workers in massage parlours - and they testify to the realities of sex work, their work. They describe feeling totally in control, totally victimised and everything in between: their words are at times pained and poetic, at others, gritty and raw. These first-person accounts are accompanied by analytical articles, and documents about collective organising by sex workers. It is a fascinating mix of personal statements, short stories, political essays, poetry and historical research, as well as the witty polemic, 'The Continuing Saga of Scarlot Harlot'."

• Snatched: Sex and Censorship in Australia
  Helen Vnuk
  ISBN 1-74051-088-7

  "If you thought the government stopped telling people what they could read, hear and see back in the 1950s, then think again. Over the past decade, restrictions on the sexual content of magazines, films and other media have been quietly tightened. Certain legal, consensual sex acts must now be edited out of X-rated videos before they can go on sale; Penthouse has been forbidden to run advice on how to go down on a woman; and Australian Women's Forum wasn't allowed to show photos of vaginas in a health article. While the banning of an art-house film makes front-page news, magazines and videos are being censored on a daily basis without the public hearing about it. In Snatched, former Australian Women's Forum editor Helen Vnuk takes a look at what we're missing out on and why, and calls for major changes to Australia's system of censorship."

• The Ethical Slut
  Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
  ISBN 1-890159-01-8
  

  "At last... a comprehensive, no-holds-barred guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Here are the skills you need for successful - and ethical - sluthood, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners to resolving conflict, raising children to caring for your health. If you've ever envisioned a universe beyond traditional lifetime monogamy, this is the book for you!"

• The Mass Psychology of Fascism
  Wilhelm Reich
  ISBN 0-285-64701-6
  

  "Wilhelm Reich's classic study is a unique contribution to the understanding of one of the crucial phenomena of our times - fascism. Reich firmly repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or of any ethnic or political group. He also denies a purely socio-economic explanation as advanced by Marxian ideologists. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of the average human being whose primary biological needs and impulses have been suppressed for thousands of years. The social function of this suppression and the crucial role played in it by the authoritarian family and the church are carefully analyzed. Reich shows how every form of organized mysticism, including fascism, relies on the unsatisfied orgastic longing of the masses."

• Yes Means Yes: Getting Explicit About Heterosex
  Kath Albury
  ISBN 1-86508-240-6
  

  "Spanking, fetishes, DIY porn, the sex industry, and down and dirty. When was the last time you said yes? Yes Means Yes is about all the things straight girls aren't supposed to like, but do more often than you think. Why is there an assumption that a woman who wants sex, particularly 'bad' or slutty sex, identifies with men rather than women? Is she being 'conned' and oppressed or is there more to it? Yes Means Yes argues that the mass media is currently way ahead in terms of recognition of the true diversity of women's desires and pleasures. Kath Albury 'queers' heterosexuality and shows how straight women can explore the complexity of heterosexuality's pleasures and dangers."