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Synopsis
In this long-anticipated collection, columnist, photographer, critic, and sexual explorer David Steinberg has gathered the best of his essays, anecdotes, and photographs into a uniquely insightful, engaging overview of sex in America. For 25 years, Steinberg has documented the American sexual landscape from teenage sexuality to Viagra, swingers' parties to erotic spirituality, lap dancing to women's sexual liberation, fine art sexual photography to pornography, homophobia to BDSM. He calls on readers to question their sexual assumptions and fears, and to embrace sex as an opportunity for intimacy, self-understanding, and psychic adventure. Rejecting sensationalized rhetoric rooted in shame and fear, Steinberg offers an emotionally grounded understanding of a topic that is endlessly debated but rarely approached with depth and calm awareness. Whimsical, philosophical, unapologetically political, and revealingly personal, This Thing We Call Sex will take you into sexual worlds that include Marco Vassi, the Marquis de Sade, 19th-century feminist Victoria Woodhull, erotic photographer Jan Saudek, and porn producer Kink.com, exploring the spectrum of human sexuality with an unflinching eye, a compassionate heart, and a keen mind. After reading this book, you will find yourself doing the same.
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About the Author
David Steinberg has been writing about sex and gender since 1989. His monthly Comes Naturally columns appeared in Spectator magazine from 1992 through 2004, and continued for online audiences until 2006. He was a City Brights blogger for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2009 to 2010. His writing has also appeared in such journals as Salon, Playboy, Boston Phoenix, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, Arts and Opinion, Cupido, The Sun, Libido, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Realist, Transgender Tapestry, Journal of Gender Studies, Changing Men, and Issues in Radical Therapy. He is co-creator of Celebration of Eros, a multimedia erotic theatre presentation, Associate Editor of Sexuality and Culture magazine, and an editor of Cupido magazine (Norway).
Since 1999, he has photographed over 160 couples being sexual at home, as well as a series of portraits of transsexual women, and participants in Public Disgrace filmings of Kink.com. His photography has appeared in such journals as Cupido, Libido, Spectator, 7x7, On Our Backs, SF Weekly, Gerontology, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He was named Erotic Photographer of the Year in 2010 by the Leydig Trust in London, and a Master of Erotic Art by the Seattle Erotic Art Festival in 2011.
From the Back Cover
In this long-anticipated collection, columnist, photographer, critic, and sexual explorer David Steinberg has gathered the best of his essays, anecdotes, and photographs into a uniquely insightful, engaging overview of sex in America.
For 25 years, Steinberg has documented the American sexual landscape from teenage sexuality to Viagra, swingers' parties to erotic spirituality, lap dancing to women's sexual liberation, fine art sexual photography to pornography, homophobia to BDSM. He calls on readers to question their sexual assumptions and fears, and to embrace sex as an opportunity for intimacy, self-understanding, and psychic adventure. Rejecting sensationalized rhetoric rooted in shame and fear, Steinberg offers an emotionally grounded understanding of a topic that is endlessly debated but rarely approached with depth and calm awareness.
Whimsical, philosophical, unapologetically political, and revealingly personal, This Thing We Call Sex will take you into sexual worlds that include Marco Vassi, the Marquis de Sade, 19th-century feminist Victoria Woodhull, erotic photographer Jan Saudek, and porn producer Kink.com, exploring the spectrum of human sexuality with an unflinching eye, a compassionate heart, and a keen mind. After reading this book, you will find yourself doing the same.
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