Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships -- from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy.

Tristan Taormino is series editor of the annual collection Best Lesbian Erotica, for which she has collaborated with guest editors Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, and Jenifer Levin. She is coeditor of A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, and Ritual Sex, a collection of writing on sex, religion and spirituality. She is also publisher and editrix of the pansexual erotic magazine Pucker Up. Her writing appears in several publications and anthologies. The Advocate named her one of the Best and Brightest Gay and Lesbian People Under 30. She lives in Brooklyn.