| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781573440967 | | Publisher: Cleis Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30576028 | | Item#: RTMHGY | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 1T | | Pages: 250 | | Edition Number: 2 |
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| | | | "Being a sex radical means being defiant as well as deviant. It means being aware that there is something unsatisfying and dishonest about the way sex is talked about (or hidden) in daily life. It also means questioning the way our society assigns privilege based on adherence to its moral codes, and in fact makes every sexual choice a matter of morality. If you believe that these inequities can be addressed only through extreme social change, then you qualify as a sex radical, even if you prefer to get off in the missionary position and still believe there are only two genders..." Including two new essays and a revised Introduction by the author, "Public Sex" is a chronicle of the radical sex movement in the United States and the definitive opinions of one of America's most consistent and trenchant sexual critics.
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A collection of writings on sex and society by perhaps the foremost transgressive author and anthologist of the '90s.
| PraiseWomen's Review of Books
"Califia delivers a courageous and well-thought-out critique of the elitism, racism and potential abuses of power that sometimes go along with the blending of S/M and these borrowed religious practices." - Donna Minkowitz June 1995Publisher's Catalog
"Here you go--a decade of Pat Califia's journalism--lucid, intelligent, brave and true. Next time you hear somebody talking nonsense about sex radicals, refer them to this book...'Public Sex' is the real thing without the tedious bullshit and self-serving obscurity that characterizes so much writing about sex." - Dorothy Allison |
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