The
Best American Erotica 2000
by Susie
Bright (Editor)
For this special millennium edition, Susie
Bright, our nation's trustworthy and tantalizing guide into the
world of sexual fantasy and freedom, has gathered the best erotic
writing of the year to produce a new, sizzling volume. In this
collection we find human sexuality in all its diversity; pleasure
and desire in all its forms. This doublelength, year 2000 edition
offers a glimpse of what sex in the new millennium might be, a
time when voices from the sexual underground will be heard and our
ideas of perfection will be redefined. This most recent
installment in the annual bestselling series includes the year's
most provocative literature, guaranteed to have something for
everyone.
The author, Susie Bright
People have asked me many times since i started doing this series,
"Do you ever get sick of reading erotica?"
And it's no surprise they wonder, since I do
read thousands of stories each year to cull what I judge to be the
best erotic short fiction out there. But if you take the
"erotic" twist out of the question, it's similiar to
asking me, "Do you ever get sick of reading
stories-period?"
The answer is NO, I never get tired of
wonderful, arousing, unpredictable yarns. Of course, I get
extremely frustrated by mediocre stories, and when I read a dozen
bad erotic pieces in a row, sometimes I wonder if I'm losing my
eye, or bottoming out on the genre altogether.
But then, if the next manuscript I draw out of
the pile is amazing, it's as if all the bad ones disappear from
memory and I feel "like a virgin" again....I just can't
resist a wonderful story, ever.
The other thing I get asked a lot is how I find
these stories. Many times it's because fans turn me onto their
favorite authors and stories that they've discovered over the
year.
My dad once sent me a story he found in a
magazine lying around at the Denver airport! That turned out to be
Aimee Bender's "Quiet Please,", which is in this year's
edition. More often than my family or friends though, it's just
readers from all over who email me a suggestion about something
that really moved them, erotically or otherwise!
If you want to find out more about the
guidelines for submitting to BAE, email me at the above address.
In the meantime, enjoy this latest volume, and Clits Up!
Full
Exposure : Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression by
Susie
Bright
In previous books such as The
Sexual State of the Union, Susie Bright has told us about
the way things are, and while she continues that mission in Full
Exposure, she also presents an inspiring vision of the way
things could be. This is far more than a self-help book; it's a
blueprint for cultural revolution, focused on the liberation of
our erotic expression and, as she puts it, "the creativity it
demands, the challenges of sexual candor, and the rewards of
coming clean about desire." The personal is always political,
goes the adage, but whether she's making readers smile with a
reminiscence of her first orgasm (during a fantasy in which she
imagined herself as Barbara "Agent 99" Feldon) or
evoking our concern over a bomb threat at one of her college
lectures, Bright reminds us that the personal is always personal
as well. Along the way, she tears down the false barriers between
porn and erotica, counsels parents on how to negotiate the line
between sexual honesty with their children and mutual privacy, and
shows us again and again that gender and desire are never as
simplistic as moral and cultural watchdogs would have us believe.
"Girls can be women with real sexual appetites," she
writes. "Men can be love-bunnies and still have raging hard-ons."
Bright also includes a 17-step "sexual manifesto" aimed
at enabling readers to reclaim their erotic identities and express
desire on their own terms. Very few people are writing about
sexuality as honestly and as well as Susie Bright--if you care at
all about the subject, you owe it to yourself to read Full
Exposure. --Ron Hogan
The New York Times Book Review, Helen
Fisher
"Assume everyone is sexual": this is the message of
Susie Bright's Full Exposure.
On Our Backs
Magazine Description:
On Our Backs is a magazine that features the best of lesbian sex, from pictorials to eye-catching illustrations, to erotic fiction. Each bimonthly issue includes "Adventure Girls"' roller coaster sexual escapades, advice from Nina Hartley, and sexy photo spreads. Edited by Tristan Taormino, On Our Backs is dedicated to "less fluff and more muff."
