Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573440736 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book gathers previously published essays on topics ranging from pelvic exams, pornography law, the men's movement, sex as art, Madonna, and sacred whoredom. . Like other sex-positive folks of her generation, Carol Queen is re-evaluating the range and possibilities of sexual experience and identity. Similarly, sex was called a bad thing, a nasty thing, even for, perhaps especially for, good girl feminists. Queen is an intelligent, funny writer. When she was a kid, Carol Queen was called "Queen the Queer." "Queer" was still very much an insult at the time, not the term of power and pride it has recently become
These 'sexperts' practice what they preach; frankly describe their own preferences, problems, politics, triumphs, and disasters; and analyze as they go"."It's apparent to anyone who reads Carol Queen's work that she combines a powerful intellectual persona and an astonishing sexual persona in everything she writes". Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture is Carol Queen's long-awaited collected writings on sex. Today there is a new breed of advice-givers. -- The Spectator. magazine profiled Carol Queen along with Isadora Alman, Susie Bright, and Carole Vance: "In the old days, experts on sexuality tended to be Ph.D.s who handed down advice in the cool, passionless voice of the academy. Whether chronicling the joys of being turned over her lover's knee and spanked into erotic bliss, performing in a red-light district peep show, partaking of the pleasures of the new safe-sex clubs, or attending a California Men's Movement gathering to lobby for the pro-pornography platform, Queen is personal, insightful, and delightfully candid. A trained sexologist, Queen rejects the antiseptic safety of
Great to hear a sex-positive voice Spurred on by recommendations at Amazon, I purchased Carol Queen's book. Ms. Queen sees herself as a sex priestess if not goddess and frankly I'm prepared to give her such a title - sight unseen. To say her experience is vast and varied seems an understatement. . A Customer said A challenge to social-feminist constructs of sexuality.. Queen's book is a very bold discussion of our culturally defined notions of the place of sex and sexuality, for both women and men. Her writing challenges many long-held feminist notions of "deviant" sexual practices as supporitng the suppression and devaluation. "So good it's on back order!" according to A Customer. Seriously, this is an excellent book. Carol Queen is one of the grand dames of sex-positivity. Much (okay, all) of the book is autobiographical, and Queen uses her own experiences to further her ideas about radical sexuality. Ms. Queen is or has been all of the