Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression

Hailed by Utne Reader as "a visionary" and the San Francisco Chronicle as "the X-rated intellectual," Susie Bright is indisputably the sexpert of our times. Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she delves into the most personal aspects of sex and shows us how our sexual passion can be a source of creativity and inspiration. By her own example and insight, she helps us to discover our own erotic story and sexual philosophy.
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<li> How do talking, reading, and writing about sex affect your actual sex life? </li>
<li> What are the real differences between men's and women's sense of the erotic? </li>
<li>Why is it so threatening to consciously address sexual desire in the first place? </li>
<li>Is there a line to be drawn in erotic creativity--can you go too far? </li>
<li>Is the best erotic expression soulful? </li>
<li>How can articulate erotic expression make us better lovers and, more important, better people?</li>
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Bright concludes with an "erotic manifesto" that is a call for everyone to reclaim sexuality, cast off sexual shame, overcome repression, and become true sexual beings. She offers up "rules to live by," which include debunking your own fantasy life, appreciating the simplest erotic gesture, and taking inspiration from everyone but instruction from no one. Bright's work celebrates the joy of sexual creativity--and the very uniqueness of each individual's sense of the erotic.Susie Bright is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including The Best American Erotica series, the first three editions of Herotica, Sexwise, and The Sexual State of the Union. She has written for Esquire, Playboy, Village Voice, New York Times Book Review, and is a regular columnist for the on-line magazine Salon. She lectures and performs at theaters and universities nationwide and currently lives in Northern California. How do you really feel about sex?
 "I want to cut through all the labels and politics, and reveal what I've learned about sex - what has been transformational for me as a lover, a parent, a daughter, and an artist. I want to argue that sexuality is the soul of the creative process, and that erotic expression of any kind is a personal revolution." -- from Full Exposure Bestselling author and erotic pioneer Susie Bright boldly crosses our culture's most private boundary--our personal eroticism--and reveals the ways in which individual sexual expression has the power to inspire, challenge, and transform all aspects of our lives. Bright explores some of the most complex questions about sexuality today, including: how our emotional and sexual lives intertwine, how we can come clean about our true desire, and what sexual expression teaches us about our bodies. She offers an erotic manifesto of seventeen straightforward guidelines for gaining erotic freedom.

BRIGHT, Susie

Parenting & Relationships

HarperOne

Hailed by Utne Reader as "a visionary" and the San Francisco Chronicle as "the X-rated" intellectual," Susie Bright is indiputably the sexpert of our times.Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she reveals the ways in which individual sexual expression has the power to inspire, challenge, and transform all of our lives. Bright explores some of the most complex questions about sexuality todaym including: 
<ul>
<li>What are the real differences between men's and women's sense of the erotic? 
</li>
<li>Why is it so threatening to conscioulsy address sexual desire? 
</li>
<li>Is there a line to be drawn in erotic creativity-can you go so far? 
</li>
<li>How can articulate erotic expression make us better lovers, more important, better people?</li>
</ul>

The publication of The Best American Erotica 1993 was cause for great celebration and critical praise. It was an immediate sensation and a national bestseller. Now comes The Best American Erotica 1994! This edition features twenty short stories and excerpts, including a mixture of well-known erotica celebs, among them the late John Preston, Pat Califia, and Carol Queen, while also introducing newcomers such as Mark Butler and Abigail Thomas. The Best American Erotica 1994 is a wonderful collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Contributors Marianna Beck Bernadette Lynn Bosky Mark Butler Pat Califia M. Christian Leslie Feinberg Sigfried Gold Linda Hooper Michael Lowenthal Debra Martens J. Maynard Chris Offutt Gerry Pearlberg Bart Plantenga John Preston Carol Queen Donald Rawley Abigail Thomas Anne Tourney Danielle Willis

Best American Erotica 1994

Literature & Fiction

United States

Touchstone

A close-up look at the most important sexual issues of modern American society examines such topics as sex online, the private lives of political candidates, abortion, AIDS, V-chips, teen pregnancy, and more, calling for a freer, more honest understanding of human sexuality. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union

Self-Help

Simon&Schuster

The Best American Erotica 1995 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time," this third annual edition of a best-selling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year. Contributors: Susan St. Aubin Jay Michaelson Nicholson Baker Susan Musgrave Robert Olen Butler Anna Nymus Tom Caffrey Lisa Palac Renee Charles Paul Reed Corwin Erickson Annie Regrets Scarlett Fever Raye Sharpe Tsaurah Litzky Le Shaun Al Lujan Trac Vu Mary Malmros Anne Wallace James Williams

Best American Erotica 1995

The Best American Erotica 1997 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time", this fifth annual edition of a bestselling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year. CONTRIBUTORS - Lauren P. Burka, Ivy Topiary, Mark Stuertz, Thomas Roche, Rose White and Eric Albert, Bob Vickery, Tsaurah Litzky, loana dp valencia, Nancy Kilpatrick, Michael Lowenthal, Serena Moloch, Marcy Sheiner, Stephen Spotte, Simon Sheppard, Joe Maynard, Bill Brent, Ted Blumberg, Lucy Taylor, E. R. Stewart, Isobel Bird, Allegra Long, M. Christian

The Best American Erotica 1997

Lust brings out the liar in everyone. Every erection has Pinocchio written up and down its length—yes, everybody wants to be REAL, a real boy, an honest woman, unafraid and upright—but then desire, the ultimate honesty, does us in. Desire doesn't give a whit about shame. Our secrets, our exaggerations and distractions, it's all just a lot of twisting in the wind as far as sex is concerned—what we want WILL come out. "Is our sexuality a basic, good, and precious thing that somehow became terribly misunderstood? Or is there something really evil out there in Sex Land that attaches itself to our libidos and is only held back by vigilance and caution?" asks Susie Bright in her bestselling book The Sexual State of the Union. Bright pushes the borders of propriety until they blur and become irrelevant in the face of our inherent need to touch and be touched. With candor and passion, Susie Bright proves that sexual knowledge can indeed be salvation and inspiration.

The Sexual State of the Union

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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 Best American Erotica 2000

Abandon your inhibitions. You are about to experience the most provocative, sensual fiction of the year. In The Best American Erotica 2001, Marge Piercy introduces us to the nerd kid sex club, Nathan Englander explores the addictive power of a peep show, Jerry Stahl relates a dare from an extremely demanding girlfriend, and Dani Shapiro proves the difference between the fantasy and the reality of losing your virginity. Twenty-two of America's finest writers bring something for everyone in The Best American Erotica 2001, which will gratify Susie Bright's fans and entice newcomers to her bestselling and always arousing series. Contributors Todd Belton - Marge Piercy Cara Bruce Matt Bernstein Sycamore Tsaurah Litzky Nathan Englander Ginu Kamani Joe Maynard Wendy Becker Jerry Stahl Dani Shapiro Dodie Bellamy Dan Taulapapa McMullin Claire Tristram James Williams M. J. Rose Damian Grace Wade Krueger Rosalind Christine Lloyd Charles Flowers Hanne Blank Jack Murnighan

The Best American Erotica 2001

Romance

Prepare to enter an erogenous zone. Enlightenment and arousal await you inside with the best erotic writing of the year. In The Best American Erotica 2002, Jane Smiley illustrates the singular escapism found in the gentlest caress, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these twenty-five stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around. Susie Bright's experienced eye and wide-open mind deliver exceptional writing that will satisfy all tastes and preferences -- and the merely curious. CONTRIBUTORS Jamie Callan, Maggie Estep, Simon Sheppard, Debra Boxer, Andi Mathis, Adelina Anthony, Pam Ward, Francesca Lia Block, J. T. LeRoy, Laurie Sirois, Robert Devereaux, Stacey Richter, Gary Rosen, Lucy Taylor, Anne Tourney, Jane Smiley, Ernie Conrick, Nell Carberry, Nalo Hopkinson, Poppy Z. Brite, Paula Bomer, Michael Stamp, Tsaurah Litzky, Alma Marceau, Shaun Levin

The Best American Erotica 2002

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Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression

Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression

Best American Erotica 1994

Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union

Best American Erotica 1995

The Best American Erotica 1997

The Sexual State of the Union

The Best American Erotica 2000

The Best American Erotica 2001

The Best American Erotica 2002