When it was initial published in 1988, Patrick Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M happy bars, repelled a lesbian village and caused an shake in a margin of odd publishing. Nobody had ever created so honestly about a eccentric intensity of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever finished it any better). If any book is obliged for a arrangement of a complicated lesbian leather community, this one is it.
Despite a seemly language, talented scenarios, and abounding humor, a lesbian press trashed Macho Sluts, and it became a focal indicate for a barbarous authorised battles between Canada Customs and Little Sister's, a happy and lesbian bookstore. But readers desired it, and to this day Macho Sluts stays a critical and relocating classical that still has a energy to educate, radicalize, and enhance a notions of a body's intensity to yield us with pleasure, pain, and love.
This new edition, partial of Arsenal Pulp Press' Little Sister's Classics array resurrecting classics of LGBT literature, includes a new afterword by a author, and an introduction by Wendy Chapkis, a highbrow of sociology and women and gender studies during a University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Patrick Califia has created many books about radical sex, odd communities, and a hang-up of desire. Almost 10 years ago, Califia transitioned from womanlike to male; he now lives as a bisexual transman in San Francisco.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1190430 in Books
- Published on: 2009-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .80" h x 5.40" w x 7.90" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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Pornography and Sexual Representation (
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Califia is in a tradition of philosophers Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, a happy colonize Harry Hay, a producer Allen Ginsberg, a publisher Ellen Willis, and a author Dorothy Allison, who calls Califia's essays Â'lucid, intelligent, brave, and true.Â'
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Finally! The girlÂ's chronicle of Straight to Hell, a created homogeneous of Tom of Finland. No some-more nights spent appropriating happy or loyal masculine porn since we suspicion women would never write that way.
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Macho Sluts will make we rethink what we suspicion we knew about lesbian sex.
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Macho Sluts breaks by a veils of overpower that define, limit, and repudiate women's amorous possibilities. Califia is some-more than usually an author. She is a domestic insurgent as well.
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If zero else, in a universe full of smirky poseurs, Patrick Califia is a honestly severe writer, and we usually don't have adequate of those these days.
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This new book is value a squeeze if usually for a implausible new foreword from Patrick Califia himself.... By itself, [the foreword] is a square of autobiography colourful with strength and colour, though it comes trustworthy to a collection of amorous tales that to this day sojourn a fanciful mural of a formidable joys of sex.
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Macho Sluts became a focal indicate of a many famous censorship battles between Little Sister's bookstore in Vancouver and Canada Customs. Which is because this new book is still such an critical read. It has a pretentious new foreword by Califia.... Reading it again, we was reminded of how 20 years ago, a book was some-more than porn---it radicalized and appropriated pleasure and became a criterion in a lesbian sex wars.... Dorothy Allison called Califia's work "lucid, intelligent, brave, and true." A some-more accurate comment is tough to find.
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About a Author
Patrick Califia?s essay and activism have revolutionized a judgment of odd sex. He has created over a dozen books, including Coming to Power, Melting Point, No Mercy, and Speaking Sex to Power; his work has been translated into 6 other languages. He lives in San Francisco. Wendy Chapkis is a Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies during a University of Southern Maine in Portland. She is also a co-author of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine (New York University Press, 2008).

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By J. Hoffman
I bought this book in Chicago when we was 18. After some bizarre looks during a women's bookstore and a arched eyebrows of my friends, we took it home. Wow. This book flew in a face of all a "rules" we was being taught in a lesbian village during that time. we can't be some-more grateful.
I haven't review most on bdsm given then, so we have no thought how a genre has changed. In my book, this is a classic. Thank we Patrick Califia.
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