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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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Califia, a champion of publishing as a pivotal to sufficient satisfied sexuality, is substantially a many learned author of publishing operative currently if one measures talent by interest opposite genders.
―Joseph W. Slade, Pornography and Sexual Representation (Joseph W. Slade 20090324)
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'
―The Progressive (The Progressive 20090325)
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.
―The Village Voice (Village Voice 20090325)
CalifiaÂ's stories are intriguing, erotic, exhilarating, and unnerving. The perfect energy of Macho Sluts in undeniable.
―Bay Area Reporter (Bay Area Reporter 20090325)
Macho Sluts will make we rethink what we suspicion we knew about lesbian sex.
―Windy City Times (Windy City Times 20090325)
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.
―San Francisco Sentinel (San Francisco Sentinel 20091006)
No matter what your passionate orientation, fetishes or fantasies, a work offers critical informative and chronological lessons that are still really many applicable in a post-Proposition 8 quarrel for tellurian bargain and equality.
―EDGE Publications (EDGE Publications 20091125)
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.
―Liberty Press (Liberty Press 20090902)
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.
―Ottawa XPress (Ottawa XPress 20100115)
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.
―Curve (Curve )
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just conference a pretension creates me smile.....
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.
