Live Nude Woman
Dr. Carol Queen expands on the themes first broached in her seminal Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles in Sex-Positive Culture
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 2:04pm By Carol QueenThe waning weeks and days of 2009 are upon us, and they've brought us plenty of sex news—something sexual is always going on somewhere, you know, a natural law made up of two simple constituent parts: there are 6,792,800,000 or so of us, and sex...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 1:37pm By Carol QueenThis essay originally appeared in the October, 2009 issue of Adult Video News. Reprinted with Permission. Joani Blank broke a mold in the adult toy industry 32 years ago when she created Good Vibrations as a place for women to...
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Friday, September 4, 2009 - 3:55pm By Carol QueenPeople have birthdays and get married all the time, but it's a rare week when the stars align the way they have this time. I'm writing this from an Italian train, traveling away from the second of my two extraordinary celebrations, held half a world...
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Monday, July 27, 2009 - 12:51pm By Carol QueenA lot's been said and written about Paul Krassner since he founded the legendary underground newspaper The Realist in 1958. People Weekly crowned him "the father of the underground press." (He demanded a blood test.) The FBI, writing...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 4:37pm By Carol QueenThis summer, for the first time ever, the mighty Power of The Intern has been shining its light on my history—that is, one of the Center for Sex & Culture's intern projects is to make a document going backward in time looking at CSC's...
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Friday, May 1, 2009 - 1:38pm By Carol QueenOnce upon a time there was an influential African-American public servant who stepped up when called to national office, changing the character of the country at least a little, changing the terms of the debate. Her name was Dr. Joycelyn Elders, she...
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Friday, March 27, 2009 - 4:00pm By Carol QueenAll right, class, it's time for our special lecture on anthro-economics. To begin, just google this phrase: "conservative states use more porn." How many results do you get? Several hundred thousand, a.k.a. “a huge boatload”?...
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Monday, February 16, 2009 - 1:00am By Carol QueenThese days, if you read much about sex or hang out in a sex-friendly community, you’ve likely heard the phrase “sex-positive.” But do you know what it means? I’ve had my ear to the ground and have concluded that for some, it...
