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Saturday, October 3, 2009 - 3:10pm By Lisa MontanarelliTemporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex By Elizabeth Bernstein University of Chicago Press $24.00, 288pp On October 17, 1981, the purple-clad, pompadoured pimp Velvet Jones (Eddie Murphy) appeared in a Saturday Night Live...
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Friday, August 28, 2009 - 3:11pm By Sinclair SexsmithI have always been a reader. I don’t remember learning to read: I was three, my mother says Sesame Street taught me. Books have always been my go-to when I don’t understand something. Even now, in this digital age, though I do utilize...
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Monday, August 24, 2009 - 4:23pm By Lauren WissotFor those who think, "Dog collars—they're not just for Fido anymore!" and prize Hitachi's Magic Wand over their microwaves, Emily Dubberley has been a household name in the U.K. for years. Since the prolific sex writer (eighteen...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 3:13pm By Liz FarsaciHaving worked as one of New York City's famous madams in the Swinging Sixties, Xaviera Hollander—often known as the Happy Hooker (and portrayed in the 1975 film of that name by Lynn Redgrave)—has learned a lot about sex, and what people...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 2:45pm By Liz Langley"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." No shit, Sherlock. And this is the only time I'll ever get to use that snotty phrase in a...
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Friday, August 7, 2009 - 5:08pm By AlwaysArousedGirl10,000 Dresses By Marcus Ewert, Illustrated by Rex Ray Seven Stories Press, 32 pp. Poor Bailey. She dreams each night of the fabulous dresses she'll design. Ten thousand in all, they march up a staircase and reveal themselves to her one by one....
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 - 6:00am By Liz HighleymanGirl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy By Savannah Knoop Seven Stories $17.95, 223pp. If you followed the literary, entertainment, and sex scenes over the past decade, you might feel you know everything there is to know about JT LeRoy, one of the...
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Friday, June 19, 2009 - 6:00am By Sinclair SexsmithThe 21st annual Lambda Literary Awards returned to New York City for the 2009 ceremony at the New School for Graduate Studies in midtown Manhattan, after presenting last year’s awards in Los Angeles. It seems appropriate that the awards would...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 1:33pm By Chris HallRachel Kauder-Nalebuff is 18 years old and is already getting a lot of press for the anthology she just edited, My Little Red Book, which collects women's memories of their first periods. The New York Times's review of Kauder-Nalebuff's book praises...
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