Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression (17 page)

About the Author
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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
,
The Village Voice
,
The New York Times Book Review
, and
Salon
. She lectures and performs at theaters and universities nationwide and lives in Northern California.

Praise for Susie Bright
‌

Utne Reader
: “A visionary.”

San Francisco Chronicle
: “[America’s] X-rated intellectual.”

The Boston Globe
: “Susie Bright has explored and mapped every crack and crevasse of contemporary sexual culture. Few writers chronicle our collective sexploits with more gusto.”

The New York Times Book Review
: “A pro-sex, free-speech firebrand, Ms. Bright refuses to let the sexual controversies of our day poison her passion.”

Other Titles by Susie Bright
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The Sexual State of the Union

The Best American Erotica, 1993–1999 Nothing But the Girl (with Jill Posener) Herotica 1, 2, and 3

Sexwise

Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World

CREDITS
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Cover design by John Lewis

Cover image © Ko Fujiwara / Photonica

FULL EXPOSURE.
Opening Up to Your Sexual Creativity & Erotic Expression.
Copyright
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   Hailed by
   Utne
   Reader
   as
   "
   a visionary
   "
   and the
   San Francisco Chronicle
   as
   "
   the X-rated
   imellecmal
   ,"
   Sus
   i
   e
   Bright
   is
   indisputably
   the
   sexpen of our
   times
   .
   Now
   ,
   in
   a
   frank
   and
   inti.mate look
   a
   l
   our own erotic experience
   ,
   she
   reveals the
   ways
   in
   which individual sexual expression
   h
   as
   the power to inspire
   ,
   c
   h
   a
   ll
   enge
   ,
   and transform all
   aspects
   of our
   lives
   .
   Bright
   exp
   l
   o
   r
   es so
   m
   e
   of the most
   complex
   questions
   about sexuality
   today
   ,
   including
   :
   

   

   

   

   • What are the real differences between men
     ·
     and women·s
     sen e of
     the
     erotic?
     

   • Why i it so threatening
     to
     conscious]\
     address
     sexual
     de ire?
     

     

   • I there a line to be drawn in
     er
     tic
     creativity-can you go
     100
     far?
     

     

   • How
     can
     articulate
     erotic eiqJre
     _
     ion make us heller lover
     and,
     more important, better pe pie?
     

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