Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex Paperback by Diana Cage

Product Details

• Publisher: Soft Skull (2004-09-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 164 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781932360295
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex is a collection of writing about desire. The stories are not straight up sexual narrations, but pieces, poems and stories that examine the concept and manifestation of desire itself. Rather than describing the physical acts of sex, the book examines the impetus, experiences, thoughts and feelings that drive desire. Contributors include Eileen Myles, Michelle Tea, Red Jordan Arobateau, Lori Selke, Victoria Brownworth, Robert Gluck and Patrick Califia.

The stories in the collection are varied: an examination of iconoclastic sexuality(musing on what it would be like to both fuck James Dean and fuck like James Dean), the zenith of desire residing in the sweat-darkened leather pants of Lenny Kaye after a Patti Smith Group show, genderqueer cruising, the connection between sex and loss.

The book is not explicitly "gay", but it is explicitly queer. The stories often break down normal conceptions of gender, eliminating categories such as homo- and heterosexual.

About the Author

Diana Cage has been writing about lesbian sexuality for more than a decade. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the first lesbian porn magazine made by women for women and the author of seven previous books: The On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex, On Our Backs: The Best Erotic Fiction, Box Lunch: The Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus, Threeways: Fulfill Your Ultimate Fantasy, Bottoms Up: Writing about Sex, Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide, and Mind-Blowing Sex: A Woman’s Guide. She has written about sex and sexuality for dozens of publications and was formerly host of "The Diana Cage Show" on Sirius XM. Diana holds an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches in the Women and Gender Studies department at Hunter College.