Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex

by Cage, Diana

• ISBN13: 9781932360295
• ISBN10: 1932360298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-27
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

This collection of writing about desire is not straight-up sexual narrations, but pieces, poems and stories that examine the concept and manifest- ation of desire itself. Rather than describing the physical acts of sex, the book examines the impetuses, experiences, thoughts and feelings that drive desire. Among them an examination of iconclastic sexuality (musing on what it would be like to have sex with and have sex like James Dean), genderqueer cruising and the connection between sex and loss. Contributors include Eileen Myles, Michelle Tea and Patrick Califia.

Author Biography

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.