Best Sex Writing 2006

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“Man-Hunting with the High-School Dream Girls,” © 2005 David Amsden, first appeared July 4, 2005, in New York magazine. “Where’s the Sin? An Antisermon,” © 2005 Shalom Auslander, first appeared April 18, 2005, on Nerve.com. “A Porn Valley Story,” © 2006 Susannah Breslin. “Romancers and Raincoaters,” © 2005 Susie Bright, first appeared May 17, 2005, on Susie Bright’s Journal, http://susiebright.com. “Where the Truth Lies,” © 2005 Emily DePrang, first appeared September 14, 2005, on Nerve.com. “Just Always Be Good,” © 2005 Stephen Elliott, first appeared in Tin House 26. “Naked on the Set!” © 2006 Paul Festa. An earlier version appeared on Salon.com. “Rope Burn” © 2006 Michael A. Gonzales. “The Pole Test,” © 2006 Natalie Y. Moore and Natalie Hopkinson. “The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School,” © 2006 Alex Morris, first appeared February 6, 2006, in New York magazine. “The Coming Boom,” © 2005 Annalee Newitz, first appeared July 13, 2005, on Wired.com. “The Nutty Confessor,” © 2006 Michelle Orange, first appeared in January 2006 on SirensMag.com. “What I’m Giving Up,” © 2006 Mark Pritchard. “Tortured Logic,” © 2005 Eli Sanders, first appeared November 17, 2005, in the Stranger. “An Ode to Ass,” © 2005 Tristan Taormino, first appeared as several separate pieces in the Village Voice. “Good Fences Make Good Affairs” © 2006 Virginia Vitzthum. “Out There: Mountain as a New Bridge,” © 2006 Jeff Weinstein, first appeared February 13, 2006, in the Philadelphia Inquirer.