Copyright © 1997, 2002 by Carol Queen

 

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“The Queer in Me” first appeared in Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, eds. Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka’ahumanu, Alyson Publications, 1991. “Bisexual Perverts among the Leather Lesbians” reprinted from The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader, eds. Pat Califia and Robin Sweeney, Alyson Publications, 1996. “Safe Words and Safe Sex” first appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 1994. “Everything That Moves” originally appeared in another form as “Sexual Diversity and Bisexual Identity” in Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, ed. Naomi Tucker, Haworth, 1995. “Porno-Formance” first appeared in P-Form. “The Four-Foot Phallus” first appeared in Tales from the Clit, ed. Cherie Matrix, AK Press, 1996. “Fucking with Madonna” originally appeared as “Talking about Sex” in Madonnarama, eds. Lisa Frank and Paul Smith, Cleis Press, 1993. “Why I Love Butch Women” reprinted from Dagger: On Butch Women, eds. Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due, Cleis Press, 1994. “Over a Knee, Willingly” first appeared in Skin Two. “On Being a Female Submissive (and Doing What You Damn Well Please)” first appeared in Black Sheets. © 1995 Carol Queen. “Healing and Holy Acts” reprinted from Women of the Light, ed. Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Secret Garden, 1994.

 

Earlier versions of the following essays first appeared in the Spectator: “Don’t Fence Me In,” “Dirty Pictures, Heavy Breathing, Moral Outrage and the New Absexuality,” “Through a Glass Smudgily,” “Exhibitionism and the (Formerly) Shy,” “Farewell to the Poster Child of Kink,” “Body Modification: Blood and Knives,” “On Stage with Annie,” “Just Put Your Feet in These Stirrups,” “Meet the Chinese Magnus Hirschfeld,” “Pornography and the Sensitive New Age Guy,” and “In Praise of Strap-Ons.”

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Queen, Carol.

Real live nude girl: chronicles of sex-positive culture / Carol Queen.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-573-44856-7

1. Lesbians—United States—Biography. 2. Lesbianism. 3. Bisexuality. I. Title.

HQ75.6.U5Q44

96-50998 CIP