The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

NOTES

1

1. Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), 126.

2

2. Alex Comfort, The New Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking for the Nineties (New York: Crown Publishers, 1991), 244.

3

3. Jack Morin, Leo Bersani, and Cindy Patton, among other scholars, have written some resourceful theoretical work about anal sexuality. See Resources at the end of this book for more information.

4

1. Samuel S. Janus and Cynthia L. Janus, The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993), 105.

5

2. Jack Morin, Anal Pleasure and Health (San Francisco: Yes/Down There Press, 1986), 17.

6

3. Janus and Janus, Janus Report; William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert E. Kolodny, Heterosexuality (New York: HarperCollins, 1994); Elliot Leland and Cynthia Brantley, Sex on Campus: The Naked Truth About the Real Sex Lives of College Students (New York: Random House, 1997); June M. Reinisch with Ruth Beasley, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990); Robert T. Michael et al., Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1994).

7

Sarah Miller, “The Slut Within,” Details (The Sex Issue), May 1997, 77. © by Sarah Miller, reprinted with permission of the author.

8

4. Cathy Winks and Anne Semans, The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997), 128.

9

5. Morin, Anal Pleasure, 9 and Reinisch, Kinsey New Report, 137.

10

6. Leland and Brantley, Sex on Campus; Michael, Sex in America; Janus and Janus, Janus Report; Reinisch and Beasley, Kinsey New Report; Morin, Anal Pleasure and Health.

11

Susie Bright, Susie Bright’s Sexual State of the Union (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 144.

12

7. Susan Crain Bakos, Kink: The Hidden Sex Lives of Americans (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 7.

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1. Jack Morin, Anal Pleasure and Health (San Francisco: Yes Press, 1986); Cathy Winks and Anne Semans, The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997); Roselyn Payne Epps and Susan Cobb Stewart, e ds., The American Medical Women’s Association Guide to Sexuality (New York: Dell Books, 1996); James H. Grendell, M.D., Kenneth R. McQuaid, M.D., and Scott L. Friedman, M.D., eds., Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Gastroenterology (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996); and San Francisco sex educator Robert Morgan, personal conversations.

14

Joan Nestle, “A Different Place” in A Restricted Country (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1987), 137. ©1987 by Joan Nestle. Reprinted with permission of the author and Firebrand Books.

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2. These exercises are recommended in Anal Pleasure and Health by Jack Morin and The Complete Guide to Safer Sex from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, edited by Ted Mcllvenna (Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 1992).

16

3. Morin, Anal Pleasure, 59.

17

Sarah Miller, “The Slut Within,” Details (The Sex Issue), May 1997, 77. ©1997 by Sarah Miller. Reprinted with permission of the author.

18

Bert Herrman, Trust: The Hand Book (A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of Handballing) (San Francisco: Alamo Square Press, 1991), 45.

19

4. Masters et al., Heterosexuality, 384.

20

5. Roselyn Payne Epps and Susan Cobb Stewart, eds., The American Medical Women’s Association Guide to Sexuality (New York: Dell Books, 1996), 158.

21

6. Patricia Kloser and Jane MacLean Craig, The Women’s HIV Sourcebook (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1994), 75; Epps and Stewart, Guide to Sexuality, 158.

22

7. Reinisch and Beasley, Kinsey New Report, 591.

23

8. Phone interview with San Francisco Sex Information Supervisor, May 1997; and Winks and Semans, New Good Vibrations Guide, 73.

24

9. Paul Harding Douglas and Laura Pinsky, The Essential AIDS Fact Book (New York: Pocket Books, 1996), 28.

25

10. Mcl Ivenna, Complete Guide to Safer Sex, 84. This tip assumes that the condom is lubricated on both the inside and the outside.

26

11. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sex for Dummies’ (Braintree, MA: IDG Books Worldwide, 1995), 182.

27

1. Nina Hartley, Nina Hartley’s Guide to Anal Sex (Adam and Eve Productions, 1994). This video is available at many adult video and sex toy stores and through mail-order catalogs. See the resource section at the end of the book for more information.

28

Susie Bright, “Ass Forward” in Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1990), 34. ©1990 by Susie Bright.

29

2. Bakos, Kink, Hartley, Guide to Anal Sex.

30

Almudena Grandes, The Ages of Lulu, translated by Sinia Soto (New York: Grove Press, 1994), 184.

31

Cathy Winks and Anne Semans, The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997), 163.

32

1. For more information on the Reality™ Female Condom, see the Northwest AIDS Foundation brochure reprinted on the Society for Human Sexuality Web site (see Resources for Web address).

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2. Mcllvenna, Complete Guide to Safer Sex, 82

34

3. Mcllvenna, Complete Guide to Safer Sex, 211

35

Dorian Key, “Every Boy” in Best Lesbian Erotica 1998 edited by Tristan Taormino (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998).

36

Anne Rice, “Beauty: The Rites of Purification,” from Beauty’s Release by Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure (New York: Plume, 1985), 53-54.

37

1. For more information on enemas, I recommend you read Bert Herrman, Trust: The Hand Book (A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of Handballing) (San Francisco: Alamo Square Press, 1991).

38

Betty Dodson, Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving (New York: Three Rivers Press), 157, 143. Author and sex educator Betty Dodson is considered by many to be the ” mother of masturbation.”

39

1. Hartley, Guide to Anal Sex.

40

Linda Jaivin, Eat Me (New York: Broadway Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997), 220.

41

1. Herrman, Trust, 43.

42

Magenta Michaels, “Taking Him on a Sunday Afternoon” in Herotica 2: A Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction edited by Susie Bright and Joani Blank (San Francisco: Down There Press, 1991), 19.

43

2. Hartley, Guide to Anal Sex.

44

3. Sex educator Robert Morgan.

45

Rose White and Eric Albert, “She Gets Her Ass Fucked Good” in Best American Erotica 1997 edited by Susie Bright (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 82.

46

AnaIs Nin, “Mandra” in Little Birds (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1979), 131.

47

1. Herrman, Trust, 17.

48

2. Herrman, Trust, 22-23.

49

3. Herrman, Trust, 27.

50

4. Sex educator Robert Morgan. 5.

51

Pat Califia, “The Calyx of Isis” in Macho Sluts (Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 1988), 132, 135.

52

5. Herrman, Trust, 61.

53

Linda Jaivin, Eat Me (New York: Broadway Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997), 164.

54

Pauline Reage, Story of O, translated by Sabine d’Estree (New York: Grove Press, 1965), 83.

55

1. Read more about S/M in Leatherfolk, edited by Mark Thompson (Boston: Alyson, 1991); Coming to Power, edited by SAMOIS (Boston: Alyson, 1982); The Second Coming, edited by Pat Califia and Robin Sweeney (Los Angeles: Alyson, 1996); Different Loving by Gloria Brame (Random House, 1993); Sensuous Magic by Pat Califia (New York: Masquerade, 1996); SM 101 by Jay Wiseman (San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1992).

56

Carol Queen, “Ariel” in The Leatherdaddy and the Femme (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998).

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1. For more information on STDs and anal sex, I recommend Anal Pleasure and Health by Jack Morin; The American Medical Women’s Association Guide to Sexuality, edited by Roselyn Payne Epps and Susan Cobb Stewart; and Your Sexual Health by Dr. Jenny McClosky (San Francisco: Halo Books, 1993).

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2. Morin, Anal Pleasure, 210.

59

3. Epps and Stewart, Guide to Sexuality, 140.

60

4. Epps and Stewart, Guide to Sexuality, 138-9.

61

5. McCloskey, Your Sexual Health, 164.

62

6. McCloskey, Your Sexual Health.

63

7. Epps and Stewart, Guide to Sexuality, 134.

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8. Epps and Stewart, Guide to Sexuality, 152.