The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex (93 page)

Best Lesbian Erotica
edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis Press).

Best Women’s Erotica
edited by Marcy Sheiner (Cleis Press).

Herotica Series, Volumes 1-7,
various editors (Penguin/Plume).

Noirotica
edited by Thomas Roche (Black Books).

Wicked Words: Black Lace Short Story Collection
edited by Kerri Sharp (Black Lace).

Anthologies

Best Transgender Erotica
edited by Hanne Blank and Raven Kaldera (Circlet Press, 2002).

Black Silk: Collection of African American Erotica
edited by Retha Powers (Warner Books, 2002).

Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
by Carol Taylor (Plume, 2001).

Caliente: Latin American Erotica
edited by J. H. Blair (Berkeley Publishing Group, 2002).

Erotic Travel Tales
edited by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis Press, 2001).

Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Carrol & Graf, 2001).

Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex
edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet (Bantam, 2000).

On Our Backs: The Best Erotic Fiction
(Alyson Publications, 2001).

Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica
edited by Marcy Sheiner (Cleis Press, 1999).

Ripe Fruit: Erotica for Well-Seasoned Lovers
edited by Marcy Sheiner (Cleis Press, 2001).

Sex Spoken Here
edited by Carol Queen and Jack Davis (Down There Press, 1998).

Sex Toy Tales
edited by Anne Semans and Cathy Winks (Down There Press, 1998).

Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples
edited by Violet Blue (Cleis Press, 2001).

Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica
edited by Hanne Blank (Cleis Press, 2001).

Novels

Autobiography of a Flea
by Anonymous (Carroll & Graf, 1983).

Fanny Hill
by Anonymous (Carroll & Graf, 1990).

Marketplace Trilogy:
The Marketplace, The Slave, The Trainer
by Laura Antoniou writing as Sara Adamson
(
Mystic Rose Books, 2001).

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy:
Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release
by Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure (New American Library/Plume, 1983, 1984, 1985, respectively).

Story of
O by Pauline Reage (Ballantine, 1973).

Strictly Confidential
by Alison Tyler (Virgin Publishing, 2001).

Vox
by Nicholson Baker (Random House, 1992).

Audio Erotica

The Butcher
by Alina Reyes (Passion Press, 1995).

Cinematique: Erotic Audio Screenplays
(Passion Press, 1999).

Cyborgasm: Erotica in 3D Sound
(Passion Press, 1998).

Cyborgasm 2: The Edge of the Bed
(Passion Press, 1998).

Erotic Edge
edited by Lonnie Barbach (Passion Press, 1995).

The Erotic Reader: Selected Excerpts from Banned Books
(Passion Press, 1995).

Herotica, Volumes 1-6,
various editors (Passion Press).

Libido’s Best: Erotic Audio Sense and Sensibility
by Libido, Inc. (Passion Press, 1999).

Art

Collections

Body and Soul: Black Erotica
by Rundu Staggers (Crown Publishing, 1996).

Erotic by Nature
edited by David Steinberg (Red Alder and Down There Press, 1988).

Erotica Universalis
edited by Giles Neret (Taschen, 1995).

The Illustrated Kama Sutra
translated by Sir Richard Burton (Inner Traditions, 1991).

Love Lust Desire
edited by Michelle Olley (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001).

Male Nudes
edited by David Leddick (Taschen, 2001).

Male Nudes by Women
edited by Peter Weiermair (DAP, 1995).

Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica
edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Marilyn Lewis (Carroll & Graf, 2001).

Naked Libido
by Eugene Zakusilo (Libido, Inc., 1999).

Nice Girls Don’t
edited by Laurence Jaugey-Paget (Janssen Verlag, 1999).

Nothing but the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image
edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener (Cassell, 1996).

One Thousand Nudes
edited by Michael Koetzle (Taschen, 1995).

Voyeur
edited by Charles Melcher and Steven Diamond (Harper Collins, 1999).

Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes
edited by Laurie Edison and Debbie Notkin (Focus Books, 1994).

Notable Erotic Photographers:

Carlos Batts
Phyllis Christopher
Tee Corinne
Charles Gatewood
Della Grace
Laurence Jaugey-Paget
Richard Kern
Eric Kroll
Robert Mapplethorpe
Jill Posener
Herb Ritts
Michael Rosen
Jan Saudek
Michele Serchuk
Eric Stanton
Roy Stuart
Trevor Watson

Videography

Thanks to Susie Bright for introducing us to many of the following videos.

Erotic Classics from the Golden Age of Porn

Autobiography of a Flea
directed by Sharon McNight and the Mitchell Brothers (1976). A wonderfully naughty Victorian romp.

Behind the Green Door
directed by the Mitchell Brothers (1972). Marilyn Chambers is spirited away from humdrum reality to live out her fantasies.

Devil in Miss Jones
directed by Gerard Damiano (VCA, 1972). Thought-provoking and arousing, with excellent performances.

Every Woman Has a Fantasy
directed by Edwin Brown (VCA, 1984). John Leslie portrays a husband who dresses in drag to eavesdrop on his wife and her friends as they recount their sexual fantasies.

Nightdreams
directed by Rinse Dream (Caballero, 1981). A surreal presentation of one woman’s erotic delusions.

Other Side of Julie
directed by Anthony Riverton (Cal Vista, 1978). When Julie discovers that her husband (played by John Leslie) is earning their living as a gigolo, she decides to assert her own sexuality.

Outlaw Ladies
directed by Henri Pachard (VCA, 1981). Five women aggressively pursue (and achieve) sexual satisfaction over the course of a day.

3 A.M.
directed by Robert McCallum (Cal Vista, 1976). A great erotic tragedy with superior acting.

Notable Contemporary Directors

Brad Armstrong is a multiple
Adult Video News
Award winner. He is lauded for quality production and editing, great sets, and stories.

Maria Beatty (of Blue Productions) focuses on images of S/M and the powerful female, immersing them in contemporary film noir aesthetics.

Andrew Blake has won many fans with his glossy, stylized videos, all of which are notable for high production values, attractive performers, and minimal plots.

Ernest Greene directs erotic and educational fetish and S/M films. Explicit genital contact is not common in films that also depict bondage and discipline, due to potential legal repercussions, but Greene’s stylish videos of erotic power play generate plenty of heat.

Veronica Hart’s films focus on relationships and hot sex, while featuring high production values, great acting, compelling stories, and good chemistry.

John Leslie’s films aren’t for the hearts-and-flowers crowd, but they deliver strong plots, tight editing, and athletic, nasty sex between the hottest performers in the business.

Antonio Passolini, who has been directing since the Golden Age of Porn, is best known for his film Bliss, which features complex relationships and supercharged sex.

Candida Royalle, of Femme Productions, takes a feminist approach to creating heterosexual porn. Her films celebrate romance and foreplay, and are often less in-your-face than mainstream adult videos (i.e, no external come shots and fewer genital close-ups).

Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour are the lesbian filmmakers behind SIR Productions, specializing in real-lesbian adult videos as well as specialty how-to videos. Their dyke drama
Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels
won an
Adult Video News
award, while the anal sex how-to
Bend Over Boyfriend
has been a runaway best-seller since its release.

Paul Thomas delivers satisfying plots, elicits strong performances, and dedicates plenty of screen time to authentic female orgasms in some of the most compelling videos in the industry today.

Educational

Ageless Desire
(Afterglow Productions, 2000). Under the expert direction of Juliet “Aunt Peg” Anderson, three truly loving, real-life couples enact playful scenarios that demonstrate their favorite recipes for sexual pleasure, complete with suggestions, information, and explicit imagery.

Bend Over Boyfriend, Volumes 1 & 2
(Fatale and SIR Videos, 1998, 1999). Skilled blow jobs, unrestrained anal penetration, and lots of dirty talk fill these guides to strapping on dildos and penetrating male partners. Directed by Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano.

Better Sex for Black Couples, Volume 1 & 2
(Sinclair, 1999). Romantic and explicit demonstrations by real couples blend with explanations by sex experts to shatter long-held cultural stereotypes and explore issues that shape African American sexuality.

Carol Queen’s Great Vibrations
directed by Joani Blank (Fatale, 1995). Author of
Exhibitionism for the Shy
and a Good Vibrations staffer, Carol Queen offers explicit vibrator demonstrations together with tips for women and men alike.

Celebrating Orgasm
(Betty Dodson, 1996). Betty Dodson offers private coaching in masturbation techniques to five different women ages 26 to 63.

The Complete Guide to Sexual Positions
(Pacific Media, 1995). Explicit demonstrations of 100 different sexual positions for heterosexual couples, along with tips for intensifying G-spot stimulation.

Fire in the Valley
(EroSpirit, 2000). Famed sex educators/pleasurists Annie Sprinkle and Joseph Kramer team up to bring you the consummate guide to female genital massage.

Guide to Advanced Sexual Positions
(Sinclair, 1996). Two real-life, loving couples thoroughly describe and demonstrate an extensive variety of positions for oral, anal, and genital sex.

How to Female Ejaculate
(Fatale, 1992). A group of five women discuss their experiences of female ejaculation and then demonstrate in a very fluid circle-jerk.

The Joy of Erotic Massage
(Sinclair, 2001). A beautifully shot, tasteful video that gives step-by-step instructions on erotic massage.

Nina Hartley’s Guides

…to Anal Sex
(Adam & Eve, 1996).

…to Couples Sexploration
(Adam & Eve, 2001).

…to Cunnilingus
(Adam & Eve, 1994).

…to Fellatio
(Adam & Eve, 1994).

…
to Making Love to Men
(Adam & Eve, 2000).

…to Making Love to Women
(Adam & Eve, 2000).

Porn star Nina Hartley delivers accurate anatomical information and demonstrates techniques with male and female pals with her trademark humor, enthusiasm, and professionalism.

Selfloving
(Betty Dodson, 1991). A filmed version of Betty’s Dodson’s Bodysex workshop, in which a group of ten women discuss sexual self-image and feelings, after which Betty leads them in a guided masturbation ritual.

Sexuality Reborn
narrated by Ben Vereen (Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, 1993). Five couples dealing with spinal cord injuries discuss and demonstrate their sexual techniques (available only through the Kessler Institute).

Sluts and Goddesses
directed by Maria Beatty and Annie Sprinkle (EroSpirit, 1992). Annie’s diverse female cast explores erotic energy from a New Age perspective, and the video culminates in Annie’s five-minute orgasm.

The Tantric Guide to Better Sex
(Sinclair, 1997). Tantric experts teach ancient techniques to improve partner orgasms, and several real-life couples explicitly demonstrate the practices.

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, Volumes 1 & 2
(Evil Angel Productions, 1999, 2001). A how-to featuring arousing anal sex scenes (straight and lesbian) mixed with funny, genuinely enlightening conversations about all things anal.

Unlocking the Secrets of the G Spot
(Sinclair, 1999). Established sex experts dispel myths while real couples illustrate G-spot techniques and ways to achieve male multiple orgasm.

Viva la Vulva
(Betty Dodson, 1998). Led by Betty Dodson, a group of twelve women trim and primp their pubic hair, pose for close-up photo shots, discuss how they learned to love their genitals, and practice full-body massage on each other.

Sex Positive Productions (Good Vibrations’ own line of videos)

Please Don’t Stop
(2001). Made by and for lesbians of color, this video focuses on a workshop in which African American women learn about sex techniques and toys, which inspires several of the couples to experiment further at home.

Slide Bi Me
(2001). An insurance company’s playfully lusty employees set out to enjoy a company picnic and wind up having uninhibited bisexual sex in every possible combination, and with lots of toys.

Whipsmart
(2002). Professional dominatrix Mistress Morgana instructs viewers on the how to’s of adding power, pleasure, and pain to their sexual encounters.