Best Sex Writing of the Year

by Jon Pressick

  NICA NOELLE is a writer, director and producer of adult films who has created eight studios in the last decade, including Sweetheart Video, Sweet Sinner Films, TransRomantic, Girl Candy Films and gay romance line Icon Male. Her writing regularly appears in The Huffington Post, Salon.com and a variety of other print magazines and newspapers.

  CHARLIE NOX is a (semiretired) dating coach, OKCupid expert and award-winning sex blogger. She specializes in working with people with significant barriers to dating and was voted one of the Top 100 Sex Bloggers of 2012 and one of the Top 100 Sex Blogging Superheroes of 2013.

  MORGAN M. PAGE (Odofemi.com) is a transsexual performance and video artist, writer, blogger, activist and Santera in Montréal. In 2013, she was the recipient of two SF MOTHA awards (New/ Upcoming Artist of the Year and Group Exhibition, TWAT/fest), and she is a 2014 Lambda Literary fellow. Her first novel is forthcoming from Topside Press.

  JOAN PRICE (joanprice.com) is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Fifty: How to Maintain—or Regain!—a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life; Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty and Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex.

  CORY SILVERBERG (sexuality.about.com) is a sexuality educator, author and trainer. He received his Masters of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and trains across North America on topics including access and inclusion, sexuality and disability, and sex and technology.

  DAVID HENRY STERRY (davidhenrysterry.com), author of sixteen books, is a performer and activist. His bestselling memoir Chicken Self: Portrait of a Man for Rent has been translated into a dozen languages. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys was featured on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.

  STOYA is an adult performer and writer. She recommends that you refrain from Googling her while at work. Read more of her words at graphicdescriptions.com.

  EMBER SWIFT is a Canadian musician, songwriter, performer and writer currently based in Beijing who maintains three popular blogs through her website (emberswift.com). She is an opinion writer for China.org as well as a contributing writer for Heri-zon’s Magazine, Mami Magazine, Beijing Kids Magazine (and online blog) and InCulture Parent, an online portal for cross-cultural parenting.

  ALOK VAID-MENON (returnthegayze.com) is a trans/na-tional artist and activist writing and rioting for racial and economic justice. They are currently on tour with DarkMatter, a trans South Asian poetry collaboration, and work with the Audre Lorde Project, a community organizing center for queer people of color.

  MOLLENA WILLIAMS is a writer, actress, BDSM Educator and storyteller, author of The Toybag Guide: Taboo Play and coauthor of Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities with Lee Harrington. Her essays appear in several anthologies including Tristan Taormino’s The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex.

  CHRISTOPHER ZEISCHEGG spent eight years working in the adult film industry as performer Danny Wylde. He’s been a contributor to The Feminist Porn Book and a variety of online publications, such as Medium and Nerve. His second novel, The Wolves that Live in Skin and Space, will be published in 2015 through Rare Bird Books.

  About the Editor

  JON PRESSICK (SexinWords.ca) is a Toronto-based writer, editor, blogger, radio personality and gadabout specializing in topics related to sex and sexuality for more than fifteen years. Currently, Jon contributes to Kinkly.com and has been published on/in New York Magazine, MetAnotherFrog.com, Xtra, Quill & Quire and in the books Secrets of the Sex Masters and Best Sex Writing 2013. He primarily publishes to his blog, Sex in Words, sharing and contributing analysis of sex-related news stories, feature interviews and erotic fiction.

  As one of the hosts and producer of Toronto’s sex radio institution Sex City, Jon has interviewed some of the sex community’s biggest names, including Cindy Gallop, Candida Royalle, Sunny Megatron, Susie Bright, Tristan Taormino, Kate McCombs, Reid Mihalko, Carol Queen, Dr. Charlie Glickman and many others (including many of the contributors to this collection).

  When he pulls himself away from the keyboard, Jon occasionally performs burlesque, DJs, speaks at sexuality conferences, acts as a juror for the Feminist Porn Awards, curates an erotica library and offers prostate pleasure and erotica workshops.

  Throughout the years, Jon’s efforts have earned him TNT’s Sex Journalist of the Year Award and recognition as one of Broken Pencil’s “50 People and Places We Love.”

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following essays:

  “Captain Save-A-Ho” was published in Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing about Each Other (Soft Skull Press, 2013). “How a Former Porn Star’s Sex Tape Helped Him Reclaim His Sex Life” by Christopher Zeischegg aka Danny Wylde was published April 3, 2014 on Nerve. “What Should We Call Sex Toys?” by Epiphora was published on February 8, 2013 on Hey Epiphora! “We Need A New Orientation to Sex” by Cory Silverberg was published October 16, 2013 on Huffington Post. “I Am the Blogger Who Allegedly ‘Complicated’ the Stuebenville Rape Case” by Alexandria Goddard was published on March 18, 2013 on xojane.com. Reprinted with permission from xojane.com, http://www.xojane.com/issues/steubenville-rape-verdict-alexandria-goddard. “Porn Director: I Changed My Mind about Condoms” by Nica Noelle was published September 27, 2013 on Salon. “Pregger Libido” by Ember Swift was published September 25, 2013 on Ember Swift. “The White Kind of Body” by Alok Vaid-Menon was published on August 10, 2012 on Queer Libido. “Sex, Lies and Public Education” by Lynn Comella was published May 31, 2013 on Vegas Seven. “Sharing Body Heat” by Joan Price was published August 2, 2013 on Huffington Post. “Being a Real-Life Accomplice” by Cameryn Moore was published December 17, 2013 on Cameryn Moore. “Oops, I Slept With Your Boyfriend” by Charlie Nox was published August 26, 2013 on Huffington Post. “Pump Dreams” by Mitch Kellaway was published in Cliterature: The Clitoris, Vol. XXIX. “Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores” by Laura Agustín was published August 15, 2013 on Jacobin. “Fisting Day” by Jiz Lee was published in The Feminist Porn Book edited by Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimisu and Mireille Miller-Young (The Feminist Press, 2013). “Tell Me You Want Me.” by Mollena Williams was published July 4, 2013 on The Perverted Negress. “The Gates” by Tina Horn was originally published in the MFA thesis “Useful Notes on the Modern Sex Worker,” (Sarah Lawrence College, May 2013). “The Choice of Motherhood and Insidious Drugstore Signage” by Stoya was published May 12, 2013 on Stoya.tumblr.com. “Kinky, Sober and Free: BDSM in Recovery” was published April 17, 2013 on The Fix. “Crazy Trans Woman Syndrome” by Morgan M. Page was published January 17, 2013 on Odofemi. “Let’s Talk about Interracial Porn” by Jarrett Neal was published in The Gay and Lesbian Review, July/August 2013. “When I Was a Birthday Present for an Eighty-Two-Year-Old Grandmother” by David Henry Sterry was published in Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (Soft Skull Press, 2013). “What an Armpit Model Taught Me About Sexual Language” by Jon Pressick was published January 28, 2014 on Sex in Words. “Growing Through the Yuck” by Ashley Manta was published April 18, 2013 on Herpes Life. “I Was A Teenage Porn Model” by Lux Alptraum was published October 15, 2013 on Medium. “Disability and Sex” by Jason Armstrong was published August 3, 2013 on Hunting for Sex: Cautionary Tales from the Quest. “Fumbling Towards Humanity: How ‘Trans Grrrls’ Helped Me Open Up to My Partner” by Amy Dentata was published April 21, 2014 on Pink Label. “In Defense of Celibacy” by Lauren Marie Fleming, aka Queerie Bradshaw was published April 5, 2013 on Queerie Bradshaw. “No Restrictions” by Dee Dee Behind was published in Prose and Lore, Issue 2.

 

 

 
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