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Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir

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by Susie Bright


  Aging Badly: “Editor in Chief.” On Our Backs shot a satirical pictorial for our fifth anniversary issue, “A Day in the Life of On Our Backs.” San Francisco, CA, 1989. Photo by Phyllis Christopher.

  When I Came Back From My Honeymoon: Susie at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Honey Lee Cottrell.

  Santa Cruz: Aretha Bright’s illustrated lunch bag for kindergarten, Santa Cruz, CA, 1995. Illustration by Jon Bailiff.

  Acknowledgements: The Red Tide’s first issue, front and back cover, 1970.

  Notes: On Our Backs photo shoot in Kathy Andrew’s workshop, a custom leather studio for women called Stormy Leather, San Francisco, CA, 1985. Photo by Honey Lee Cottrell.

  Photo Credits: Susie and Honey Lee Cottrell at home in bathtub, San Francisco, CA, 1986. Photo by Mariette Pathy Allen.

  Also By Susie Bright

  Love & Lust: A Sex Journal

  Bitten, editor

  X: The Erotic Treasury, editor

  The Best American Erotica, 1993 – 2008, editor

  Three Kinds of Asking for It, editor

  Three the Hard Way, editor

  How to Write a Dirty Story

  Full Exposure

  The Sexual State of the Union

  Herotica, Herotica 2, Herotica 3, editor

  Table of Contents

  Contents

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Preface

  First Bites

  Baby Teeth

  India

  The Irish Side

  Way Out West

  D - I - V- O - R - C - E

  Runs Through It

  Bleeding

  The Time Has Come, the Walrus Said

  The Red Tide

  The Bunny Trip

  The Churning Mist

  Swim Banquet

  George Putnam's Show

  Sex Education

  You Are Now a Cadre

  Patty Hearst

  Dago Armour's Apartment

  The New Branch Organizer

  The Master Freight Agreement

  Greyhound to Detroit via Amarillo

  The Aorta

  Commie Camp

  Relocation

  The Perfume Counter

  Expulsion

  All Along the GirlTower

  School Days

  How I Got Introduced to On Our Backs

  The Feminist Vibrator Store

  The Baby Showers

  Models Crying

  Les Belles Dames Sans Merci

  The Daddies

  Motherhood

  Rotation

  Aging Badly

  When I Came Back from My Honeymoon

  Santa Cruz

  Acknowledgments

  Notes

  Photo Credits

  Also By Susie Bright

 

 

 


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