Macho Sluts: A little Sister's Classic

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A new edition of the groundbreaking 1988 S&M story collection by the legendary sex radical Patrick Calafia. Set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, loft parties and S&M gay bars, this seminal work is a powerful, no-holds-barred collection that affirms gay and lesbian sexuality in all its guises.

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Califia, a champion of pornography as a key to adequately realized sexuality, is probably the most skilled writer of pornography working today if one measures talent by appeal across genders. -Joseph W. Slade, Pornography and Sexual Representation Califia is in the tradition of philosophers Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, the gay pioneer Harry Hay, the poet Allen Ginsberg, the journalist Ellen Willis, and the novelist Dorothy Allison, who calls Califia's essays 'lucid, intelligent, brave, and true.' -The Progressive

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Patrick Califia's writing and activism have revolutionized the concept of queer sex. He has written over a dozen books, including Coming to Power, Melting Point, No Mercy, and Speaking Sex to Power; his work has been translated into six other languages. He lives in San Francisco. Wendy Chapkis is a Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. She is also the co-author of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine (New York University Press, 2008).