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In her candid and provocative memoir, Wide Open, Gracie details the years she has spent exploring the poly lifestyle and creating her "chosen family." A fiercely intelligent feminist, she challenges traditional ideas about monogamy, fidelity, and sexuality. From swinger parties and strip clubs to sex toys and pornography, this is an edgy and thought-provoking read. Yet erotica and tenderness share space here, with Gracie's true love for both Hank and Oz—as well as her two children—coming through very clearly.

Readers, listeners, and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Women’s Erotica series, exclaiming that it shows "women’s sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises" ( Libido) and "gets racier every year" ( San Francisco Bay Guardian). With stories that have raised the bar for women’s erotic writing, this series tells the truth about women’s sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth. Now listeners can experience the hottest of the hot and the best of Best Women’s Erotica from the past six years.

Exhibitionism can be a consensual erotic pleasure and a means to overcome shyness and body image issues. Featured here are suggested exercises, as well as discussions of erotic dress, talk, personas and roleplay involving your partner, exhibitionism and the sex industry, and more.

Herotica 4 is a lovingly graphic collection that exposes the richness and complexity of female sexuality in every imaginable combination of partners, positions, and situations. Each explicit story opens the once-closed door to female sexual fantasies a little wider, freeing creativity and sexual expression from the dark recesses to be seen, savored, and richly enjoyed.

G-Spot Chronicles brings into convergence celebrated scholars and experts in female sexuality to examine issues surrounding explosive female orgasms evoked by the elusive G-Spot - exploring the implications for female sexuality. This documentary project challenges recent claims by the British research scientists of King’s College, London. The Consortium of Ejaculating Women featured in this program controverts the British scientists’ conclusion (in 2009) that “the G-Spot [is a] myth.”

The Edge of the Bed: Cyborgasm 2 is a collection of erotic stories so real, you can practically feel it. Contributors include sexperts Susie Bright and Carol Queen!

The Best Sex Writing series has fundamentally changed the way people think - and what they say - about sexuality. Once again, Rachel Kramer Bussel has collected the year’s most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocative subject. The essays here comprise a detailed, direct survey of the contemporary American sexual landscape. Major commentators examine the many roles sex plays in our lives in these literate and lively essays.

Whether writing about the joys of being spanked into erotic bliss, performing in a red-light district peep show, partaking in the pleasures of the new safe sex clubs, or lobbying for the pro-pornography platform, Queen is an enthusiastic advocate for sexual pleasure.

Dr. Carol Queen is, veritably, the eminent scholar on this subject. She infuses the requisite erotic scholarship into this very elusive area of discourse and of great contention: female orgasm, the g-spot, and female ejaculation. Dr. Queen is worth the the listener's intellectual investment. She is a global scholar of psycho-dynamics and intuits the myriad complexities of human sexuality with grace, elegance, and dazzling compassion.