The Sexual State of the Union

Susie Bright

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Year: 1998
• ISBN:
  9780743260138
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Human Sexuality in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This eBook includes an exclusive preface written by the author!
Lust brings out the liar in everyone. Every erection has Pinocchio written up and down its length -- yes, everybody wants to be REAL, a real boy, an honest woman, unafraid and upright -- but then desire, the ultimate honesty, does us in. Desire doesn't give a whit about shame. Our secrets, our exaggerations and distractions, it's all just a lot of twisting in the wind as far as sex is concerned -- what we want WILL come out.
"Is our sexuality a basic, good, and precious thing that somehow became terribly misunderstood? Or is there something really evil out there in Sex Land that attaches itself to our libidos and is only held back by vigilance and caution?" asks Susie Bright in her bestselling book The Sexual State of the Union. Bright pushes the borders of propriety until they blur and become irrelevant in the face of our inherent need to touch and be touched. With candor and passion, Susie Bright proves that sexual knowledge can indeed be salvation and inspiration.

Index

Abdill, Michelle

abortion

controlling of women andcost factors anddecriminalization ofemotions andmale sexuality andreligious and political impact onsee also antiabortion activism

abortion rights

Accused, The

Acremant, Robert James

aging

grace and

AIDS

conspiracy theories aboutdeaths caused byhomosexuality andlife expectancy andmedia andmoral conclusions drawn frompanic associated withprevention ofpromiscuity andresearch ontransmission ofsee also HIV

Alfred University

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten(Fulghum)

American Magazine

American Psycho(Ellis)

America OnLine (AOL)

anal sex

homoerotic implications oforgasm and

anger

animals

Anno, Kim

anorexia

antiabortion activism

class contradictions andviolence and

Antioch College

Apple, Inc.

Arkansas, University of

artificial insemination

athletes

HIV contracted bysex life ofsexual abstinence of

Attorney General’s Report on Pornography of 1986

baby-sitters

Barbie dolls

beauty:

actressesgrace andinnerweight andyouth and

beauty contests

beauty myth

Bedtime for Frances

bestiality

Bible

birth control

abstinence andfailure ofmethods ofneglect ofbirth control pillsbisexualitymarriage and

blackmail

Blank, Joani

blood

HIV transmission bymenstrualtransfusion of

Bobbitt, John Wayne

Bobbitt, Lorena

body parts:

artificialpiercing ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• Also By
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Good Breeding
• Plagues, Panics, and General Pandemonium
• I Love Being a Gender
• Sex Toys
• On the Road
• Totally Offensive
• Sources
• Index