{"id":496,"date":"2008-01-01T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-01-01T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:44:00","slug":"modern-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/01\/01\/modern-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R3qbOMASy-I\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/wKI1OyqOSBI\/s1600-h\/2109241859_4994271a87.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R3qbOMASy-I\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/wKI1OyqOSBI\/s200\/2109241859_4994271a87.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>What better way to kick off the new year than with the gift of sex?  Sex writing, I mean of course.  Rachel Kramer Bussel&#8217;s new anthology, <a><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Best Sex Writing 2008<\/span><\/a>, looks like a must-read.  Salon calls it &#8220;A fun, nimble book that never loses its sense of humor about itself.&#8221;  The press release says it &#8220;captures the heart and soul of what&#8217;s happening behind the bedroom door, where lust, desire, gender, identity, sex work, and politics collide.&#8221;  But Rachel puts in best in the opening line of her introduction: &#8220;Sex.  One little word, so much drama.&#8221;   Love that in the very first graf, Rachel looks back with a reference to Carole Vance&#8217;s anthology from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnard.edu\/sfonline\/sfxxx\/sf09.htm\">1982 conference &#8220;Toward a Politics of Sexuality&#8221; at Barnard College<\/a>, called <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Pleasure and Danger<\/span>, noting how sex is an ever-evolving set of acts, philosophies, and identities that &#8220;teaches us, thrills us, empowers us, confuses us, electrifies us.&#8221;  In all sorts of complex ways.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the book&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bestsexwriting2008.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bestsexwriting2008.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/05\/hello-world\/\">read the intro<\/a>, and, if in NYC, join Rachel and friends at the book release party on January 22 at, where else, Rapture Cafe.  There will be cupcakes.  Details <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/386290\/\">here<\/a>.  And stay tuned&#8211;I hope to be writing a bit more on the collection here on GWP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to kick off the new year than with the gift of sex? Sex writing, I mean of course. Rachel Kramer Bussel&#8217;s new anthology, Best Sex Writing 2008, looks like a must-read. Salon calls it &#8220;A fun, nimble book that never loses its sense of humor about itself.&#8221; The press release says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}