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Is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose? This new section provides links
and articles on the issues that matter to us all. To comment or add content, email politics
@ cleansheets.com
The Sex & Politics 2004 Contest Winners
 1st Place: Martha Garvey
How To Fuck a President So It Means Something
 2nd Place: Shon Richards
For Janet
 3rd Place: Kara Noel
Love and War
 Runner up: Margaret Pritchard
P.S.
Runner up: M. Riley
The New Laura
Runner up: Shannon Kizzia
Matrimony
Runner up: Bridget Cannon
Condoleeza Doesn't Like It
Runner up: Lydia Grand
Run for Orifice
Runner up: Lee Skinner
Vicarious
Runner up: Lisette Ashton
The Private Members' Bill
Everybody's Sin is Nobody's Sin: Alfred Kinsey and the Breaking of Sexual Silence - reviewed by David Steinberg (12/15/04)
"'Everybody's sin is nobody's sin,' Kinsey proclaimed, triumphantly throwing open the doors to what has become a 50-year-long era of sexual expansion and creativity that half of this strange country welcomes with joy and celebration, and the other half blames for just about everything wrong with the world today."
Learning to Love the Rain - by Hanne Blank (11/10/04)
An exploration of fence-sitters, questions marks, and other interesting sexual identities.
Hope is on the Way - Susannah Indigo (10/27/04)
"Your million man march spreads across the horizon as far as you can see, blocking out the waves, haloed by the sunset, and all of them are smiling directly at you, or maybe it’s a little lower, directly at your nipple ring. Help is on the way..."
Beyond Condoms: The Erosion of Choice in America - by Ann Regentin (10/27/04)
Surveying sex without birth.
Regarding the Death of Former President Ronald Reagan: A Letter to My Best Friend, Steven Powsner
- by Matt Foreman
(06/11/04)
"Sorry, Steven, but even on this day I'm not able to set aside the shaking anger I feel over Reagan's non-response to the AIDS epidemic or for the continuing anti-gay legacy of his administration. Is it personal? Of course."
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Desire and Sexuality
- edited by Greg Wharton
Reviewed by Gary Meyer (02/25/04)
"He observes how interracial couples are subject to their own set of sexual expectations: 'As a very young, very slender, very blond and not very masculine white boy with a conservative-looking, older black boyfriend in a suit, I must be the one with my legs in the air. Whether it was true or not.'"
Maggie, We Hardly Knew Ye: A Glimpse of America's Avant-Garde Lesbian - by William Dean (11/12/03)
"It was this which set the stage for the great controversy over obscenity in America. The first section of Joyce's Ulysses arrived at the magazine's office in February 1918. Anderson and Heap knew it was special and worthy of promotion. Margaret Anderson said, 'We'll print this if it's the last thing we do!' It very nearly was."
Under Nude Management - by David Steinberg (09/17/03)
"In less than three months, everything had come together and on June 1 the Lusty Lady became the nation's first worker-owned strip club. General manager Davis, who had stirred intense anger among dancers during contract negotiations, became noticeably cooperative when it came to negotiating a buyout. It didn't hurt that the dancers' was the only offer on the table."
The New Sexy Student Body: Are You Squirming Yet? - by William Dean (08/27/03)
"Students also see explicit material, including pornographic films, as part of their human sexuality classes at numerous higher-learning institutions. Many universities have classes in the history of prostitution, erotic literature, and the sexual revolution and there are classes on pornography offered at Arizona State, Emerson College, NYU, Northwestern, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Wesleyan."
What It Is -- Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex
- by Patrick Califia
Reviewed by William Dean (03/19/03)
"I want to raise Patrick Califia to a small personal pantheon inhabited by writers such as Gore Vidal and Camille Paglia. To me, these three authors know about sex intimately and can write about its myriad influences in intelligent ways that surely transcend biological appurtenances and male-female mindsets."
World AIDS Day Section
"He and his lover were down to their last few T-cells and arguing over who was going to die first. He wanted to be first because he did not want to have to take care of his lover's parrot..."
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