I love New York
The view from 14th Street on a beautiful rainy night.
posted by Rachel @ Saturday, November 15, 2008
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The Mile High Club: Plane Sex Stories
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Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories is out now!
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Rubber, latex, and PVC erotica in Rubber Sex:
Elsewhere
me on Flickr/my Flickr cupcake account
Tumblr
Booktour
Jewcy
Eventful
me on MySpace
Cucpakes Take the Cake on MySpace
Sex and Candy on MySpace
Naughty Spanking Stories on MySpace
She's on Top on MySpace
Hide and Seek on MySpace
Crossdressing on MySpace
Best Sex Writing 2008 on MySpace
Read Me
Gayest person ever? Author Joel Derfner wants the title," Radar, May 12, 2008
Interview with Lillian Ann Slugocki, Dirty Girls blog, April 8, 2008
"Circumcised Guys Do It Better," Jewcy.com, April 1, 2008
Knocked Up and Proud: Interview with Louise Sloan, Huffington Post, March 26, 2008
Interview with Marie Lyn Bernard, Dirty Girls blog, March 21, 2008
"Streets Called Home: Q&A With Author Jessica Blank," WireTap, February 27, 2008
"Sex Doesn't Need to be Sensationalized," Huffington Post, January 25, 2008
Interview with Amy Andre about sexuality studies, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, January 24, 2008
Interview with Rachel Shukert on Jewish girls and blowjobs, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, January 19, 2008
Interview with Jen Cross on butch/femme, sexual abuse, and writing, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, January 8, 2008
"2008, One Day at a Time," Huffington Post, December 31, 2007
Interview with Paul Festa on circumcision, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, December 30, 2007
Interview with Jill Eisenstadt on wedding night sex, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, December 30, 2007
My review of Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!), Alternet, December 14, 2007
Interview with Greta Christina on hiring a professional submissive, Best Sex Writing 2008 blog, December 13, 2007
"The Case for Open Relationships" Huffington Post, December 10, 2007
Interview with Lux Nightmare and Melissa Gira on Best Sex Writing 2008
"Are You A Sex Addict? Am I?" Huffington Post, November 28, 2007
"Sex Toys and the Technology of Orgasm," Alternet, October 4, 2007
"Pump It Up," (on Veronica Vera's how to walk in high heels class), Time Out New York, September 27-October 3, 2007 issue
"Don't Pass the Buck When It Comes to Selling Your Book," Huffington Post, September 24, 2007
"Kids and cupcakes: It's an American Tradition!" Newsday, September 23, 2007
Rosh Hashanah Handbook, "Like a Virgin: Love, Sex, and Dating," Jewcy.com, September 11, 2007
Interview with Alison Pace, Author, Through Thick and Thin, Gothamist, August 8, 2007
Interview with Sarah Schenck, Feminist Filmmaker, Director, Slippery Slope,, Feministing Interview with Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Editor, Alone in the Kitchen With An Eggplant, Gothamist
Interview with Jennifer Fox, Director, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, Huffington Post, Parts 1 and 2
"21st Century S.E.X. Ed," The Nation (WireTap mag reprint), July 10, 2007
"Weight Lifting Shapes the Mind and the Body," Huffington Post, July 9, 2007
Review of Party Girl by Anna David, New York Post, July 8, 2007
"Banning 'Bad' Books Is Not the Answer," Huffington Post
"Anthologies 'R' Us," Mediabistro
"Three Little Words," Fresh Yarn
"Is There Such a Thing as 'Porn for Women?'" Huffington Post
Interview with Death by Chick Lit author Lynn Harris, Huffington Post
Interview with Tramps Like Us author Kristen Buckley, Memoirville.com
Interview with Baby Love author Rebecca Walker, Memoirville.com
"So What Do You Do?" interview with food critic/memoirist Gael Greene, Mediabistro
Published erotica writing samples
My Books
Yes, Ma'am: Erotic Stories of Male Submission blog
Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission blog
Crossdressing: Erotic Stories blog
Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women on Wordpress
Best Sex Writing 2008 on Wordpress
Introduction to Hide and Seek: Showing Off In Style
Introduction to Crossdressing: Erotic Stories, "Crossing Boundaries and Bending Genders"
Introduction to Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2
Interview about Best Sex Writing 2008
Me reading "Flirting with Santa" from Alison Tyler's Naughty or Nice? Christmas Erotica
Me reading "His Just Rewards" from She's on Top
Me reading my Hide and Seek story "Like This" at In The Flesh
Watch Me
Fleshbot attends the Sex and Candy book party, December 2007
I read from my Hide and Seek story "Like This" at Best Of In The Flesh, 9/20/07
"How Do You Like It?" (interview for National Masturbation Month), Fleshbot
"Where Sluts Fear to Tread," From True Sex Confessions Night at In The Flesh, YouTube
Getting spanked by Elise on Fleshbot
Moderating Mediabistro's "From Blogs to Books" Panel (free preview)
Playing Ms. Pacman at SXSW
Interviews With Me
Midtown Lunch
Cleis Press interview on Best Sex Writing 2008
Hipster Book Club interview on erotica
Daily Bedpost (Conde Nast's sex blog) interview by Em & Lo
Sex Worker Solidarity interview by Radical Vixen
"The sex columnist meta-interview," by Violet Blue, San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2007
Mr. NYC blog
Adult Friend Finder
Mr. Skin
Robin Byrd's Speaking of Sex podcast (hear me get spanked at the end!)
Bookslut
Zulkey.com
The Blushing Ladies Journal
Lust Bites
Bimagazine.org
Cleispress.com
Sexerati
Phillyist
Eros Zine
Susie Bright's blog
The Apiary
Radio Blowfish Variety Show
Blogged
Fleshbot
Gawker
Media Mob
Favorite Posts
My truth
"just me"
my feminist ass, my real panties
why I'm happy with the "cleavage situation"
feminist blowjobs and other oxymorons
Feminism vs. sexuality, or, the false dichotomy that will not die
"Are you a ho or do you just want others to be?"
Reasonable person, my ass!
Don't fuck the pregnant lady!
Voice over
not a total bitch
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- Above the Law
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- Kyria Abrahams
- AlexisT
- All About George
- All Things Spanking
- Allergic Girl
- Sara Jo Alloco
- Always Aroused Girl
- American Spanking Society
- The Apiary
- Alice Ayers
- Asylum
- Babeland
- Babble
- Bad Advice (Judy McGuire)
- Baser Instincts
- Bastard Life
- Behind the Bedroom Door
- Beyond Her Book
- The Boss of You
- Brandy Barber
- Beatrice
- Being Amber Rhea
- Best Sex Bloggers
- Big & Sharp
- Bitch | Lab
- Bitch Ph.D.
- Bite My Cookie
- Blogebrity
- Blowfish
- Blue Blood
- Violet Blue
- Boinkology
- Bookshipper
- Bookslut
- Booksquare
- Bound Not Gagged
- Brash Lion
- Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
- Susie Bright
- Brooklyn Hilary (aka, Hilary McHone, photographer extraordinaire)
- The Budget Fashionista
- Burritophile
- Bush v. Choice
- Buzz, Balls & Hype
- Buzz Girl
- Cajun Boy in the City
- Carolyn Castiglia
- Casserole Crazy
- Mary Castillo (Chica Lit)
- CEO Style File
- Ben Chrisman
- Christine Kessler's My Fetish Diary
- Cityrag
- Clit Think
- Kambri Crews
- College Candy
- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
- Conversations With Famous Writers
- The Corsair
- Cosmic Blatherings
- Crossfit NYC
- Jessica Cutler
- Datehole
- Daddy Dialectic
- Daily Bedpost
- The Daily Cross Hatch
- Daze Reader
- Dealbreaker
- Dear Douchebag
- The Deets
- Deviant Cult X
- Dirtyspoke
- Disgruntled Housewife
- Dooce
- Dykes to Watch Out For
- Dynamist
- E-Cyrano
- Early to Bed
- Editorial Ass
- Ellie Lumpesse
- The Erotic Woman
- Erotica Revealed
- Emdashes
- En(gender) - Helen Boyd
- Fantagraphics
- Feministing
- Flavorwire
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- Food Mayhem
- Ellen Forney
- Valerie Frankel
- From Where I Sit (Michael Hyatt)
- Funky Brown Chick
- Galleycat
- Galley Gossip
- Gawker
- Get The F Out Of Here
- Girl With Pen (Deborah Siegel)
- Girls Are Pretty
- Girl's Gone Child (Rebecca Woolf)
- GLBT Teens
- Gloria's Oversexed Mind
- Dan Goldman
- Good Vibrations Blog
- Gothamist
- Half of Me
- The Haphazard Gourmet Girls
- Jessica Gold Haralson
- Heeb magazine
- Rachel Hills
- Hit and Run
- Hitha Prabhakar
- Hot Movies for Her
- Hottpants (dead but still pretty)
- Huffington Post
- Idolator
- Jacket Copy (LA Times book blog)
- Jahfurry
- Jazmine Fruit Juices
- Jolie in NYC
- Kansas City Soil (Joe Miller)
- Sue Katz
- Kinky Jews
- Juliana Hatfield/An Arm and a Leg
- Julie Klausner
- Knocked Up
- La Gringa
- Aaron Landry
- Stephanie Lessing
- Lifehacker
- Lift Like a Girl
- Lindsayism
- Litpark
- Live Girl Review
- LoveBuzz at Tango
- Lust Bites
- Lust Life
- Maccers
- Michael Malice
- The Man in Black (Jason Pinter)
- Marked for Metal
- Medialoper
- Midtown Lunch
- Carly Milne
- Mistress Maeve
- Mistress Matisse
- Modestly Yours
- Monitor Mix
- MonMouth
- More Perfect (Hana Schank)
- My Beloved Monster and Me
- My Life List (author Jill Smolinski
- Jill Nagle
- Naked Loft Party
- Dave Naz
- Nekkid With a Camera
- New York Hack
- Nichelle Newsletter
- Not Fat, The Blog (Danica Lo)
- NYC Food Guy
- Our Chart
- Out of Focus
- Overheard in New York
- Paper
- Romaine Patterson
- The Pen and the Poop (Elise Miller)
- Pen on Fire
- The Perverted Negress
- PhilaFoodie
- Pleasure Happens (The Pleasure Chest)
- Popular Thinking
- Powell's Books
- Kemp Powers
- Pretty Dumb Things
- Pretty in the City
- Pub Rants
- Publishing Insider
- The Publishing Spot
- Pursed Lips
- Queen of Cream
- Ravenous Romance
- Read for Pleasure
- Recipes for Trouble
- The Renegade Goddess
- Reverse Cowgirl (Susannah Breslin)
- Robin and Renee
- Save Roe
- Self-Aggrandizement
- Sepulculture
- Seska 4 Lovers
- Sexegesis
- Sexless in the City
- SexyPrime
- Shameless Reading
- Marcy Sheiner
- Sirens Mag
- Slice NY
- Slog
- SMITH Mag
- Elaine Soloway
- Jill Soloway
- Spanking Blog
- Elizabeth Spiers
- Straight from the Bottle
- Lianne Stokes
- Sue Katz: Consenting Adult
- Felicia Sullivan
- Sweet Blog O' Mine
- Tango
- Tara Tainton
- Tales of a Delectable Redhead
- Techum
- The Assimilated Negro
- The Three-Toed Sloth
- Third Base Ain't What It Used to Be (Logan Levkoff)
- This Girl Called Automatic Win
- This Is Not Really A Blog For Real
- Too Beautiful
- Trashionista
- Tremble
- Alison Tyler
- Urlesque
- Viviane
- Waking Vixen
- We Could Be Naked
- Jamye Waxman
- We Talk Sex Blog
- Wonkette
- You Can't Make It Up
- YourTango
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Books
See all of the books I've edited or contributed to hereHot off the Press!
Yes, Ma'am: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance
see the website here
Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance
see the website with TOC and info here
Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women
see the website with intro, blurbs, and TOC here
Best Sex Writing 2008 - out now!
Essays and articles by Michael Musto, Gael Greene, Violet Blue, Tristan Taormino,
Ariel Levy, Kevin Keck, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Lux Nightmare, Melissa Gira, and more!
read the introduction and Table of Contents here
the followup to Caught Looking, Hide and Seek: Erotic Stories More voyeurism and exhibitionism!
Crossdressing: Erotic Stories, with a foreword by Veronica Vera!
Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists Co-edited with the fabulous Alison Tyler
Read the introduction at the Rubber Sex blog
Coming in July, my hottest book yet:
Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica
Read the introducation and table of contents for Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica here
Anthologies with my stories
Best Women's Erotica 2007
with my story "Animals"
Click here to hear editor Violet Blue read it on her "Open Source Sex" podcast
Best Women's Erotica 2006 With
my female domination story "Spike"
Click here to hear editor Violet Blue read it on her "Open Source Sex" podcast
1 Comments:
I love New York, too. Wish I was there.
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