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Carol
Queen is a writer and cultural sexologist with
a doctorate of education in human sexuality.
She is a noted essayist whose work has appeared
in such publications as Male Lust, Whores and
Other Feminists, The Erotic Impulse, Bisexual
Politics:
Theories, Queries and Visions, Madonnarama, and
Women of the Light: The New Sacred Healer. Her
essay collection, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles
of Sex-Positive Culture, was published in 1997;
it is used in Women's Studies, Queer Studies,
and Cultural Studies classes in universities
across
America. Her erotic stories can
be found in Best Women's Erotica, the Herotica
anthologies,
Libido, and Best American Erotica 1993, 1994,
and 2000,
and in many other anthologies; her erotic novel,
The Leather Daddy and the Femme, was published
in 1998 and won a Firecracker Alternative Book
Award the following year. Her first book, Exhibitionism
for the Shy, published in 1995, explores issues
of erotic self-esteem and enhancement. She
is co-editor of the anthologies Best Bisexual
Erotica,
Sex Spoken
Here, Switch Hitters, and PoMoSexuals; the
latter won a Lambda Literary Award in 1998. She
has
appeared in several explicit educational videos,
notably "Carol
Queen's Great Vibrations: An Explicit Consumer
Tour of Vibrators" and "Bend Over
Boyfriend: An Adventurous Couple's Guide to
Male Anal Pleasure."
Queen works as staff
sexologist at Good Vibrations, the women-owned,
worker-owned sex toy and bookstore
in San Francisco, and writes regularly for
the Good Vibrations web magazine at www.goodvibes.com.
She has spent the last several years consulting
with the company's emerging video production
department,
Sexpositive Productions, which will release
its first videos in 2001. She has addressed
numerous
scholarly and professional conferences, including
the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality,
the International Condom Conference, the
International Conference on Prostitution, and
the International
Conference on Pornography; she frequently
addresses college as well as general and specialized
audiences.
Carol Queen is active on behalf
of progressive sex education and sexual minority
issues. Currently
most closely affiliated with the bisexual
and sex work communities, she has been speaking
publicly
about non-mainstream sexualities, from lesbian
to leather, for over 25 years. Her perspective
in addressing sexual diversity incorporates
personal experience, accurate sex information,
and informed
cultural commentary. For more information
(including
CV and bibliography) see her website: www.carolqueen.com.
Topics:
- Sex-positive and anti-censorship feminism
- Sex
work and sex workers' rights
- Pornography
(both as a consumer and as a producer/participant)
including
material created
for women and gay/lesbian audiences
- Explicit
educational videos and other media
- Erotic
writing
- Living with (and understanding)
non-mainstream sexual
identities
- Sexual communication
and enhancement
- Sexual
civil rights
- Safer sex Photo credit
to Karen Vibert-Kennedy
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