Sex Writing
Volume 34, Number 6
September-October 2013
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Cris Mazza’s Introduction to Focus: “Literary Nakedness”
Gina Frangello’s “State of the (Literary/Sexual) Union”
Roxane Gay reviews Debra Di Blasi, Illustrations by Mug Takei, Dirty : Dirty
Matthew Roberson reviews Rob Roberge’s The Cost of Living
Cristopher Grimes reviews Rikki Ducornet’s Netsuke
Elisabeth Sheffield reviews Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead
Kolby Harvey reviews Clifford Browder and Elizabeth Ellen in The Pleasuring of Men and Fast Machine
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