Email Author TRISTAN TAORMINO

2008 Stories by TRISTAN TAORMINO

• [Pucker Up] Vice Tries to Bust Me: Unexpected Visitors On the Porn Set

  published August 28, 2008

  Whenever I go to LA to shoot my porn and sex-ed movies, my partner and I stay at his mother's house in Pasadena. And this time, his sister was... More >>

• [Pucker Up] Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

  published July 31, 2008

  Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men Inside the secret world of the straight guise Once again, a female singer has... More >>

• [Pucker Up] Desire In the Desert: Tristan Goes to a Unique BDSM Event

  published June 19, 2008

  PALM SPRINGS—Imagine if the courtyard from Melrose Place were relocated to the desert, decorated with slings... More >>

• [Pucker Up] Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy for So Many?

  published June 5, 2008

  I spent Memorial Day weekend reading submissions for the latest edition of Best Lesbian Erotica, the annual anthology I edit. Each... More >>

• [Pucker Up] The Princess Submits: 'The Training of O' Turns the Tables on a Well-Known Domme

  published May 29, 2008

  Recently, I wrote about Brian Lilla's independent film, A Tale of Two Bondage Models, which profiled BDSM performers Lorelei Lee and... More >>

• [Pucker Up] Ladies Love Gay Male Porn

  published May 15, 2008

  I just got back from a weekend at UC Santa Barbara, where I attended "Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio,... More >>

• [Pucker Up] The Princess and the Submissive

  published April 24, 2008

  The Princess and the SubmissiveA new documentary short delves into the world of two bondage models"I grew up... More >>

• [Pucker Up] The New Wave of Trans Cinema: The Latest Transporn Breaks Down Boundaries, Inhibitions

  published April 10, 2008

  I spent my weekend watching transpeople fuck on film. A lot. Okay, a lot is a relative term. I mean, it took up a chunk of time, but... More >>

• [Pucker Up] In (Partial) Defense of Eliot Spitzer

  published March 27, 2008

  Is it cheating if it's with a sex worker? Is it preferable to a full-blown affair?When news of Eliot Spitzer's... More >>

• [Pucker Up] Behind the Green Door

  published March 13, 2008

  Behind the Green Door Parsing a splendid, lurid memoir of life at S.F.'s O'Farrell Theater Brothers Jim... More >>