The Sexual Revolution: How the Sexual Revolution Changed Orgasms, Female Sexuality, Pornography, Homosexuality and Marriage

- Selections from Betty Friedan, Masters and Johnson, Alix Kates Shulman, Anne Koedt, Barbara Seaman, Gay Talese, Susan Sontag, Kate Milet, Paul Goodman, Shere Hite, Herbert Marcuse, Lenny Bruce, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others

From "Deep Throat" to Dr. Phil, "It's All About Sex" collects the most provocative, entertaining, and essential writing documenting the sexual revolution. 50 photos.

Introduction / Jeffery Escoffier — Foreword : Pure possibility / Erica Jong — pt. 1. Recognitions. The second sexual revolution — The erotic revolution / Lawrence Lipton — Reflections on the revolution in sex / Francis Canavan — The sexual revolution / Kermit Mehlinger — All they talk about is sex, sex, sex / Tom Buckley — pt. 2. Female sexuality. Women alone? Oh, come now! / Helen Gurley Brown — The female orgasm / William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson — A theory of female sexuality / Mary Jane Sherfey — The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt — Organs and orgasms / Alix Kates Shulman — Is woman insatiable? / Barbara Seaman — The zipless fuck / Erica Jong — Getting to know me / Betty Dodson — "Tell me what you are thinking about," he said / Nancy Friday — Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde — pt. 3. Changing sex lives. America's best kept secret / Lawrence Lipton — Exploring the new freedom / Gay Talese — Open marriages / Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill — The myth of black sexual superiority : a re-examination / Robert Staples — Styling, profiling, and pretending : the game before the fall / Gloria I. Joseph — Eulenspiegel? What's that? / Ron Tyson — The leather menace : comments on politics and S/M / Gayle Rubin — Millbrook '66 : on sex, consciousness, and LSD / Timothy Leary — pt. 4. Obscenity, pornography, and erotica. Obscenity and the law of reflection / Henry Miller — The People of the State of California vs. Lenny Bruce / Lenny Bruce — Think clean — Pornotopia / Steven Marcus — The pornographic imagination / Susan Sontag — Pornography in the service of women / Angela Carter — Review of Deep Throat / Al Goldstein — Feminism, moralism, and pornography / Ellen Willis — Talking sex / Deirdre English, Amber Hollibaugh, and Gayle Rubin — pt. 5. Homosexuality. Revolt of the homosexual / Seymour Krim — The homosexual villain / Norman Mailer — Memoirs of an ancient activist / Paul Goodman — A letter to the revolutionary brothers and sisters / Huey Newton — Notes of a radical lesbian / Martha Shelley — The myth of the myth of the vaginal orgasm / Jill Johnston — Cocksucker / Anonymous — Indiscriminate promiscuity as an act of revolution / Charley Shively — A secret side of lesbian sexuality / Pat Califia — What we're rollin' around in bed with / Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga — pt. 6. Thinking about sex. "Civilized" sexual morality and modern nervousness / Sigmund Freud — Sexual repression, instinctual renunciation, and sexual reform / Wilhelm Reich — The transformation of sexuality into eros / Herbert Marcuse — Sexuality and psychoanalysis / Simone de Beauvoir — Liberation : toward the polymorphous / Dennis Altman — The social origins of sexual development / John H. Gagnon and William Simon — Power and sex : interview with Michel Foucault / Bernard Henri Levy.