Synopses & Reviews
A Multiorgasmic Read That Breaks All the RulesWhere else but in a Tristan Taormino erotica collection can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch and a snake handler jostling for attention? The salacious stories in Stripped Down will draw you in and sweep you off your feet. Here is love sex, revenge sex, stranger sex and so-good-you-can't-think-straight sex in all its raw, messy glory.
In Peggy Munson's "Into the Baptismal," two farm girls decide to test their virginity pledges one rainy summer night. A group of well-equipped tops indulge in a friend's cop fetish before shea real police officergoes undercover in Skian McGuire's "Phoebe's Undercover Bon Voyage." And Kathleen Warnock's "After Lunch" makes it clear that the best dish in a small-town restaurant isn't on the menu. The legendary Eileen Myles adds her street smarts and lyrical dynamism as the selecting judge of Tristan Taormino's powerful collection of girl-girl erotica. As editor Tristan Taormino says, "These stories strip down way past naked to show us what we can discover about ourselves through our sexual encounters."
Review
"A good erotica anthology is like a sexy "Choose Your Own Adventure" story. It should be ripe with plots twists and hidden dangers around every corner with characters ambiguous enough for the reader slip inside their skin for a few pages. Editor Tristan Taormino does not disappoint.
Stripped Down: Lesbian Sex Stories features short stories from well-known writers of lesbian erotica that will tantalize and tickle even the most stoic of readers."
Edge San Francisco
Synopsis
Where else but a Tristan Taormino erotica collection can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch, and a snake charmer jostling for your attention? The salacious stories in
Stripped Down draw you in like honeyed voices from an upstairs room. In Peggy Munsons Into the Baptismal,” two farmgirls decide to test their virginity pledges one rainy summer night. Quinn Vertiz's Jubilee” describes a classic American rite of passage a trip to a trailer brothel in the Nevada desert but with a truck full of butch dykes in place of the local boys. In Skian McGuires Phoebes Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friends cop fetish before she a real cop goes undercover. And Kathleen Warnock's "After Lunch" makes it clear that the best dish in a small-town restaurant isn't on the menu.
Guest editor Eileen Myles adds her street smarts and lyrical dynamism to Tristan Taorminos powerful collection of riveting girl-girl erotica.
About the Author
Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the editor of
Hot Lesbian Erotica and sixteen editions of
Best Lesbian Erotica series as well as the author of
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. Tristan is a former columnist for the Village Voice and currently has a column in Taboo; her writing has appeared in Velvet Park, Vibe, Spectator, The Advocate, and more than 15 anthologies. She has been featured in more than 200 publications, including the New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York magazine, Mens Health, and Playboy. She has also appeared on CNN, MTV, Oxygen, the Discovery Channel, The Howard Stern Show, Real Sex, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Scarborough Country, and over 50 radio shows. Tristan directed the adult videos the Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, Tristan Taormino's House of Ass, and the Chemistry series. She lives in upstate New York. Visit Tristan at puckerup.com.