With an exciting combination of cream-of-the-crop classics and boundary-obliterating new contributions, the special fifteenth anniversary edition of Best American Erotica brings the heat like never before. Enhanced with author interviews that tell the real story behind the stories, and crowned with an unforgettable piece by 'the avatar of American erotica' (New York Times) herself, the 2008 instalment one of the most widely read sex anthologies is far and away the most enticing one to date. As it rapidly approaches an astonishing half a million copies in print, the Best American Erotica series is not resting on its laurels; it's just hitting its sultry stride. Thoroughly electrifying - and thrillingly eclectic - the 2008 edition promises to open new doors with its exhilarating, equal-opportunity approach to erotic writing. Straight or gay, dominant or submissive, romantic or sadistic, Bright's selections run the gamut - and push all the right buttons.

From sexpert Susie Bright, this luxe box contains 30 seductive prompts and dareseach sealed in an envelope ready for the taking. Select an envelope, tear it open, and read the card aloud to discover what comes next. No two lovers will play the cards the same way twice!

Hailed by Utne Reader as "a visionary" and the San Francisco Chronicle as "the X-rated" intellectual," Susie Bright is indiputably the sexpert of our times.Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she reveals the ways in which individual sexual expression has the power to inspire, challenge, and transform all of our lives. Bright explores some of the most complex questions about sexuality todaym including:

• What are the real differences between men's and women's sense of the erotic?
  
• Why is it so threatening to conscioulsy address sexual desire?
  
• Is there a line to be drawn in erotic creativity-can you go so far?
  
• How can articulate erotic expression make us better lovers, more important, better people?

Welcome to the "girl-talk" you thought you'd *never* hear in public Susie (52) and Aretha Bright (19) are a Mother/Daughter team of columnists from Jezebel.com, whose readers flooded them with explicit dilemmas about sexual pleasures and disasters, body issues, dating, relationships, and young marriage. Chapters include: -- "Dumped After 4 Years... and Still a Virgin " -- "Will I Ever Get Used To Anal Sex?" -- "I Have A Tendency To Throw Up Every Time My Boyfriend Comes In My Mouth" -- The Boy Who Didn't Like Doggie -- "How Can I Get My Girlfriend to Shave Her Pubic Hair?" -- "I'm A Girl Who Comes Too Fast" Is a Mother and Daughter sex advice column going to be an unending nightmare of T.M.I.? Can family members really talk about this stuff? Susie and Aretha had to open the envelope to find out. Each took turns with the same questions, and that's when the eye-opening arguments began. "Mother/Daughter Sex Advice" offers hilarious, thoughtful, and genuine insight from two generations who respect each other's opinion "most of the time." If you want cutting-edge sex advice that goes beyond pregnancy-and-disease-control- if you're ready to hear family conversations about sex that are real and refreshing (if not always agreeable )- if you're primed to move beyond "Our Bodies Ourselves," this is the book for you.

Sexual Reality marks Susie Bright's return to politics and passion, jealousy and risk- in an intimate look at the human sexual condition. Chapters include: The Story of O Birthday Party, Strip Tea: A Most Unusual Tea Party, Undressing Camille Paglia, Egg Sex: Pregnancy and a Mother's Sex Life, Blindsexual- What Every Bisexual Needs to Know, and, When No Means I Didn't Know It Would Be Like This. Erica Jong says: "Susie Bright is the genuine arcticle; she proves the point that the muse screws, that all creativity is sexual, and that the juiciest people write the most delectable books."

"Anyone interested in sex, family, and relationships will want this book." - Anne Semans, The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex Bright is one of America's most vocal sex-positive advocates. This collection of 22 sketches written during the first 12 years of her daughter's life covers a variety of topics: her daughter's questions at school when she's asked to describe what her mom does for a "job," how nudists age, the strange future of porn, the ruin of most sex advice, real life non-monogamy stories, and even a recipe for cherry pie.

The 25 writers featured in this volume continue to reshape the idea of women's "erotica", reflecting a passionate mosaic of sexual experience and fantasy written from a wide variety of viewpoints. Susie Bright is the editor of the groundbreaking magazine On Our Backs.

Ever wondered why there's no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionary -- and finally the The Avatar of American Erotica (The New York Times) -- Bright's life story is shaped as much by America's sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself. In Big Sex Little Death, Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals The Red Tide, as well as the magazine she cofounded in the 1980s, On Our Backs -- which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the straight world by storm. Explosive yet intimate, Big Sex Little Death is pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, and unpredictable -- larger than life, yet utterly true to life.