num_pages: 266
description: From Library Journal:Writer, editor, health educator, and author of the S/M cult classic Mr. Benson, Preston here collects 30 years' worth of essays and lectures on a wide variety of topics with one common theme: sex. The work offered here runs the gamut from the essential and enlightening to the downright silly, with "A Modest Proposal for the Support of the Pornographic Arts" definitely falling into the later category. Preston's sex-positive stand on safer-sex education as the only truly effective AIDS-prevention strategy will certainly not win him any conservative converts, but AIDS activists will be shouting their assent. As the title suggests, Preston celebrates a time when homosexuality was defined in more purely sexual terms, which gives some of the work an oddly nostalgic quality. Despite some contradictions that weaken a few of the more conceptual arguments, Preston's book is a bridge from the sexually liberated 1970s to the more cautious 1990s, and Preston has walked much of that way as a standard-bearer to the cause for equal rights. Recommended for special collections and larger libraries where the topic will be of interest.- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
language: English
title: My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts
titlecomplete: My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts
genres: LGBT, Sexuality, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Masquerade Books