Set against this pathetic panorama, Susie Bright seems a starburst of sanity and health.
Sex is a gift from the gods, it creates life and it makes life worth living.
Of course it's worth it, and what's more, what the puritans and their gong shows don't seem to realize is that it's inevitable. Their prudery is killing people, both metaphorically and literally, but they cannot mandate their vision of purity because it is, at its very core, an affront to our survival. Bright's own sexual banquet has been a multi-course affair. After shaking off the chains of Catholic school indoctrination, Bright ended up in San Francisco in the early '80s, where she fell into the sex toy business and the world of avant-garde lesbian erotica and journalism. It seems to many people that American culture is awash in sexuality, from MTV to Calvin Klein to TV talk shows.