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From: albert_lunde@plato.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
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Subject: Re: does healthy, mutual erotica exist?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 03:24:25 GMT
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In article <2995@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> ford@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Carolyn Ford) writes:
> what I am looking for are books or
> magazines that celebrate the beauty of mutual sexuality.

Here are some magazines with alternative views (addresses from spring
1991 issue of Libido, see it for more detail):

"Libido: The Journal of Sex and Sensibiltity"
published by:
Libido,Inc / P.O. Box 146721 / Chicago, IL 60614
USA Subscription $20/year - published quarterly

Not all "mutual" or without "objectification", but featuring a wider
variety of views and objects: men, women, straight, lesbigay. For
example, the Spring 91 is a nude man dancing with a clothed woman.

"Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts"
P.O. Box 6374 / Albany, CA 94706
USA Subscription $28/year

Their slogan "All persuasions, no brutality". Slick, artistic.  (As
near to "ideological" purity as anything I've seen, but not heavy
handed about it.)

"Frighten The Horses"
Heat Seeking Publishing / 41 Sutter St. #1108 / San Francisco, CA 94104
USA $8 for two issues

I haven't seen it but it sounds interesting - the editor is quoted as
being in favor of a world of "justice, pleasure and mutuality".

"On Our Backs: Entertainment for the Adventurous Lesbian"
526 Castro, San Francisco, CA 94114
USA $28 / for six issues a year

This is in part a reaction to the lesbian-feminist
"political-correctness" on sexuality. It's not all vanilla sex.  I
would recommend it to all readers for Suzie Bright's column alone.

Whatever you think of the contents of these mags, one can't make the
economic arguments against them that one can make against the much of
the sex industry; there is no evidence they are exploiting their
workers.

I am a bit put out by the other postings I've seen so far in response.
Most seemed to be taking up one side or another of the ideological
argument, not offering alternative resources.

Without speaking for or against the larger issues, it is certianly
possible to make a case that stuff like "Playboy" is suffering from a
sort of erotic tunnel vision.  I would like to see more alternative
erotica, reflecting different values, visions and experiences.