Works by
Tristan Taormino
(Writer)
[1971 - ]

As Writer

• Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships  (2008)
  Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships--from partnered nonmonogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting, and time management. Woven throughout the book are the diverse voices of real people--from a woman with two husbands and a suburban swinger couple to polyamorous parents and a gay male triad--who candidly share their struggles, fears, hopes, and the secrets of their success in open relationships. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy--and will help you decide if an open relationship is right for you.

• The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (1997, 2006) Illustrated by Fish
  The best-selling self-help book on anal sex for women now completely updated and expanded. The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women offers comprehensive information on all aspects of anal eroticism and health:

  • For all women—heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual—who want to learn how to enjoy anal sex—with a partner or by yourself

  • Building trust and communicating your desires

  • Pleasurable anal penetration: how to give it, how to get it

  • Clear, illustrated discussion of anatomy

  • New! Male anal eroticism—how to please your man

  • New! Expanded chapters on power play, butt bondage, and fisting

  • New! Ask the Anal Advisor—answers to questions on all

  • Helpful tips on safety, preparation, and hygiene

  • Where to buy toys, accessories, and safer sex supplies

• Tristan Taormino's True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn, and Perversion (2002)
  Tristan Taormino has dished out sex advice to Howard Stern, Dick Clark, and the Playboy Advisor. Now the best-selling author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women collects 70 hand-picked reports on everything from lap dancing to group masturbation to lesbian pornography. In these essays, Taormino combines explicit passions with an outspoken sexual candor that shocks and amuses readers. Taormino, an award-winning adult film star, is the author of "Pucker Up," a column that appears weekly in The Village Voice.

• Pucker Up a Hands on Guide for Ecstatic Sex (2001)

As Editor

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 (2007) with Emma Donoghue -- Finalist 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica (Lesbian)

• Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica (2007 release)
  A sexy new collection for women who crave erotic restraint.
  Tristan Taormino presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink — tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place — and held there firmly. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. In Elaine Miller’s “Fee Fie Foe Femme,” a girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her raspberry pink lipstick. Whether readers dream of surrendering to a lover or of taking control, Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica offers plenty of erotic inspiration.

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 (2005) with Felice Newman -- Finalist 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 (2005) with Eileen Myles -- Finalist 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

• Hot Lesbian Erotica (2005)
  To everything, there is a season. When the mercury rises, so does the promise of a summer fling, a wild night in a tropical paradise, or at least a sexy glimpse of smooth, tanned legs from under a beach umbrella. Scorch your fingers with Hot Lesbian Erotica, tales of dyke desire brought together by acclaimed editor Tristan Taormino

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 (2003) with Michelle Tea -- Finalist 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2002 (2002)

• Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 (2002) with Cheryl Clarke, ed. -- Winner, 2002 Lambda Literary Award for Erotica)

• Down and Dirty Sex Secrets: The New and Naughty Guide to Being Great in Bed (2001)
  From her popular columns and website to her videos and speaking enagagements, Tristan Taormino has been garnering raves for her no-holds-barred straight-talk about sex. As a sex educator, Tristan has listened to thousands of people’s most intimate sexual questions. Finally, she’s written book to respond to those questions – no matter how taboo – giving honest, useful information that doesn’t shy away from sensitive topics. All the basics are covered here, but she also tackles such topics as strap-ons, female ejaculation, the latest in sex toys, incorporating erotica into your sex life, strategies for hitting that elusive G-spot, anal sex for him and her, and BDSM. Tristan’s book isn’t for men and women looking for generic ‘have better sex' advice. It’s for people who already have great sex who want to explore all the ways that they can further enhance their skills and their pleasure. Pucker Up is quite simply an indispensable book for anyone looking for healthy, adventurous, mind-blowing sex.

• Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica (2000)

• Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (1999) Selected and introduced by Chrystos

• Best Lesbian Erotica 1998 (1998) Compiled by Jenifer Levin

• A Girl's Guide to Taking over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution (1997) Edited with Karen Green
  In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines.On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under appreciated. A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World exists because these voices have refused to be silenced.

• Best Lesbian Erotica 1997  (1997) Edited with Jewelle Gomez

• Best Lesbian Erotica 1996 (1996) Edited with Heather Lewis

• Ritual Sex (1996) with David Aaron Clark
  A volume of literary explorations of the many intersections of sex and religion. From personal memoirs of ecstatic revelation, to fictional quests to reconcile sex and spirit, to historical overviews of religion's obsession with regulating the libido, Ritual Sex delves into forbidden areas with gusto, providing an unprecedented look at private life. Includes work by Terence Sellers, Genesis P-Orridge, Pat Califia and many other s.