Email Author Tristan Taormino

2004 Stories by Tristan Taormino

• Best and Worst of Sex 2004

  published December 21, 2004

  BEST SEX MOVIE: Kinsey, a great portrait of a man who changed the way we think about sexuality in this country. It generated the... More >>

• Tranny TV Train Wreck

  published December 7, 2004

  "I performed fellatio on my wife," says the husband of a transwoman to investigator Gil Grissom on CSI. It's a sentence I never thought I'd... More >>

• Sexy Gift Guide 5.0

  published November 23, 2004

  "Quit Playing With It and Just Eat It"—that's what the thong I'm wearing (sikworld.com, $8) says as I... More >>

• Closet Case

  published November 9, 2004

  A producer from a cable music channel recently called me to see if I'd be interested in being a talking head on one of those pop culture... More >>

• Professor A-Hole

  published October 26, 2004

  When I was 10 years old and adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always the same: a teacher and a Solid Gold... More >>

• Candid Candida

  published October 12, 2004

  In 1984, former adult-film star Candida Royalle decided to launch her own line of videos; she called them "erotic movies from a woman's point of... More >>

• Sex Magic

  published September 28, 2004

  I just returned from a very special place. My friend R., who was there, called the site, which is in the middle of nowhere (actually in rural... More >>

• Cocksucker

  published September 14, 2004

  Tristan Taormino is on vacation. We are happy to present one of her classic columns from our archives. More >>

• Olympic Sex

  published August 31, 2004

  "Athlete or Sexual Plaything?" asks a USA Today headline, and columnist Ian O'Connor answers with the latter in his article criticizing... More >>

• German Xploration, Part 2

  published August 17, 2004

  Does sex have a universal language? Does it everywhere embody the same strange combination of sacredness and shame as it does in America? Does it... More >>

• German Xploration, Part 1

  published August 3, 2004

  Berlin—Everything I know about the world I learned from musicals. Chalk it up to being the daughter of a show-tune-loving gay dad, but... More >>

• My First Fist-a-Thon

  published July 20, 2004

  Two years ago, I went to my first kinky summer camp and had a ball ("Kinky Summer... More >>

• Saving Private Ryan

  published July 6, 2004

  Illinois senatorial candidate Jack Ryan, a conservative Republican, ended his campaign after the records from his 2000 divorce from actress Jeri... More >>

• Untying the Knot

  published June 22, 2004

  Last week, the Equality Campaign and dontamend.com launched a series of Internet ads ( More >>

• Porn on Campus

  published June 8, 2004

  What do Sex Week at Yale, vibrators for sale at the Cornell health center, and a dissertation on gay men of color in porn have in common? They've... More >>

• Healing Sex

  published May 25, 2004

  Do you think most porn stars [or prostitutes or strippers or lesbians or bisexual women or people who do s/m or non-monogamous people] were... More >>

• Come for a Cause

  published May 11, 2004

  Just in case I might have forgotten that May is National Masturbation Month, this e-mail from Betty Dodson arrived in my in-box: "Hey Tristan, do... More >>

• Porn Faces Reality

  published April 27, 2004

  On March 17, porn star Darren James did what is standard procedure in his line of work: He took an HIV test at the Adult Industry Medical Health... More >>

• The G Shot

  published April 13, 2004

  Beverly Hills—There is a growing segment of the plastic surgery industry focused entirely on women's nether regions that includes... More >>

• Introducing: Trannyfags!

  published March 30, 2004

  More than a hundred people, a who's who of the New York "genderqueer" scene, partied at Toys in Babeland in Soho a few weeks ago, celebrating the... More >>

• Southern Discomfort

  published March 16, 2004

  Last month, I traveled to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) to give a lecture called "Sexploration," as part of the... More >>

• Unslick Dick

  published March 2, 2004

  In the world of porn mags, men have tons of titles to choose from, and nearly every fetish or desire is represented, from Barely Legal to... More >>

• True Love

  published February 17, 2004

  On your day of true love I will find you. Simply by being the best self I can be and dedicating this day to you, completely and with the most... More >>

• Husband Betty

  published February 3, 2004

  A few years ago, I planned a weekend trip to the Poconos with a bunch of friends. We wanted to stay at the gay-owned resort Rainbow Mountain, but... More >>

• Stearns & Foster, R.I.P.

  published January 20, 2004

  I inherited my more-than-10-year-old mattress in 1994, after being kicked out of my sublet on East 21st Street; it was a consolation prize from... More >>