Email Author Tristan Taormino

2008 Stories by Tristan Taormino

• Why People Get Off on the Sex-for-Money Scenario

  published October 1, 2008

  Every year at kinky sex camp, we create a multi-room erotic play-space for attendees, and for one night, each room has a theme. We like to keep... More >>

• Nina Hartley's Guide to Pregnant Sex

  published September 10, 2008

  I flew to Minneapolis last month to celebrate the fifth anniversary of feminist-women-owned sex shop the Smitten Kitten ( More >>

• Vice Tries to Bust Me on the Porn Set

  published August 27, 2008

  Whenever I go to L.A. to shoot my porn and sex-ed movies, my partner and I stay at his mother's house in Pasadena. And this time, his sister... More >>

• Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

  published July 29, 2008

  Once again, a female singer has a hit song called "I Kissed A Girl"; I saw Katy Perry perform it on network television the other night. As she... More >>

• What If the Bachelorette Was Polyamorous?

  published July 23, 2008

  I watched The Bachelorette. There, I said it. I've always been fascinated by these reality dating shows where one person has multiple... More >>

• PornoPunkFeminism

  published July 16, 2008

  Is pornography a universal medium? Does sex speak a common language? I contemplated these questions last week when I presented a history of... More >>

• Tristan Goes To a Unique BDSM Event

  published June 17, 2008

  Palm Springs: Imagine if the courtyard from Melrose Place were relocated to the desert, decorated with slings and spanking benches, and... More >>

• Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy For So Many?

  published June 3, 2008

  I spent Memorial Day weekend reading submissions for the latest edition of Best Lesbian Erotica, the annual anthology I edit. Each year, I... More >>

• The Training of O Turns the Tables on a Well-Known Domme

  published May 27, 2008

  Recently, I wrote about Brian Lilla's independent film, A Tale of Two Bondage Models, which profiled BDSM performers Lorelei Lee and... More >>

• Girls Love Gay Male Porn

  published May 13, 2008

  I just got back from a weekend at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where I attended "Console-ing Passions: More >>

• The Princess and the Submissive

  published April 22, 2008

  "I grew up in a Silence of the Lambs culture, a culture where rape and killing women are very common themes for movies and TV shows.... More >>

• The New Wave of Trans Cinema

  published April 8, 2008

  I spent my weekend watching transpeople fuck on film. A lot. OK, a lot is a relative term. I mean it took up a chunk of time, but there's... More >>

• In (Partial) Defense of Eliot Spitzer

  published March 25, 2008

  When news of Eliot Spitzer's link to a prostitution agency first broke, "Why Do Powerful Men Cheat?" stories sprang up all around us, from... More >>

• Behind Jim and Artie Mitchell's Behind the Green Door

  published March 11, 2008

  Brothers Jim and Artie Mitchell are sex-industry legends. They're best known for producing several porn films (including Behind the Green... More >>

• An Expert's Guide to Hand Jobs for Men and Women

  published February 26, 2008

  Last week in Los Angeles, I produced a new sex-ed movie with porn star Penny Flame, all about how to get people off with your hands. I first shot... More >>

• The Queer Heterosexual, Redux

  published February 5, 2008

  As Tristan's on vacation this week, we instead proudly offer "The Queer Heterosexual," one of her most popular columns, first published on... More >>

• Porn: Now Even More Surreal at the AVN Awards

  published January 22, 2008

  So long, Las Vegas: I'm home from the annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, and I've got the Vegas Cold—the same one that everyone seems to... More >>

• Pucker Up Turns 200!

  published January 8, 2008

  When I first met with a Voice editor in 1999 about starting this column, he had a concern: "What if you run out of things to talk about?"... More >>