The Blue Film Critic & the Bespectacled Porn Librarian

The Clitoral Reorganization Years

Chapter 4: “On Becoming the Erotic Film Critic for Penthouse & Starting the Good Vibrations Porn Library”

• “My Date with Holly Near” - I edited a Shouts and Murmurs style parody, my snotty little sin, which led to:

• Esquire asking me to write a feature about what straight men have in common with dykes, (tears) which led to:

• Penthouse asking me to be their monthly film critic, which led to:

• Me quitting my day job — never worked for wages again

• So like, thank you, Holly Near!

• I reject the Peter Meter and Clitoral Reorganization

• Getting Good Vibes to sell erotic movies meant burning all the box cover art

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Read More!

Tristan Taormino’s first memoir, is coming out, September 6th. It’s like nothing else.

A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten

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Video of Susie and Tristan shot and edited by JD, from the Momentum Conference in Silver Spring, MD, April 3, 2011:  "Making Waves in Sexuality, Feminism & Relationship Through New Media."

I will post the next video excerpts the following dates:

Coming Up:

Chapter 5, August 11: “On the Breakup of On Our Backs”

Chapter 6, August 18: “On the Popular but Unsubstantiated Rumor of an Usher Sex Tape”

Chapter 7, August 25: “The Unexpected Legacy of On Our Backs"

Chapter 8, September 1: “On Working Conditions in Porn”

Chapter 9, September 8: "I was the subject of a 13-person all-anal gang bang— but the most degraded I've ever felt in my life was working in mainstream television."

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