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Tristan Taormino

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Portrait of Tristan Taormino.

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. She is the author of three books:

True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion (Cleis Press) ISBN 1-57344-157-0
Down and Dirty Sex Secrets (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) ISBN 0-06-098892-4
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (Cleis Press) ISBN 1-57344-028-0, winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.com's #1 Bestseller in Women's Sex Instruction in 1998.

She is series editor of twelve volumes of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Best Lesbian Erotica, an annual anthology published by Cleis Press, for which she has collaborated with writers Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, Jenifer Levin, Chrystos, Joan Nestle, Pat Califia, Amber Hollibaugh, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Tea, and Felice Newman.

She is a columnist for The Village Voice, Taboo, and Velvet Park. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the nation's oldest lesbian-produced lesbian sex magazine.

Taormino has been featured in over 200 publications including The New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Men's Health, and Playboy.

She has been named to several media lists, including Out Magazine's 100 Gay Success Stories of the Year and The Advocate's Best and Brightest Gay & Lesbian People Under 30.

She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, HBO's Real Sex, NBC's The Other Half, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, MTV, Oxygen Network, Fox News, The Discovery Channel, and on over four dozen radio shows.

She lectures at top colleges and universities including Yale, Brown, Columbia, Smith, Vassar, Swarthmore, and New York University (NYU), where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world and has private coaching sessions for individuals and couples.

She enjoys sex with both men and women, which would seem to make her bisexual. However, she states: "I don't really identify with the label 'bisexual', nor does it feel like it accurately describes me...I see myself as queer, since queer to me is not just about who I love or lust, but it's about my culture, my community, and my politics. The truth is, even if I were with a heterosexual guy, I'd be a queer dyke."

References and further reading

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