false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170391595m/52572.jpg 52572 1 In the early '90s, after a stint as a senior editor at the groundbreaking lesbian sex journal <i>On Our Backs</I>, Lisa Palac took charge of a new magazine called <i>Future Sex</I>. Tapping into the "cyber" ethos that permeated the Bay Area scene--<i>Mondo 2000</I> was in its ascendancy, while <i>Wired</I> was still a full year away--the magazine achieved a quick burst of mainstream notoriety and became a longterm underground icon. But you won't need to don a full-body cybersex interface to appreciate Palac's <i>The Edge of the Bed</I>.<p> With disarming honesty and self-deprecating humor, Palac writes about how she began to gain control of her sexuality. When she found a boyfriend's stash of pornography, her kneejerk reaction was to tell him that if it didn't go, she would. He managed to convince her to watch a video with her; that led to another, and another...soon, Palac was renting her own tapes and started writing her own erotic stories.<p> Although sex-positive feminism can be a powerfully liberating philosophy, Palac does not sugarcoat the hardships. Not every sexual encounter was wonderful; sometimes there wasn't even any sex. ("I was a perfect candidate for cybersex," she drolly comments at one point. "I wasn't getting laid, I liked to masturbate, and I could type.") But the story of Palac's spiritual and physical awakening and her efforts to maintain honesty and integrity will continue to inspire long after they've finished titillating--and that's a mighty long time. 51277 9 9 1997 The Edge of the Bed : How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life total:21|5:6|4:8|3:5|2:2|1:0| 21 81 36 1 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 19 14:24:37 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 12:04:23 -0700 2007 ]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 11:04:54 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:04:54 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 11:03:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:03:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 21:38:41 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 23:04:32 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 26 18:50:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 18:50:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 23 12:56:34 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 12:56:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 15 06:11:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 06:11:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 26 14:03:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 14:03:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 22 03:29:18 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 03:29:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 14:43:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 14:43:06 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 11:10:46 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:10:46 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 14 16:31:47 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 16:31:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 11:39:27 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:39:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 27 08:36:39 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 08:36:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Oct 11 14:07:15 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 14:07:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Oct 07 10:32:36 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 10:32:36 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Oct 05 21:51:34 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 21:51:34 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Sep 30 17:49:29 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 17:49:34 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Sep 19 20:22:10 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 20:22:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 11 12:35:10 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 12:35:10 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=52572