Carol Queen (born 1957) is an American author, editor, sociologist, and

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active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen is a two time Grand Marshal of San Francisco LGBTQ Pride. Queen has written on

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in books such as ''Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture''. She has written a sex tutorial, ''Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot'', as well as erotica, such as the novel ''The Leather Daddy and the Femme''. Queen has produced adult movies, events, workshops and lectures. Queen was featured as an instructor and star in both installments of the '' Bend Over Boyfriend'' series about female-to-male

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, or pegging. She has also served as editor for compilations and anthologies. She is a sex-positive sex educator in the United States.

Good Vibrations

Queen serves as staff sexologist to Good Vibrations, a

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retailer. In this function, she designed an education program which has trained many other current and past Good Vibrations-based sex educators, including Violet Blue, Charlie Glickman, and Staci Haines. She is currently still working for GV as The Staff Sexologist, Chief Cultural Officer, curator, and historian.

Writing

Queen is known as a professional editor, writer, and commentator of works such as ''Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture'', ''Pomosexuals'', and ''Exhibitionism for the Shy''. She has written for juried journals and compendiums such as The Journal of BisexualityRM Lawrence, C Queen, ''Bisexuals Help Create the Standards for Safer Sex: San Francisco, 1981–1987'', Journal of Bisexuality, 2000. and The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. She contributed the piece "The Queer in Me" to the anthology '' Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out''.

Absexual

The

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''absexual'' has also been introduced by Queen, although it was coined by her partner. Based on its prefix ab- (as in "abhor" or in " abreaction"), it represents a form of

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where someone is stimulated by moving away from sexuality or is moralistically opposed to sex.

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defined the term as describing "folks who get off complaining about sex and trying to censor porn." absexuality is not an official psychiatric term. Queen proposed inclusion of the concept in the

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sees Queen's view of absexuality as playfully broad: "the current 'absexuality' embraced by many progressive and conservative critics of pornographic literature is itself a kind of 'kink' stemming from a compulsive need to impose their own sexual mores upon those whom they self-righteously condemn as benighted reprobates."

Development of SHARP

In 2000, Queen together with her partner Robert Morgan Lawrence published a jointly written essay in the Journal of Bisexuality detailing the role of San Francisco bisexuals in the development of safe sex strategies in response to the emerging AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Queen detailed her and Lawrence's development of a safe sex version of the SAR or

Sexual Attitude Reassessment A Sexual Attitude Reassessment, sometimes Sexual Attitude Restructuring (SAR), seminar is a process-oriented, structured group experience to promote participants' awareness of their attitudes and values related to sexuality, and to assist them in ...

training, which they termed Sexual Health Attitude Restructuring Process or SHARP. Originally a program started by the IASHS, SHARP is described as a combination of "lectures, films, videos, slides, and personal sharing", as well as "massage techniques, condom relay races, a blindfolded ritual known as the Sensorium which emphasized transformation and sensate focus, and much more." In 2007, Queen expressed the intention to revive the SHARP training, now referred to as SARP or Sexual Attitude Reassessment Process.'

Personal life

Queen is a

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n. She is

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Works

Author

*''Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture'' (

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, 1997) - reissued 2002 with new introduction and updated Recommended Reading list. *''Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot'' ( Down There Press, 1995; Quality Paperback Book Club Edition, 1997) - excerpted in the German book Dirty Talking (Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, 2002); also translated into Chinese (Hsin-Lin Books, 2003) *''The Leather Daddy and the Femme'' (Cleis Press, 1998)

Editor

*''More 5 Minute Erotica'', (Running Press, 2007) *''Whipped: 20 Erotic Stories of Female Dominance'' ( Chamberlain Bros., 2005) *''Best Bisexual Erotica (Best of Series Vol. 1)'', with Bill Brent (

Circlet Press Circlet Press is a publishing house in Cambridge, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It was founded by Cecilia Tan, who is also its manager. It specializes in science fiction erotica, a once uncommon genre, and its publications often feature BDS ...

, 2003) *''5 Minute Erotica'' (

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, 2003) *''Speaking Parts: Provocative Lesbian Erotica'', with M. Christian ( Alyson Books, 2002) *''Best Bisexual Erotica Vol. 2'', with Bill Brent ( Circlet/ Black Books, 2001) *''Best Bisexual Erotica'', with Bill Brent ( Circlet/ Black Books, 2000) *''Sex Spoken Here: Stories from the Good Vibrations Erotic Reading Circle'', with Jack R. Davis (Down There Press, 1998) *''PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality'', with Lawrence Schimel (Cleis Press, 1997) - winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award *''Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica'', with Lawrence Schimel (Cleis Press, 1996) artially reprinted with new material in German under the title Sexperimente (Querverlag, 1999)

Film

* ''Carol Queen's Great Vibrations: An Explicit Guide to Vibrators'', Blank Tapes, ~1997.

References

External links

*
The Center for Sex and Culture

Fatale Media
producer of the ''Bend Over Boyfriend'' video series.
Woodhull Foundation
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