Carol Queen's Biography

I've been writing since I was a kid, though have only focused on sex since I became fascinated by sex. I write spanning many genres, almost always to inform or involve as well as to entertain, and when I'm not writing, I teach, talk, and produce events about sex in my capacities as lecturer, staff sexologist at Good Vibrations, and founding director of the Center for Sex & Culture (www.sexandculture.org) in San Francisco. I've authored, edited, or co-edited eleven books, winning awards for PoMoSexuals (a Lammy) and The Leather Daddy & The Femme (a Firecracker Alternative Book Award). I'm about to see a re-release of my first book (from 1995), Exhibitionism for the Shy, and I'm sloooowly working on a memoir. Pretty much all my anthologized work is listed on my home page. I'm also on the board of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, dedicated to the premise that sexual freedom is a fundamental human right, and this year i'm serving as a judge for the Sex-Positive Journalism Awards.