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Feisty First Ladies and Other Unforgettable White House Women
Autumn Stephens

Part irreverant portrait gallery, part exuberant exposé. [more]

Best Women's Erotica 2009
Edited by Violet Blue

Love and lust run wild in the boldest edition of Violet Blue's bestselling women's erotica series. [more]

Best Lesbian Erotica 2009
Edited by Tristan Taormino
Selected and introduced by Joan Larkin

In Best Lesbian Erotica 2009, women find love and lust in every setting imaginable, from bar to beach, tattoo parlor to public park. [more]

Best Gay Erotica 2009
Edited by Richard Labonté
Selected and introduced by James Lear

Best Gay Erotica 2009 explores all the sweat and grit of man-on-man encounters, from anonymous trysts to loving, lingering seductions. [more]

Secret Tunnel
James Lear

Mitch Mitchell is back! All aboard the Flying Scotsman as the horny hero of The Back Passage tackles a new case that mixes murder, mystery and mansex. [more]

Alphabet Erotica
Designed by Scott Idleman

26 glossy pin-up girl postcards feature the book covers of the Alphabet Erotica series. [more]

Never Have the Same Sex Twice
Edited by Alison Tyler

Never Have the Same Sex Twice will illuminate and guide couples to achieving sexual satisfaction over and over—and over—again. [more]

Cleis Press publishes provocative, intelligent books in the areas of sexuality, gay and lesbian studies, erotica, fiction, gender studies, and human rights. Read an interview with Cleis publishers Felice Newman and Frédérique Delacoste.

Tristan Taormino to Read from Opening Up
Click here for her November book tour dates in Portland and Seattle.

The Transgender Child in The Atlantic Monthly
Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper's book mentioned in an article about parents of trangender kids.

Rachel Kramer Bussel Quoted in Time.com
The editor of Mile High Club included in article on plane travel and sex.

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Opening Up: Changing the Way We Think About Intimacy

"There is not a typical person who chooses nonmonogamy, but the people who practice it do tend to have certain characteristics in common. They are brave, first and foremost..." read>>

More Cleis Author Spotlights

Dirty White Boy
Clayton Littlewood

From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Clayton watches the daily parade of big personalities that make up the population of this strangest of villages. [more]

Frenzy
Edited by Alison Tyler

Editor Alison Tyler offers an unabashedly lustful selection of "brief encounters" of the sexual kind. [more]