"...if you pay attention, you will find a remarkable portrait of the great Technicolor rainbow mash-up of American sex." —From the foreword by Brian Alexander, author of America Unzipped

Best Sex Writing 2009 gathers the most provocative and noteworthy work of the year from journalists, investigative reporters, scholars, novelists, bloggers, and sex workers writing on the topic at the forefront of everyone's mind: sex. From Supervirgins to sex toys, prostitution, and why bathroom sex is here to stay, to the little-discussed epidemic of impotence among Iraq War veterans, Best Sex Writing takes an incisive (and often surprising) look at our sexual culture.

Winner of the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Award for Sexuality/Relationships.

Praise for Best Sex Writing:
"Like a whole issue of The New Yorker if The New Yorker gave any attention to sex." —Kevin Killian

"Just what is it about sex that captures our interest on such an immediate and visceral level? Best Sex Writing 2009 answers that question two dozen times over as it explores the intersections between sex and every other aspect of life." —Erotica Readers & Writers Associaton

“The two [Bussel & Alexander] could not have done a better job at choosing such effervescent pieces. BSW 2009 explores the universal motifs that are openly (and often secretly) found within the great spectrum of our complex sexual world.” —Examiner

RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL is senior editor at Penthouse Variations and a contributing editor to Penthouse. Her books include He's On Top, She's On Top, Caught Looking, Glamour Girls, The Lesbian Sex Book 2ed, Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex, and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z. Rachel has written for numerous publications including Adult Video News, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Curve, Diva, Girlfriends, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Playgirl, Punk Planet, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, Velvetpark, The Village Voice, Huffington Post, New York Post, Mediabistro, and others. She has a popular blog called Lusty Lady, and hosts the erotica reading series In the Flesh in New York City, where she lives. Visit Rachel at www.rachelkramerbussel.com.

BRIAN ALEXANDER is an award winning contributing editor at Glamour Magazine and writes the Sexploration column at msnbc.com. His six-part online series, “America Unzipped,” received more than one million viewers per month and is now a book titled America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfication. He lives in San Diego, California.

Also by Rachel Kramer Bussel