Macho Sluts: A Little Sister's Classic (Little Sister's Classics Book 10)

Our culture

think we should be challenging the very meanings we assign our sexual acts. This is the truly radical potential of S/M.”

I never ceased to be amazed by the ways that feminism could be twisted to justify a morality that duplicated every prejudice held by fundamentalist Christians—except for the part about lesbians.

Lesbian writers must have the option to write about men. There ought not to be any subject that we cannot give our attention to. A lesbian perspective on the world is as valid and can be as interesting (or as trite) as anyone else’s.

The element of mutual homosexuality made it seem more perverse, yet safe.

“No erotic act has an intrinsic meaning. A particular sexual activity may symbolize one thing in the majority culture, another thing to members of a sexual subculture.”

The whore does not sell her body. She sells her time. So she has time that is not for sale, that belongs to no one but herself.

if we are not safe to indulge in this playful, vulnerable, and necessary activity, pleasure ourselves and the others who fascinate us, how safe can a society be for women?

alternative universe in which sex is uncoupled from the ongoing reality of death and dying from AIDS.