Best Transgender Erotica [Paperback]

Hanne Blank (Author, Editor), Raven Kaldera (Editor), Hanne Blank (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Best Transgender Erotica brings together twenty stories by writers of every gender. The first book to celebrate exclusively gender-bending, -crossing, and -breaking sexuality through erotic fiction, Best Transgender Erotica includes representations of many forms of `trans` identity. Whether blurring the line between masculine and feminine, or making the transition from female to male, or vice versa, these characters (and authors) had to put on their sexiest, most alluring, heart-racing show in order to make the cut.Including selections from Thomas Roche, Saachi Green, Todd Belton, Simon Sheppard, M. Christian, and many more of today`s best-known erotica writers, Best Transgender Erotica follows on the smashing success of Best Bisexual Erotica, which was released in 2000. Like `Best Bi,` `Best Trans` drew its contributors from within the gender activist community, providing a unique and stimulating look at gender issues from an erotic perspective.Contributors: Todd Belton, Saachi Green, S. Naomi Finkelstein, Raven Gildea, Sam Kling, Magdalene Meretrix, Charles Anders, Dominic Santi, Alex Gino, Allison Lonsdale, Thomas Roche, Karen Taylor, Ian Philips, Roxane Gay, Matthew Kailey, Simon Sheppard, M. Christian, N. Hailey, Stacey Montgomery, Gary Bowen, Raven Kaldera, Hanne Blank

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Hanne Blank's work as a writer, editor, and sexuality educator includes Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them (Greenery Press), which one reviewer described as "striking the perfect balance between expertise and humor (American sex book-ese at its best)...". She is the editor of several collections of erotica, including Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (Cleis Press, 2001), the co- editor of the award-winning sexuality websites Scarlet Letters (scarletletters.com) and Scarleteen (scarleteen.com), and a widely published writer who writes on topics as diverse as music, Judaism, sex, clothes, body image, and food for venues as varied as Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, the Boston Phoenix, BBW, Lilith, and The Elvis Presley Reader.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Circlet Pr; illustrated edition edition (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885865406
• ISBN-13: 978-1885865403
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,286,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Raven Kaldera is a Northern-Tradition Pagan shaman, herbalist, astrologer, transgendered intersexual activist, homesteader, and founding member of the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel. He is also a teacher of BDSM spirituality, and an educator and presenter on many topics. He has written (or co-authored) all the books here and continues to add to the pile.

Raven's "hub" website, with links to all his other specific websites, is here:

http://www.ravenkaldera.org

and his shamanism website is here:

http://www.northernshamanism.org

'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than groundbreaking; it's hot sex, April 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Transgender Erotica (Paperback)

Sure, it's a groundbreaking anthology. But better than that, it's an excellent anthology of erotic stories. Gender variety has been discussed in a variety of scholarly articles and books, but the pleasures and passions that can be expressed by the broad range of gender identity and sexual orientation is well and truly described through the tales in this anthology. They are from a variety of perspectives, and really get the reader going with hot, explicit descriptions of sex between FTMs and their lovers; MTFs and their lovers, and the folks who might or might not describe themselves as fully transitioned. If you're the type to buy "groundbreaking books" then buy it. But really: buy it because it's hot sex.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and pleasure in all hues of the spectrum, April 13, 2003

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Magdalene Meretrix (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Transgender Erotica (Paperback)

I came to this book with few expectations, partly because it is the first of its kind. What transgendered erotica exists is either somewhat rare and scattered around or exploitative and not very believable to those who actually are transgendered or know those who are. After reading the anthology, I realize that I could have come to it with many expectations and it still would have pleasantly surprised me.

The twenty-three stories in this collection are as diverse as transpeople themselves. We see all varieties of trangender manifestations from the real to the surreal. I was most pleased to see an equal distribution of female-to-male and male-to-female as well as several characters who refused to claim a specific gender, choosing both or neither. The stories were equally diverse: hardboiled detective fiction, science fiction, fantasy, historical romance, comedy, literature.

One initial complaint I had was that the typeface is small, making each page dense with text. I was afraid it would make the stories difficult to read but I found that wasn't the case at all. After comparing the book to mainstream fiction, I see that the typeface and spacing is normal and I was judging it by other erotic fiction which tends to be written in a larger face or with more spacing between lines. This book needs every piece of real estate on the page it can get to fit all the stories into just 270 pages! This book offers a high story-per-dollar ratio.

And, of course, the true test of erotica is the excitement factor. Now what excites me may or may not excite you - erotic tastes can vary greatly. But I found the collection to be very hot and each story, even ones with scenes or characters I wouldn't have expected to be turned on by, left me gasping for air at some point in the telling.

disclaimer: I have to admit that I am one of the authors in this anthology. For the purposes of writing this review, I thought of the other twenty-two stories and left mine out. I'm not trying to sell this book because I'm in it, just give a review of a book that I really enjoyed reading. I vow that my review is unbiased but I felt the need to disclose this information so that readers have a chance to decide for themselves whether this is truly an unbiased review or not.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Body and Soul, March 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Transgender Erotica (Paperback)

This book would have been worth reading just for the editorial comments at the beginning and introducing each story, and the stories themselves make good use of the tension and complexity inherent in the theme. There's plenty of sex, from raunchy to tender and back again; there's also heart and soul, especially in the first and last stories, by Hanne Blank and Stacey Montgomery.