Carol Queen
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Carol Queen (born 1957) is an American author, editor, sociologist, and
Good Vibrations
Queen serves as staff sexologist to
Writing
Queen is known as a professional editor, writer, and commentator of works such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, Pomosexuals, and Exhibitionism for the Shy. She has written for juried journals and compendiums such as The Journal of Bisexuality
Absexual
The neologism absexual has also been introduced by Queen, although it was coined by her partner.[6] Based on its prefix ab- (as in "abhor" or in "abreaction"), it represents a form of sexuality where someone is stimulated by moving away from sexuality or is moralistically opposed to sex.[7] Betty Dodson defined the term as describing "folks who get off complaining about sex and trying to censor porn."[8] As of 2010[update] absexuality is not an official psychiatric term.[citation needed] Queen proposed inclusion of the concept in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5.[9] Darrell Hamamoto sees Queen's view of absexuality as playfully broad: "the current 'absexuality' embraced by many progressive and conservative critics of pornographic literature is itself a kind of 'kink' stemming from a compulsive need to impose their own sexual mores upon those whom they self-righteously condemn as benighted reprobates."[10]
Development of SHARP
In 2000, Queen together with her partner Robert Morgan Lawrence published a jointly written essay in the Journal of Bisexuality detailing the role of San Francisco bisexuals in the development of safe sex strategies in response to the emerging AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Queen detailed her and Lawrence's development of a safe sex version of the SAR or Sexual Attitude Reassessment training, which they termed Sexual Health Attitude Restructuring Process or SHARP. Originally a program started by the IASHS, SHARP is described as a combination of "lectures, films, videos, slides, and personal sharing", as well as "massage techniques, condom relay races, a blindfolded ritual known as the Sensorium which emphasized transformation and sensate focus, and much more."[4] In 2007, Queen expressed the intention to revive the SHARP training, now referred to as SARP or Sexual Attitude Reassessment Process.'
Personal life
Queen is a Wiccan.[11] She is bisexual.[12]
Works
Author
- Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture (ISBN 1-57344-073-6- reissued 2002 with new introduction and updated Recommended Reading list.
- Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot (ISBN 0-940208-16-4- excerpted in the German book Dirty Talking (Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, 2002); also translated into Chinese (Hsin-Lin Books, 2003)
- The Leather Daddy and the Femme (Cleis Press, 1998) ISBN 0-940208-31-8
Editor
- More 5 Minute Erotica, (Running Press, 2007)
- Whipped: 20 Erotic Stories of Female Dominance (ISBN 1-59609-046-4
- Best Bisexual Erotica (Best of Series Vol. 1), with Bill Brent (ISBN 1-885865-47-3
- 5 Minute Erotica (ISBN 0-7624-1560-6
- Speaking Parts: Provocative Lesbian Erotica, with ISBN 1-55583-700-X
- Best Bisexual Erotica Vol. 2, with Bill Brent (ISBN 1-892723-10-7
- Best Bisexual Erotica, with ISBN 0-7394-1209-4
- Sex Spoken Here: Stories from the Good Vibrations Erotic Reading Circle, with ISBN 0-940208-19-9
- PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, with ISBN 1-57344-074-4- winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award
- Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica, with Lawrence Schimel (Cleis Press, 1996) ISBN 1-57344-021-3[partially reprinted with new material in German under the title Sexperimente (Querverlag, 1999)]
Film
- Carol Queen's Great Vibrations: An Explicit Guide to Vibrators, Blank Tapes, ~1997.
See also
References
- ^ "Center of Sex and Culture closes — but Dr. Carol Queen looks to the future". 48 Hills. January 19, 2019.
- ^ "Greetings from Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D". goodvibes.com. Barnaby Ltd. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ "Presentation: Healthy Sexual Relationships with Dr. Carol Queen". San Francisco Public Library.
- ^ a b RM Lawrence, C Queen, Bisexuals Help Create the Standards for Safer Sex: San Francisco, 1981–1987, Journal of Bisexuality, 2000.
- ^ "b i · a n y · o t h e r · n a m e".
- ISBN 9781876756499– via Google Books.
- ISBN 1-58542-412-9.
Cultural sexologist Carol Queen invented the term absexual for people ...
- Xtra! in Vancouver. Monday, April 30, 2007
- ^
Brian Alexander (May 22, 2008). "What's 'normal' sex? Shrinks seek definition. Controversy erupts over creation of psychiatric rule book's new edition". MSNBC. Archived from the original on May 30, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
She also proposes an addition, a diagnosis of "absexual" ("ab" meaning "away from"). This would include those who appear to be "turned on by fulminating against it." Examples could include state governors who crusade against prostitution even while paying hookers for sex, and religious leaders who wind up trying to explain engaging in the sex acts they preach against.
- ^
ISBN 978-1-56639-776-6,
Queen jokingly argues that the current 'absexuality' embraced by many progressive and conservative critics of pornographic literature is itself a kind of 'kink' stemming from a compulsive need to impose their own sexual mores upon those whom they self-righteously condemn as benighted reprobates.
- ISBN 1-889307-10-6
- ISBN 9781560249504. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
External links
- Official website
- The Center for Sex and Culture Archived 2006-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Fatale Media producer of the Bend Over Boyfriend video series.
- Woodhull Foundation