6 LUCKY AND LUCY-SERVICE AL FRESCO Photography by DDF Productions
14 CHAIN MAIL
Clanking and Wanking Our Way Across the USA
20 TABOO'S ANAL ADVISOR
Nozzle Notes, Prime Positions, Great Gapes
by Tristan Taormino
24 ISOBEL-ISOLATION WARD
Photography by Videoerotica
34 TABOO EXTREME: PRISCILLA-BLOW-UP DOL
Saline Inflation on the Fetish Frontier
Photography by Ken Marcus
42 "A" IS FOR ADRIANNA
Photography by Lee Forbes
52 ANASTASIA PIERCE - KINKSTRESS FOR ALL SEASONS
TABOO Video's New Director Fits Fetish Filmmaking Like a Latex Glove
Special Feature by Ernest Greene
56 READERS' DOMAIN
58 HOLLY - IMPOUNDED GOODS
Photography by Matti Klatt
64 TWISTED FLICKS
Vaunted Visuals to Fire Your Fantasies
66 BREE AND ERIC - DIRTY ANGEL
Photography by Dave Naz
94 EUROPE YEAR 2117 - PART FOUR
Graphic Novel by Agnes
EDITORIAL NOTE
We deeply believe that love goes by many names and wears many faces, and we'd
like to think that at least those citizens of the vanilla world who consider themselves
"progressive" would support us in this view, whatever their own bedroom
preferences might be. Of late, sadly, what's left of the left has largely abandoned
its commitment to individual liberty. As an example, here's a recent Internet
post from rad-fem porn basher DeAnander regarding BDSM: The argument 'I just happen
to enjoy/"need" sexual fantasies of being raped [or raping], being hurt
for hurting], and that is who I am and my identity must be respected,' seems to
me as naive and as unreasonable as 'I just happen to feel a strong antipathy and
fear towards people of colour or poor people, and that is just who I am and my
identity must be respected.' It is a plea for the unexamined life and for a free
pass to conform to the values of the hegemonic culture (while pretending to 'transgress,'
which is kind of hilarious when you consider how grimly conformant BDSM is with
received patriarchal ideology)."
Clearly no expert on BDSM, which tends toward zany diversity rather than grim
conformism, DeAnander nonetheless considers herself qualified to ridicule consensual
D/s sexuality as not only a trivial affectation, but worse, a hollow justification
for ideas as heinous and destructive as racism. While we can't help wondering
if this author would risk defying "progressive" orthodoxy regarding
the authenticity of gay sexual orientation with similarly sneering condescension,
that's not our real point.
Instead, we wish to underscore our previous warnings about growing sexual intolerance
on the left as a threat to our personal liberties every bit as pernicious as the
persecution we've endured at the hands of right-wing theocrats over the past eight
years.
It's not our lives that go unexamined, for that is a luxury no member of a sexual
minority group can afford. It is the life of the aspiring moral arbiter that does
not bear close inspection, for fear of revealing the morbid and toxically perverse
obsession with the sex lives of others that is its unmistakable trademark, regardless
of the political rubric behind which it is hidden.
—Ernest Greene, Executive Editor
