IPPY Award-winning Sex Still Spoken Here is not just a steamy, eclectic mix of hot stories, it's also an inspiring call to action, staking another fierce claim on importance of voicing the erotic. The Erotic Reading Circle—held monthly since 2006 at San Francisco's Center for Sex & Culture—is a community where writers put words to our complex desires and longings, and in which our erotic stories are celebrated and honored, not dismissed. This collection is culled from that Circle, represen...

"It had been Tüz's eldest sister, Talia, who first explained that she would lose her hands. Tüz had been horrified, but her sister explained to her that this was the difference between little girls and women. 'You don't want to stay a little girl, do you?'Tüz had shaken her head. 'But how does he do it?'Her sister reluctantly revealed the pale pink opening at the base of her wrist, then she took her little sister's hand in hers and, with a fingernail, traced in a line around ...