title: Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
author:  Gore Vidal 
description: Gore Vidal is the author of <i>Myra Breckinridge, The City and the Pillar, Lincoln</i>, and numerous novels, essays, and plays. His 1993 essay collection, <i>United States: Essays 19521992</i> won the National Book Award. Vidal lives in Los Angeles and Ravello, Italy.
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  sexually speaking
  
  COLLECTED SEX WRITINGS
  
  Donald Weise, editor
  
  Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking copyright © 1999 by Cleis Press.
  
  All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine,
  radio, or television reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any
  form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or
  recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without permission
  in writing from the Publisher.
  
  Published in the United States by Cleis Press Inc., P.O. Box 14684, San
  Francisco, California 94114.
  
  Printed in the United States.
  
  Cover & text design: Scott Idleman / Blink Cover photograph: Clifford Coffin ©
  British Vogue/The Condé Nast Publications Ltd Logo art: Juna Alicia
  
  First Edition
  
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  _Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:_
  Preface by Gore Vidal Copyright © 1999 by Gore Vidal. Sex and the Law/The
  Sexus of Henry Miller/Pornography/Doc 