slut untidy, slovenly, dirty, repulsive, lewd, sexually promiscuous; a female dog, a bitch; this word sums up the belief that a proper woman is feminine, domestic, and submissive, hence a violation of any single point is considered a violation of the whole package
	macho slut a sexually aggressive woman, as per Pat Califia; a sexually aggressive male bottom; an activist who favors in your face activism on behalf of sexual freedom   Califia (historical) legendary queen of a tribe of Black Amazons in West Africa, the state of California was named after her; (modern) Pat Califia, author of butch erotica and commentary on gender and sexuality   quoted from: Words for Masculine Women by Gary Bowen http://www.netgsi.com/~listwrangler/f2mwords.html
dedication:	Lesbian sex writer, pornographer, sex educator, activist for free sexual expression - a sharp critic, outstanding storyteller, a strong voice against repression, the ultimate pro in the field of sexual politics. Pat Califia was founder of Samois, the San Francisco lesbian feminist SM organisation who published 'Coming to Power' as an amazing heritage before the group self-destructed. She is now studying counselling psychology in order to provide mental-health services to her community. Her body of work is too large to summarize here. I warmly recommend: buy her books and read them (and you might wish to read them over and over again just like I do .....)
	Public Sex - The Culture of Radical Sex Cleis Press, 1994   extracts:
	"I am obviously a sex pervert, and good real true lesbians are not sex perverts. They are high priestesses of feminism, conjuring up the wimmin's revolution. As I understand it, after the wimmin's revolution sex will consist of wimmin holding hands, taking off their shirts, and dancing in a circle. Then we will all fall asleep at exactly the same moment. If we didn't all fall asleep, something else might happen - something male-identified, objectifying, pornographic, noisy, and undignified. Something like an orgasm." ( A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexualtity, 1979. p.159)     "And I love being fucked on my back (will a penchant for the missionary position become a secret feminist perversion?) ..." (Genderbending: Playing with Roles and Reversals, 1983. p.177)     "Strict gender division is so important to the majority of people's sexual pleasure that they want to disguise it as nature or biology, so nothing will threaten to change it. The differences between men and women are seized upon, encouraged, artificially exaggerated, and even lied about to create a distance and a tension that give heterosexuals something to struggle with, a strange territory to explore, a mystery to apprentice themselves to and celebrate. A belief in sex differences and a dependence on them for sexual pleasure is the most common perversion, if we define perversion as allowing imagination, intelligence, and choice to create sex for pleasure, as opposed to restricting ourselves to instinct, hormones, and religion, and limiting sex for procreation." (Genderbending: Playing with Roles and Reversals, 1983. p.178)     "..... I live in a world that tells me S/M is aberrant, sick, violent, and hateful. It is increasingly illegal to depict my sexuality in photographs or movies. S/M literature is always being confiscated, banned or burned by government officials or prudish, politically correct gay or feminist activists. ....... I suspect that most vanilla fags and dykes wish we would disappear and that they blame us (along with the drag queens and boy-lovers) for much of the opprobrium they face, If you are publicly identifiable as a perv, you face job discrimination, street violence, and the loss of custody of your children. That's a lot to deal with." (Love and the Perfect Sadist: Can S/M Work in the Context of an Ongoing Relationship?, 1992. p. 229-230)
more reading of Public Sex:	"Forty-two Things that You Can Do to Make the Future Safe for Sex" Sluts in Utopia: The Future of Radical Sex http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nifty/califia.html   "Whoring In Utopia" http://eserver.org/cultronix/califia/whoring/   "The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile Meese Commission Report" http://eserver.org/cultronix/califia/meese/ published by cultronix: http://eserver.org/cultronix/
<snip>	Telling Stories about goddesses or Amazons is wonderful for a writer, however, because it lets you fuck with the reader's assumptions about gender and shake them into having some new thoughts. I think women will have to reclaim their own violence before they can be free. It's not fashionable in feminism right now to talk in those terms, but I don't know any other way to conceptualise our oppression. We are treated like chattel, and we are part of a dual-gendered class system in which one class (men) benefits from the opression of the other class (women). And they're not going to stop doing that just because we talk reasonably to them and persuade them that it's bad and wrong. Quote from "Wings of Desire" - Gillian Rodgerson spoke to Pat Califia via e-mail. Published in Diva - Lesbian life & style, June/July 1996 http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/
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online resources:	Pat Califia's official homepage http://www.patcalifia.com   She runs a column in Spectator Magazine: Sex News from Around the World By Pat Califia http://www.spectatormag.com/EDPAGES/news.html   Quickies - Pat Califia's monthly column at Good Vibrations "focusing on censorship issues and other sex news across the nation.": http://www.goodvibes.com/califia/quickies.html   The blowfish catalogue lists all her books: http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/books/   X R E have set up a beautiful page about Pat Califia - although their approach to the S/M and perv community is brilliantly critized by Pat Califia herself ("Modern Primitives, Latex Shamans, and Ritual S/M" in "Public Sex"). What a relieve when insiders mock up against the academic / journalistic habit to suck in everything that makes good publicity (and cashola). http://www.postfun.com/xre/subjects/index.html