Dear Friend,

We’ve known and loved Annie Sprinkle and Phyllis Christopher for years and years. Within the last couple of months, we’ve reconnected with both of them; what a pleasure it’s been.

Phyllis Christopher is one of the most reflective photographers of lesbian life that we’ve ever seen. She worked with Nan and Deborah at On Our Backs taking those glorious photos of real lesbians. Her eye is dead-on. Phyllis was also behind the camera for Bathroom Sluts, a paean to naughty girls’ naughty fantasies.

She has a new lesbian DVD, Sextrospective, that forms a collage of some of her best work. We’re pleased to offer it through Fatale now, with Phyllis’s blessing.

It is perfect for a date night. Just pop it in and let those images play in the background. Before you know it, something else happens; the images start getting under your skin...and you’ll be wet before you know it!

Annie Sprinkle has been in the porn biz for a solid 25 years, and Herstory of Porn, new on DVD with fabulous extras, is a fitting tribute to her years in the sometimes strange world of porn. This story is Annie’s, through and through, with lots of creative juice thrown in for good measure.

Although Annie is now happily partnered with her lesbian lover, her journey didn’t begin that way, and in this wild romp you’ll see a lot of het porn. What distinguishes Annie is her self-directed sense of humor. Never quite in the porn world, she is nonetheless of it in a way most women never dreamed was possible for a porn starlet.

One extra on this DVD is a short, 17-minute film called The Art of the Loop, those classic peep-show pornos shot especially for viewing over and over again. Annie narrates this extra in a fascinating documentary with the entire loops right there. Rare 8 mm footage. Don’t miss it!

Yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

Shar Rednour is taking September off this issue. So “Let’s Get Real About Lube - Part 2” will run in a future issue.

Household Sex Toys
Ever been caught without decent sex toys? With more new airline regulations, bringing along your sex toys is dicier than ever. If you’re lucky enough to be staying in a place with a kitchen, bingo! You’ve got lots of sex-toy options.

Or perhaps you’ve met someone while staying with Great Aunt Agnes. What to do?

Or maybe you just feel like being a little creative. Use your imagination!

Here are some tips for using ordinary household objects to enhance your sex play:

--Spatula or pancake flipper. Use this for a little light (or not so light!) spanking.

--Wooden spoons. Also nice for spanking, especially if you have your sweetheart stand up and bend over. You might even find the situation perfect for a little mommy-bad girl/boy play.

--Clothespins. These little suckers can bite the nipples like nothing else. If they’re too much, put a towel or piece of clothing between the clothespin and the nipple— it’ll still bite like hell.

--Curtain cords. Be care when you’re tying your honey up so that you don’t cut off her circulation, but you can put a piece of cloth or clothing between her wrists or ankles and the curtain cord so she doesn’t go numb. But hey, curtain cords work!

--Tables and chairs. Tired of the bed? Have no bed at hand? Carefully remove everything off the table and bend her over. Make sure the table or chair is sturdy first; you don’t want Aunt Agnes bemoaning the loss of her antique table.

--Ice. Always a winner when you want to really play with her and drive her batty. Take an ice cube and let it drip down her back, between her legs, over her breasts. Then lick off the drops of ice water.

--Candle wax. Another favorite, especially if it’s cool out...or she prefers heat to cold. Don’t use a candle that’s been dyed green or red or any other color. Use plain white ones and steer clear of her clit unless you know what kind of wax you’re using. Colored or dyed candles are fine if you’re doing the backs of her legs or feet or any other resilient stretch of skin.

--Clothing. Stuff her panties in her mouth. Take your tie and use it as a blindfold. Try on each other’s clothes and have sex fully dressed.

Other ideas? Let us know!

Many thanks to a customer in England for encouraging us to get off the stick and offer PayPal. You may now order Fatale DVDs using PayPal if you like.

Many of you know g-spot expert Deborah Sundahl as Fanny Fatale. In “Ask Fanny,” an exclusive column created just for this newsletter, she answers your questions about female ejaculation and the g-spot.

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Dear Fanny,

I've read the books by Betty Dodson in which she talks about the Kegel muscles, and I practice on a somewhat regular basis. Does having strong Kegel muscles help with female ejaculation orgasms, or doesn't it matter?

Signed,

Kegel Maniac

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Dear KM,

Yes, healthy PC (vaginal) muscles definitely help to expel the ejaculate. And the best way to have toned PC muscles is to do Kegel exercises. The importance of these vaginal muscles and their state of fitness to physical health and sexual happiness can not be understated.

Early sexual liberation and women’s health-care feminists from the 1970s-1980s like Betty Dodson, famous Sex For One author and workshop leader, and Del Williams, creator of Eve’s Garden, the first women’s erotic store (New York, 1979), instigated a social movement and built individual careers based on helping women have orgasms, because 60% of women were not orgasmic at that time.

They were quite successful in teaching women how to have clitoral orgasms, as that “non-orgasmic” statistic has been dramatically reduced today. They based their work in part on the PC muscle research of sexologists and scientists Dr. John Perry and Dr. Beverly Whipple, co-authors and researchers of the famous book from 1980, The G-spot.

Dr. Perry resurrected the 1940s work of Los Angeles gynecologist Dr. Arnold Kegel, who pioneered the use of exercise using a biofeedback machine to strengthen the pubococcygeus (PC) muscles to cure urinary stress incontinence.

Dr. Perry invented the Perinometer, a modern electromagnetic biofeedback device that monitors the strength and duration of vaginal muscle contractions. This “feedback” helps women become more conscious of their vaginal muscles, and teaches effective ways to squeeze and relax them, thereby increasing their strength, tone and sensitivity, resulting in stronger orgasms. Healthy women can stay in shape by exercising their PC muscles by squeezing and relaxing these vaginal muscles 100 times a day, three times a week.

Whipple and Perry were also postulated the “two nerve theory” of orgasm: that the clitoris is stimulated by a different nerve than the G-spot. In their laboratory experiments, they documented that in women who attained a strictly clitoral orgasm, only 1/3 of their PC muscles contracted in orgasm. With a G-spot-induced orgasm, however, 2/3 of the vaginal muscles contract. That is why it is far easier to ejaculate with a G-spot orgasm then with a clitoral orgasm.

The early sexual liberation feminists also relied on the prevailing notions of the day (based on Kinsey and Masters and Johnson) that the clitoris was the center of female sexual pleasure, since the vagina was “empty space” with no nerve endings. Hence, the feminist focus on the clitoris and the birth of the vibrator to achieve clitoral orgasms.

Today, we know that the highly sensitive female prostate - the G-spot - is felt through the vagina and is capable of producing the most lovely and satiating “vaginal,” or G-spot, orgasms.

This rediscovery of the G-spot, and its unique orgasm and ability for female ejaculation, is truly the “second phase” in liberating women’s sexuality and in the evolution of women’s sexual awakening. But don’t vibrate the G-spot! Practice more refined awareness of its sensations instead!

So, keep doing your Kegels. As they say in England, “Do it for the Queen!”

Cheers,
Fanny

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Send your questions to askfanny@fatalemedia.com.

Courtney wrote via e-mail:
“Thank you for filling a niche market of real-life gay women having sex with women! There is still a bigger niche market for nonprofessional, amateur gay women having sex in private with friends, partners, coworkers or first-time straight women— the biggest desire being amateur gay/first-time-curious straight women having sex. It’s very important that pros don't fake these amateur tapes; it’s very easy to detect the fake! These tapes would have been made in private and the people not looking to be professionals, but was turned on by others’ viewing them in private.”

Carol wrote via e-mail:
“Hello again, Fatale, When I am a part of a FMF threesome, I INSIST on having it videotaped. I know I'm an exhibitionist, and I seem to put more into it if I know it's going to be watched by the couple or others.”

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Send your letters and comments to christi@fatalemedia.com.

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In last month’s poll, we asked: Have you ever been photographed while having sex?

Yowza! When cameras are around, you let that exhibitionist streak go wild! There were 186 votes as of this writing...and you like it, you like it! Check out the complete results of last month’s poll.

In the new poll, we ask: Have you ever been someone’s first lover?

Vote now! The poll is on Fatale’s home page.

And we’ll give you the results next month.

Until then, we wish you dazzling hot sex!

Nan and Christi
www.fatalemedia.com