Nerve: Literate Smut Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	What Are We Thinking?
	Shame	1
	Autobiography of a Body	7
	A Ladies' Man and Shameless	15
	I Love You, Sophie Western	22
	Innocence in Extremis	33
	The Dawn of Screw	37
	Fringes	41
	Transient Sex	45
	What Nina Hartley Knows	52
	Sex and the (Somewhat) Celibate Prisoner	58
	Hustler's Measure	64
	A Conversation with Richard Kern	71
	Taboo	79
	The #1 Song in the Country	83
	On "Polysexuality"	89
	Holding Fire	96
	Diary of a Live Nude Girl: Snapshots from the Lusty Lady	107
	Habits	113
	Some of My Best Friends Are Sensualists	117
	Horse Lust and the Would-be Equestrienne	122
	The Art of Celibacy	127
	The Dreaded "M" Word	130
	Dick Love	133
	Debauchery	137
	Ethics and Pornography: An Interview with Norman Mailer	141
	Would You?	160
	MacArthur	165
	Anonymous	166
	Wood	171
	The Hunger/Artist	177
	S/M or Sunday Night, Monday Morning	181
	Reportage	187
	Porno for Yuppies: The Better Sex Video Charade	192
	Prime Mates: The Useful Promiscuity of Bonobo Apes	197
	Warped Women in Japanese Animation	202
	Mother of Bodily Invention: Scenes from a Fetish Club	209
	Love Stories	211
	The Deep Green Sea	216
	A War Journal	235
	But She Was Not Mirabelle	245
	Can't	257
	Watershed	263
	Contributors	267