Tristan Taormino
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Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an American feminist writer, columnist, campaigner, speaker, broadcaster, and pornographic film producer (she appeared in three films, two of which she produced, 1999–2000).
Early life
Taormino is Judith Bennett Pynchon and William J. Taormino's only child. Taormino, a descendant of William Pynchon, a young English-American settler, is on her mother's side of the family. She is also the niece of author Thomas Pynchon. When her father came out as gay, her parents divorced before she hit the age of two. She was mainly raised on Long Island by her mother. Bill Taormino, her father, died of AIDS in 1995, she had a close relationship with her mother. Taormino attended Sayville High School on Long Island and was salutatorian of her graduating class. She received a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993.
Career
Taormino is the author of seven books, including the Firecracker Book Award-winning The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women.
She has edited anthologies ranging from 1996 to 2009, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning annual anthology collection that she produced and edited for Cleis Press.
She was a regular columnist for The Village Voice from 1999 to 2008, where she wrote the bi-weekly sex column "Pucker Up" biweekly. Her column appeared in print opposite Dan Savage's column Savage Love. In her 1995 column "The Queer Heterosexual," she popularized and re-defined the term "queer heterosexual." "In some cases, it's based on either one or both partners' non-traditional gender expressions...or they actively work against their assigned gender roles." Some queer heterosexuals are very linked to queer culture, history, and activism, but they are also lusting after people of a different gender. Since describing them "straight" considering their lifestyle choices, I also consider those who embrace alternative models of sexuality and relationships (polyamory, non-monogamy, and cross-dressing). In 2008, she was dropped from The Village Voice. She has been writing "The Anal Advisor" column for Hustler's Taboo magazine since 1999, and she has served as a former columnist for Velvetpark. She is the former editor of On Our Backs, the nation's oldest lesbian-produced lesbian sex magazine.
Taormino has taught at numerous colleges and universities, where she addresses issues such as gay and lesbian rights, sexuality, and feminism. Some of her college appearances have ignited controversy, including at University of North Carolina in Greensboro in 2004, Princeton, and, more significantly, Oregon State University in 2011, where administrators uninvited her as a keynote speaker at the Modern Sex Conference. On the internet, there was a lot of rage, and many suspected OSU of anti-sex bias. The incident captured national media coverage. Eventually, students raised the money and welcomed her.
On The Burly Bear Network in 2001, a college cable network owned by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, Taormino hosted Sexology 101. In 2002 and 2003, she served as a regular expert and panelist on Ricki Lake. She first signed a development contract with MTV Networks in 2003. On the pilot for The Naughty Show, she acted as host and executive producer, but the series was never picked up. Melissa Harris-Perry, Joy Behar, The Howard Stern Show, Timothy Lake, MTV, and other television shows have all appeared as an expert in sex, marriage, feminism, pornography, non-monogamy, and GLBT issues.
On the set of Spike Lee's 2004 film She Hate Me, Taormino worked as a script consultant and with the cast. In John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus, she appeared as a so-called "extra" in his film, Shortbus, where she was embedded in an unsimulated orgy that was shot for the film. (Her presence is confirmed by the producer on the DVD commentary.) She appeared in Becky Goldberg's 2003 film Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography and in Mr. Angel, the documentary about Buck Angel (2013).
She views herself as a feminist pornographer, in addition to writing, speaking, and sex education. She made two videos based on her book The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. Buttman (John Stagliano) and Ernest Greene co-directed the first (1999) film. Tristan herself directed the second (2001) version of the film. She appears in both videos as she participates in the on-screen sexual pursuits. She also supervised Tristan Taormino's House of Ass for Adam & Eve, which features a number of "porn actors" (from well-known to unknown) who act without a script. Tristan Taormino's Chemistry, the first in a series of full-length "behind the scenes" films for Vivid Entertainment, in which the actors choose who they have sex with, what they do, where, and when. She produced four volumes of the Chemistry series as well as sex education videos for Vivid Ed, Vivid Entertainment's sex education company, which she was instrumental in creating.
Rebecca Whisnant argues that Taormino's work represents a "feminist porn" within the mainstream pornography market, which is based on poor representations of feminism and sexual ethics.