Of course I am familiar with the writings of Susie Bright, one of the great contemporary erotic authors of either sex and of any orientation. Her works, whether essays, anthologies, or fiction, have been both celebrated and condemned within the LGBT communities, sometimes by the same people who at one time praised Susie for her very frank and playful lesbo-eroticism and who later denounced her as a pornographer. If nothing else, Susie gave us the quintessential eroto-feminist battle cry: Clits up!

When I made reference to people being imprisoned, locked up in mental hospitals, and physically mutilated for expressing their sexuality, I wasn't limiting myself to the USA, the UK, and Canada, the homelands of most Mudcatters. But please don't deceive yourself into thinking that all is sweetness and light in those countries. The state laws of Kansas provide just one example.

And no, I am not the rubber duckie lady.