Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the X-rated intellectual", Susie Bright is indisputably the sexpert of our times. Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she delves into the most personal aspects of sex and shows us how our sexual passion can be a source of creativity and inspiration. Bright explores some of the most complex questions about sexuality today, including: how can we come clean about our true desire; what are the real differences between men's and women's sense of the erotic; why is it so threatening to consciously address sexual desire in the first place; and how can articulate erotic expression make us better lovers and, more important, better people? Bright concludes with an "erotic manifesto" that is a call for everyone to reclaim sexuality, cast off sexual shame, and overcome repression.