{"id":4423,"date":"2023-06-08T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:09:12","slug":"a-new-edition-of-bang-because-we-need-to-love-ourselves-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-new-edition-of-bang-because-we-need-to-love-ourselves-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"A new edition of Bang!: because we need to love ourselves more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As our cultural pendulum swings hard towards “purity” and repressiveness, there’s a real, healing power in unashamed sex positivity. And one of our goals here at Microcosm is to publish books that normalize and celebrate that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our favorite books in this vein is Vic Liu’s 2021 Bang: Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities<\/a>.<\/em> We love the book’s inclusiveness and its friendly design and tone that allows you to open it anywhere and learn something useful\u2014whether about the history of sex toys, a guide to teaching your kids healthy attitudes and boundaries, or a reminder that you don’t need to feel shame in exploring and enjoying your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even so, we were taken by surprise last fall when it became clear that we were about to sell through the first printing. We put our heads together with Vic and decided to create an expanded new edition instead of simply reprinting the original. Vic lined up some great new content from folks like sensuality teacher Ev’Yan Whitney<\/a>, Scarleteen founder Heather Corinna<\/a>, and sex worker and educator Elle Stanger<\/a>, and the great adrienne maree brown<\/a>, author of Emergent Strategy<\/a> <\/em>and Pleasure Activitism<\/a><\/em>, agreed to write the foreword. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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