I picture all the sexually misunderstood women (and men) of the millennia of human history gathering around you in praise and thanksgiving. You're contributing to one of the most important streams of evolutionary consciousness, the one that insists that DIVERSITY is the life blood of the human endeavor as it creates and unfolds the world before our very eyes.
Sally Miller Gearhart, founder, Women's Studies Dept. SFSU
Erotic Rites is the "travelogue" I wish I had discovered ten years ago. Loraine has visited celebrated sacred sex communities across the U.S. and partaken of their exuberant wisdom. She describes her visits with these erotic pioneers and her participation in their sex rituals. She then does what no one else has done - analyzes the erotic dynamics from a social justice perspective. I found especially important her writing on the archetype of the sacred prostitute and how this is being manifest in myriad ways today. Hutchins' book gives me a holy erection.
Joseph Kramer, Ph.D., founder of The Body Electric and The New School of Erotic Touch
Loraine. Sit down. You have got to publish somewhere beyond academia where people will read it! This sings. Your voice has found its center. Mazel Tov!
Deb Kolodny, Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith
Loraine documents the connections between sexuality, healing, and spirituality. She grounds her work in rigorous field research and contemporary scholarship. She focuses her lens on individuals and groups of people who are an integral part of U.S. culture, but whose existence and traditions have been obscured or denied or disparaged. Her interdisciplinary approach to promote understanding and reconciliation in a profoundly contested area of contemporary culture.
Minnie Bruce Pratt, lesbian poet and essayist, and faculty, Union Institute and University
Consider the categories lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer, and the increasing visibility of self-labeled bisexuals in the queer rights movement. Some people regard bisexuals as less threatening to the status quo than lesbians or gays ... they see bisexuality as relatively non-threatening to the status quo. But Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu write of the revolutionary, disruptive possibilities of bisexuality …
Charlene Muehlenhard, "Categories and Sexuality;"
1997 Presidential address to the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality,
The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2000Dr. Hutchins' dissertation is fabulous … a wonderfully rich reference, particularly of the pop culture of sacred sex. I'm using it as a guide in my own research.
Gina Ogden, Women Who Love Sex
wonderwoman@igc.org
www.lorainehutchins.com
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