Today I published a lengthy interview with writer and erotic photographer David Steinberg.

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I stumbled upon David Steinberg while I was writing my long critical study of Marco Vassi’s erotica books. David Steinberg had met Vassi briefly and over the decades has become acquainted with several important people in Vassi’s life and has been collecting a lot of his papers. He has been working on a screenplay about Marco Vassi’s colorful life, which frankly sounds terrific. I suggested (probably half-seriously) that such a biopic would work especially well as an adult animation feature (kind of like Kate Purdy’s Undone TV series ).

Two things worth noting. First, David Steinberg’s Erotic by Nature (1988) is a beautiful coffee table book anthology of tastefully erotic photographs, poetry and stories. This book is one of the most beautiful physical books I have ever seen in my life. The book sells on Steinberg’s website for $20 and $23 on Amazon. It’s the kind of a book which you can’t really appreciate until you have it in your hand.

Second, I noticed that the ebook version of his essay collection This Thing We Call Sex (2015) sells for $3.99 on Amazon — a great price for such a meaty and fun-to-read book. It also includes a handful of erotic photographs taken by Steinberg himself.