Love Not Given Lightly
Profiles from the Edge of Sex
The first collection of nonfiction stories from award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and advocate Tina Horn.
In her vast experience in sexual undergrounds, Tina has befriended pro-dommes, porn stars, kinky fetishists, rent boys, and more. Instead of writing a sex worker memoir, she opted to tell the stories of the people she met along the way. Illuminating human issues of desire, gender, beauty, and ultimately friendship, the stories in this book will do no less than alter the way you think about modern sexuality in America.
What People Are Saying
“Love Not Given Lightly is compelling and oh-so-readable. Whether you know of and partake of this world or not, Horn’s portraits are deeply moving in their tender look at human sexuality and connection”
— Sarah Rausch, Lambda Literary
“Tina Horn is a compelling public speaker and ingenious educator. Her writing on BDSM and sex worker rights explores some of the most important social issues of our time. In her writing and on her podcast, she manages to make complex issues accessible without dumbing anything down. She is as professional as she is original.”
— Tristan Taormino
“What sets Love not Given Lightly apart is the way Horn reflects on her domination-for-money past, applies a journalist’s eye and a poet’s flair for language with the very wording she uses to describe the heart of her tome: love”
— Rachel K. Bussel, Dame Magazine
“Tina Horn is a sexual sponge. She’s the Neil deGrasse Tyson of a sexual cosmos, absorbing carnal knowledge and disseminating it to the masses with narration that leaves us marveling at the glory that is human sexuality. In Love Not Given Lightly, the portraits of sex workers are lovingly memorialized by her zestful, page-turning narration.”