Tristan Taormino in June Penthouse

AVN award winner Tristan Taormino, 28, gets profiled in the June issue of Penthouse.

Writes Penthouse: "Besides offering the [anal] workshops which she conducts coast to coast, Tristan is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women [Cleis Press]; editor of both On Our Backs, a lesbian sex magazine, and the annual Best Lesbian Erotica; a sex columnist for The Village Voice; and proud recipient of this year's Adult Video News award in the category of Best Anal-Themed Feature. Tristan won the honor for her three-and-a-half-hour opus, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women."

"I like to think of it as the anal Ben Hur," Taormino tells Penthouse. According to the magazine, "the film's triumph is due in no small measure to Tristan's star turn in the final scene, in which ten porn stars, male and female, take turns fucking her tight little ass hole, which, when the smoke and bodily fluids clear, is wide enough to accommodate two-way traffic." Considering her competition, Taormino tells the magazine she was totally in shock about winning the award. Taormino, whose mission it is to teach safe and pleasurable anal sex, relates that she started having it in college with other women. "The heterosexual script is thrown out the window. Nothing is off-limits. It's open season on all body parts." Says Taormino: "The whole body orgasm is bigger for me when the ass gets done."

Begging the question, Taormino says she's tried anal sex with men. " [But] For the most part, men are not my cup of tea emotionally," she says.

The magazine offers five useful backdoor tips gleaned from Taormino's anal workshops.

1. Go slow - tease the rim of the orifice with your finger. Start with a single finger and work your way up.

2. A clean asshole is a happy asshole - Taormino suggests either doing one's duty before getting down to brass tacks, or taking the enema route.

3. There's no such thing as too much lube

4. Derive maximum pleasure from butt plugs - Taormino suggests investing in those with substantial bases, and, when asked, says, yes, people do get things caught in their ass. "When you get aroused, you start to have contractions and you can actually suck something up," she adds.

5. Call it exercise - the ass is a muscle; think of it as a workout in that context.

"I'm an ass woman first and foremost," adds Taormino who says she's also into peeing. So much so, she's of the belief there's a golden showers revolution going on. What about shitting she's asked. "I don't want to publicly comment on shit," Taormino says. From her experience, she notes that the majority of people who are into anal sex are not into skat play.