Madonna and Steven Meisel.

Sex. New York: Warner Books, 1992. Book and CD.

Hardcover (aluminum covers). An elaborate book edited by Glenn O'Brien published around the time of Madonna's Blond Ambition tour and includes a copy of her cd single of the song  "Erotic" similar to her song "Erotica". A collection of color and black and white photographs by Steven Meisel of Madonna and other celebrities including Naomi Campbell, Big Daddy Kane, Isabella Rosselini, Vanilla Ice, Princess Tatiana von  Fürstenberg, and others. A fine copy in spiral bound die-cut aluminum boards and in the unsealed  original (PET) mylar bag. An as new and never opened copy.

Published the day after Madonna's 5th studio album, Erotica. A success from the moment it was published, with more than 150,000 copies sold on its release day  in the U.S.Over the next few weeks it more than 1.5 million copies were sold making it one of the best selling coffee table books ever published.  Although controversial when published due to its adult content, today it is seen as one of the defining moments in Madonna's career, with a broad social and cultural impact as an important example of postmodern feminism.  The content is influenced by punk rock, surrealism, the 1933 work Paris de nuit, and photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.  

More recently, in 2022 Madonna partnered with Yves Saint Laurent  for an art pop-exhibition entitled Sex by Madonna at the 2022 Art Basel exhibition in Miami, with 800 special copies were reissued. In 2023 Christies auctioned off original photographs to support charity.

Although suppressed and banned, Sex by Madonna is a very influential book in late social and cultural history.