Now in its ninth year of publication, this annual collection of short stories steams through the sauna that is erotic fiction. This year's edition includes work by J.T.Leroy, Jane Smiley, Maggie Estep, and Francesca Lia Block.
The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud ...
This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugenie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.
Written almost 2,000 years ago, the "Kama Sutra" deals with all aspects of sexual life, and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life's beauty. Augmented with 269 illustrations and works of art gathered from museums and collections around the world, the result is a dazzling and sensuous reading experience through which the teachings of the ...
Anais Nin (1903-1977) was the ultimate femme fatale, world-famous for her sexual exploits, most notably her simultaneous affairs with Henry and June Miller and her bigamous marriages. In the 1920s she fell in love with the creative circles of the Parisian Left Bank. She lived her long life as a liberated woman - author of 11 books of fiction and ...
My Secret Life is perhaps the most infamous of all underground Victorian erotica. It is the sexual memoir of a well-to-do gentleman who began at an early age to keep a diary of his erotic behavior. He continues this record for over 40 years, creating in the process a unique social and psychological document.
Isabel Allende has always been obsessed with what enhances the passionate life. With "Afrodita", a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore, she becomes an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Here, readers will discover recipes from Allende's mother, poems, ...
A rare two-volume translation of Marquis de Sade's titillating and shocking writings, The Complete Marquis de Sade has now been released by Holloway House Publishing in a single trade edition-size volume to commemorate the first printing's 40th anniversary. Adorned with gripping cover art by Man Ray and translated by renowned scholar Dr. Paul J. ...
In the tradition of Carroll & Graf's The Mammoth Book of Erotica, The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica - which together have sold more than 400,000 copies - comes this provocative new volume in a hot-selling series, featuring such top writers of erotic fiction as ...
From 16th-century Arabia, The Perfumed Garden - for the Repose of the Mind is a classic work of Arab erotica offering a uniquely entertaining collection of tales filled with frank and sound advice on sexual relations, accompanied by rare and previously unpublished erotic paintings and reproductions of exquisite tilework and friezes.
With over 100,000 copies in print of the previous edition, this illustrated anthology presents a collection of the very best examples of sexual art and literature spanning two thousand years: from classical Rome and the ancient East to the novels of D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller. Artworks from Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Gustav Klimt, Thomas ...
In "The Double Flame," Paz explores the relationship between sex, eroticism, and love--themes that have been central to his fiction. Beginning with Plato's "Symposium," he provides a short history of love and the erotic in literature: from the influence of the great cities of Alexandria and Rome on the development of love elegy, to the courtly ...
Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women throughout the world. Erotic prose is a universal phenomenon as this revised new edition of the influential Mammoth volume gloriously demonstrates. Editor Maxim Jakubowski has cherry-picked the finest new writing from countries such France and ...
A compendium of artistic erotic photographs, poetry, and prose including: photos by Helmut Newton, Edward Weston, Annie Leibovitz, Imogen Cunningham, Manuel Alvaro Bravo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brassai, and Man Ray and prose and poetry by Henry Miller, Sallie Tisdale, D. H. Lawrence, Erica Jong, Frank Harris, Jeanette Winterson, Walt Whitman, Robert ...
The Victorian Age produced more erotic literature than almost any other period. This book brings together the most notorious of these underground tales.
Describes the content and histories of some 100 fiction and nonfiction works from many cultures and time periods censored on grounds of sexual content, illuminating changing attitudes toward the erotic through a survey of the legal fate of classic and representative works. Includes biographical pro
"Best Bisexual Women's Erotica" explores the steamy sex lives and loves of bisexual women in various settings and combinations. Contributors include Carol Queen, Marcy Sheiner, Kathleen Bryson, and Anne Marino. Excerpts in "Playboy, Penthouse, " and "Cosmopolitan."
A glorious, groundbreaking celebration of Black sensuality--short stories, poems, essays, folk tales, and letters--ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, from the prurient to the provocative. It is, as well, a serious and intellectually grounded anthology of black literature, including such authors as Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Barbara ...
A Deeper Shade of Sex explores erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by more than 70 authors, both well known and emerging. This collection, including poetry, fiction, and essays, covers a compelling breadth of styles and emotions in contemporary African American writing. As editor Reginald Martin notes, "The pieces collected in this ...
Here is the year's best nonfiction writing on sex, for the first time expanded to include contributions from overseas. It includes an interview with Harry Reems of "Deep Throat" fame, essays on the growth of asexuality, the XXXChurch, "sexperts" and their lack of qualifications, sex in Japan, and alternative sexual practices. Publications featured ...
A collection of African American erotic literature includes poetry, fiction, essays by such authors as Ntozake Shange, Lenard D. Moore, Lurlynn Franklin, and Liv Wright.
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