The best of erotic literature?

[ameliajax]

What books are your favorites in erotic literature?

Anais Nin?

Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer?

Anne Rice's Beaty series?

E L James Fifty Shade of Grey? (please, no one vote for this one)

What books have you read that really turn you on AND are well written?

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by ameliajax

What books have you read that really turn you on AND are well written?

Tricky question, that.

[sr71plt]

Those that breakout authors from Literotica have written. They are braver than what I see in the mainstream and don't treat sex scenes as just something you have to include to cover all of the bases in what is expected for a novel. Dr. M and Varian P. have written the most erotic works I've seen in the marketplace.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote some excellent erotica. Golden Apples is about a poor orphan girl who swoons for an English aristocrat, gets pregnant by him, and dies in childbirth. Gal Youngun is about an older woman who swoons for a playboy, marries him, he brings an 18 year old girl into their home, and abandons both of them. And she wrote a short story about a man pardoned by the governor for a murder he didnt do, when he gets back home after a few years in state prison his wife has some kids by other men....WE HAD TO EAT!

[lovecraft68]

Of your options I enjoyed Anne Rice's Beauty series. I read them before I tried out her vampire books which was goo because had I read those first I would not have looked at the Beauty series.

In my opinion as a horror writer, Anne Rice is a good erotica writer

For all its lightning in a bottle success 50 shades will never be discussed past the next couple of years. It will get a resurgence when the movie comes out then fade into permanent oblivion where it belongs.

I read a novel years ago and it always pisses me off because I don't know the name of it.

Literally, it had no front or back cover and the title page was missing as well. I found it in my sister's room and she fessed up she had bought it at a yard sale for a quarter.

It was a bout a sexually inexperienced woman who met a man who proceeded to introduce her to all forms of sexual pleasure. The book contained a little of everything including a scene where he brings in a woman to seduce her, then another where they simply watch two men have sex with each other.

there was some bondage and BDSM, but unlike a lot of "awakening books" she did not really have anything "put to her"

It was well done and it kills me I don;t know the title or author. The book bit the dust during a move and now I can't even try googling some paragraphs from it.

It was the best I've read though.

[Stella_Omega]

Was that novel "Emmanuelle?"

[lovecraft68]

Originally Posted by Stella_Omega

Was that novel "Emmanuelle?"

No, she was unmarried.

Another detail was her lover(and I cannot remember their names. I mean I read this at around 22 so sadly over 20 years ago) had this cream that he would put on hr pussy and ass and make her feel less raw during their marathon fucking.

I think I recall he may have let another man fuck her and a woman with a strap on, but not 100% on that. I just remember it being a damn hot read and best I've read to date.

I'm starting to feel like one of those posters in the feedback section

I read this story once and.....

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Originally Posted by lovecraft68

No, she was unmarried.

Another detail was her lover(and I cannot remember their names. I mean I read this at around 22 so sadly over 20 years ago) had this cream that he would put on hr pussy and ass and make her feel less raw during their marathon fucking.

I think I recall he may have let another man fuck her and a woman with a strap on, but not 100% on that. I just remember it being a damn hot read and best I've read to date.

I'm starting to feel like one of those posters in the feedback section

I read this story once and.....

Just a guess, but if it was really THAT hot it may be one of the 62 porn novels Florence King cranked out before she became a pundit.

[lovecraft68]

Originally Posted by JAMESBJOHNSON

Just a guess, but if it was really THAT hot it may be one of the 62 porn novels Florence King cranked out before she became a pundit.

I'll google her and give it a look.

Damn this thread now this is bothering me!

I'd also like to reread it to see if I think its that good years later. A lot changes in a person in 2 plus decades be curious to get my take on it now.

[ameliajax]

Well, geez, Lovecraft, now I want to know, too!

[TE999]

I always thought that John Cleland's 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' or 'Fanny Hill' was a well written novel of Erotica that wasn't so blatantly prurient as the 'Trailer Park Sluts' or 'Teenage Tramp' stroke genre, yet was pretty damn sexy.

I first read it when I was 13 with the predictable outcome. Taking into account the flowery Victorian language and the euphemisms, it's still pretty damn hot.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Originally Posted by TE999

I always thought that John Cleland's 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' or 'Fanny Hill' was a well written novel of Erotica that wasn't so blatantly prurient as the 'Trailer Park Sluts' or 'Teenage Tramp' stroke genre, yet was pretty damn sexy.

I first read it when I was 13 with the predictable outcome. Taking into account the flowery Victorian language and the euphemisms, it's still pretty damn hot.

Youre a HATER. Sluts and tramps deserve love, too.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Originally Posted by lovecraft68

I'll google her and give it a look.

Damn this thread now this is bothering me!

I'd also like to reread it to see if I think its that good years later. A lot changes in a person in 2 plus decades be curious to get my take on it now.

Prolly was FUN WITH DICK AND JANE. Kind of a nasty porno title if you think about it.

[oggbashan]

I would recommend Defoe's Moll Flanders.

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Shamela are also well written and erotic.

D H Lawrence was well-written but not really erotic despite the Lady Chatterley's Lover court case.

Hank Janson used to write mild erotica in the 1950s and 60s that sold in vast quantities. Well written? No. Popular and profitable? Yes.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Originally Posted by oggbashan

I would recommend Defoe's Moll Flanders.

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Shamela are also well written and erotic.

D H Lawrence was well-written but not really erotic despite the Lady Chatterley's Lover court case.

Hank Janson used to write mild erotica in the 1950s and 60s that sold in vast quantities. Well written? No. Popular and profitable? Yes.

THE FOX is erotic if not sexually explicit.

[lovecraft68]

Originally Posted by oggbashan

I would recommend Defoe's Moll Flanders.

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Shamela are also well written and erotic.

D H Lawrence was well-written but not really erotic despite the Lady Chatterley's Lover court case.

Hank Janson used to write mild erotica in the 1950s and 60s that sold in vast quantities. Well written? No. Popular and profitable? Yes.

I love those old pulps!

I have a bunch of them, but mine are mostly along the Weird Tales and Argosy and sci fi genre's although I think I have a few detective ones as well.

I love the look of the over the top(for the day) lurid covers. They also have a distinct feel and smell to them.

Unfortunately very hard to find in decent shape as the paper dries and flakes and the spines tend to peel.

There is an awesome used book store in Providence that any lit member who ever comes out this way has to go to called Cellar Stories, they have boxes of these things along with anything else you can think of.

When you walk around that store it reminds me of I have disdain fro e-readers. Books are where its at.

[NekoParks]

Originally Posted by ameliajax

What books are your favorites in erotic literature?

Anais Nin?

Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer?

Anne Rice's Beaty series?

E L James Fifty Shade of Grey? (please, no one vote for this one)

What books have you read that really turn you on AND are well written?

While I have read most of the classics including Justine and The Story of O and some others that may not be considered erotica like Tom Jones, I think that Joey W. Hill is one of the best erotica writers (besides Habu/Dirk Hessian) writing in today's market. Her Nature of Desire series and her vampire books transcend the erotica genre. Her plot and characters push the limits of what erotica can be in terms of literature.

[sr71plt]

Thanks for that little plug.

I read some books with very erotic (for me) passages in them when I was a teen (for straight) and in my late twenties (for gay). The images live with me, but I got the covers off them so fast that I can't remember any titles or authors.

[sunandshadow]

I don't know if you'd call it literature, since it's not really like the examples listed. But some of my favorite erotic romance writers are: Megan Derr, Robin D. Owens, Jory Strong, Angelique Anjou, Kaitly O'Connor, and Janet Miller.

If you wanted things that are more literary and not romance, then some of Samuel R. Delaney's works (such as Dahlgren and Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand) had hot moments, as did The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard. Oh and Paul Park's Sugar Rain trilogy, that's got a lot of erotic moments. And my friend described Maia by Richard Adams as erotic literature in a conversation once, though I didn't read that myself.

[NekoParks]

Originally Posted by sunandshadow

I don't know if you'd call it literature, since it's not really like the examples listed. But some of my favorite erotic romance writers are: Megan Derr, Robin D. Owens, Jory Strong, Angelique Anjou, Kaitly O'Connor, and Janet Miller.

If you wanted things that are more literary and not romance, then some of Samuel R. Delaney's works (such as Dahlgren and Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand) had hot moments, as did The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard. Oh and Paul Park's Sugar Rain trilogy, that's got a lot of erotic moments. And my friend described Maia by Richard Adams as erotic literature in a conversation once, though I didn't read that myself.

I love Jory Strong and Kaitlyn O'Connor too. Also, Emma Holly is a terrific writer. Jeremy Sterling's book Might Have Been is wonderful too-- very witty and romantic with a clever plot.

[oggbashan]

Molly Parkin's three novels are worth reading.

[Stella_Omega]

Originally Posted by oggbashan

Molly Parkin's three novels are worth reading.

Google lead me here;
http://www.mollyparkin.co.uk/index.php

[oggbashan]

Originally Posted by Stella_Omega

Google lead me here;
http://www.mollyparkin.co.uk/index.php

Molly Parkin wrote from her own experiences in the hedonistic 1960s.

Her daughter once complained about the "Ick" factor when she was a schoolchild as her classmates were reading her mother's books...

[ishtat]

Originally Posted by sr71plt

Those that breakout authors from Literotica have written. They are braver than what I see in the mainstream and don't treat sex scenes as just something you have to include to cover all of the bases in what is expected for a novel. Dr. M and Varian P. have written the most erotic works I've seen in the marketplace.

Spot on and worth repeating.

[Stella_Omega]

Originally Posted by oggbashan

Molly Parkin wrote from her own experiences in the hedonistic 1960s.

Her daughter once complained about the "Ick" factor when she was a schoolchild as her classmates were reading her mother's books...

Yeah it's a problem for mothers