Call me Ishmael...luridly and with great vigor.

[AMoveableBeast]

If you could take any non-erotic novel in history and sexualize it, which one would you chose? How would you change it and why?

 

[sr71plt]

If you could take any non-erotic novel in history and sexualize it, which one would you chose? How would you change it and why?

I recently took an opera (Bizet's The Pearl Fishers) and made it homoerotic in a short story. (To eventually be posted to Literotica.)

I'd have to think about the novel thing. A good many of them could be sexualized, I would think. For instance, To Kill a Mockingbird could be made into pedophilia, although I wouldn't do that. Several of Hemingway's could be made homoerotic, because he teetered right there on the edge anyway. Tale of Two Cities could certainly be made homoerotic. One man sacrificing himself for his lover. The Great Gatsby would be a natural for that as well. The decadence is right there to mine.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

I recently took an opera (Bizet's The Pearl Fishers) and made it homoerotic in a short story. (To eventually be posted to Literotica.)

I'd have to think about the novel thing. A good many of them could be sexualized, I would think. For instance, To Kill a Mockingbird could be made into pedophilia, although I wouldn't do that. Several of Hemingway's could be made homoerotic, because he teetered right there on the edge anyway. Tale of Two Cities could certainly be made homoerotic. One man sacrificing himself for his lover. The Great Gatsby would be a natural for that as well. The decadence is right there to mine.

Yes, pilot, I remember a conversation we once had about Hemingway and his homoeroticism. It was a lively and illuminating correspondence.

Great choices. I especially like Gatsby. The orgy scenes practically write themselves.

I was thinking that "The Poisonwood Bible" would lend itself well to some intense and truly disturbing sexual scenes.

Likewise, "As I Lay Dying" seems tailor-made for some emotional, if morbid, incest-play. If that was where your interest lay.

For a humiliation gangbang, you couldn't really beat "The Scarlet Letter."

 

[painful_rapture]

I would mix up Alice in Wonderland. I know that's probably not original, but it's just my opinion. I'm sure there all sorts of ways to make the story sexy. It's a little cliche to have Alice fall for the hatter, so maybe Alice would just be a slut with sexual encounters with everyone she meets. That would make for an interesting story anyway...

 

[AMoveableBeast]

I would mix up Alice in Wonderland. I know that's probably not original, but it's just my opinion. I'm sure there all sorts of ways to make the story sexy. It's a little cliche to have Alice fall for the hatter, so maybe Alice would just be a slut with sexual encounters with everyone she meets. That would make for an interesting story anyway...

Original or not, it would be fun, and likely very popular. "Gulliver's Travel's" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" would offer similar entertainment.

Oh, "Paradise Lost" would be interesting.

 

[sr71plt]

Nabokov could have had a field day with the kiddies in Lord of the Flies.

Yes, I think that Alice in Wonderland has been sexed up to death already.

The Poisonwood Bible has been sitting on my nightstand for a couple of years, but I haven't read it yet.

One of my most recent Literotica story postings, "Arabists' Literary Weekend," brushes on this. There are underground versions of Arabic novels, including those by Nobel Prize winner, Naguib Mahfouz, that include homoerotic BDSM scenes and themes that didn't make it into the awarded versions.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Nabokov could have had a field day with the kiddies in Lord of the Flies.

Yes, I think that Alice in Wonderland has been sexed up to death already.

The Poisonwood Bible has been sitting on my nightstand for a couple of years, but I haven't read it yet.

One of my most recent Literotica story postings, "Arabists' Literary Weekend," brushes on this. There are underground versions of Arabic novels, including those by Nobel Prize winner, Naguib Mahfouz, that include homoerotic BDSM scenes and themes that didn't make it into the awarded versions.

Shit. You're completely right about "Lord of the Flies". My God. Poor Piggy. Poor Simon. Poor humanity.

You should give TPB a glance-over. Kingsolver is an amazing woman. That book is the rarest of literary devices--one with enough explosive power to cause a true paradigm shift.

That's fascinating about the Arabic novels. Nothing, it seems, nurishes sexual deviance quite so effectively as repression; it is the Miracle Grow of the fetish lifestyle.

 

[robertreams]

huck Finn and Jim, yumm

 

[Handley_Page]

Personally, I'm not too keen on the 'homoerotic' stuff, but I reckon some serious fun could be had with "As you like it" and so on.
Yes, I realise they are plays, but they're still worth some fun.

 

[Bert_Fegg]

Green eggs and ham?

 

[Mara12]

The Three Musketeers ----- Athos taking D'Artagnan's anal virginity followed by a foursome with Porthos and Aramis, hhhrrrrrrrrrrrrr, the Countess de Winter watching

(I have to re-read Mahfouz.... )

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I would mix up Alice in Wonderland. I know that's probably not original, but it's just my opinion. I'm sure there all sorts of ways to make the story sexy. It's a little cliche to have Alice fall for the hatter, so maybe Alice would just be a slut with sexual encounters with everyone she meets. That would make for an interesting story anyway...

That's the way it happen in the x-rated movie they made.

 

[painful_rapture]

That's the way it happen in the x-rated movie they made.

I didn't know there was one!

 

[3113]

Personally, I'm not too keen on the 'homoerotic' stuff, but I reckon some serious fun could be had with "As you like it" and so on.
Yes, I realise they are plays, but they're still worth some fun.

Not too many years back, one of our own lit authors here started a chain where authors each picked a Shakespeare play and wrote up an erotic scene--one that happens off stage between the stuff that's seen onstage.

What was most interesting was that a lot of the writers used those scenes to elaborate on the action on stage. Like why the houses of Romeo and Juliet were currently at war, etc.

I believe most of them are still here on lit if anyone's interested. Mine was acquired by Forbidden Fiction (I went for the Scottish Play ).

 

[sr71plt]

Not too many years back, one of our own lit authors here started a chain where authors each picked a Shakespeare play and wrote up an erotic scene--one that happens off stage between the stuff that's seen onstage.

What was most interesting was that a lot of the writers used those scenes to elaborate on the action on stage. Like why the houses of Romeo and Juliet were currently at war, etc.

I believe most of them are still here on lit if anyone's interested. Mine was acquired by Forbidden Fiction (I went for the Scottish Play ).

It wouldn't be the least difficult to drop a sex scene into Othello. It could even be interracial.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Great thread! Dracula is the obvious one, because it's already so sexy - in fact, making it more obvious would probably lessen its impact.

I'd love to see films/pornographic book versions of the Culture novels - what with the minutes long orgasms, the guy with 53 penises, free-fall sex, sex-switching just by thinking it...it seems ripe for some pretty hot action.

 

[DesEsseintes]

And I'd be massively impressed with someone who managed to create an erotic version of The Anatomy of Melancholy.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Great thread! Dracula is the obvious one, because it's already so sexy - in fact, making it more obvious would probably lessen its impact.

I'd love to see films/pornographic book versions of the Culture novels - what with the minutes long orgasms, the guy with 53 penises, free-fall sex, sex-switching just by thinking it...it seems ripe for some pretty hot action.

I immediately thought of Dracula, as well, but decided, like you, that it was already erotic enough.

 

[R. Richard]

I believe most of them are still here on lit if anyone's interested. Mine was acquired by Forbidden Fiction (I went for the Scottish Play ).

I must chastise you for using a play where Lady Macbeth mistreats her little dog ("Out damned Spot!")

 

[slyc_willie]

I'd take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It would be twisted and probably a little gruesome, but if John Bobbit can have sex after having his penis cut off and re-attached, then The Monster should be able to have a little fun, too.

 

[PennLady]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Jane Austen's books yet. Surely they'd pretty easily move into erotic territory (and probably already have been). Still, worth a mention. And "Jane Eyre" and others could probably go there easily as well.

I would mix up Alice in Wonderland. I know that's probably not original, but it's just my opinion. I'm sure there all sorts of ways to make the story sexy. It's a little cliche to have Alice fall for the hatter, so maybe Alice would just be a slut with sexual encounters with everyone she meets. That would make for an interesting story anyway...

I recently read one of a series of books that was based on sexing up aspects of or characters in fairy tales. The first was Alice and the Mad Hatter. It was a romance, and reasonably well done. Alice in this one had a brain tumor, which would cause blackouts, which is how she went down the rabbit hole.

 

[sr71plt]

Funny, I was just thinking of Pride and Prejudice. That secret something that had the two guys all adither in the carriage. Come on guys, just own up to it and show us a little skin in the forest and a different kind of gun than the original uses.

 

[Hypoxia]

I have seen numerous flicks and erotic comix that heavily sexualized many classic and not-so-classic tales. Hey, old public domain stuff is fair game for any pr0nographer.

I like flipped paradigms. Q: How about doing just the opposite -- rewrite smut classics as prim sexless morality tales? A: Naw, nobody would read them.

OK, if I were to sexualize innocent literature, what would I choose? Ah, got it -- the Nancy Drew and Tom Swift and Bobbsey Twins and Hardy Boys books, with all active characters appropriately aged to 18+ of course. NANCY DREW AND CASANOVA'S GHOST. TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC VIBRATOR. THE BOBBSEY TWINS' SPRING BREAK. Et fucking cetera.

Maybe Poe and Lovecraft. Incest in the House of Usher. Cthulhu as a love god. Old cowboy pulp fiction also has great possibilities, tales of Ned Buntline (with his 12-inch barrel), Belle Starr, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, the Earp brothers, and all those dance-hall girls and poker-playing studs. Just don't mess with the horses.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I didn't know there was one!

Long, long time ago. The best part was when the queen of hearts had Alice go down on her.

 

[Swilly]

Imagine what you could do with Dante's Inferno