Classic Erotic Authors

[vampiredust]

Are there any classic erotic authors (aside from Nin) in the style of Dickens et al that anybody could recommend?

 

[mismused]

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[Stella_Omega]

Not in a Dickens style, but a great erotic novel by Vladimir Nabokov- "Ada, or Ardor"


What are you looking for, and why?

 

[vampiredust]

I'll have to check those two out

am looking for something different to read these days

 

[Grushenka]

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (gave me tremendous pleasure and instruction in my adolescence).

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'll have to check those two out

am looking for something different to read these days

What's your usual?

 

[Vermilion]

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (gave me tremendous pleasure and instruction in my adolescence).

Yeah, a friend of mine has just finished a PhD in 17thC. porn (seriously) and she suggested Fanny Hill, there's a collection of Libertine erotica called 'When Flesh Becomes Word'. she also said... "there's also Aretino's works - C16th Italian stuff, but that's more porn than erotica"

That should certainly be a bit different from your avergae Lit style fare
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[Stella_Omega]

Yeah, a friend of mine has just finished a PhD in 17thC. porn (seriously) and she suggested Fanny Hill, there's a collection of Libertine erotica called 'When Flesh Becomes Word'. she also said... "there's also Aretino's works - C16th Italian stuff, but that's more porn than erotica"

That should certainly be a bit different from your avergae Lit style fare
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That's the PhD I'd be going for- the 1600's were amazing for smut. And it was about sex and relationships, too, not politics... mostly, anyways. beside the currently best-known- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester- check out this lady, Arphra Behn; (bisexual, as far as her poetry goes at least)

The Dream

All trembling in my arms Aminta lay,
Defending of the bliss I strove to take;
Raising my rapture by her kind delay,
Her force so charming was and weak.
The soft resistance did betray the grant,
While I pressed on the heaven of my desires;
Her rising breasts with nimbler motions pant;
Her dying eyes assume new fires.
Now to the height of languishment she grows,
And still her looks new charms put on;
– Now the last mystery of Love she knows,
We sigh, and kiss: I waked, and all was done.

`Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew,
Which still was panting, part of it was true:
Oh how I strove the rest to have believed;
Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!

or;
Love Arm'd

Love in Fantastique Triumph satt,
Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow'd,
For whom Fresh pains he did create,
And strange Tryanic power he show'd;
From thy Bright Eyes he took his fire,
Which round about, in sport he hurl'd;
But 'twas from mine he took desire,
Enough to undo the Amorous World.
From me he took his sighs and tears,
From thee his Pride and Crueltie;
From me his Languishments and Feares,
And every Killing Dart from thee;
Thus thou and I, the God have arm'd,
And sett him up a Deity;
But my poor Heart alone is harm'd,
Whilst thine the Victor is, and free.

*swoons*

 

[vampiredust]

What's your usual?

the less tame

I want to try something a tad different

 

[Stella_Omega]

the less tame

I want to try something a tad different

You might try my work then...

but, seriously- gay, straight, lesbian, picaresque? Science fiction, historic, western, detective?

BDSM? Don't waste your time with De Sade, he wasn't actually about sex at all. Most of it is pretty repulsive- at least to me. "The Story Of O" is all right. there's been much better written since then...

 

[rgraham666]

I found The Pearl had something for everybody's taste.

 

[CharleyH]

Are there any classic erotic authors (aside from Nin) in the style of Dickens et al that anybody could recommend?

Nin Wrote diaries and never in a DICKENS WAY? (CRINGE)... I can suggest my fave author Marguerite Duras in a poetic way.

 

[Frank Noir]

Well, there's always the Divine Marquis.

(Though I don't know how Dickensian you'll find him...)

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well, there's always the Divine Marquis.

(Though I don't know how Dickensian you'll find him...)

couldn't get less Dickensian! *nods*
But do you really think he's that good? or anyway, erotic? I never read SM that turned me on less. It has almost nothing to do with sex, and everything to do with political satire. very yucky stuff, in my opinion.

Masoch, now, that poor boob- at least his fetishes resonate still; the furs, the shiny leather...

 

[SlickTony]

A Man With a Maid

 

[wanderlustress]

This is a tad post-Dickens (1890) but is a Victorian classic, and a tome:

My Secret Life by Anonymous It kept me very busy when I was 14.

You can read an excerpt here to see if it's the kind of thing you're looking for.

another 19th century classic:

My Life and Loves by Frank Harris

An excerpt

 

[SlickTony]

I wonder if the Anonymous who wrote My Secret Life is the same one who wrote the one I alluded to, A Man & a Maid--but then, it's probably like the trolls that beset us; they are probably many.

I have the Frank Harris bio kicking around in my library somewhere.

 

[wanderlustress]

Is this the book you mean? The full title seems to be "Suburban Souls - The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid." From what I can Google it appears to have been written in 1901. Who knows if the Anonymous is one and the same. I suspect, like you, it's akin to the ol' troll game. Lot's of 'em.

Here.

I also found this of interest:

"An Introduction to the Wrong Books"

I wonder if the Anonymous who wrote My Secret Life is the same one who wrote the one I alluded to, A Man & a Maid--but then, it's probably like the trolls that beset us; they are probably many.

I have the Frank Harris bio kicking around in my library somewhere.

 

[wanderlustress]

A cool website devoted to "My Secret Life" - "...a parade of genitalia..."

http://www.my-secret-life.com/

All sorts of fun factoids and many excerpts from the book.

Factoid example, from Word Statistics:

Word=Cunt
Occurences=5357

 

[cumallday]

You should look up most anything by D.H. Lawrence.

 

[Stella_Omega]

A cool website devoted to "My Secret Life" - "...a parade of genitalia..."

http://www.my-secret-life.com/

All sorts of fun factoids and many excerpts from the book.

Factoid example, from Word Statistics:

Word=Cunt
Occurences=5357

You can get a few good how-to's from that book! Not exactly literature, though.
ETA
Christ, I hit the wrong "quote" button!

I was thinking of "My Life and Loves", the Frank Harris book.

 

[Grushenka]

You should look up most anything by D.H. Lawrence.

Yukky, yukky, yuk. Lawrence is for frightened virgins or repressed homosexuals. Yes, I idolized his prose in my early 20's , shame shame shame. "Women in Love", pooh! All that fig-eating and exposed greenery about a blow job, wrestling naked with a man in front of a fireplace, and suicide by falling asleep in snow, Pooh! and Pooh! Gr.

I did also enjoy Henry Miller in my youth, and Terry Southern's "Candy" shocked me at the time.

 

[cumallday]

Yukky, yukky, yuk. Lawrence is for frightened virgins or repressed homosexuals. Yes, I idolized his prose in my early 20's , shame shame shame. "Women in Love", pooh! All that fig-eating and exposed greenery about a blow job, wrestling naked with a man in front of a fireplace, and suicide by falling asleep in snow, Pooh! and Pooh! Gr.

I did also enjoy Henry Miller in my youth, and Terry Southern's "Candy" shocked me at the time.

I didn't say he was good

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yukky, yukky, yuk. Lawrence is for frightened virgins or repressed homosexuals. Yes, I idolized his prose in my early 20's , shame shame shame. "Women in Love", pooh! All that fig-eating and exposed greenery about a blow job, wrestling naked with a man in front of a fireplace, and suicide by falling asleep in snow, Pooh! and Pooh! Gr.

I did also enjoy Henry Miller in my youth, and Terry Southern's "Candy" shocked me at the time.

Hah, Grushenka, you speak for me as well, re Lawrence. I never had much patience for his writing, either. With all of the hullabaloo over "Lady Chatterley's Lover" I was truly disappointed in the amateurish exposition, (I know now what bothered me then) and the pale and dull sex scenes.

gee, Stella, do you have an opinion here? LOL

 

[champagne1982]

Henry Fielding.