Kinkiest mainstream print books you have ever read.

[AchtungNight]

See topic. For me it’s the following-

The 10 volume “Mission Earth” science fiction satire series by LRH. Main plot is two aliens working to save Earth from a conspiracy of destructive interests backed by politicians and drug dealers from their own world. The heroic aliens take up residence in a brothel on Earth and get involved with the ladies there in a possible swinging relationship or maybe it’s just combat training so the ladies can better defend themselves from emotional and physical harm. Meanwhile the main bad guy opposing the heroes deals with problems involving various kinky characters indulging in incest, nymphomania, mind control, and many other more disturbing things. I don’t need to go on. Suffice to say the Earth depicted in these books is messed up. At least the author didn’t kink shame much, or if he did, maybe he’s being punished accordingly somehow. That’s my religious belief. Meanwhile, as a fan of celebrities inspired by LRH’s philosophy, I’m glad for an example of how messed up it can get!

“Sirens” by Eric Lustbader. A Hollywood actress indulges in bisexual swinging while growing up and solving a murder mystery involving some other celebrities.

“Sharky’s Machine” by William Diehl. A detective gets involved with a prostitute while working to thwart a criminal gang. Kinks featured include phone sex, bdsm, and rescue sex.

The Anita Blake supernatural horror series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita is a swinging necromancer who enjoys group sex with werewolves, were-leopards, vampires, and other beings appropriate to the genre. 20 books at least so far.

The Bible by various authors. Featured kinks include nudity, incest, cheating, and many more. So much kinkshaming I have to put its authors in punishment right along with LRH. At least they’re in good company.

All these mainstream media books are things I was allowed to read as a teenager and they continue to influence my erotic writing today.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Sexual Life of Catherine M., by Catherine Millet -- the sexual autobiography of a prominent French art critic who had a ravenous sexual appetite. I haven't read anything else like it.

Delta of Venus, Anais Nin -- a collection of erotic stories on different erotic subjects.

Carrie's Story and Safe Word, by Molly Weatherford--2 novel story of a young Berkeley grad student who discovers she is a sub and gets involved in submissive activities, bondage, pony play, and being a slave for several different men. It's like an updated version of Story of O but the main character has a lot more personality and it's more interesting.

Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice (writing as AR Roquelaure)--a kinky retelling of the fairy tale, with many, many kinks.

Crash, by J. Ballard--about a group of people who find sexual ecstasy in being involved in car crashes.

Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence -- a surprisingly frank and explicit account of an affair for its time.

And of course

Juliette, Marquis de Sade -- The content in his books is so extreme that it makes the debates in this forum about "unacceptable" content seem quaint and prudish.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

There are many actually, but I will just name the one in my avatar. The Wheel of Time. If you read that amazing fantasy series you probably realized that the author has some serious fetishes. Femdom, slavery, objectification, pet play, spanking, switching, you name it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't know how to answer this one. I've read many, but at the moment, none come to mind but Valley of the Dolls, which is so tame compared to more recent tales. Try as I might, I just can't form the names of the ones I've read from this century.

 

[AchtungNight]

There are many actually, but I will just name the one in my avatar. The Wheel of Time. If you read that amazing fantasy series you probably realized that the author has some serious fetishes. Femdom, slavery, objectification, pet play, spanking, switching, you name it.

Definitely. Let’s not forget the main male lead of the series is in a relationship with three female characters who agree to share him between them on a rotating basis. And there are lesbian witches among the heroes and villains too.

 

[djrip]

There are many actually, but I will just name the one in my avatar. The Wheel of Time. If you read that amazing fantasy series you probably realized that the author has some serious fetishes. Femdom, slavery, objectification, pet play, spanking, switching, you name it.

So much spanking.

And crossing arms beneath breasts. And well-turned calves.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Lorelei James had a series with titles like: Long Hard Ride, Rough, Raw, and Ready and Rode Hard, Put up Wet and more. They feature lots of three ways, sharing, and lots of other kinks. She's gone on to write more mainstream, but her earlier books were quite erotic.

And Tara Sue Me wrote a series on BDSM that were pretty hot.

 

[alohadave]

At least the author didn’t kink shame much

He kink shamed oral and anal sex. There was at least one comment by the protagonist that stated that humans weren't happy with just vaginal sex or that they couldn't find the right hole.

He included some messed up stuff that mostly affected the antagonist. A cheese grater was involved in one scene. But he was also portrayed as a bumbling idiot.

I read the series in high school, and got them all second hand. I enjoyed the series as the height of LRH's pulp writing, but I wouldn't have bought them new.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

So much spanking.

And crossing arms beneath breasts. And well-turned calves.

Tugging of braids and smoothing of skirts

 

[alohadave]

The most explicit mainstream book I ever read was Philip José Farmer's Image of the Beast/Blown.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/539914

It's straight-up pornography and it is a trip. Set in 70s LA, it has vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, and other assorted mythological creatures. Ostensibly a murder mystery, there are multiple explicit sex scenes.

 

[Euphony]

Monsters turn my crank.

 

[djrip]

Dhalgren by Samuel Delany. Found it on my grandma's science fiction shelf by Dune when I was a teen. It... was not like Dune.

 

[AchtungNight]

Alohadave- thx for refreshing my memory.

Another example from my youth- mainstream romance novels. I remember reading about a virgin seduced by a cowboy and another virgin seduced by an Arabian prince. Don’t remember titles or authors, but clearly kinks were on display.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

A book I read recently titled Den of Vipers. Barely-concealed reverse-harem hardore porn about a young woman who falls in with four brothers who are mafia-type crimelords. It was kinky; one scene involved a knife handle in someone's anus while the blade ... never mind. But it was too far over the top to be arousing.

 

[lovecraft68]

There's a horror novel called The Devil's Kiss by William Johnstone that has more sex in it than any mainstream book I've read, and of every variety including incest. It has a bit of a cult following in the horror community for that reason. Other than that its another devil cult comes to a small town, roughneck priest has to stop it...prophecies etc...it spawned a couple of sequels but none were ever as much pure B movie semi porno fun as the first.

 

[SimonDoom]

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Monsters turn my crank.

Oh my goodness! I remember that book. I haven't thought about it for years. That's the one where Grover implores readers not to keep turning the pages, because there's a monster at the end, but of course they keep doing so.

Not very "kinky," though. Unless muppet monsters are a thing for you.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Juliette, Marquis de Sade -- The content in his books is so extreme that it makes the debates in this forum about "unacceptable" content seem quaint and prudish.

Juliette's okay, it's 120 Days of Sodom that's the truly obscene de Sade.

My dad had a collection of classics (Fanny Hill, The Secret Diaries, Anais Nin, de Sade, Story of O, etc. etc.) on his bookshelf, which I started reading at fifteen. He was a social historian, so research materials, I guess.

 

[SimonDoom]

Juliette's okay, it's 120 Days of Sodom that's the truly obscene de Sade.

I haven't read that one. I'll have to give it a go.

Reading de Sade makes me chuckle over the hand-wringing conversations here about what should be permitted, because he was writing 230 years ago in a far less liberal society and was writing stuff that would be banned immediately under existing Lit rules.

 

[XerXesXu]

Juliette's okay, it's 120 Days of Sodom that's the truly obscene de Sade.

My dad had a collection of classics (Fanny Hill, The Secret Diaries, Anais Nin, de Sade, Story of O, etc. etc.) on his bookshelf, which I started reading at fifteen. He was a social historian, so research materials, I guess.

I read De Sade, when I was 15 or 16, as philosophical works. He was anti-religious, as was I, and anti-clerical, which I wasn't. He used, amongst other things, sexual immorality in extreme forms to disparage the clerisy. His thesis was that 'moral' acts and 'immoral' acts give rise to 'good' and 'evil' consequences in equal measure, so do as you please. Even as a teenager, I could see nothing erotic in his writings. His perverted content was intended to be the opposite of erotic - quite repellant.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel" series. The protagonist of the first few books is a sacred masochist/sex worker whose enjoyment of pain is considered a divine gift. There are things that bugged me about the storytelling but it's one of the first things I read that showed both BDSM and nonmonogamy positively; part of the story is her lover coming to accept who she is instead of it being one of those "and then she found Mr. Right and settled down" things.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

The Intro to the Penguin edition of Justine by de Sade basically tells you not to bother reading it, and be glad they cut a third of the drivel. I suspect Juliette might be better, as Justine (the 'good' sister) spends her entire time whinging 'oh! My virtue, my virtue!' while increasingly implausible humiliations and tortures are heaped upon her, but oddly, no vaginal rape - because it's all about her doing anything in order to preserve her virginity, while Juliette pops in occasionally to point out it's much more fun being a whore.

I liked Story of O and Anaïs Nin, and particularly Pat Califia (eg Macho Sluts). Fanny Hill is fun. I recall Clan of the Cave Bear sequels being read mainly for the sex, too.

 

[HeyAll]

Topping from Below by Laura Reese

It's about a woman whose sister was found murdered. Police suspect it was her sex partner but they can't prove it. So the sister tries to investigate herself and ends up having a sexual relationship with him. Includes many taboos.

It's a great book aside from the sex, well written.

 

[Trionyx]

The Pearl - printed for the Society of Vice. England, 1879 - 1881. (And not the Steinbeck novel of the same name. )

 

[AchtungNight]

I read De Sade, when I was 15 or 16, as philosophical works. He was anti-religious, as was I, and anti-clerical, which I wasn't. He used, amongst other things, sexual immorality in extreme forms to disparage the clerisy. His thesis was that 'moral' acts and 'immoral' acts give rise to 'good' and 'evil' consequences in equal measure, so do as you please. Even as a teenager, I could see nothing erotic in his writings. His perverted content was intended to be the opposite of erotic - quite repellant.

Sounds like Garth Ennis, an atheist comic book writer who often uses similar themes in the modern day. Of course his books are usually marked as for adults only, so he may or may not count.

 

[BobbyLaker]

Some great tips in this thread.

Thanks to all contributors