Lesbian Romance Recommendation

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

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What I want is a realistic lesbian romance to read.

I'll prefer something involving middle age lesbians 35-55 on the rebound from divorce or death.

Thank you in advance.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I think one you would enjoy is Katherine V. Forrest's Amateur City. It's the first of her six detective novels about an LAPD officer. As well as one or two hotter scenes, it contains a realistic account of a lesbian couple in bed - eating finger food. Bear in mind the story about a survey on sex, which supposedly found that gay men had sex on average four times a week, straight couples once a fortnight and lesbian couples once every couple of months. Lesbian women were a bit taken aback at first, but then reminded ourselves that heterosexual sex can be over in ten minutes, whereas lesbian sex can take up the whole weekend, since it usually involves lots of other fun things to do than just screwing.

Katherine V. Forrest is a very well established older lesbian writer, and many of her novels would give you excellent flavour of that world: http://www.katherinevforrest.com/index.html.

For a more entertaining yet still realistic view of the lesbian social world, try Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon series.
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I think one you would enjoy is Katherine V. Forrest's Amateur City. It's the first of her six detective novels about an LAPD officer. As well as one or two hotter scenes, it contains a realistic account of a lesbian couple in bed - eating finger food. Bear in mind the story about a survey on sex, which supposedly found that gay men had sex on average four times a week, straight couples once a fortnight and lesbian couples once every couple of months. Lesbian women were a bit taken aback at first, but then reminded ourselves that heterosexual sex can be over in ten minutes, whereas lesbian sex can take up the whole weekend, since it usually involves lots of other fun things to do than just screwing.

Katherine V. Forrest is a very well established older lesbian writer, and many of her novels would give you excellent flavour of that world: http://www.katherinevforrest.com/index.html.

For a more entertaining yet still realistic view of the lesbian social world, try Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon series.
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/

I'm interested in how the change happens after your husband dies or leaves. I imagine you (every you) collides with a kindred spirit and the intimacy is kinda premeditated to happen...from joy or grief or other contact that might go further..playing the piano two-handed. That's how I'd write it. A few drinks at a party, sit down together to pound out a tune on the keyboard, more. I call the story. KITTENS ON THE KEYBOARD, after a piano tune from the 1920s.

Thanks for the referral.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_kr0wYrRo

KITTEN ON THE KEYS 1921

CANADIAN CAPERS is another promising story title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFt2YQaHlE

 

[NaokoSmith]

Older lesbian romance stories tend, for obvious reasons, to be premised on a married woman suddenly realising her husband is an inadequate basturd and that a butch can give her satisfaction such as she had never dreamed of. The narrative line is inextricably linked with the women's liberation movement which was dominant then. Sometimes the liberated woman is being physically abused and escapes with her lover's support.

These stories were in some ways a reaction to The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall, in which the protagonist is drawn as an 'invert' - a man in a woman's body, rather than as a 'butch' character. In The Well of Loneliness, the central character Stephen (sic) feels obliged to give up her lover to a 'real' man. The backlash was to see the 'real' man as not worthy, and as the lesbian women as entitled to their own fulfilling relationship.

There is no reason you could not draw on the accounts of sexual attraction between the mature women in these stories to write something which is kinder to the male partners in such a story.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Older lesbian romance stories tend, for obvious reasons, to be premised on a married woman suddenly realising her husband is an inadequate basturd and that a butch can give her satisfaction such as she had never dreamed of. The narrative line is inextricably linked with the women's liberation movement which was dominant then. Sometimes the liberated woman is being physically abused and escapes with her lover's support.

These stories were in some ways a reaction to The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall, in which the protagonist is drawn as an 'invert' - a man in a woman's body, rather than as a 'butch' character. In The Well of Loneliness, the central character Stephen (sic) feels obliged to give up her lover to a 'real' man. The backlash was to see the 'real' man as not worthy, and as the lesbian women as entitled to their own fulfilling relationship.

There is no reason you could not draw on the accounts of sexual attraction between the mature women in these stories to write something which is kinder to the male partners in such a story.

I ordered the detective book.

I also wrote a story I call ONE HELLUVA FYXE about a married lesbian couple who part when one of them changes to straight with the wife's brother. Both were in a car wreck, one is disabled, one had a concussion, the brother came to help them operate their farm, and shit happens. Fyxe is the archaic word for female fox.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I ordered the detective book.

I also wrote a story I call ONE HELLUVA FYXE about a married lesbian couple who part when one of them changes to straight with the wife's brother. Both were in a car wreck, one is disabled, one had a concussion, the brother came to help them operate their farm, and shit happens. Fyxe is the archaic word for female fox.

That's a good play on words.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I bought a Kindle lesbian romance and read it. Its rated 5 stars and popular.

The writing is competent with few errors or problems.

But its what I call LABILE and VOLATILE. The action and dialogue are all over the place. Worse. Its PC and non judgmental except when all discount the Baptist parents of a gay woman they treat well. It champions every lesbian stereotype I know. My favorite scene is when a lesbian friend of a straight woman reasons her outta heterosexuality and fires her up to reject her fiancée and proclaim her new identity on the steps of the college library. Maybe its satire?

I knew chicks like this in middle school.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Every lesbian I have known or do still know was and is highly literate, even when they were dyslexic. 'Fyxe' is a great word and the kind of word they would use - certainly in a couple of cases they used the Germanic 'Wexe' or 'Wixe.'

As far as realistic goes, this is a lot harder to pin down because what goes on intimately is rarely completely detailed even though women often carry on as if they are doing 'tell-it-all' versions of sex all the time; which they do not really.

And I have observed there is some 'in fashion' technique or act, and then it suddenly gets abandoned for something else.

Lesbian-ism is an attitude, a stance, a capacity to engage in sexual intimacy with another woman, as much as it is about actual sex acts themselves.

If I ever write anything 'lesbian' oriented, people often criticise it... which you would find very amusing if you knew me. But all the same, I don't think I'm the standard model on which people's expectations about lesbian scenes are based. So 'realistic...' - wouldn't know what that exactly might mean to the average member of the public, compared to a more narrowly-defined perspective. Is there something specific which readily translates to something, some act or set of acts and actions that the general reader would accept is eroticly 'lesbian?' In particular that is, as opposed to something just generally erotic...?

I'm sure people have ideas.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Every lesbian I have known or do still know was and is highly literate, even when they were dyslexic. 'Fyxe' is a great word and the kind of word they would use - certainly in a couple of cases they used the Germanic 'Wexe' or 'Wixe.'

As far as realistic goes, this is a lot harder to pin down because what goes on intimately is rarely completely detailed even though women often carry on as if they are doing 'tell-it-all' versions of sex all the time; which they do not really.

And I have observed there is some 'in fashion' technique or act, and then it suddenly gets abandoned for something else.

Lesbian-ism is an attitude, a stance, a capacity to engage in sexual intimacy with another woman, as much as it is about actual sex acts themselves.

If I ever write anything 'lesbian' oriented, people often criticise it... which you would find very amusing if you knew me. But all the same, I don't think I'm the standard model on which people's expectations about lesbian scenes are based. So 'realistic...' - wouldn't know what that exactly might mean to the average member of the public, compared to a more narrowly-defined perspective. Is there something specific which readily translates to something, some act or set of acts and actions that the general reader would accept is eroticly 'lesbian?' In particular that is, as opposed to something just generally erotic...?

I'm sure people have ideas.

I live beside 2 lesbians, I worked with lesbians for a long time. I'm on safe ground depicting them as labile and volatile with each other. I like working for them, I never refused a lesbian foster parent application, whereas I never approved a male homo application. But the gals are bitches with each other. Theyre awful. She'll get your partner fired if she wants you. Theyre impossible as lovers because theyre so unstable in relationships. And they'll go for cock when pussy isn't available. Amen