The Greatest Erotica Of All Time

[Marxist]

I know I like to read almost as much as I like to write. One influences the other endlessly.

So what's the best novel or short story, with sex as its main topic, ever written? I nominate Henry Miller's "Opus Pistorum (Under The Rooftops of Paris)" and Thomas' "The White Hotel."

MARXIST

my stories can be found at http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=24805

 

[BEST EROTIKA 2002]

I like the short story form the best There was a compilation a while back that had a story by Will Self that I sometimes still masturbate to. I never read Henry Miler.

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

erotica

Belinda, by Anne Rampling (Annne Rice's pen name)-
This book is incredibly hot and eloquently written. It is controversial because it involves a 40-something man with a sixteen year old girl, but it is done artfully.

The Beauty Trilogy- by A.N. Roquelaure (another Anne Rice pen name)-
These three books are awesome and pretty hardcore, but once again, well written. Very BDSM themed but probably enjoyable by people who aren't into BDSM as well.

Cry To Heaven- by Anne Rice (yes, I like Anne rice!)-
Very homoerotic and beautifully written.

Wormwood- by Poppy Z Brite-
A collection of Poppy's short stories, all with a dark erotic theme. Scary as hell and disturbingly erotic. Not as explicit as the others I have mentioned but a very good collection of stories.

Love In Vein I & II- (various authors, edited by Poppy Z Brite)-
Short stories by different authors. Most are good, a few suck. The good ones are very good and very horrific, unusual, and erotic.

The Happy Hooker- by Xaviera Hollander
I hope people have not forgotten this book. I rarely hear it mentioned anymore. It is a hilarious and very sexy book. Xaviera was a rather famous prostitute in the 60's and wrote about her exploits in a very explicit manner. There were a couple of scenes that irked me a little (giving a hand job to her dog, screwing her uncle) but the book is still good and any erotica writer/reader should read it. This book has just about every erotic pornographic scenario you could think up and she has a great sense of humor.

Opal- by ???
A 1970's book written for the african american market that features a black girl named Opal who writes about her exploits. It is really cute and the 70's Shaft-style lingo makes it comedic.

 

[Bluetrain]

interesting!

didn't Xaviera also write a column for Penthouse mag in the 80's?

also, even though its almost become a cliche in of itself, I enjoy victorian erotica. it can be dark, but also rather funny at times.

of course, my erotica is the best of all.

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

I think...

I think Xaviera wrote a regular column for Penthouse at some point but I am not sure when. I met her at the Exotic Erotic Ball in San Fransisco two years ago and she signed my boobs. ;-) She is a really sweet woman. Nina Hartley (was MC-ing the event) signed my boobs too. My boobies are my autograph book.

 

[KatPurrs]

My faves........

Great thread, Marxist!

My vote goes to the very dark and disturbing "Story of O", by Pauline Reage. I've never forgotten it. I was 14 years old and found it on the bookshelf where I was babysitting one night. I couldn't believe what I was reading! Talk about masturbation marathons! I couldn't stop!

More recently, Anais Nin's book of short stories, "Little Birds." Ah me, at my age, another marathon.

Now I'm off to Amazon to find Henry Miller's "Opus Pistorum."

So much to read.....so little time.

KatPurrs

 

[Natalie Nessus]

My vote goes to the very dark and disturbing "Story of O", by Pauline Reage. I've never forgotten it. I was 14 years old and found it on the bookshelf where I was babysitting one night. I couldn't believe what I was reading! Talk about masturbation marathons! I couldn't stop

For me also

The Beauty Trilogy- by A.N. Roquelaure (another Anne Rice pen name)-

Again, another

Do you see a theme here?

 

[Guest]

The Story of O is on most people's all time list.

What about Cage me Peacock?
But then, KatPurrs, unlike you youngsters, I am almost old enought to have met some of the characters in it.

Another that immediately comes to mine, and which is erotic but not porno is Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

What about Cage me Peacock?

This, I have not heard of? What is it?

I love Lawrence - such restrained heat - he was a naughty boy for his time, yes?

 

[Guest]

Cage me a Peacock Stephen Leacock is the inside story of the Rape of Lucrecia, which was not rape at all as she was his mistress some years earlier.

It is the finest humorous erotica I have ever read.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

Cage me a Peacock Stephen Leacock is the inside story of the Rape of Lucrecia, which was not rape at all as she was his mistress some years earlier.

It is the finest humorous erotica I have ever read.

Merci

 

[RisiaSkye]

I'm also in the Anne Rice camp--I think my favorite was Exit to Eden, though I like all five of the fake-name erotica novels. I even did a review of them for the site a few months ago--trying to push a few people in the direction of her penname erotica.

Of course, my view of sex changed forever when I found Story of O and 9 1/2 Weeks in high school. But, damn it all--we need more dominant women in these works.

I'd also say Brazen by Ghislaine Dunant, Ladders to Fire and the story collection Delta of Venus by Anais Nin, Ces Plaisirs/The Pure and the Impure by Collette, and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

Adrienne Rich wrote one poem, "Belly Dancer," that has stuck with me since high school, the perfect expression of homoerotic desire between ostensibly hetero women.

 

[KatPurrs]

Charmbrights.......

For someone about to turn 54 in a couple of weeks.....you make me feel so young.........

And what will you be on your next birthday?

I am loving the hell out of this thread.
So much to read......
The trick now is to break my addiction to this site, this thread, so I can, in fact, READ!

Love you all!

Kat~

 

[Rambling Rose]

if she does not...

Do you see a theme here?

I do. It was not lost on me.

Il est toujours un plaisir pour vous trouver - L

 

[Rambling Rose]

short stories...

Two of my favourites include Daemons and other Lovers and Slow Hand.

I also enjoyed all of Anne Rice's erotica...even more than her occult writings. The first book of erotic literature I ever read was called The Antics of Jesse Sloan - a cheap pulp paperback stroke book. I was eight years old and found it in my mothers dresser. She caught me red handed when I asked her the meaning of the word 'caress'. *blushing* The Story of O came later, and after that the Nancy Friday books on mens and womens fantasies Men in Love and My Secret Garden.

I have turned out to be a voracious reader

 

[Natalie Nessus]

Re: if she does not...

I do. It was not lost on me.

Il est toujours un plaisir pour vous trouver - L

Vous êtes aimable

 

[RisiaSkye]

Etes vous cherchez? Je ne comprends pas. Quelle surprise. Toujours, toujours.

 

[lilminx]

I discovered Delta of Venus by Anais Nin when I was about 14- it was hidden away in a drawer in the bathroom that my older brother and sister shared (still can't figure out which one of them had it) and I thought it was the most amazing thing. Since then, I've really enjoyed all of Anne Rice's erotica and The Story of O as well as many erotic short stories from books I've bought.

 

[Marxist]

Am I the only one to have read "Opus Pistorum?" How can you mention Nin without Miller's dirty dirty story. Here's a checklist of couplings

1. Threesome with midget
2. Lesbian group sex
3. Sex with dog
4. Child Prostitution (I didn't say it was exactly perfect)
5. Incest (again, not perfect or palatable but this is Miller)
6. Interracial sex including a Chinese whore and a murdersous Spanish dancer
7. A group rape of a teasing neighbor
8. A multitude of group sex arrangements including male / male bisexuality
9. Witchcraft / Satan sex, including the use of a woman as an altar
10. A very strange combo of anal, vaginal, oral, and watersport

Mr. Miller wrote this book out of desperation and a dare. Reading it requires the same spirit.

It goes on and on and on and my edition is only 288 large print pages.


MARXIST

 

[KatPurrs]

Bowing out.........

This thread is giving me a complex.

I don't speak/read French.

I mentioned Nin without having read "Opus Pistorum"

I'm not worthy.

Kat~

p.s.

 

[Guest]

It is interesting that nobody has mentioned Lolita in this thread.

Did nobody find it erotic? Has nobody read it? Is it taboo?

I liked his writing but was not turned on by the sex scene.

 

[Marxist]

Lolita is generally regarded as erotica by those who haven't read it. The first time I read Lolita I thought it was going to be provocative but came away stunned and not turned on in the least. High art--yes; Erotica:--no. Just my stupid opinion.

 

[REDWAVE]

The 120 Days

A number of very good erotic works have been mentioned, but no list of erotica is complete without at least a mention of "The 120 Days of Sodom," by the Marquis de Sade. It's not the most enjoyable erotic work ever written-- except perhaps for persons of extremely deviant tastes-- but it is the most remarkable erotic writing ever produced. Not only does it thoroughly explore the interplay between Eros and Thanatos, but it can also be viewed as social satire and a critique of class society (pre-Marx).

 

[RisiaSkye]

It is interesting that nobody has mentioned Lolita in this thread.

Did nobody find it erotic? Has nobody read it? Is it taboo?

I liked his writing but was not turned on by the sex scene.

I agree. It's an interesting, if somewhat ponderous book. Not at all erotic, though. At least, not to me.

Here's another one: Nicholas Baker's Vox. It was supposed to be such a great erotic book, the critics slobbered over it. I read it. It's alright, but it's nothing special. Highly overrated.

 

[Bluetrain]

Lolita ponderous! please! beautifully written; image saturated; semantically sly; and metaphorically layered. Nabokov paces the book like a mile runner, and there're so many linguistic twists and turns i feel exhausted just trying to catch them all!