Vintage Erotic Novels

[sheltering]

Sometimes it's the cover art, sometimes it's the story. Sometimes it's the raw, blatantly sexual, expository prose. Click cover-art for link to text.

 

[Abbafan]

The only one I've read is Fanny Hill. Pretty vintage. It did show a side of life back then that writers like Jane Austen didn't.

 

[SamScribble]

Does Quiet Days in Clichy (Henry Miller) count?

 

[phil1955]

D. H. Lawrence is not too bad. Not as explicit as today’s but they can get the imagination going.

 

[Pines]

Underage reference

 

[sailgolf]

Underage reference

 

[MinxDark]

Who doesn't love The Pearl or the filthy letters James Joyce wrote to his wife?

 

[oldfriendzaphod]

lustybooks.com

Seemingly endless supply of covers.....great source.

 

[Dreamliner]

Anne Rice and Pauline Reage come to mind as Authors back then.

 

[Abbafan]

lustybooks.com

Seemingly endless supply of covers.....great source.

That's great. I haven't read any those old books, but the covers are interesting. So many of them, too.

 

[uncle easy]

The story of o. When I was in Germany in the 60s this was a forbidden novel. A friend got a copy and shared it with me. It is very well written with not one four letter word. Very erotic. I still have a copy of it.

 

[phil1955]

The story of o. When I was in Germany in the 60s this was a forbidden novel. A friend got a copy and shared it with me. It is very well written with not one four letter word. Very erotic. I still have a copy of it.

I read that a long time ago and thought it was great. My wife likes it too.

 

[Rumi2018]

Not quite vintage but these books blew my worldview wide open...

My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday
Forbidden Flowers by Nancy Friday

Both were written in the 70s collecting actual fantasies submitted to a sex therapist. She added commentary and promotes sexual empathy to explore the wildest dreams women had. She made fantasy healthy. I was a teen boy reading these and it provided me with a healthy view to how others saw sex.

 

[mywife4othermen]

Not quite vintage but these books blew my worldview wide open...

My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday
Forbidden Flowers by Nancy Friday

Both were written in the 70s collecting actual fantasies submitted to a sex therapist. She added commentary and promotes sexual empathy to explore the wildest dreams women had. She made fantasy healthy. I was a teen boy reading these and it provided me with a healthy view to how others saw sex.

Oh yes! I read Men in Love and realised that my fantasies and desires were shared by so many other men.

 

[twister947]

Quims, cunnies, cockstands, birching, a prolific author named "Anonymous "...precious memories.

 

[twister947]

For some out there stuff, there's Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille

 

[magicalmoments]

There are many, my favourites are:
Walter: My Secret Life
The Life and Times of Frank Harris
The Pearl (already mentioned above)

 

[trevorness]

The story of o. When I was in Germany in the 60s this was a forbidden novel. A friend got a copy and shared it with me. It is very well written with not one four letter word. Very erotic. I still have a copy of it.

I have a copy of this on my bookshelf.
Nearby are Nicholson Baker's Vox and Fermata, not old classics but sex focused novels.

 

[waratah]

The only one I've read is Fanny Hill. Pretty vintage. It did show a side of life back then that writers like Jane Austen didn't.

It sure did.

My father had a copy, bought in the 60s or 70s I guess that had a few paragraphs removed. I've since read a few non censored extracts. Quite different.