Four reviews and a question.I am starting a new series here that I’m calling My Treasured Tropes. Instead of reviewing one book or film, I’ll be gathering together several works that center around or include one plot device that I find fascinating or arousing. (Mostly arousing). A trope is not necessarily a cliché. It can…
Terrance Aldon Shaw’s The Erotic Writer’s Thesaurus, 2018.I used to love reading encyclopedias as a kid, back in the pre-internet days. Usually I would look up something specific that I was interested in, then after reading the entry, I’d either think of something else starting with the same letter, or I’d just turn the page,…
2017, Go Deeper Press.I’ve said before that while this is primarily a BDSM-oriented site, it’s not so much the accoutrements of play—the restraints, the rope, the whips (though there is that)—that interest me, so much as the actual exchange of power. As a writer I’ve also become interested, this last year, in how many authors…
I. I’m not exactly sure when I discovered the art of Saturno Buttò, but I do remember how. After a discussion with an artist friend about an erotic art idea, I googled “erotic art Renaissance style” (which was not the idea), and up popped dozens of thumbnail images in red, gold, orange, black. Beautiful nude…
2013, Bloomsbury PublishingFor my first book review in a long while (and the first anniversary of my first review here), I’ve decided to start a new category in my “Other Authors” column: The Genre. I have several essays planned that don’t quite fit into either “Classics” or “Recently Released”—reviewing a group of novels with similar…
For this month’s edition of Kinked Ink, I’ve invited San Francisco writer of erotica Dorothy Freed to tell us about her favorite and most influential erotic literature. Dorothy is a fascinating lady. At age seventy-one, she is writing and publishing some incredibly hot and kinky stories, largely based on her own life experiences. Fortunately for…