Tag Archives: Eroticism

Flirting with Danger: Excitement and the Aesthetics of the Erotic

What disturbs Stoller is not that we ‘stage’ our excitements but that we deny we are doing it. Continue Reading

Four great pieces of erotic writing, and why they’re so good.

An Early Winter Train by C. Sanchez-Garcia [ref]Sanchez-Garcia, C. (2010). An Early Winter Train. In L. Sarai (Ed.), Coming Together Presents C. Sanchez-Garcia. Baltimore: Coming Together. Retrieved from http://www.erotica-readers.com/GD/TC-EF/An_Early_Winter_Train.htm[/ref] An Early Winter Train examines the relationship between a husband and a wife who is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s.  What makes it such a powerful story Continue Reading

Writing in Pursuit of Pleasure

Very recently, the marvelously accomplished erotic writer Will Crimson sent around a letter, addressed to a few other writers, inviting them to a discussion on how their writing and motivations for writing have changed over time, with the evolution of their practice. Answering this invitation forced me to write a manifesto of a kind and Continue Reading