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2006-04-26T11:53:00.000-07:00

Bedtime Stories for Lovers

About Erotica

"Just sex, I just want the sex described."

2006-04-24T14:39:00.000-07:00

The Delta of Venus is one of Anais Nin's most prized works. It was written for a mysterious 'collector' of erotica, who offered Henry Miller a hundred dollars a month to write erotic stories. It is said that every one of their friends took a hand in creating the erotic stories -- but the 'collector' replied "Just the sex, lose the poetry."

Anais Nin and Henry Miller wrote a letter to the collector, after he suggested they "cut the poetry." This letter began, "Dear Sir, we hate you..." and continued with the gem of a retort below:

"Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities.

You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examinations of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are the fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformation, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood.

If you nourished your sexual life with all the excitements and adventures which love injects into sensuality, you would be the most potent man in the world. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, mood, there are no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

How much do you lose by this periscope at the tip of your sex, when you could enjoy a harem of distinct and never-repeated wonders? No two hairs alike, but you will not let us waste words on a description of hair; no two odors, but if we expand on this you cry: Cut the poetry! No two skins with the same texture, and never the same light, temperature, shadows, never the same gestures; for a lover, when he is aroused by true love, can run the gamut of centuries of love lore. What a range, what changes of age, what variations of maturity and innocence, Perversity and art.

We have sat around for hours and wondered how you look. If you have closed your senses upon silk, light, color, odor, character, temperature, you must by now be completely shriveled up. There are so many minor senses, all running like tributaries into the mainstream of sex, nourishing it. Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstacy."

Amen

Shhhh

2006-03-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

I read this at MySpace, but it doesn't state anyway for them to track that this is for MySpace members only, so...

Everyone who buys a 3 day trial pass at Tit-Elation.com, will be put in a drawing for one free copy of the Second Quarterly 'Best Of' print publication. Starts now, and ends 04/07/06.

I found this via the MySpace Erotica Readers Group, which has some nifty erotica excerpts too ;)

Monica M. Martin’s eXtasy Books Scavenger Hunt Contest

2006-03-03T12:51:00.000-08:00

Search the site high and low for the answers to the questions below -- but first the rules!

Contest Rules:

Please note: Gift certificates will be e-mailed to winning entrants with instructions on how to redeem their selected ebook prize. Gift certificates are not redeemable for cash or any other goods and can only be used once. Winning entrants must have a FREE ebookAd account at eXtasy Books to collect their ebook prizes, as winner’s personal bookshelf will be credited with chosen ebook.

1: You must be an adult 18+ to enter any of my contests. NO exceptions!

2: You must be member of my mailing list group to enter my contests: monica_M_Martin-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (this is not a chat list)

3: You can only enter once.

4: Updated: Winners will be sent gift certificates via email, as it's convenient for all concerned.

Please don’t send snail mail address for e-book prizes.

5: Entries close midnight March 15. All correct entries will go a draw, 3 winners will be selected and announced in Monica M. Martin’s Erotique_M Newsletter and on select Yahoo Reader Groups March 18. Again, instructions for ebook prize collection will be forwarded with gift certificates.

THE Questions:

1)Name the editor who edited Allegra’s Seduction at eXtasy Books.

2) Name the cover artist who created the art for Allegra’s Seduction cover.

3) How many books are in Immortality’s Caress vampire series? (Look on books page)

4) Name the vampire in the 'Allegra's Seduction' book excerpt on my website.

5) Where is Allegra’s Seduction set? Country/place?

6) Find the name of the knight in ‘My Lady’s Protector: Knight of Pentacles’ excerpt on my website.

All correct answers go in the draw and the winners are announced March 18.
Email your answers here: Monica_M_Martin-owner@yahoogroups.com.

First prize:

1 PDF download of Immortality’s Caress: book 1 ~ Allegra’s Seduction (Historical vamp series)
1 gift voucher to purchase any ebook valued at $6:99 from eXtasy Books.

Second prize:

1 PDF download of My Lady’s Protector~ Knight of Pentacles.
1 gift voucher to purchase any ebook valued at $5:99 from eXtasy Books.

Third prize:

1 gift voucher to purchase any ebook valued at $3:99 from eXtasy Books.

Frustrated?

2006-02-09T16:25:00.000-08:00

"Don't Make Me Go Home & Dry Hump The Sofa" lol Buy it at Cafe Press

Frustrated

2006-01-27T00:12:00.000-08:00

Is it just me, or are erotic stories harder to find than any other 'adult' form of entertainment?

There are less books on the shelves, and when it comes to supposed story sites, well, it's mostly canned stories. When it comes to porn sites, with pics & videos, there are plenty of review services, but for erotica, well, hell, erotica isn't even a category.

The reason I am so bummed out about this is that a friend, a male friend, was searching in vain & asked me for help. He's afraid that my fav site is 'too girly' and so he asked for other suggestions... He doesn't want a BDSM niche site.

If anyone is reading here, feel free to leave a post!

(Maybe I'll have to start reviewing sites here... but that will mean looking at soooooooooo many bad sties! Ugh)

Reading

2006-01-22T13:20:00.000-08:00

I don't know why I started this damn blog. I spend more time reading smut than writing about it. :sigh:

(I've been reading a good one tho, so I will have to show up here sometime & tell you all about it!)

Meanwhile, I'm just here clearing up the holiday links -- making it look like someone lives here afterall...

I'm Not A Lesbian, but...

2005-12-17T16:54:00.000-08:00

This is why I subscribe to Tit Elation. Stories so good, that even if you don't normally get hot about this 'thing' you suddenly have to slide those fingers into your panties, between your lips, and get a release!

Exhibit A), The Delightful Roommate, by Renae Arden. A story about two female roommates, one of whom is lesbian, the other is straight - and she makes it clear that she's not about to give up the cock, but naturally, one thing leads to another and...

She grabbed two fists full of my hair, yanking me closer to her, pushing my face deeper into her. She pressed into me, bucking her hips as she moved, accepting, enjoying every bit of my mouth. She was moaning in pleasure, pleading for more.

OK, so the roommate actually gives in before that section, but that's where I start to get wet... really wet. The kind of wet that insists you go do something about it.

This story was published on the website's members area awhile ago, but since it was in the "lesbian" category, I didn't read it. But thankfully, it was also selected for the Best Of Book, and that's when I read it. Now it's one of my favorites, a regular participant in my bedtime activities.

But, now, finally, they have selected to use this story as a free sample at the site, and now you can read it too. So what are you waiting for?

Reading Smut Is a Turn On

2005-12-13T21:27:00.000-08:00

I am not alone.

From Sex-Kitten:

How much do women like words? As part of our work, Hester & I read a lot of smut. Not long ago, Hester was doing research ~ searching for a quote in old booklets. Several of these old publications had stories in them, and while she was scanning them quickly looking for a few lines to suit her purpose, she suddenly realized "my panties are soaking wet!"

Even though she wasn't reading for arousal, the words ~ the details of sexual context & situation ~ moved her past her own context of research.

That's right, Hester, words can move a person past what they are doing. We move the use of language. According to studies, "women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills."

Which means a wise man would try to sweet-talk a woman right out of her panties.

And if he can't find words of his own, he should take the words of others - and read erotica to her.

From an article at Canoe:

According to Suzie, a product development manager in her late twenties, sexy lingerie and 'mood food' pale in comparison to the experience of reading erotic literature. Quick to point out that it's "not pornography," she says that reading sexually suggestive books (either on your own or with a partner) is enough to stoke the fire of even the most burnt out romance. Having received a series of erotic books as a Christmas gift from her husband, she says that "they've been just the thing we needed to get us through the depression of the winter."

So, there it is, share naughty stories with your partner - the hot erotica will keep you warm & happy all winter long.

Erotic Art: Words Vs Images

2005-11-29T15:04:00.000-08:00

I'd prefer the use of words to create the erotic images in my head.

If beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, if one names things (and bodies are things) 'beautiful' because they please him or herself, then words & my imagination create all that is lovely, desireable, and pleasing to me.

There are no scenes or persons who lack in virtues I demand, nor actions & parts which displease. For even if the words describe what I do not wish to 'see' or what I would not enjoy, I may substitue quickly & envision what I wish - leaving what I want, creating jungles to cover what I do not.

Whatever my vision of bodily perfection, I may, and will, see these bodies in these stories in my mind. I need not worry if one is too thin, too tall, too shaven, too light, with eyes set too far apart & in a colour I do not like. I create my own preferences. I remove whatever blights there may be & replace them with more of what I desire...

That said, there is a purpose to erotic art images. Artistic or erotic nudes speak to us in shadow & light, in texture & dimension. They perserve for the duration (as determined by materials & care) brief moments in complicated scenes. Quick seconds in long lives.

Well-written erotic stories ought to do the same.

Study the eloquence of fine erotic photography & manipulate your reader to sigh, moan, or desire... absorb the power of a fine work of art dealing with the nude form... note the way the artist has used the medium to convey such emotion.

Erotica authors, apply your skills, work your craft, use your words to the extent that the visual artist does.

Make your story elicite a response as the art does.

Blogging As Erotica Revolution?

2005-11-21T17:17:00.000-08:00

Thanks to one blogger, I was forced to remember the rukus with D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover: 45 Years Later. Which makes me ponder the whole banning of adult materials, of which erotica is but one example.

Thanks to another blogger, I was then forced to consider "Is it possible that the opposition to pornography and censorship of books is rooted in the David syndrome?" That post puts the discussion/battle into yet another perspective.

While I cannot profess to know all the "why's" or motivations, I am certain that I do not want my erotica limited. I hope that by reading, I will some how be educated enough to find not just an understanding of the 'opposition,' but of a way to end the threat.

Given my inability to provide you, yet another blog reader, with any concrete information, I will instead leave you with some words by D.H. Lawrence:

"It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them."

"The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs."

"We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known."

"We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter."

"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."

...somewhat interesting are those lines, all on their own... just what did Lawrence think of erotica & human sexuality, anyway...?

(I'm still not sure what this whole blog will be about... I imagine it's going to take some time to find my way. I hope you'll stick around to see what it will become...)

Quotes

2005-11-21T11:34:00.000-08:00

"Erotica does not glorify our sexual domination of women. It expresses our wish that women didn't have sexual domination over us."
Jack Kammer

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Butch Hancock

Hornover: what one wakes up with the morning after a night of getting too horny without release.
Sommeil Liberosensa

Smut By Any Other Name

2005-11-20T00:19:00.000-08:00

Words are powerful things. As a reader, as a lover of language (oral and written), I am moved by words.

And erotic words are no exception.

Erotica can move me to shake, squirm, whimper, gush, gasp, quake, transcend, writhe, moisten, weep, glow, scream, twist, cry, grunt, spew, bend, stretch, laugh, release, sigh, contort, conquer, moan, arch, weep, mount, beg, ride, giggle, submit, grind, flush, spurt, whine, covet, pout, caress, buck, squeal... Or masturbate to these ends.

However, in order to begin any writings on erotica, I must begin with the proper use of words. Words being "a sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes." are only serving their purpose well if the representation or meaning is agreed upon. To that end, I'd like to be clear on my definition of "erotica" and "the erotic."

While some feel that erotic works are limited to "literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire" I find these creations anything but limiting. Being female, I find the skillful arrangement of words anything but limiting.

As a human, I find arousal and it's sweet release the opposite of limiting; it is limitless.

Those who dismiss erotica as "of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire" must somehow feel orgasm constraining. To this, I can neither agree, nor relate. There is proof of pleasure; even science shows us endorphins. And I'd rather get my free high from my genitals than a run.

But I digress.

To truly agree on definitions of erotica, and specifically written erotic works, one invariably turns to the comparison, the semantic debate, or "Erotica Vs. Pornography."

My definition of erotica, in as much as you will need for this blog, is:

Exhilaration and euphoria achieved through the skillful application of words in well crafted sexual stories.

For additional reading on the discussion of erotica & porn, please read:

What Is Erotica?
Is there a difference between erotica and pornography?
Writing Erotica: Lesson 1: What is Erotica?
The Erotic vs. The Pornographic
Erotica vs Porn

For further reading on the power of erotica, please read:

Lesbian Erotica Without Apology: The Erotic As Power