All this month, Lisabet Sarai is hosting a series of posts by writers who have participated in and contributed to the ‘Coming Together‘ Project. Coming Together is the brain child of Alessia Brio who, six years ago, came up with the idea of publishing excellent erotic writing for charity. If you’d like to read...
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Michel Perkins introduced his unique survey of modern erotic literature with George Bataille’s incisive quote: “Man goes contantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him.”(Perkins 1992). What serious novelist would deny themselves such a challenge as a topic? Yet most contemporary literary writers do, either by refusing to write about the sexual...
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I’ve complained a great deal about the way in which all sexually explicit material of any sort is called ‘pornography’. And I’ve often insisted that what I write is not pornography. Because of this, I often worry that I leave my readers with the impression that I am anti-porn. I want to stress, categorically,...
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So, today was the first of my monthy ERWA Blog posts. It may very well be my last when my co-bloggers are confronted with 2000 words of density. We’ll see. Anyway, I’ve been blogging a lot lately about the lack of well-written or arousing sex scenes in literary fiction, and musing over the possible...
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There were some really great comments on my last post about the literary world and its aversion to including erotic sex scenes in literary fiction or eliciting arousal in readers. Laughingly, and perhaps a little brutally, I said that it might have something to do with individual authors and their own feelings of sexual...
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Last year, Arifa Akbar wrote an interesting article in The Independent: Bad sex please, we’re British: Can fictive sex ever have artistic merit? I’ll be honest, I’ve been ruminating over this piece for about a year. First, let me give you some quotes from prize-winning writers and critics as to why they purposefully write...
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These days, I wax, but only out of nostalgia. _______ Lydia considered fate had been inexplicably kind to her. She’d survived the 90′s with nothing more than a mild case of chlamydia. _______ Gilles was French. But he bathed with surprising regularity. _______ On her return from the launderette, Jackie discovered strange missives scrawled...
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I can now happily announce that ERWA (the Erotica Readers and Writers Association) blog is planning huge changes. For those of you who aren’t aware, ERWA is really the single most important erotic writers’ group on the internet. It’s public face has consisted of a website that featured, on a monthly basis, some of...
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“Your virtue!” said the lady, recovering after a silence of two minutes; “I shall never survive it. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding Academia puts a high value on the ability to read critically; to deny the text our heart and view it with an analytical, objective mind. From the early of the 20th Century...
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How have representations of sex become so banal, so unthreatening, so uncritical? Because the body and sexuality are liberated as signs and only as signs. Through the sign-system, Baudrillard contends, ‘sexuality itself is diverted from its explosive finality’ and transformed into ‘promotional eroticism’ or ‘operational sexuality’. “Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality” by William Paulett I’m...
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