Eroticon 2015 Online Meet and Greet
NAME (and Twitter name if you have one) Madeleine Morris (aka Remittance Girl) @remittancegirl Is this your first time at Eroticon? If No, what is your favourite memory from a previous Eroticon and if Yes, what are you most looking forward to at Eroticon 2015? No, this is not my first Eroticon. I attended the […]
A Brief History of Erotica and What it Has Become
I’m a member of a very vibrant private group on Facebook called The Erotic Literature Appreciation Society. A fair number of its members are some of the writers I most admire. However, what is clear is that, beneath the surface, there is a pretty massive schism as to what we are calling ‘erotica’. Historically, erotica, […]
Why Publishing Doesn’t Matter To Me Anymore
If you’ve hit my website before, you might be wondering why I have most of my short stories and even long series online, instead of in published anthologies. If you take a look at my short works in print page, you will probably notice that in the last year, I’ve submitted almost nothing to editors. […]
In conversation with Rose Caraway on the Sexy Librarian Podcast
Rose Caraway invited me to a long, rambling conversation on erotica, eroticism, and the concept of consent at her ‘Sexy Librarian Podcast’. Her outstanding podcast is also available at iTunes. Rose is one of those very rare people who have an almost overwhelming generosity of spirit for the craft of others. She reminds me that […]
All The Sex I Didn’t Have: The Complexity of Consent
There is a pitched battle going on over what counts as consent when it comes to sex. There are feminists who insist that sex following anything that isn’t a wholehearted, absolutely sober ‘yes’ is rape. And behind it, whether intentional or not, this has had the effect of heaping sex with more complexity and misery […]
On Dominance in Erotic Fiction: A few Questions
One of my readers, Sally, left me some questions that I felt required a little more thought and more space than was available in a comments reply, so I’ve answered them here. Her questions were: 1.) As an author of erotic fiction, what assets or personality traits do you believe make the male lead in […]
In Defense of the Offensive
I found it hard to find a good title for this; the one I’ve chosen doesn’t really fit the bill. Our world is becoming more and more complex, and the modes of distribution wider and wider. The internet and digitization of material has meant that barriers to publication – once the purview of mostly wealthy, […]
Cunts
Facebook’s banning of the posting of this painting and the subsequent legal wrangle in the French courts got me thinking about where I first saw this painting and the impact it had on me, on my understanding of myself as female, and the strange social aversion we seem to have to our genitals. I […]
BDSM, Consumerism and The Care of Self
This is in response to a very disappointingly unnuanced article published in the Atlantic Monthly. So, you’ve just seen Fifty Shades of Grey, or you read the book, or both and you’re thinking… wow, that’s looks sexy. I could go for some of that…. Okay, I really hope you read this fully and take what […]
Bad Men and Why Perfectly Intelligent, Independent, Sane Women Fantasize About Them
Do you ever get the sneaking suspicion life would be a lot easier if we shut up about our erotic fantasies? I do. Picture Miss Catherine Thoroughgood: a primly dressed, middle-aged spinster sitting at a window on a cold autumn day, overlooking a bleak rural English landscape, trying to get enough light to darn a […]