Best Women's Erotica - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 157344099X ISBN 13: 9781573440998

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2000

Cleis Press's Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Gay Erotica series top best-seller lists across America every year. These books raise and exceed the standards and expectations of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now fans of women's erotica will discover writing that is equally hot, sexy, literate, and thought-provoking in this debut collection. Series editor Marcy Sheiner writes, "A decade after the explosion of women-authored erotica hit the publishing world, the genre has evolved to a sophisticated level of stunning talent and startling sexual honesty." Best Women's Erotica celebrates the sometimes perverse, frequently unconventional, and always compelling work of women writers.

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Review:

While the editor of this fine annual collection, Marcy Sheiner, argues in her introduction that these stories dwell on "the darker side of sex"--revenge, anger, grief--there is a redemptive quality to passion that often outweighs whatever unworthy motives may have inspired the deed. Although there is plenty of frivolous, one-handed reading in this year's edition, many of the pieces included have the hallmarks of literary fiction; they are not merely about a sexual event, but offer a revelation of character through that event. Lisa Glatt's "Waste," Anne Tourney's "Rope Burn," and Susannah Indigo's "The Language of Snakes" would shine in any short story anthology. Yet even the simplest and most graphic stories here can surprise the reader with their casual illuminations. In Tabitha Flyte's "After Loss," for example, a young woman and her brother-in-law stumble into sex after returning from her father's funeral. When she first feels his comforting arms around her, she reflects on how differently men and women embrace: "When I am hugged by a woman I feel that the arms around me say, 'Yes, you can do it, you can.' When I am held by a man I feel that I am being told, 'No, you don't have to do it, you don't.'" A remarkable volume, evidence of the considerable talent being directed toward erotica in recent years. --Regina Marler

About the Author:

Marcy Sheiner is the editor of the Best Women’s Erotica series and
The Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica. She lives in Emeryville, CA.

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