Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp through the Classics - Softcover

Szereto, Mitzi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573441244 ISBN 13: 9781573441247

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2001

Synopsis

A traditional source of sexual titillation for adult readers, fairy tales historically boasted licentious themes before being cleaned up for the consumption of children in modern times. Seasoned erotica author Mitzi Szereto restores the explicit sex in these 15 tales ― and adds some provocative surprises of her own. Here the bawdy humor of French fable meets the sublime eroticism of ancient Chinese myth; a not-so-virgin damsel weds a Prince Charming with a shoe fetish; Little Red Riding Hood discovers Grandma’s bed is open to any stray wolf; and a Japanese monk stumbles onto an S/M scene behind a forbidden door. Each tale is prefaced by a brief introduction telling its history and the sexual culture in which the work was originally composed.

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About the Author:

Mitzi Szereto (mitziszereto.com) is a bestselling author and anthology editor whose books encompass multiple genres such as crime, gothic fiction, horror, cozy mystery, satire, parody, sci-fi/fantasy, erotic fiction, and general fiction and non-fiction. Her novels, short stories and anthologies have been translated into several languages. She's appeared internationally on radio and television and at major literature festivals, and has the added distinction of having the first anthology of erotica to include a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She's the creator and presenter of the London-based web TV channel Mitzi TV, and also plays herself in the pseudo-documentary British film Lint: The Movie. Her blog of personal essays can be found at Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog. Follow her on Twitter @MitziSzereto.

From Library Journal:

Like Rollins (see The Empress's New Lingerie, reviewed above), Szereto explains that the sexual content of most fairy tales was deleted by the likes of the Brothers Grimm to make them more family-friendly. Instead of researching and restoring the original erotic elements of each tale, however, the author chose to work from the clean versions and eroticize them as she saw fit, making the stories her own. The writing is sometimes uneven, as she attempts to maintain an antiquated fairy-tale narration but includes some modern phrases. While some of her rewrites take the obvious route (the above-mentioned shoe fetishism of "Cinderella"), each story contains some surprising new aspects, and none seems clich d or unoriginal. The results, in fact, are sexy and often quite humorous Rapunzel, for example, becomes a "rapstress," enticing a horseman with her rhymes. The tales chosen by Szereto, who has published four volumes of erotica under the pen name M.S. Valentine, are quite diverse, and she includes an introduction explaining the origin and history of each. Enthusiastically recommended. Amanda Glasbrenner, "Library Journal"
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About this edition

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1573441244
• ISBN 13: 9781573441247
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175