Herotica 5: A New Collection of Women's Erotic Fiction - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452278120 ISBN 13: 9780452278127

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

In this fifth collection of startlingly erotic tales, twenty-five new stories push the boundaries of the pleasure principle and create a vivid world of uninhibited sexuality. Hotter and bolder than ever, Herotica 5 covers everything from entanglements with strangers to office trysts, totemic animal powers to virtual sex. Representing the best of erotic writing today, new and favorite authors such as Susan St. Aubin, Cecilia Tan, Jolie Graham, and Aurora Light offer a kaleidoscope of sexual experience.Proving that nothing has more erotic power than words-whether whispered, read aloud, or written on the page-Herotica 5 explicitly evokes women's ultimate desires, making this new edition one of our most exciting collections to date.• Herotica is the most established name in the field of women's erotica, launched by sex guru Susie Bright.
• Includes something for every erotic taste: black, white, Asian, Latina, straight, gay, groups, initiations, seductions, etc.
• Stories by past Herotica stars as well as fresh new voices.
• More than 250,000 Herotica books in print.

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Reviews

An eclectic batch of 23 stories mark the Herotica series' tenth anniversary--and it appears that erotica, at the approach of the millennium, really does offer something for everyone. Here, women of a variety of ages, races, and sexual preferences transform their desires and fantasies into fiction--and, as editor Sheiner says in her brief introduction, Herotica's authors ``have the courage to write exactly what [they] think.'' The collection's opener, Joan Leslie Taylor's ``The Knitting Circle,'' is a kinky knock-off of today's trendy women's-sewing-group books; ``Dragon Cat Flower,'' by Cecilia Tan, is an Asian fairy tale with a lusty finale; and Serena Moloch's ``Casting Couch'' puts a spin on sexual harassment in this woman/woman tale of domination and servitude. New Age aficionados with libidinous tastes will relish Jolie Graham's ``Drowsy Maggie''; ``The Appliance,'' by Michelle Stevens, is about two relationships, a woman's with another woman and a woman's with her 900-watt vibrator; and Karen Minn's ``Sauce''--one of the many tales here with a lesbian spin--takes two women who love the same movie, Fried Green Tomatoes, and shows them living vicariously through the characters of Idgie and Ruth. All in all, Sheiner has assembled stories that, for the most part, have little in common with one other beyond their use of explicit erotic material. A user-friendly, accessible collection that's more sentimental in tone and subject than hard-core, despite the graphic sex. (Quality Paperback Book Club selection) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452278120
• ISBN 13: 9780452278127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 209
• Editor: Marcy Sheiner