A few thought pieces discussing BDSM erotica, past and present.
‘The Intimate Adventures of a London Call-Girl’ tells the true story of the author’s escapades as a high-class sex worker. Belle de Jour was one of the world’s first successful sex-bloggers and her book was based on the blog. The…
NOTE: This piece contains some spoilers… I’ve always thought fairy-tales and erotica go together beautifully… like apples and poison. So when I heard about Anne Rice’s ‘The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty’, I was immediately intrigued. A sordid perversion of the…
NOTE: This piece contains some spoilers… Sadism… what a word for a writer to leave as their legacy. A truly evil concept. But we needed a word for it, because sadism has always been there. It’s entirely natural… as Sade…
Warning: this thought piece contains spoilers. ‘The Secretary’ clearly helped inspire some of the things that happened to me. This isn’t the first time I’ve been made to review erotica with the intention of provoking such a realisation. What a…
NOTE: This piece contains some spoilers… I read Pauline Reage’s ‘The Story of O’ shortly after reading Anais Nin’s ‘Delta of Venus’ and was struck by how similar the books feel (see my thoughts on DoV). Both writers evoke the…
Warning – this review contains spoilers… If you give your name to a concept and the word is still in popular use over a century later, then you’ve clearly made a significant impact as a writer. Not many could claim…
The man who gave me the ‘Delta of Venus’ knew, for me personally, it would make an especially meaningful read. This is because of the peculiar parallels between my recent life experiences and the eccentric circumstances under which Anais Nin’s…
This is the second part of a 2-part series (click here to read the first blog in the series). Erotic romance is generally romance with the sex left in – the love story is primary and the eroticism is subsumed…
Due to very peculiar circumstances, I wrote the first part of my erotic novel before I’d actually read much erotica myself. I’ve tried to make up for this deficit by reading 40-50 erotic books over the last few months. I’ve…