erotica

Nothing like spending your birthday in style! Many big birthday wishes to the inimitable Rachel Kramer Bussel! It isn’t very often that the birthday person is the one doling out gifts, but to celebrate, Rachel is giving all of us present—the release of her latest anthology Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies for Couples (Cleis Press)! This searing hot collection features some of the biggest names in erotica including Jade A. Waters, D.L. King, Ezrabet Bishop and more! Exploring kink and BDSM, Dirty Dates brings many different representations of what those concepts means. As Rachel explains in her Introduction, “like so many aspects of …

The Contender It is worth it. All of it. The sweat, the pain. The aches, the tears. Every one of us training, every one of us dreaming. Every one of us suffering for the same goal—to be champ. She inspires me, she pushes me to do better. An Olympic medalist, the most dominant female MMA champion. I look at her body and see perfection. That same body must have worked through all the same hardships I do—bruises, scrapes, muscle pulls. And that’s just what I do to myself. My opponents in the octagon can do so much more. But they …

What a debut! The incomparable Laura Antoniou has taken the reins of hot erotica institution with the recent release Best Lesbian Erotica 2015. And from what we can read, including this exclusive excerpt from Andrea Dale, the series is in good hands. Still Flying by Andrea Dale The cute redheaded flight attendant takes my empty glass as the door closes. She smiles, oblivious to my turmoil, turns away. I’ve tried Valium, other drugs, and I hate them almost as much as I hate flying. It’s that loss of control thing. The only thing that calms me down, that grounds me (hah) is Mindy. …

The inimitable Radclyffe is back with a new volume of Best Lesbian Romance of the Year, volume 1! Check out this delightful, sexy excerpt from Destiny Moon’s “Light”. Light Destiny Moon I felt like I’d known her my whole life. It’s incredible how whole she felt to me, how deep and multifaceted. There was so much more to her than what was visible on the surface. And how she revealed her vulnerability to me. She thanked me for listening with an open heart and told me she’d never told anyone about her religious past before, not since she moved away …

It is always a pleasure to both my literary and switchy senses to read a collection curated by D. L. King. She finds and selects only the best erotica to suit the anthology—in this case a master collection of domination. The Big Book of Domination (Cleis Press) will leave Dominants, slaves and the rest of us on that spectrum twitching and trembling with desire. It includes some of the hottest work I’ve read so far this year, with many standout stories. Enjoy this excerpt from “The Work” Andrea Zanin. I knew it the second I laid eyes on him. That …