Erotica

Fifty Shades of Frustration: My Grievances With E.L. James' Provocative New Novel

Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.30.2012

What Sex and the City did for women's sexuality, Fifty Shades takes to another level. Christian Grey might even make Samantha Jones blush.

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'50 Shades Of Grey' Illustrated In Stock Photos

Salon | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Awkward Stock Photos, 50 Shades of Grey, Erotica, Romance Novels, Books, Bad Stock Photos, Stock Photos, Stock Photography, 50 Shades of Grey EL James, Women News

This week, for roughly the millionth time, E.L. James' romance-bondage trilogy "50 Shades" nabs the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots on the New York Times bestsel...

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Warning: Explicit Sexual Content

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: The Forever Marriage, Erotica, Sexual Content, Sex, Books Sex Scenes, Female Sexuality, Erotic Novels, Sex in Books, Books Sexual Content, Literary Fiction, Women's Literary Fiction, Books News

It's an odd animal: women's literary fiction -- NOT erotica -- with a brazen, sensual and deeply flawed main character. Carmen is perpetually concerned with, touching and baring her body. Yet the sex never becomes the story; it isn't that sort of book.

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Up Close and Not So Personal with 50 Shades of Gray author, E L James

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Suburbs, Wives, 50 Shades of Grey, El James, Erotica, Porgnography, Book Banning, Censorship, Lyss Stern, Mothers, Divalysscious, Women News

I don't want E L James to be the poster child for my personal understanding of sexuality or for woman's sexual empowerment in a general sense. And the good news is, neither does E L James.

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'Fifty Shades of Grey' Author E.L. James Starts U.S. Book Tour With a Bang

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Miami, Books & Books, Book Publishing, Publishing, Logan Levkoff, Fifty Shades of Grey, El James, Erotica, Books, Bdsm, Bookstores, Anne Messitte, Valerie Hoskins, Vintage Books, Books News

Hot on the heels of the explosive Katie Roiphe Newsweek cover story examining women's sexual fantasies, New York Times bestselling author of the Fifty...

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Influencer of the Week: E.L James Is Tickled Pink

Connie Dieken | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, E.L. James, Erotica, Time Magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine 100 Most Influential, Tim Tebow, Connie Dieken, Books News

The author of Fifty Shades of Grey is simultaneously revving the engines of women and upending the publishing world. James is stunned that she's influencing the way books are bought and sold.

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Why Women My Age Are Reading '50 Shades of Grey'

Suzanne Braun Levine | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: E.L. James, How We Love Now, Fifty Shades of Grey, Erotica, Love & Sex, Bondage, Romance Novels, Sex, Post50 Love, Video, Fifty News

By talking about 50 Shades of Grey, we are also able to gauge whether other women are exploring the same territory. "I'm reading 50 Shades of Grey" is code for "I still have sexual feelings; do you?"

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How I (And Others Like Me) Discovered Fifty Shades of Grey

Jessica Turner | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Book Blogs, Erotica, Romance Novels, Heroes and Heartbreakers, Entertainment News

Last October, while trolling through the erotica archives at my humble online retailer, I stumbled upon a book called Fifty Shades of Grey. I was shocked by what happened during and after I read it. I was completely and utterly hooked on the book.

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What Katie Roiphe Missed About Women's Fantasies

BuzzFeed | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: E.L. James, Literature, Female Novels, 50 Shades of Grey, Erotica, Reading, Books, Women News

It finally has the world talking about female sexual desires. Shift's Amy Odell and Anna North discuss the latest critique of the book in the new issu...

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'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Movie Rights Sold To Universal Pictures And Focus Features

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Rights, Book News, Erotica, Fifty Shades of Gray, Erotic-Literature, Fan Fiction, Fifty Shades of Grey Book, Fifty Shades of Grey Movie, Fifty Shades of Grey Film, Video, Books News

The film rights for "Fifty Shades of Grey", a steamy trilogy by British author E L James that evolved from the author's Twilight fan fiction, were sol...

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What It Would Really Be Like to Be Married to Christian Grey

Jenny Isenman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Funny, Jenny From the Blog, Humor, Books, Series, Jen X Pert, Husband Issues, Christian Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, The Suburban Jungle, Mommy Porn, Fifty Shades of Grey, Erotica, Fifty Shades of Freedom, Comedy, Fifty Shades of Gray, Parents News

Why can't our hubby's be more like Christian Grey? If they were, would we want them? I wonder what they'd be like after a few years of marriage and a couple of children?

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What Does the Success of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Tell Us About American Readers?

Alma Katsu | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Women, Erotica, Writing, Novel, E.L. James, Sex Writing, Romance Novels, Erotic Fiction, Books News

If the phenomenal demand for Fifty Shades of Grey tells us anything, it tells us that female readers actually do want real sex in their books and they'll buy it if they know it's in there.

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50 Shades of Grey = A Message to Man Up!

Paul LaRosa | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Domination, Women, Erotica, Sadomasochism, Eroticism, 50-Shades-of-Grey, Paul-Larosa, Erotic, Submission, Books News

The runaway bestseller 50 Shades of Grey written by an Australian woman named E.L. James, clearly has captured the hearts and hormones of women acros...

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This Racy Novel Has LOTS Of Female Fans

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Video, Erotica, Romance Novels, Love--Sex, Sex, Sexy Books, Bdsm, Books About Sex, Best Sex Scenes, Women News

Attention suburbia: Sexually explicit bodice-rippers are making a comeback. British novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" by author E.L. James (a woman in her ...

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Woman (Of a Certain Age) Writes Great American (Erotic) Novel

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Novels, Women, Erotica, Writing a Novel, 1950s, Books, Books News

Well, OK: "Great"? I know, I know: my readers, the novel's readers, will be the judge of that, I hear you saying. But, for me, it had to be that pa...

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PayPal Takes Controversial Stance Against Sex

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Paypal, Erotica, Smashwords, Epublishing, Mark Coker, Ebooks, Books News

On February 18, PayPal contacted Smashwords with an ultimatum: Remove the "edgy" erotica, or face deactivation of their PayPal account. Since PayPal is integrated into the Smashwords website, Smashwords had no choice but to comply.

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The Ways of Love

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Leadership, Politics, Generosity, Common Good, Erotica, Love and Relationships, Valentine's Day, Love, Agape, Healthy Living News

Let's give love its proper place, and I daresay that we would have a different, much happier, more balanced and harmonious, just world if we were all more in touch with the archetypal energy behind these forms of love.

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Pornography for Mommies

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Literature, Pornography, E.L. James, Marriage, 50 Shades of Grey, Relationships, Suburbia, Erotica, Kindle, Humor, Sex, Comedy News

I heard about this book from a friend, who spoke in hushed tones over the tops of her children's heads as we waited in line for tables one Sunday at the local diner. That's how you know a book is really dirty, by the way, because of the hushed tones.

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Porn Publisher's Downfall Arouses Authors' Passions

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Video, Sandra Hicks, Erotica, Romance Novels, Publishing News, Colorado Book Publishers, Erotic Novels, Aspen Mountain Press, Denver News

Aspen Mountain Press, a small publishing company in Aurora, Colorado, suspended operations recently after authors began reporting they had never been ...

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How 'Tin Cup' Can Save America, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Grand Bargain, Thomas Friedman, Golf, Erotica, Kevin Costner, Thomas Friedman Erotica, Media Criticism, Tin-Cup, How Did This Happen, Barack Obama, Media News

At a time when millions of Americans lack employment and the economy appears to be heading back into a period of prolonged dry-heaving, one of Thomas Friedman's prescriptives for America is for President Barack Obama to watch a 1996 Kevin Costner movie.

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Could You Be the Problem With Porn?

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Research, Utah State University, Desire, Morals, Undergraduates, Porn, Sexual Problems, Intimacy, Problems, Personal Values, Erotica, Sexual Enjoyment, Religious Influences, Pornography Consumption, Sexual Thoughts, Pleasuring, Intrusive Thoughts, Style News

Research indicates is that porn's probability of becoming problematic is first and foremost directly due to one's repression reaction. It's this suppression of the desire to look at porn that boosts one's longing for it.

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Europe's Porn Industry Goes 3D

Le Temps/Worldcrunch | Anouch Seydtaghia | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Pornography, European Porn Industry, 3d Movies, Avatar, Erotica, European Porn, Porn, World News

PARIS -- On the screen, Black Angelika is lasciviously taking her clothes off on a white couch, her eyes burning with desire. She also seems to be sta...

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World's First 3D Porn Film Shatters 'Avatar' Box Office Record

AP | By MIN LEE | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Pornography, Hong Kong Box Office @Y:World, Erotica, Avatar, Hong Kong, World's First 3d Porn, 3D Porn, Porn, 3d Sex and Zen Extreme Ecstasy, 3d Porn Box Office, World News

HONG KONG -- A pioneering 3-D erotic comedy has taken the Hong Kong box office by storm, beating the first-day record set by "Avatar" and drawing view...

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World's First 3D Porn Film Opens

Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Pornography, 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, Erotica, Sex, Porn, World News

Hints of orgies, swinging and very graphic sex scenes drew scores of Hong Kong moviegoers to the opening of what is being billed as the world's first ...

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Tokyo's New Anime Rape Restrictions

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: X-Rated Comics, Sex @Y:World, Erotica, Abusive Sex, Sexual Abuse, X-Rated Anime, Rape, Japan, Pornography, Fantasy, Shintaro Ishihara, Incest, Sex Abuse, Tokyo, Anime Porn, Japanese Porn, Manga, Sex With Minors, Video, World News

Tokyo is implementing new restrictions on the sale of anime films and manga comics depicting sex acts such as rape and incest, the AFP is reporting. ...

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