With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel -- but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
Why can't the leading ladies be badass and lesbian? And if they are, why can't we see them as authentic, whole beings -- sex and all? When we throw stones at each other for including sex, we're telling ourselves that depicting our sexuality automatically shames us. I disagree.
"50 Shades of Grey" was just the beginning. CBS This Morning took a look at the rising trend in erotic romance novels, or "mommy porn," that has gi...
Intimacy is contingent on both partners feeling secure enough to express their needs and desires, and these feminist porn and erotic platforms aim to aid in the process of helping their viewers find their voice.
When this grandmother from Texas got bored, she began writing erotica.
I headed over to The Triad for the Saturday night show but had immediate misgivings when the lean, manicured cocktail waiter had so much sass and attitude I wondered if he were an S&M pre-show element (which he may well have been).
By Keri English for indiereader.com It’s summer time and the weather is hot. And so, evidently, is this season’s current reading list. “Momm...
What I needed, however, was first-hand knowledge of what paying for pain entailed. So while in NYC for The Romance Writers of America Conference, of all things, I made a date with a Dominatrix.
As his private helicopter, the Chicken Chopper, landed, I found my unhealthy attraction toward him swelling like the disproportionately huge end of a spicy chicken wrap.
It's the interplay of light domination, submission and high-sensory sex -- all elements of BDSM -- that "nice" couples can use to add zing to vanilla sex and rediscover their sexual bond
Who knew the one thing that could bring the wide range of women riding the subway together was a rich businessman with a predilection for BDSM? "Fifty...
After the success of "50 Shades of Grey" -- an erotic "Twilight" fanfic that got tweaked and published as a book -- a company called Clandestine Class...
The public's heated response to E. L. James's Fifty Shades trilogy seems to indicate that a book that speaks frankly and passionately about sex is a new invention. But the truth is there are many seductive titles that deserve to be rediscovered.
My best bet is that Anais Nin would have flung 50 Shades of Grey across the floor and said "Who are you kidding, honey? If you're going to read filth, read well-written, smart, sexy and good filth."
From the women's locker room to the baseball stands, from grocery lines to airport gates... I've asked woman after woman what she thinks about this book's explosion into mainstream America.
It makes it much more difficult for something to be titillating, "bad" and exciting when it's as commonplace as Diet Coke.
This is the kind of "novel "that plays by its own rules and offers something of obvious value to its mostly female readership. For the uninitiated it can be gloriously instructive and for the more mature it could offer a choice menu of self-help inspiration.
Following are five novels that, in pre-Twitter, YouTube, Facebook times, went viral (or at least had readers gasping and gossiping) in a printable sort of way.
That's all we need, I thought -- more dry, cerebral artspeak to take all the fun out of erotic art. So I was very pleased to discover that How to Read Erotic Art is written in straightforward prose that educates and enhances viewing pleasure.
So, I always tell people this novel of mine is sub-titled "50 Shades of Shocking Magenta." Grey, it is not. Hot, it is. One reviewer, Poor Man, sent...
Here are five of my favorite ways to rev up your sex life.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's 1847 classic, has been a popular tale to rework for decades: film adaptations started as early as 1910, and more recentl...
Ah, how nice it is to have a product exploring women's pleasure, one that doesn't undermine our confidence or power in the way that many beauty products and home cleaning supplies do.
What Sex and the City did for women's sexuality, Fifty Shades takes to another level. Christian Grey might even make Samantha Jones blush.
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...
