Recommendations

I've looked through a lot of your topics posted, and have to come to an agreement with you all. There aren't a whole lot of 'erotic' books catalouged on LT.
I'm a 'newcomer' to this type of literature, but I have become infatuated with it. So thought I'd try to get some advice from you here.
I've read the Sleeping Beauty Series, Belinda, and Exit to Eden, Slammerkin, etc. However, I am now finding it difficult to find other titles. There are always the more popular ones (Story of O), but I'd like to get a little more off the beaten path.
So my question to you........like any other LTer....do you have any good recommendations? I'm all ears...

Hi Becky,

I don't actually find the time to make specific recommendations, but you'll find more than 100 titles in my library.
That goes for all other group members, of course and it will show that there LT members who don't hide their taste.
I use the EROTICS tag for my related fiction, and SEXUALITY for non-fiction.

Also, if you look up the tag YONI, you'll find books by my wife and myself that might be of interest in this connection.

Have fun looking around.
Rufus C. Camphausen

>1 beckylynn:

Hi beckylynn,

In another thread we've been discussing the use of tags and their ramifications. I find I must share some guilt, in that my researches predominantly concern sexuality and erotic literature, and I have listed on LT many hundreds of the latter, but using tags that others may not find easily accessible. Have a look!

Erotica is a very personal thing - the titles you indicate are on the 'soft' side of most of my collection! - and it's very difficult for any taste to find things similar to what you've found hits the spot (!). LT, though it pains me to say it, because it's such a useful service, isn't actually as useful for doing this as I find Amazon. Amazon has few enough reviews in the erotica area, but more than LT, and they're also easier to browse. Note that the different 'national' Amazon sites have different sets of reviews; try amazon.co.uk.

Another note: It's possible to search 'erotic' in amazon (at least it is in UK), but presumably to save juvenile sensitivities the word doesn't appear in the 'up-front' pages. Try looking at a few erotic books, and have a look near the bottom of the pages - they very often include a link related to erotic literature as a 'search further' (or similar), down there.

Looking through someone's listings is useful, though, particularly as you develop skills for reading the cover-pictorial and other stylistic clues available on cover pictures.

Basing my advice on your given titles I would suggest you look at the publishing output of 'Black Lace', and 'Ellora's Cave'. And for a bit more spice, look at 'Nexus', 'Blue Moon', 'X-Libris', and 'Chimera'. The spectrum reaches beyond 'Olympia', which is not for the faint-hearted. I think most of these imprints support their own websites, alhough these concentrate (understandably) on current titles, and the better bargains are often second-hand from Amazon suppliers.

My entire library is what I would classify as erotic...some of it fiction, some non fiction - history, reference, biography, photography/art, sexuality, sexual history.

By all means have a look and see if anything catches your fancy

beckylynn, try Carrie's Story and Safe Word by Molly Weatherfield and The Marketplace Series by Laura Antoniou. They're a little more 'off the path' but still in the vein of what you've read, e.g., Rice and Reage.

Anything by Morgan Hawke.

Thanks, you guys are great. I've gotten so many responses to this posting and quite a few on my profile- this group is great!

From a new British author A Love That Makes Life Drunk by Karen Roderick.

One of my favorites, if you liked the 'Sleeping Beauty' series, is 'Commander Amanda Nightingale'. It's more of a 'Story of O' type story and takes place in WWII when Com. Nightingale, Royal Navy, is captured by Nazis while on an espionage mission and endures all just to avoid being executed for spying.
What is most interesting about this 'Recommendations' thread is that almost all of them are S/M stories.

Marco Vassi should not be overlooked.

On the extreme and surreal end of the BDSM spectrum, I give an erect thumb to The Castle of Communion.

Angela Knight is pretty solidly in erotic science fiction, if you like that as well.

For those of you who enjoy BDSM, there is a free website with thousands of short stories -and some long ones- called www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/search.php. This address is a tag search tool that allows you to select your favorite themes, and eliminate those you may wish to avoid. Several new stories are added each day. And you can select categories such as Alltime Most Popular, Recent Popular, Highest Rated, Longest, and others. I have been reading these for years and am a dedicated fan.

I have tried reading "on line" on numerous occasions and find it tiresome and tiring when consuming anything other than a short story or essay!

I prefer my books on whatever subject matter in my hand - not on my computer screen however I do appreciate that this is one way in which people can explore a wide range of themes and topics that may not be otherwise readily available.

#12 - Thanks JT. It looks to be worth checking out. :-)

Helcura #14

If you like this kind of Fantasy there is something there for everyone, keeping in mind that it is Only FANTASY!

Helcura #14

If you like this kind of Fantasy there is something there for everyone, keeping in mind that it is Only FANTASY!
I just noticed that a modern classic is missing from the list on this page; RETURN TO THE CHATEAU (Preceded by 'A Girl in Love') (1971) being the 'The Story of O, Part II', wherein 'O' finds that she does not wish to escape her chains or slavery even as the life becomes more difficult and painful. She has surrendered totally and finds freedom in total slavery.

I would recommend Dommemoir, by I.G. Frederick. It's very hot, but also intelligent and thoughtful--this is a book that will challenge you.

For men, I think I might recommend the diaries of Frank Harris (My Life and Loves -- usually in two volumes) and Cassanova's Memoirs, but I cannot help wonder whether the cavalier (?) way these men "help" -- in most but not all cases, "use" or "take advantage of" would be more like it -- will so turn off women that they are unreadable. I recommend the books because both taught me a lot of history. In the former, I met English royalty reacting to limericks and people contesting the advantages and disadvantages of various European tongues. In the latter, I learned how people had to have signed proof they attended Easter Services or they could be arrested. In other words, Christianity as more oppressive than the Taliban today. And, as both men were exceptionally good observers/connoiseurs of beauty below the belt, there is some excellent writing on THAT, though it is only erotic rather than pornographic today because we have photographs and movies for the latter.

I would not mind reading women on both those writers, if essays might be found on-line!