Of lasting value for all lovers of literature and the erotic, this is a glorious, groundbreaking celebration of black sensuality, including works by Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and many more.

    Brenda Love covers strange methods of arousal as will as hundreds of bizarre sex activities such as erotic balls, and love potions.

    Fatima Lim, Jessica Hagedorn, Marra Lanot, Ruth Elynia Mabanglo, and Benilda Santos.In these stories and poems—tender, sad, passionate, wry, distrubing and joyful—women give new voice to their perceptions of the erotic and reveal their delights and desires. An outstanding collection that will provoke and give pleasure to the reader.

    Collected inside are all three volumes' worth of magnificent erotic selections -- paintings and drawings, sculpture and photographs, poetry and prose -- all chosen to stimulate and amuse.Sexually inspired images can be found in the earliest human cultures as well as throughout Western and Eastern civilization. The engaging, provocative scope of works picked by editors Charlotte Hill and William Wallace includes paintings from the French and Italian Renaissance, lithographs from fin de siecle Vienna and Paris, French postcards from La Belle Epoque, and contemporary pictures and sculpture. Complementing this gallery of erotic art are such literary delights as the luxuriant poetry of the Romans and the Moguls and the Renaissance ribaldry of Boccaccio and Aretino. The notorious memoirs of Casanova and Frank Harris, the decadent dreams of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Jean Cocteau, the lustful prose of Henry Miller and D. H. Lawrence, and the anonymous fantasy of The Story of O illuminate the exuberant and joyous aspects of erotica.An exultant celebration of human sexuality, The Illustrated History of Erotica boxed set presents an intoxicating survey of "forbidden" literature and artworks, guaranteed to appeal to a wide audience of men and women.

    Collection of erotic gay and lesbian Science Fiction stories of dominance and S&M.

    

    The dramatic action moves from Wales through a tumultuous Europe unsettled by the Crusades to intensely colorful Palestine and back. Arrogant Guy Lanfranc assumes control of the family castle by sending his hated mother, the old baroness Ailena Valaise, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Wily Ailena vows revenge and finds the means in the person of Rachel Tibbon, a Jewish girl who survived the butchery of her family and other Jews after Crusader losses. Ailena's plot to regain the castle built by her father propels Rachel into a perilous adventure of vengeance, faith—and true love set against impossible odds.

    What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? what motivates these writers and characterizes their work? In this work, Elizabeth Meese examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of character, diverge and converge wit the writer's own biography.

    Accompanied by lyrical poetry, this collection showcases the nude portrait photography David Hamilton is known for.

    Between Ntozake Shange's "Fore/Play" and John A. Williams's "After Play" arranged into chapters such as "When the Spirits Come," "Movin' to the Beat," "Naughty, Nasty, and Nice," and "Taking the Plunge" - are a host of imaginative short stories, poems, essays, folktales, and letters. Always spicy, sometimes raunchy, often tender and touching, or just plain fun, Erotique Noire/Black Erotica is also a serious and intellectually exciting anthology of Black literature, including such authors as Audre Lorde, Marita Golden, Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Chester Himes, Trey Ellis, Calvin Hernton, and Barbara Chase-Riboud, among many, many others. African, African-American, Latin-American, and Caribbean-American men and women, gay and straight - novelists, poets, essayists, and scholars - provide wealth of erotic delights ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, from the provocative to the shockingly explicit. Challenging the traditional shibboleths that have surrounded the literary representation of Black physical desire and sexual pleasure, Erotique Noire/Black Erotica draws open the curtain to reveal an erotic emotional world rich in its imagery, passion, and sense of adventure. Celebratory and bold, triumphant and heady, this collection reclaims the fullness of Black life. It is an extraordinary work of lasting valu for all lovers of litrature and, especially, the erotic.

    

    Walking into that fight gym was the hardest thing Maureen Bryant had ever done, but the painful memories of the father she barely knew vanished the instant she beheld the fighter in the ring. All sculpted muscles and sun-bronzed skin, Jack Ryan was the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen, a sleek Adonis whose powerful physique left her weak. But she knew better than to surrender her heart to another man who'd give her up without a second thought. She Was A Woman Worth Fighting For ... One look at the gym's new owner and Jack Ryan almost went down for the count. Yet he knew that beneath her elegant exterior, Sully's long-lost daughter couldn't have a heart. Sully had been the father Jack had always needed, the only person who could have turned a troubled youth around. Now Jack was ready to do anything--even climb back into the ring for the biggest challenge of his life--to save Sully's gym from the woman who would let it die. But even as he put on the gloves, something told him that the real fight would be in letting Maureen go ...

    If good erotic reading...is desired, this book will satisfy the burning hunger very well."-Lambda Book Report gay

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