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I Write About Sex For A Living

I Write About Sex For A Living

What it's really like to spend all day spinning sexy stories.

Writing about sex has always been an honorable tradition. Just like good sex, good sex writing is in the details, the images, the scenario, the melding of reality and fantasy. We read erotica for inspiration, sometimes to lose ourselves, though we often find parts of ourselves within the story. Good sex writing paints a picture; it shows as well as tells, and it connects your mind to your body. Sounds good right, the life of an erotica writer? Can't you see me in my sexy lingerie, sitting at my laptop, popping bonbons from a heart shaped dish into my mouth, porno playing as I sample sex toys for research? Unfortunately the reality is very, very different.

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What's It Like To Be An Erotica Writer?

A Q&A with the author of Brown Sugar, a collection of erotic black fiction.

Carol Taylor writes erotic literature. She started as an editor in the publishing industry and eventually put out a book of her own called Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction. From there she's become a luminary in the world of erotic fiction in general and black erotica specifically. So, how has becoming a sexpert changed her own love life? Not much, she draws some part of her fiction and the rest is, well, fiction. Maureen Dempsey gets all the details in this Q&A.

Now There's Erotica for the Evangelical Set

From The Globe and Mail By Siri Agrell Richard Davies was reading The New York Times books section when he spotted a full-page advertisement for sex guides. A spokesman for Victoria-based online book retailer Abe Books, Mr. Davies wondered what kind of guides his customers were ordering, and ran a search of the company's database. "I knew there was demand for collectible erotica, things like The Pop-Up Kama Sutra," he said. "But we put together our bestselling list and, lo and behold, a Christian guide was No. 1." Of the top 10 sex guides ordered by Abe Books users, five have religious or spiritual themes, ranging from Christian how-tos to "Taoist methods for male sexual revitalization." Tango’s Take

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Erotic Literature: Our 5 Favorites

Stimulate the body and mind with these sultry reads.

Tango canvases the bookshelves to pull the five books that get us most steamy. Here are our selections from classic literature worth reading aloud again and again. Included inside are erotic excerpts from Little Birds by Anais Nin, A Month of Sundays by John Updike, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.