Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Just a quick reminder – as of today there are only 2 weeks left before the close of the For The Girls erotic fiction competition. The theme this year is “transgression.” Stories should be 2000 words max and written for a female audience. Entries close July 31. Details of the competition can be found here.
Last week I reviewed the new erotica for women book Dirty Girls for For The Girls. In a previous post I expressed concern at the cliquey comments on the back, but I’m pleased to say that the inside is fabulous. Don’t judge a book by its cover! The collection is chock full of naughty sexual adventures starring women who aren’t afraid to enjoy themselves. These are dirty girls indeed, greedy Read More …
Writers! Please! This is a call for more submissions to For The Girls – both to our regular erotic fiction and Wicked Ways sections and also our erotic story contest. I realise that it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that you guys are probably more interesting in BBQs and swimming and not doing a damned thing, but please, please, can you spare a few thousand words of steamy, arousing, Read More …
It’s June again and that means that it’s For The Girls’ birthday! Way back in the mists of time – June 2003 – my friend Jane and I launched our little-porn-site-that-could. We gathered together all our favourite dirty pics and movies, and I collected a whole bunch of my articles and columns, and off we went. We started small, and our first billing company – Globill – collapsed within a Read More …
It seems that the canon of women’s literary erotica is growing, and that’s a good thing. The latest book release is Dirty Girls, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussell. I received my review copy the other day but I haven’t had much of a chance to read it. The few stories I have read have been amazing, so I think it’s worth checking out. Here’s the official blurb off the back: Read More …
Amazon has gone a little beserk and printed a large chunk of Susie Bright’s introduction to Best American Erotica 2008 on their site. Not that I’m complaining, of course, because it makes for great reading. A snippet: Nowadays, I don’t think there’re mainstream novelists who haven’t been asked what role sexuality plays in their fiction — or why they’re pussyfooting around, if they continue to avoid it. It’s the stuff Read More …
Here’s another book chock full of lusty reading if you’re in the mood to stimulate your imagination. I like this one because it’s really all about straight-out fantasy, and it’s always hot to read what gets other women off. Official blurb: The Mammoth Book of Women’s Fantasies is the newest addition to the lustily successful Mammoth Erotica series featuring the year’s—and the world’s—best erotic fiction. Featured in this steamy collection Read More …
Violet Blue has posted her call for submissions for Best Women’s Erotica 2009. The deadline is 1st May 2009 and the guidelines look pretty similar to last year. I really liked what Violet had to write about creating a top quality erotica collection that reflects women: Let’s give women readers what they really want (as sales have shown). Let’s show mainstream publishing (who are still afraid of publishing books like Read More …
The latest Best Women’s Erotica book is out, once again edited by Violet Blue. I haven’t had a chance to read it but here’s the official blurb: Best Women’s Erotica 2008 delivers risky, romantic, heart-pounding thrills. Joyful, daring, and authentic, these 21 steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of long-time lovers. In “Penalty Fare,†a Londoner rides train after train without Read More …
I’ve been meaning to write up an article on Yaoi for a long time but gay site Xtra has beaten me to it. Yaoi (pronounced “yowee”) is Japanese manga comics depicting romantic relationships between two men, some of it involving hardcore gay sex. Yaoi is almost exlusively written by women for a straight female audience. It’s been popular in Japan for a long time but has now broken into the Read More …
Browsing Amazon I discovered a book of erotic fiction that’s piqued my interest. Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women, by Nancy Madore, takes 13 standard fairy tales and gives them a dirty twist. Think threesomes with Snow White, Prince Charming and a maid, or lusty liaisons between Beauty and the Beast. Now, there’s something about the very idea of this that fascinates me. So many “children’s stories” have an undercurrent Read More …
Well folks, the winners have been announced in the For The Girls short story competition. WINNER Kindling For The Flame by J.D. Sampson Judge’s comments: There’s a bittersweet tone to this wonderfully written story which depicts a woman’s first time on the beach with her husband-to-be. The language perfectly invokes the moment and allows the reader to feel every sensation and every emotion. This story embraces the theme of discovery Read More …