Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Audio books are becoming increasingly popular, according to this report, and sex is a popular topic. When Audible started nine years ago, “porn” and “sex” were popular Web search terms, even more so than now. So as an Internet company, Audible chose to offer racy titles. It now has hundreds of briskly selling erotica offerings, most available only as downloads, and increasingly geared toward women, including the “Herotica” series edited Read More …
Jenny raced down from the porch of the log cabin and threw herself into Mike’s arms. It had been three weeks since they’d seen each other, and now they were alone for the whole weekend. He kissed her hungrily, his strong arms surrounding her in a circle of warm love. She’d missed him so much… Suddenly he was kissing her eyes, her ears, her neck, and then he was unbuttoning Read More …
They’d locked the doors for the night. Slave girl Lia waited, feeling apprehensive. What duties would she be expected to perform? She’d only heard vague whisperings of what went on in this chamber, hushed mentions of lust and lascivious desires. The Queen had made her choice earlier that evening at dinner. Lia had been serving the wine when the elegantly jeweled hand had shot out and grabbed her wrist, drawing Read More …
Oh, the horror of editing badly written sex stories. Never mind the 5273 replacements of “!!!” with a full stop (thanks, find and replace). Never mind the awful spelling, atrocious punctuation or dreadful characterisation. The hardest part is encountering sentences like this: Make no mistake about it, women think about what’s hanging between a man’s legs about as often as men think about the various sizes of women’s boobs. The Read More …
Writer India Knight has edited a book called Dirty Bits For Girls. The book is an anthology of those well-thumbed naughty bits cherished by an older generation of women, back when information about sex was a lot harder to find. India’s article on her book appears in the Times Online. Seems that 80s power novels and bodice-ripping romances were highly prized for stirring the erotic imagination. It’s one of those Read More …
So, in the wake of the FTG erotic fiction competition, I’ve compiled a list of tips for all those aspiring erotica writers hoping to get their name up in lights. This list has arisen after hours of reading dozens of great, good, ordinary and downright awful sex stories. Behind it is my experience as a writer, journalist, editor, English Literature graduate and dirty pornographer. By the way… some of this Read More …
I should have posted about this yesterday – we’ve announced the winners of our cunnilingus-themed erotic fiction competition. Details of the winners plus judges comments are here: FTG Short Story Competition. Congrats to Gwen Masters who wrote a gorgeous story about a woman’s first experience of cunnilingus. I gotta say, it’s a big job reading through a huge pile of erotic fiction, trying to decide which ones are the best, Read More …