Erotic Writing

Erotic literature has a long and colorful past, from Ovid to Tijuana Bibles to today's contemporary fiction. Books have the ability to spark the imagination and quicken the libido. Here you’ll find an array of sexuality-based books, ranging from, fiction, to true stories, to essays, to how-to volumes, and more. If it's on the printed page and it's about sex, we strive to cover it and give you our opinion of it.

We want our readers to find books that will both entertain and enlighten. We have fiction, anthologies, and graphic novels for that erotic fix. There are many excellent how-to guides for those of you who'd like to get away from the printed page for you jollies. Finally, we will have non-fiction on the topic of sex, histories both general and specific, and books of contemporary essays. Some of these books will blur the lines, being both instructional and erotic simultaneously.

Books are rated on several levels. First, we consider the quality of the writing. Second, we think about the ideas presented in the books, and how they relate to our readers. Finally, we let you know if it's really hot. The best books in this genre are able to provoke our bodies as well as our minds.

The SexHerald Book Review section is dedicated to bringing our readers a great variety. The books we review are for everyone in the reading community, and we strive to bring you the best erotica covering a variety of sexualities. Concise and most importantly honest, we strive to consistently provide a high level of accuracy in all our reviews.

Suggestions? Suggestions for books to review are welcome; please contact editor@sexherald.com with ideas.

The come-on line of “What’s your sign?”—whether coming from someone you may consider attractive or loathsome—has elicited a number of responses from members of both sexes since its inception. Now, if you’re a believer or choose to admonish astrology signs as not being a real ‘science’ one has to admit that there is a strong following (and perhaps some truth or coincidence in some cases) that our birth signs lend some interesting details to discerning personality traits and social interactions. Astrologically Incorrect for Lovers authoris astrologer, editor and writer Terry Marlowe’s follow-up to Astrologically Incorrect. In Lovers,Marlowe focused on how specific signs may suit your needs emotionally and physically while also supplying an outline of how each of the dozen signs typically behaves through humorous insight.

Just how good can it feel to be totally in control? If you ask the protagonists of the anthology She’s on Top, the answer would likely be “pretty damn good.” Eighteen S& M prose offerings on a platter are here for your reading pleasure. Yet the irony, which you’ll find as you read further, is how profoundly the male submissives control their controllers. In “Shades of Red” (Lisbet Sarai), a vacationing woman aching to release a force within herself rents a sexual display window in Amsterdam and is surprised then delighted with what she finds. The sensuality of dominance spills into food and eating in “Feeder” by Adelaide Clark where a domme shares a meal with her lover/slave in a way that nourishes and satiates them both.

Sexercise; the word itself connotes something hilarious, absurd or at the very least, worthy of chuckles to a sitcom writer. But some writers dare to take it to that ideological next step in order to strike the flame of relevance under the ass of the concept. In this case, Ann Summers has done the job of taking the basics of sex and exercise and creating something that comes off as both a rather hot bonding experience and an endurance test. When I mean basics, I mean simply that. This is no bible of sexual/health wisdom; rather, it is a pocket-size work that offers information that, for the curious and the willing, will be easy to digest.