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I’ve been reading a lot of erotica lately. What, lately you ask? It’s true – I hadn’t read a lot of it before becoming a part of the Sexis Naked Reader Book Club. Since I’ve joined, I’ve received several themed erotica anthologies to read and get excited over. The book I picked to read for August, Do Not Disturb, is filled with stories about having sex in one of the most exciting places you can – and one of the most exciting places I have – the hotel.

Do Not Disturb (Hotel Sex Stories) was published in 2009 by Cleis Press. It’s an over-sized paperback with 20 stories and is 214 pages long. The type is easy to read, and short author biographies are included at the end. The book has a blog where author news, reader stories, and hotel sex are the topic of the day.

This collection is edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, a writer whose own works appear in numerous erotica anthologies including this one. Rachel has also written for Bust, AVN, the Huffington Post, Playgirl, Penthouse, and the New York Post, among others. She has also appeared on television, on shows as diverse as “Family Business” and “The Martha Stewart Show.”

In her introduction, Rachel talks about how hotels can be very erotic settings for sex, whether it’s an upscale, 5 star hotel or a rent-by-the-hour dive. Hotels can be used to fulfill many different sexual needs, including secrecy, flirting, affairs, and fantasies. She ends the introduction by relating some memorable moments she has had in hotels herself.

Most of the stories in this anthology feature heterosexual couples, although there are a few stories with same sex couples. This collection also has some three-way action between two men and a woman, two women and a man, and three men. The stories cover lunchtime dalliances, cheating spouses, chance and planned encounters and even hired pleasure.

All of the stories in this collection are well written. While I enjoyed almost all of them, some of the stories didn’t get me going at all or just seemed misplaced in an erotica collection.  Three stories in particular stood out in this category.

“The St. George Hotel, 1890” by Lillian Slugocki  I really liked this story of a woman reminiscing about having a tryst with a disturbing stranger, but it was more of a thriller with elements of sex set in days gone by than an erotic and arousing read.

“G is For Gypsy” by Maxim Jakubowski  This told the melancholy story of a traveling man who pines for a lost love and reminisces about what he no longer has before becoming a lost soul in room after room. I found this story a bit depressing and sad.

“Talking Dirty” by Shanna Germaine  Something’s happened to his wife, and a loving husband tries to break through by recreating a hotel scene with her week after week. This story I also found sad, and while I felt for the characters and the love of the husband, it seemed a bit out of place.

Many of the stories I did find highly erotic. Some really tapped into my fantasies and gave me ideas for future roleplay, while others were just plain arousing to read. My favorite stories in this collection were:

“So Simple A Place” by Isabelle Gray A business woman in Tokyo for 6 months has a flirtation with her Japanese counterpart that builds to something special in a place where they can be anywhere in the world.

“Tropical Grotto, Winter Storm” by Teresa Noele Roberts  A couple finds themselves unexpectedly snowbound at a hotel that features an indoor tropical water park. What to do?

“Hump Day” by Rachel Kramer Bussel  A married couple spends an hour every Wednesday at a seedy hotel for a raunchy, role-playing date.

The best story in this collection for me by far was “The Royalton – A Daray Tale” by Tess Danesi. Here, a woman follows her lover’s instructions, starting in the lobby of the Royalton Hotel. She finds herself living out one of her greatest fantasies in the room, but being blindfolded throughout keeps her guessing about the identity of the third person in the room.

Overall, Do Not Disturb is a book I would recommend if you’ve ever had great hotel sex or fantasized about doing so. You can pick up your copy at EdenFantasys by clicking on the widget below, read it, and join the discussion for this Sexis Naked Reader Book Club selection on the forum later this month.

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While I love long sexual encounters and lovemaking sessions, I also enjoy unplanned, spontaneous sex. Sex that isn’t planned, is spur of the moment, and quick. Sex on the stairs, a quickie in a bathroom, even fucking on an elevator or in the back seat of a car. Frenzy, one of July’s Sexis Naked Reader Book Club selections, is a collection of short stories where the frenzy refers to both the act and the stories themselves.

Frenzy is an oversized (8” x 5 1/2″) paperback published in 2008 by Cleis Press with easy to read type. It’s edited by Alison Tyler, who has authored more than 25 erotic novels, had her stories published in more than 80 anthologies, and has herself edited more than 45 erotic collections. I’ve come to really enjoy her stories and was delighted to find some in this collection.

In her introduction, Alison tells us that there’s nothing like a quickie, and she is referring to both the sexual act and the length of the stories. She packs 60 stories into 209 pages, some as short as 75 words, others as long as 1500. Most of the stories feature heterosexual couples, although there are a few that do not.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it isn’t always the heart of arousal. Most of the shorter stories here, and some of the longer ones, are just are just too short and undeveloped to be properly titillating. They are mostly well written, but don’t stimulate and in many cases are bland. One story, “Waves” by Alisha Steele, is even quite sad.

Plenty of gems grace this collection, however, including but not limited to:

“Paper Clips” by A. D. R. Forte   A woman arrives at his room, and a man shows her the pleasure of bondage with some creative pain from the paper clips in his briefcase.

“Pirate Treasure” by Janine Ashbless An actor and an actress on the set of a pirate movie have a bawdy and climaxing close encounter as extras in a bar during the filming of their scene.

“Coming to Conclusions” by Andrea Miller Rory doesn’t participate in acts of debauchery at monthly parties but she has a secret that Nick intends to reveal.

“Lake Logan” by Cheyenne Blue A couple gets stuck in their car in rising water off the side of a road during a storm. They can’t resist their urges and providing a show to passing motorists.

“Bastard” by Alison Tyler His belt buckle says Bastard, and a waitress hears the tale of how he came to get it from her coworker.

“Appetite” by Shanna Germain The most food centric story in the collection. A woman breaks her carb addiction but isn’t cured, and thinks of sex every time she is enticed by them. Bread and donuts become cocks, balls, and breasts as she struggles with her appetite.

“Take Note, Please” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz Anna awakens bound at the Men’s Sexology Institute, where Professor Mooney teaches a hands-on class on female genitalia stimulation on her vulnerable and unwilling(?) body.

Frenzy is easy to pick up and read a story or two at a time. You may find that reading several in a row increases your frenzy to get some of your own.

If you’d like to join in the Sexis Naked Reader Book Club in July, Frenzy would be a good choice. Read it now and join in the book discussion on the EdenFantasys forums later in the month. You can get your copy from EdenFantasys by clicking the widget below.

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Although Afternoon Delight always brings to mind that song – and don’t you imagine skyrockets in flight? – this collection of 24 short stories (each by a different author) published by Cleis Press and edited by Alison Tyler doesn’t occur just in the afternoon. Instead, the stories run from pre-dawn excitement through morning, noon, and evening, with the last stories taking us full circle to the wee hours of the morn.

Afternoon Delight (erotica for couples) was published in 2009. It is 179 pages, with three reprinted stories (from 2003, 2006, and 2008). This is an oversized soft cover edition (8” x 5 1/2″), with the front featuring a picture of a woman and man in a passionate embrace. The back of the book lists the included authors and some tease about the stories. Alison has an introduction to the stories featured in the book, and the last few pages list the authors and their previous writing publications. Some of the writers are new to the genre, while others have been widely published in books and magazines.

The stories are all short, and easy to read in a 5 to 10 minute sitting.

This is erotica for anyone who enjoys reading of the sexcapades of almost exclusively heterosexual couples (mostly married) who are sometimes adventurous or rekindling their love. Only 1 story features two women as a couple, and the first story (which is only 2 short paragraphs long) is ambiguous.

A few of the stories have a bondage or light fetish element to them. While not all of the stories are stellar or arousing almost all are explicit, and there is a nice selection of stories that evoke a sense of fantasy and a desire to reenact them afterwards.

The stories here cover it all, from tickling, reconnecting, lingerie collections, tales of days gone by and sex in the office to exhibitionism, surprises, and role-playing. The stories I enjoyed the most had a bit of play-acting to the lovemaking, with the couple stepping outside of their usual boundaries to experience something new and erotic.

Several stories really created a sense of excitement for me.

“Breakfast In Bed” by Andrea Dale explored an erotic morning between a husband and wife, who are in a comfortable yet boring relationship. When the kids are away, the husband delights his wife with a smorgasbord of breakfast delicacies while keeping her arms tied to the headboard.

In “Nooner” by Bella Dean, the wife comes home at noon from an exhausting night shift to find her husband home unexpectedly. A fun and edgy dictation episode ensues with some master/slave play.

“Disco Queen” by Sommer Marsden features a couple that find an old disco dress while cleaning the garage. With instructional notes and a cleaned dress, the wife finds herself the star of a disco party for two.

In “Matinee” by Quinn Gabriel, a couple trying to reconnect find an erotic way to do so in a theater.

The hottest story in the book for me was “The Date at South Station” by Xavier Acton. Here, a husband picks his wife up in a bad part of town. She is totally transformed into a street prostitute, and she takes him for a wild ride in a seedy hotel, getting a little more than she bargained for in return.

I came away from this book with several ideas for spicing up my own relationship. Many of the stories were exciting and arousing, and all around this was a good read.

I’d recommend Afternoon Delight for those looking for ideas, as well as those just wanting to read about couples seducing each other at all hours of the day. This isn’t the book you’ll want to pick up, however, if you’re looking for erotica featuring anything but a man and a woman in love.

This book is one of two featured by the Sexis Naked Reader Book Club this month. If you’re interested in reading Afternoon Delight (erotica for couples), you can pick up your copy from EdenFantasys.

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Does the blade of a knife cutting through your butter soft skin turn you on? Do you grow hard watching a woman smoke cigarettes? Do you get excited by wearing women’s lingerie? Or does Santa Claus make you “Ho, Ho, Ho?” If fetishes and well-written erotica appeal to you, this book will too.

Best Fetish Erotica, edited by Cara Bruce and printed by Cleis Press, is a collection of short stories first published in 2000 and 2002 that explore the realm of fetish sex. The stories pack a punch, and run the gamut from the mild to the extreme. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, this collection is sure to expose you to fetishes you dream about as well as ones you can’t forget once you read them.

The book is 183 pages, and contains 21 stories, each by a different author. This is a softcover edition and oversized (9” x 6”), with a slick cover featuring the back of a corseted woman. The typeset is clear and readable, with no pictures or drawings inside. The back pages of the book give some information about the authors contained within.

The editor, Cara Bruce, has had her stories appear in other collections and is also the editor of VenusOrVixen.com. The writers all come from diverse backgrounds with various publishing credits to their names.

Each story in this collection features a different fetish, and each author stimulates, educates, and arouses the reader. The fetishes included contain some common ones: a piece of lingerie, masochism/torture, smoking, interracial sex, knife play, wearing women’s clothes, mothers, voyeurism, teacher/student, and spankings. They also include some less common fetishes: smiles, robot sex, whore genes, cars, dolls, vegetarians, colors, and even Santa.  Yes, Santa.

I found all of the stories in this collection to be well-written and engaging. Some of the stories are very short (the shortest is 3 pages), while others run to about 20 pages, but all are short enough to sit down and read in 5 to 10 minutes. I haven’t read a lot of this type of erotica, so all of the stories were fresh for me, even though they date back several years. Some of the stories employ humor, while others are quite serious in tone.

There are stories here that will not appeal to everyone, due to their subject matter, but that’s what I would expect in this type of anthology. If you’re reading this one, you’re more than likely interested in fetishes, and probably have one or two of your own.

My favorite stories in this collection were “Machine” by Raven Caldera, about a woman who dresses up as a pleasure object and is guided by another; “Horsepower” by Tom Piccirilli, dealing with hot sex and hot cars; and “Man and Woman: A Study In Black and White” by Rachel Resnick, about a white woman and a black man each with a fetish for the other.

I would recommend this book if you enjoy thought provoking, sometimes edgy stories about what turns some people on. This book is a great way to explore how others get off.

This book is one of two featured by the Sexis Naked Reader Book Club this month.  If you’re interested in reading Best Fetish Erotica, you can pick up your copy from EdenFantasys.

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