I don't understand why Fifty Shades of Grey is ridiculously popular when literary erotica isn't a new phenomenon. Which BDSM-themed books do you think would be more worthy of a nationwide craze? Or rather, which books should fans of Fifty Shades read next for a more erotic experience?
not Fifty Shades of Grey
07/23/2012
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Almost anything else.
07/24/2012
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Exactly.
Originally posted by
Errant Venture
Almost anything else.
I haven't found a series that I would recommend, however Gentleman's Wager by Madelynne Ellis has long been a favorite.
If you have to have a billionaire in your erotica, The Ninety Days of Genevieve by Lucinda Carrington might interest you. Here's the blurb:
"A 90-day sex contract wasn't exactly what Genevieve Loften had in mind when she began business negotiations with the arrogant and attractive James Sinclair. As a career move she wanted to go along with it; the pay-off was potentially huge. However, she didn't imagine that he would make her the star performer in a series of increasingly kinky and exotic fantasies. Thrown into a world of sexual misadventure, Genevieve learns how to balance her high-pressure career with the twilight world of decadence."
Before anyone starts with, "that sounds like Fifty…" know that Genevieve was first published in 1996.
07/25/2012
Something that's actually about BDSM. A quote from a review by Katrina Lumsden:
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a girl who has absolutely no sense of self, who sacrifices any pretense of individuality in order to hold onto a man who doesn't even show her the faintest glimmer of respect. It's about two attention-starved individuals with the emotional maturity of toilet paper convincing themselves that their relationship is 'like, the best thing ever, OMG'. It's trite, insulting, and dangerous. I fear for any impressionable young women who read this and think that this is how an ideal relationship should operate. If nothing else, it should be issued as a guidebook to mothers around the world to show their daughters the kind of man to avoid at all costs. This book does good men (and indeed, all of humanity) a disservice."
Read the review.
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a girl who has absolutely no sense of self, who sacrifices any pretense of individuality in order to hold onto a man who doesn't even show her the faintest glimmer of respect. It's about two attention-starved individuals with the emotional maturity of toilet paper convincing themselves that their relationship is 'like, the best thing ever, OMG'. It's trite, insulting, and dangerous. I fear for any impressionable young women who read this and think that this is how an ideal relationship should operate. If nothing else, it should be issued as a guidebook to mothers around the world to show their daughters the kind of man to avoid at all costs. This book does good men (and indeed, all of humanity) a disservice."
Read the review.
07/26/2012
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Well, suggest something!
Originally posted by
Phoenix67
Something that's actually about BDSM. A quote from a review by Katrina Lumsden:
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a ... more
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a ... more
Something that's actually about BDSM. A quote from a review by Katrina Lumsden:
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a girl who has absolutely no sense of self, who sacrifices any pretense of individuality in order to hold onto a man who doesn't even show her the faintest glimmer of respect. It's about two attention-starved individuals with the emotional maturity of toilet paper convincing themselves that their relationship is 'like, the best thing ever, OMG'. It's trite, insulting, and dangerous. I fear for any impressionable young women who read this and think that this is how an ideal relationship should operate. If nothing else, it should be issued as a guidebook to mothers around the world to show their daughters the kind of man to avoid at all costs. This book does good men (and indeed, all of humanity) a disservice."
Read the review. less
"This is not a book about BDSM, this is a book about one sick, abusive man and his obsession with a young, naive invertebrate. It's a book about a girl who has absolutely no sense of self, who sacrifices any pretense of individuality in order to hold onto a man who doesn't even show her the faintest glimmer of respect. It's about two attention-starved individuals with the emotional maturity of toilet paper convincing themselves that their relationship is 'like, the best thing ever, OMG'. It's trite, insulting, and dangerous. I fear for any impressionable young women who read this and think that this is how an ideal relationship should operate. If nothing else, it should be issued as a guidebook to mothers around the world to show their daughters the kind of man to avoid at all costs. This book does good men (and indeed, all of humanity) a disservice."
Read the review. less
07/28/2012
The first Kushiel Trilogy. Not everything was to my taste, but my god can that author (Jacqueline Carey) write. It had politics, intrigue, murder, spirituality, action, adventure, and a sexy masochist heroine.
07/28/2012
Black Dagger Brotherhood?
07/28/2012
The Beauty series by Anne Rice is a good choice You can get it at Target now too lol
07/29/2012
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