Classic Erotic Tales Author:Ed L. Orma Classic Erotic Tales is a unique collection of explicit sexual writings from many centuries and cultures. It reveals the variety of ways in which it is possible to describe the erotic experience frankly and without hypocrisy. — The earliest story, from Boccaccio's Decameron written in the 1350s, is a replete with sex and violence as any Hollywood... more » X-rated movie.
In the mid-eighteenth century Casanova pursued women with ruthless single-mindedness and celebrated his conquests in his memoirs. His story would have appealed to Voltaire, who in Candide took sex to be part of the cynical joke fate plays on humanity.
Boswell, Dr Johnson's biographer, has an unquenchable appetite for sex: 'I had now been some time in town without female sport...' he writes in his journal in November 1762, and goes on to describe a particularly vigorous erotic encounter.
In the Victorian period sexual writings went underground and were all the more spicy and unrestrained for setting out deliberately to outrage 'respectability'. Three colorful tales are included from these subversive sexual classics including the notorious Walter - My Secret Life.
Also included are extracts from several modern erotic classics such as John Updike's hilarious celebration of sex in Rabbit is Rich and Alina Reyes' The Butcher, a compelling tale of raw sensuality.
Classic Erotic Tales is a feast of uninhibited writing about sexual encounters - sometimes shocking, often hilarious and always compulsively readable.« less