When a lover shares an erotic story, it’s not only a seduction: It’s a revelation. What gets under your skin? Trust me? You’ll have to find out, sooner or later.
Erotic storytelling has a way of getting dirtier, crazier, and more suspenseful than visual erotica. To share such an aural confession with a lover is a leap of faith. Will they respond? Will they run out of the room? Nothing could be more intimate. And to have those words sink into your body; it can break your heart. Breaking a sweat is just the beginning.
I’ll never forget the year I was still in plaid skirts, and a school chum passed me a heavily earmarked copy of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. She whispered where to find the taboo pages, too unspeakable to describe further. Purple prose? You bet. But that’s when I found out how powerful a few words could be. Ever since, I’ve been filled with wonder by the arousing power of the spoken line. Listening is the ultimate virtual reality.
The experience is deliciously illicit — and foolproof — with audiobooks. Your own personal Scheherazade. When you listen with a lover, you have a third in your bed. Perhaps a dramatization is in order!
Real romance is about real intimacy. My favorites are stories of complete surrender. Of obsession and betrayal. The uncertainties of erotic life writ large in bold strokes. These stories don’t lie. They are here to get you off. Not to make you wish for a stalking prince with an enormous … bank account.
I’ve been editing and producing erotic audiobooks for some time now, and I think I’ve found something for everyone, every fantasy. These stories aren’t here for just an orgasm, but to expand your worldview, to feed your erotic imagination.
The canard about erotic writing is that it’s easy, that anyone can string together a few naughty words, and presto. Not so. Too often a writer takes the craft for granted and comes off laughable. Fifty shades of ridiculous. But writers who’ve authored the most memorable sex scenes are the ones who can write the greatest passages in life. Birth and death scenes, orgasm scenes — only those with the deftest prose can do it well.
You’ll see I have a few classics on my favorites list. I can’t help it; they can be listened to again and again, both a writer’s and a lover’s epiphany…
Shall we begin?
Anaïs Nin touches nearly every method of being aroused: smell, sight, touch. Her wild stories are made plausible by her sensitivity to the psychological origins of desire. There is always something delicate in her erotica no matter how perverse. Ingrid Pitt whispers seductive secrets in your ear. Hold her close.
Narrator Käthe Mazur takes her time, softly. Her forthrightness, rather than dulling the story, lets every word shine. She’s possibly my favorite reader. This is the classic tale of surrender that inspired my most memorable birthday party.
All BAE editions have a breadth of genres and tastes, but this one has a collection of reader favorites and is an excellent place to sample what erotica can be.
Included in this collection are stories by Martha Miller, Chuck Palaniuk, Greta Christina, Myriam Gurba, Dorothy Allison, Zane, Jill Soloway, Tsaurah Litzky, Steven Saylor, Nicholson Baker, and William Harrison.
Perverse fairy tales. Sexually compulsive haunts. The baroque savage.
Bohemian, post-punk, Dark Wave, catering to Elizabethan, Victorian, Cajun, Latin, African, and Catholic tastes.
Elizabeth Jasicki makes this so classy! Languid, posh, and living it. The stories depict an elitist clique of dom/sub enthusiasts. You’d never get in, but you can get this virtual version.
Phone sex is transformed into a most revealing picture of a man and a woman baring their souls as they part their lips. I’ll never forget the first phone call I had with Nicholson. It was de riguer to ask: What are you wearing?
A fantasy kingdom where man-on-man sex feeds magic. Written as a serial, it’s chock-a-block with adventure, court intrigue, and lots and lots of sex. Pace yourselves.
Aaron Travis writes the kind of sex scenes that will literally make you sweat. So. Much. Tension. He’s not writing to make you feel safe. These are all stories between men, and yet women tell me it’s their favorite collection as well. Travis is simply universal.
Radclyffe has built an empire depicting women who are rivals, opposites, enemies getting it on and falling in L-O-V-E — in no particular order. The sex is always hot-hot-hot, and the women are the kind of smart babes who run the world.
Rachel, the doyenne of Erotic Writers Salons, put this collection together in the most deliciously selfish manner: What turned her on. “Dirty and sweet” were her key words, her audience agreed.
If all you know of Walter Mosley is Easy Rawlins, you’re missing a master eroticist. In this surprising and provocative novel, the best-selling author pushes boundaries of the political, psychological, and, yes, existential through sex and intrigue. Percy O’Hara’s cool narration is spot on and will leave you breathless.
Molly Weatherfield is not messing around. An updated Story of O that throws you in chains from the opening line. If you want it rough, historically accurate, and begging for more, Carrie’s your girl.
