If 50 Shades of Grey has done anything (besides light up thousands of Kindles and iPads), it has opened up a discussion about the fact that ? gasp ? women enjoy badly written sexy stories as much as men enjoy badly written porn. And that discussion has included many female-oriented publications giving us lists of ?erotica that?s better than 50 Shades.? Here, the best of the ?better than? lists:
The Vine goes mostly classic: John Cleland?s Fanny Hill, D.H. Lawrence?s Lady Chatterley?s Lover, Anais Nin?s Delta of Venus, Annie Proulx?s ?Brokeback Mountain.? One of our faves, Cleis Press? annual Best Women?s Erotica, also gets a mention.
BiblioBitch likes: Curvy Girls: Erotica for Women, Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, Anne Rice?s Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, and Pauline Reage?s The Story of O.
The Guardian is into: Shirley Conran?s Lace, Judith Krantz?s Scruples, Nancy Friday?s My Secret Garden (a feminist classic!), and Sappho (a lesbian classic!).
The Huffington Post focuses on ?groundbreaking erotic reads?: James Salter?s A Sport and a Pastime, Josephine Hart?s Damage, Erica Jong?s Fear of Flying, and Grace Metalious? Peyton Place.
Make It Better prefers the instructional: The Kama Sutra, along with Henry Miller?s Tropic of Cancer and Judy Blume?s Wifey (yes!). They also mention Rachel Kramer Bussel, our personal favorite.
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