So last night, inspired by yesterday’s post, I did a little late holiday shopping myself (can you believe that I’m not even fully done with it yet?)(Of course you can) and I ended up getting groped a few times in one of the busy lines of peopled packed together like sardines in a hot, sweaty can. I’m not complaining, not at all, just stating a fact.
But here we are with part two of our taking a look at some books that might make fine additions to your last minute shopping spree, or just for your own reading lists…
Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide To The Extremes Of Human Sexuality(And Everything In Between) .The ultimate gift for someone’s coffee table, bathroom book shelf (you don’t have one in there? Prude), or confused little head, all thanks to the fine weirdos at Disinfo. Don’t believe me? Here’s the first sentence of the product description on Amazon: “Orgasms, sexual inventions, spirituality, high-tech porn, gender-blending, hustling, masturbation, politics, airplane sex, disabilities, sex magick, biblical erotica, advertising, first times, sex in space, asexuality, group sex… Are you ready for Disinformation’s look at the world of sex?” Why, yes, I think I am. Also, I think Luna and I need to somehow make that product description describe Carnal Knowledge too, don’t we?
Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica, edited by Stephen Elliott. This is a decent little anthology of stories involving sex and politics and other topical matters (probably slightly past it’s topic though since it’s main target was the Bush administration), but not exactly what I’d call erotica. There’s a lot of intercourse though, how about that? There’s some very interesting stories, some very on point, and some much more subtle. My favorite involved a dominatrix picking up a sub girl at a party on the even of the 2004 election and bringing her home. As they watched the election returns, seeing the chances of a Kerry win slipping farther and farther away, the dom tortures the sub sexually, reminding her of all the ways a continued Bush presidency will fuck her. It’s fun and hot, but quite a few of the stories in this collection are. There’s an impressive roster on display here, including Anthony Swofford, Jerry Stahl, Rick Moody, and Jonathan Ames, and Elliott is an author that I’ve been hearing about for a while now, but I’d like to give his story collection My Girlfriend Comes To The CityAnd Beats Me Up a look sometime. Here’s an excerpt from that.
The Extremist, written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Ted McKeever, is a slightly different kind of selection on this list being that it was a four issue limited comic book series that was released in 1993 and as far as I know, has never been collected in book form. A while back I read this post on the miniseries and immediately sought out the individual issues on ebay and I’m certainly glad it did. I don’t want to talk too much about the story, for fear of giving away something, but I will say that the story deals with secrets and sex, and the titular character is a fetish gear-wearing assassin (and underground celebrity frequenter of various San Francisco sex clubs) for a a shadowy hedonist organization known as “The Order.” Actually, the story deals with the the Extremist’s wife, who only discovers her husband alias after he’s murdered, and to get her revenge on his killer, she’ll have to submerge into the same role that her husband held, but some lifestyles aren’t as easy to get out of as they are to get into. This is a thrilling and dark read, filled with sex and violence, and high recommended. I’d also recommend the link up above as an excellent write up on the series, but it contains quite a bit of spoilers, so proceed at your own risk.
Vox by Nicholson Baker. Baker is usually good at creating nice and intricate short novels, and this one is no exception. The story consists solely of a man and a woman, complete strangers, talking on the phone, having phone sex, and and proving that sometimes the most arousing form of intimacy can be just talking. The novel also caught a little attention when it was revealed that Monica Lewinsky had given a copy of it to Bill Clinton (everyone knows that he gave her a copy of Whitman’s Leaves Of Grass, right?). An enjoyable read. Enjoy it by yourself, laying in bed, late at night, or indulge in something I’d like to do someday: read it with someone else, the ultimate act of oral (or aural?) sex.
Lost Girls written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Melinda Gebbie (the book is 16 years in the making and was quite the labor of love for the couple, who got married after it’s completion). Ah, yes, now this is the real deal right here, folks, described by Wikipedia as “an erotic graphic novel depicting the sexual adventures of three important fictional characters of the late 19th and early 20th century: Alice from Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Dorothy Gale from The Wizard Of Oz, and Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. They meet as adults in 1913, and describe and share some of their erotic adventures with each other.” Do they ever, and wonderfully so, I might add. There’s plenty of erotic adventures to be had and shared here in this collected 3 volume set, and the brilliant Moore is quite adamant that while this may be literary porn, it’s most definitely porn on display.
But it’s porn about storytelling, or rather the way that storytelling transforms us, especially as children grow up and into their sexuality. There’s something for just about every taste here and the writing is incredibly smart, arousing both your brain and the rest of you at the same time, and quite wonderfully. I’d have to give this my highest recommendation for those in search of dirty smart filthy wonderfulness, and I wouldn’t be too shocked if you see a much longer, and probably far more lurid write up on this beautiful piece in these pages in the future.
Well, that’s just a few choices for you to consider, again either for yourself or for someone near and dear to you, and we’ll probably have many more to share with you as well, just so long as you never forget that
okay? And because we’re benevolent smut sharers, we haven’t forgotten that you also like audio visual stimuli, so I share with you a lovely little clip entitled “Rub, Read & rub.” Enjoy and happy holidays to everyone.