Best Woman’s Erotica 2009

BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA 2009
Edited by Violet Blue
(Cleis Press)

This annual collection of sexy stories is known for pushing the envelope with its kinky, wild, and always explicit tales. This year is no exception, with such stories as “The Bitch in His Head” and “Pasta With Blue Cheese and Anal” (can you go wrong with a title like that?). Even though this book is billed as “women’s erotica,” it’s actually ideal for you and your woman to read out loud to each other. These stories play on women’s most outrageous fantasies: A wife gets “Lent Out” by her husband to another man, a woman seduces her sexy salsa instructor, and another takes her husband with a dildo. A male professor in Jacqueline Applebee’s story “Hush” asks his student to use a sex toy on him (a nice change—usually it’s the other way around): “He had something he loved, and a thing that he never thought anyone else would want to indulge him with.” Here, he gets exactly what he’s after, and so does she. These are fantasies in which women often run the show, but what they desire may surprise you and give you ideas about what you might want to try in the bedroom.

-By Rachel Kramer Bussel