Guest Post: Student-Teacher Romance

Student-teacher romance: the lure of forbidden fruit

Guest Post by Noël Cades

Relationships between students and teachers, whether at high school or with university professors, is a hugely popular genre. There are perhaps three main reasons why:

1. It’s forbidden. There’s the secrecy, the sneaking around, the illicit liaisons, the rule-breaking. That makes for an exiting, drama-filled plot and a thrilling read.

2. There’s an age/power gap. This is theme reflected throughout romance and erotica, from the "billionnaire" theme to BDSM. A more experienced, more powerful person is more attractive.

3. We can relate to it. Many of us have gone through teacher crushes ourselves in our own school days, so we understand the protagonist’s emotions. There’s also an element of nostalgia.

The "classroom crush" in literature

Student-teacher romance is a genre with a long tradition in literature. Consider "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins, where Laura falls in love with her art master, Walter. Or "Anne of Green Gables" by L M Montgomery, where the local schoolmaster Mr Philips and his pupil Prissy share a tendresse.

Today there is an ever growing number of novels featuring relationships between students and teachers, with a very wide range of endings. In a recent analysis of around thirty novels, around two thirds of them had happy endings, in which the teacher and the student ended up as a couple. Others involved heartbreak, separation, jail and even death.

Illicit affairs on the silver screen

We also see this theme covered in film, though changing social attitudes are reflected in how it is portrayed. In our grandmothers’ era it was normal for young women to marry and even start families as teenagers. Today it’s frowned upon even though it may still be legal.

For example, in the 1930 melodrama Girls’ Dormitory, Marie Claudel (Simone Simon) falls in love with her finishing school principal, Dr Stephen Dominick (Herbert Marshall) and they end up together despite their considerable age gap. Likewise Margie (Jeanne Crain) ends up marrying her high school French teacher, Professor Ralph Fontayne (Glenn Langan) in the lighthearted 1946 musical Margie.

But in the past few decades, student-teacher affairs have been a much more negative theme. They are shown to be destructive, exploitative, abusive and even fatal. Examples include Noce Blanche (1989), Indecent Seduction (1996), Blue Car (2002) and Palo Alto (2013).

Exploring forbidden romance

Writing about student-teacher romances is interesting. It’s about exploring the kinds of emotions that drive two people to take that level of risk. It’s about revisiting one’s own former fantasies and secret heartache, and wondering what if?

Is it possible for a student and a teacher to genuinely fall in love and manage to sustain a healthy, fulfilling relationship? And if so, is that a good thing?

It’s hard to come to any single conclusion, either as an author or writer. But it’s certainly an exciting literary ride trying to find out!

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Guest Post: The Beast in Me by Billierosie

The Beast in Me

Guest Post by Billierosie

I'm thrilled to announce that my latest book, The Beast in Me, is now available at Amazon! As usual I delve into the world of Fetish; going ever deep into our psyche, and what it is that turns us on. As I write my tales, I am telling myself the story as it unfolds in my mind; my shock at this tale had me reeling.

I began with a scenario; a man and a woman; their first real life meeting. They met online; there was an allure for both, a recognition of a kindred spirit. Now they are deep into a tricky conversation. The setting is in the English countryside; it is late spring. The theme, the thread running through the story, is the sacred and profane…followed by a huge, sticky sweet spoonful of ‘what if?’

“I don’t understand…”

“No, I don’t understand either…”

His eyes wander from her hazel gaze, over the green fields dappled with spring sunlight to the blue green vale of woodland in the distance. A murder of crows caw at each other; squabbling noisily.

Over the hills and far away…he hears the monotonous, low moan of a chain saw. He should leave; he knows it, but what will he go back to?

Slowly, the darkness will stir him; the fantasy that has haunted his dreams, waking and sleeping since childhood, will creep up on him and he will weep that he hadn’t embraced the sweet vision of it when he’d had the chance.

These things he knows; fact…”

***

Here is a blog post about The Beast in Me, from Eric Keys.

“This is not a book for everyone. Before I start, let me tell you that these two stories are hot. The sex is twisted but hot. Now, let me get philosophical.

I loved this book – especially the first half – the story of Noah and Daisy. Noah and Daisy both have a rather unusual fetish and they need each other to help fulfill it. Along the way they learn a thing or two about the sacred and the profane, about nature and the unnatural, about the laws of god and man. I don’t want to make this sound like it is a book about theology, but in some sense, it is. In this sense, billierosie is a sort of kindred soul to me. We see things very differently, but both of us see the sexual – and, especially, the erotic – as an angle from which to approach deeper topics.

Noah and Daisy meet in order to violate the laws of god and man. And they do it. And in the process they uncover new yearnings. It ends up being a sweet and conflicted story. And it’s wonderful.

The second story dips into ancient mythology. In a sense the theological themes are more overt but given the setting and our general attitudes toward Greek mythology, it is much easier to dismiss them and focus on the hot sex. The characters aren’t as well-developed as in the first one, but the pace is much closer to what one would normally expect from an erotic story.

So, if the first one isn’t to your taste, push on through and read the second. I enjoyed both of them immensely but I think the first one is the one that will linger in my mind.”

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Here’s my book description at Amazon.

Our sexual proclivities are an enigma. We have them, we know that they are there; we hide them, we keep them secret – sometimes we act on them. We cannot talk about them – no one would understand. We feel heated shame. We block feeling, turn away from feeling; we do anything not to feel. We crush the horror of the terrible deed that the little voice inside our head bids us do. Freud tells us that repressing feeling will amount to neurosis – Jung says pretty much the same – the repressed will bubble to the surface in one way or another – it will find a way out.

It will find its voice and it will demand to be heard.

The two stories presented here delve into the idea of ‘what happens next?’ What do you do – where do you go, after crashing and smashing your way through the final taboo?

A Queen, her depravity told through the millennia. Homer tells her story –Pasiphae the unnatural; the King, her husband, made a cuckold. Men snigger about the royal couple – even now, centuries later. What she did, her shame exposed to all, when she gave birth to a monster.

If you know Homer’s story about the Minotaur, you will know that the Monster is proof that Queen Pasiphae was indeed guilty of a terrible perversion.

And my own tale “The Beast in Me;” the taboo ever present in Daisy and Noah. They are lovers, besotted with each other; besotted with a terrible secret. They break man’s law and God’s law too.

Sensitive readers should be cautious, especially if easily offended.

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Some comments from readers.

“What have you done to me??? I just finished the Daisy and Noah story. I am almost scared to keep reading.”

“First off... Fucking hot. What's wrong with me?”

“Secondly... Damn, that was a touching story. The weird relationship between the two, the sense they have of the profundity of the events, the way it scares them and changes them and makes them seem so fragile and real.”

“Fuck you, billierosie! And I mean that in the best possible way. You're fucking awesome!”

The Beast in Me is at Amazon UK; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beast-Me-billierosie-ebook/dp/B00YNZWOES/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1434105812&sr=1-1&keywords=the+beast+in+me+billierosie

And Amazon US; http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_27?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=the+beast+in+me+billierosie&sprefix=the+beast+in+me+billierosie%2Cstripbooks%2C294

Guest Post: Why audiobooks can appeal to ALL your senses

Why audiobooks can appeal to ALL your senses

Guest Post by Paris Rivera

“Radio is a very visual medium”, a wag once said, and I think there’s a lot of truth in the statement. When you can’t see, it does stimulate the imagination. Audiobooks have that visual quality that radio has. And since I’ve been publishing lesbian erotica audiobooks quite intensively in the past year (all available in ebook form too), I’ve had a great chance to explore and discover the huge erotic potential of the audio format.

In erotica, pictures always come flooding in, and audio is certainly no bar to that. Colors, for example, are super-important, as in this brief passage about the journey home of one woman, 34, and her electrifying encounter with a beautiful and assertive 20-year-old Japanese woman (from my audiobook Strangers on a Train):

Sally let her eyes drift down to the girl’s dark blue skirt, somewhere between a mini and a midi, and she could not help but notice the long and shapely legs that were crossed rather elegantly within the skirt, with milky thighs and smooth white calves that tapered down to delicate ankles and dark blue heels. Her nails were painted dark blue also. Wow, this girl was really something!

Whether in a book or an audiobook, the absence of an image invites not only the visual imagination but all other senses too. You get a hint of this in the old movie ‘9 ½ weeks’, in which Kim Basinger wears a blindfold and is driven wild by Mickey Rourke and some ice-cubes!

Audiobooks invite you to play with sound a little more than you would in a text that’s designed only to be read. Some well-placed ‘ooohs’ and ‘aaahs’ can contribute hugely to the mounting excitement, and the narrators I’ve worked with have been sinfully good at this!

I also try to use sound more subtly. In the audiobook The Morning After, which is wonderfully and excitingly narrated by Charm, a young woman wakes to find her new girlfriend Sandra has left the bed they just shared. But the visit of Sandra’s bright-eyed Spanish maid, Maria, brings surprising consolation, and, after a teasing conversation, the diminutive Maria is soon lifting the narrator, clad only in black undies, and placing her on her belly on the same giant bed that the narrator had only just shared with Sandra:

If the stimulation of Maria’s hands and words was not bad - or good - enough, I suddenly felt something else – and I gasped. It was the touch of Maria’s nose and mouth behind me, the feel of them pushing gently but insistently between the mounds of my behind. With all the strength I could muster, I raised my butt slightly, to encourage and help Maria, fighting the shuddering weakness in my own muscles as the pleasure intensified.

Once more, I wasn’t sure if I could stand it, or hold my position. I wanted to call out and wake the entire neighborhood. ‘Enjoy the flight’, I told myself once more, gripping the sheets like I was trying to rip them.

“So sexy girl, Diana,” Maria said softly. Her voice was slightly muffled now, but I think I could still make out what she was saying.

“So sexy for your Maria. So sexy Sandra’s girlfriend.”

When the narrator speaks these lines in a voice that is distinctly muffled, it really is very sexy to hear!

Another sense that audiobooks have encouraged me to explore is the sense of smell. In my story Study Break 2, Savita and Becky are two students who take a train with the intention of studying en route but end up getting drawn into the mysterious and sensuous world of an intensely beautiful black woman who is sitting opposite. Mrs Smith has a smooth, gentle, velvet voice and the slow, confident manner of an aristocrat. As the seduction unfolds, scent plays an important role. Savita recalls one moment in particular:

I lay across the seats with my head next to Mrs Smith’s thigh and stretched out my long legs towards the far window.

“Be gentle with me,” I said softly, pushing my head against that thigh as if to emphasize the point.

I tried to calm myself, breathing as deeply as I could. I looked over at Becky. She was smiling at me. She looked intensely beautiful. Once again, I wondered if I was dreaming and I literally pinched my arm to check.

Ouch!

Not dreaming I guess…

I breathed in through my nose and drank in that gorgeous scent [At this point the listener hears the sound of breathing in.] It really was a kind of marsh-mallow aroma, with apple, vanilla and now I was getting a little sweet musk as well.

I wanted this gorgeous woman so badly. I wanted to drown in that scent and give her all the pleasure I could…

In this story, I try to emphasize the erotic potential of ‘not seeing’. Soon Mrs Smith is turning to face Savita’s feet and actually kneeling astride the young college student. Suddenly, Mrs Smith lets her dark brown skirt over the student’s face like a tent, before slowly, tantalizingly, lowering herself into a position of great intimacy. Savita cannot see much but all her other senses are on fire, not least her sense of taste as Mrs Smith’s high state of arousal communicates itself through the thin cotton of her undies. Nor can Savita see the events that are subsequently unfolding between Mrs Smith and her fair-haired friend Becky; but she can certainly hear the conversation and the references to various kinds of undressing. Soon Savita can also feel Becky’s presence, not least her knowledgeable hands. And when both her companions fall silent, Savita senses the long kiss between them…

Oh gosh! Where was I?!! My mind is drifting.

And not just my mind…

J

Ah yes, the challenges and potential of audiobooks!

I find that the character of the narrator can make quite a different to how a story is written. Some narrators – like Charm - are just so talented at building the excitement and the ecstacy hat it encourages you to write with a kind of wild abandon. Other narrators have a coolness and restraint that is itself intensely erotic and encourages a long slow build-up in which passion may also be expressed by what is not said and even, as with Mrs Smith and Becky, by silence (Study Break; Study Break 2; Tell Her She’s Pretty; Your Bath is Ready, Madame). In Your Bath is Ready, Madame, the narrator went to the lengths of recording some water sounds to accompany the following lines and you can just feel the delicious tension between the two women in her restrained, soft voice:

The bubbles were so high and fluffy that Amanda could not actually see anything beneath the surface of the water, but she gamely moved to kneel beside the bath, comfortable on a thick-pile bathmat, and she began to sweep her left hand slowly through the water, feeling for the bottom of the bath.

Almost immediately, she felt the soap, but she ignored it. Why end the game when it had just begun?! Amanda’s hand continued its explorations, brushing against the side of Chantale’s dress and then feeling where the hemline gave way to the top of the French girl’s stockings.

“I’m sorry, I cannot find the soap, madame!” Amanda said, trying to sound as contrite as possible.

“Well keep looking!” Chantale said in a stern voice.

Overall, it’s been amazingly fun to collaborate on these audiobooks. Both the narrators and the audio medium have influenced the stories in subtle and interesting ways. The reviews suggest that listeners are having a good time too. I’d definitely recommend this format to other writers – and of course to other listeners and readers.

The old saying goes that “The eyes have it.” Well, that may be true. But let’s not forget those other sensual organs – the brain, the hands, the lips, the tongue, the nose… and of course the ears.

Guest Post By Chantal Verlaine

In Search of the DNA of Romance Fiction

Guest Post By Chantal Verlaine

Why are we so hooked on romance? I’ve often pondered this conundrum. Before we even crack open the cover of a romance novel, we know the plot setup, who the main characters are going to be, and of course, the ending is a given, yet we still keep turning the pages and buying romance more than any other type of fiction. The enduring attraction to love stories defies logic, but I guess that’s the point - it’s not rational, it’s emotional, something akin to the Movie Kleenex Syndrome. I don’t know about you, but when a movie makes me cry, I usually come out of the theater saying what a great movie it was.

Still, what is it specifically about romance novels that makes our hearts go rat-tat-tat? I figured if I wanted to answer that question I would start by looking at who exactly reads romance. No surprise here. According to the Romance Writers of America, 91 percent of readers are female. Some other interesting factoids – about half of romance readers are married, most are middle-class, aged 30 to 54, and nearly 40 percent in the South. In other words, we are kind of average. Hmm, okay, so we’re looking to escape our humdrum lives, but there’s tons of ways to do that. I still wasn’t getting to the nut inside the romance shell.

I took a closer look at romance novel covers, at those hunky handsome studs who most of us will never get to date, who never would’ve given us average gals a second look. But there’s something more than their looks – they are alpha males, symbols of masculine virility, so testosterone-tough inside and outside that they are unattainable.

Since high school, I have been attracted to these types – the bad boys, the rebels with a devil-may-care swagger. They straddled chairs turned backwards and held their cigarettes between a thumb and two fingers. They drove muscle cars with engines that gave off throaty rumbles. They were cute, they were cool, and they totally ignored me. What I would’ve given to have had a bad boy fall in love with me!

Flash forward a couple years (okay, way more than a couple), and I did manage to land a few bad boys along the way. Problem is bad boys make bad boyfriends. The fantasy doesn’t quite hold up.
But in romance novels, it does. The heroine attains the unattainable bad boy, albeit after a bit of a struggle – we do have to have some plot twists and turns. But she wins his heart, she gets her man! And boy, does she get him – she reels him in and strings him up like a two-hundred pound marlin at the Key West dock. He is totally, devotedly hers because we all know that when Bad Boy gives his heart, it will be true and forever. Bad boys may have lots of belt-notches, but not being sentimentally squishy, they have room only to love one woman.

We want to be the one who succeeds in penetrating the Teflon male’s heart, a feat that countless other women have fruitlessly tried to pull off. And we all want that Romeo-and-Juliet kind of adoration, to be loved utterly and completely, simply for the virtue of being who we are. An idealized version of love, to be sure, but immensely gratifying to us women. Let’s face it, even today, we have lower self-esteem than men. Taming men who still dominate and control the reins of power in our society is a boost to our collective ego.

Aha! That was it! I felt I was striking the right chord, but I was still missing a note. What about the female protagonist? She obviously plays a key role. Who is the woman who attains the unattainable?
Our heroines, I noticed, are both smart and sexy. They successfully reconcile society’s mixed messages about women. Attractive women are not taken as seriously in the professional world. Intelligent women, on the other hand, are not seen as sexy. To land a mate, we have to be provocative, to succeed in a career, we have to be almost gender-neutral. It often seems we have to choose between one persona or the other. In romance novels, femininity encompasses both beauty and brains. We want both – and as it happens, Bad Boy wants both. It’s a combination so seductive, so irresistible, that he pursues the heroine relentlessly.

My bottom line conclusion –romance fiction is really about female empowerment. It’s about women getting what they want (Bad Boy), being allowed to be who they are (smart and sexy), and boosting their self-esteem with unconditional acceptance (true love). That’s why we read romance.
Now, why exactly do we love bad boys? I’ll have to chew on that one.

Chantal Verlaine is the author of Miami Steam, an erotic suspense novella.

Guest Post by K.G. Stutts

Soothing the Savage Beast

Guest Post by K.G. Stutts

There is a saying which says music soothes the savage beast. For me, writing soothes this author’s soul.

I’ve said it before on my blog. The characters write the story. I merely hold the pen. I think a lot of authors would agree with me. Characters have a way of getting under my skin if I haven’t written anything in a while or if my idea differs from how they think the At times, the creative process can be annoying.

My husband can always tell if I go periods of time without getting into a story. He says I get short and grumpy. That’s because writing to me is the ultimate form of self-expression. Much like readings, I submerge myself into the story. Transported to another world or galaxy. It’s time to escape from every day boring drama and hang on for a wild ride. When I’m writing, I’m not worried about cleaning my house or if my car needs maintenance. The dishes can wait for a few more hours. I don’t care if I had a bad day at work or my microwave isn’t working. I’m focused on Maddie and her adventures in my sci-fi romance series. My attention is on Julie and Scott as secrets which kept them apart for eleven years begins to unravel. The rest of the world is put on hold.

Sometimes it’s good to get away. At times, getting lost in Julie’s story is more beneficial than a vacation. I’m still in my recliner, on my laptop. But I’m really in Chicago chasing down a gang member alongside of my redheaded heroine. I caught in a gunfight as Julie tries to save her daughter. I’m in the interrogation room where Scott has her pinned against a wall, waiting with bated breath to know what happens next.

I always feel like a weight has been taken off me by the time I have to shut down my computer for the night. Sometimes I’m exhausted depending on where I am in the book. My characters are a part of me and I tend to leave a little bit of me in the pages you read in my stories. It’s the ultimate therapy. Escaping within the pages, putting your heart on the line… It’s a great release. But don’t take my word for it. Read Color of Dreams and see for yourself. Head over to kgstutts.com for info on when you can buy this hot crime erotica, my 1930s erotica Change the Stars, or my sweet sci-fi romance series.

About K.G. Stutts:
Growing up in Texas and later South Carolina as the youngest in a house full of science-fiction fans, K.G. Stutts had her natural curiosity and imagination nurtured since birth by family movie nights where they would watch Star Wars, Indiana Jones and even timeless Disney favorites.

A prolific writer of sci-fi, romance and mystery, K.G. draws much of her inspiration from those amazing works that gave her an appreciation for telling rich, compelling, character-driven stories for all audiences.

Book one in her science-fiction romance writings, Mirror Image, is out now by the wonderful group at http://distinguishedpress.com and a romance ebook launched at the beginning of June from http://lazydaypub.com. August 15th, she's launching a hot crime erotica, Color of Dreams with Blushing books and book two in the sci-fi romance, Mirror Shattered. She is also a contributor to http://iwassociation.com and http://thewritingnetwork.com.

Keep up with her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter. She also is on Tumblr. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, Brad and works for a customer service call center full time. She's a lover of Star Wars, Star Trek (original, TNG, and Voyager), Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, Muppets, Garfield, Disney, Indiana Jones and is a big football, wrestling, and hockey fan.

Guest Post by Harlotte Sometimes

Consider Kink and Genre When Writing Smut

Guest Post by Harlotte Sometimes

Find her Online: Amazon ♥ Website ♥ Twitter

Everyone who will listen knows I’m a kinky girl. I like ALL the sex. Tell me you want to try something but you don’t want your friend to know, and I’m your gal. Tell me you tried something and it rocked your socks off, and I’m next in line to ride THAT ride!

Men have scars for questioning my kinky. This sexy vixen uses claws! In light of this confession, please understand I only write to tell you this dirty, painful secret out of my twisted ideal of love.

I understand, young smut writer, YOU think its kinky when your boyfriend calls you “Daddy.” When it comes to writing commercial erotica, “Daddy” is only kinky if your boyfriend is also your step-son.

“Kink” is a marketing term, just the same as “Genre.” To successfully self-publish and sell, this distinction means everything.

To illustrate, allow me to explain what Kink isn’t. Kink is not the same as “Freaky,” “Nasty,” or “Oh my god, she DIDN’T!”

I think of “freaky”, “nasty”, and “romantic” as spice for my story, and I use them accordingly. ALL successful smut has some of those flavors. No matter how HOT a story tastes, these spices do not sell meals.

To continue overcooking my metaphor, Kink describes the way your food is served and Genre describes the basis for the menu. “Billionaire” (a genre) means “comfort food” in this culinary example; “FemDom” (a kink) says “pub style.”

Amazon, believe it or not, offers many tools for uncovering the ways its customers behave. Amazon wants you to sell as many books as possible. The biggest secrets in Smut Writing Success hide behind the unpublished toolkit Amazon provides.

To understand Amazon’s model of the Universe, use Amazon as a customer does. Complete the purchase process. Read.

Sooner or later, Amazon will act as if Amazon understands you. Amazon pays attention to which links you click and how long you spend on a page. Look at the books Amazon recommends for you. Keep track and decode the data contained in Amazon’s URLs.

If your browser enables “auto complete”, Amazon will try to guess the phrase you mean to type. Amazon also tells each browser how many titles meet their search results. If you type “sex” and Amazon suggests “sex addiction”, maybe Amazon has some questionable ideas about your reading desires. Or perhaps Amazon knows more about your customers than you assume. Maybe you should take Amazon’s advice.

Once I conceived the Kink / Genre cooking model, I took my job as  spokes-supermodel to a higher level. I no longer told myself “this toe-sucking scene is super kinky, and the character happens to be the member of a motorcycle club, so YAHTZEE!”

In my metaphor, my previous statement seems just as silly as selling my meal as “Creole” because I used some red pepper and I like endin’ gerunds in apostrophes.

Dinner may taste great tonight, but folks expecting real bayou cookin’ are, AT BEST, looking for someplace else to eat. My red-pepper flavored potential best seller will not make me millions from people too hungry to look for the meal they want.

In short, I know you’re a great writer, sweetheart. I honestly believe you’re the VERY best. This is about marketing, honey, not talent. No one believes in you more than me.

You don’t start getting good at anything until you learn to do the thing. Now come give your Princess Harlotte a big, sloppy kiss.

Guest Post by A. Aimee

Love or abuse? Liberation or bondage?

Looking at the themes in “Good Pussy Bad Pussy – Rachel’s Tale” by A. Aimee
Guest Post by A. Aimee

I wrote “Good Pussy Bad Pussy – Rachel’s Tale” because of my fascination with sex! Yes, like most people, I’m obsessed, fascinated, tormented and enchanted by sex. And it’s no wonder since sex is the most powerful drive, urge, impulse of them all! Or as I like to say – Nothing satisfies like sex. Nothing completes like sex. Nothing releases like sex. Nothing can compete with sex!

So I wanted to write about orgasm as the ultimate surrender and a portal to ecstasy and bliss – in other words, I wanted to write about orgasm as a state that is so intoxicating that everyone wants to experience it! And then I wanted to add to this an exploration of the conundrum that arises if we reach this intoxicating state of surrender and bliss in and through situations (and/or with people) that we don’t particularly like or find acceptable.

In other words, what happens when the body experiences one thing while the mind is screaming something else? And by this I mean – our bodies are designed so that when we are stimulated sexually, the sensations are pleasurable whether or not we like the person we’re with or the situation we’re in. Interestingly enough, this is something many people experience even though most people will not admit it or talk about it because they consider it shameful. And because experiences like this are so taboo, when something like this happens, it leaves most people confused, ashamed and/or upset. Because how can something be both objectionable and pleasurable at the same time? It’s a real dilemma. So what does it mean? And how do we live with experiences like this and deal with them?

This is what happens to Rachel, the main character in “Good Pussy Bad Pussy” In her attempt to escape an unhappy marriage, she runs away and discovers and experiences great sexual release in ways that surprise, delight and shock her but which are not always socially acceptable. Hence the title of the book – Good Pussy Bad Pussy.

And then I wanted all this to take place against the backdrop of our modern day society – with all its ideas about marriage, fidelity and monogamy which so often block or twist or pinch off our natural sexual drive/energy and our ability to joyfully experience our own sexuality.

So the book asks many questions. Questions like – what is Rachel, the heroine of the book, really experiencing? Is it love or abuse? Is it liberation or bondage? Is she really free or not? And who is making these choices for her? How much of all that happens to her in the book is based on social programming and negative social norms about sex? These are some of the questions the book poses through the dilemmas Rachel faces in the book.

So yes, I tried to mix all this together and from what readers and reviewers are saying, I can see I have at least managed to stir some of this up. Many reviewers say they initially didn’t like the main character, Rachel, because of what she does, but then as they follow her through the story, they come to understand her and finally really love her and her journey.

Hope you will enjoy Rachel’s journey as much as I have!

Find A. Aimee and Good Pussy Bad Pussy Online:

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Guest Post by Roselyn Jewell

The Pros and Cons of writing and selling erotica

Guest Post by Roselyn Jewell

First let me start by introducing myself and I also want to say that I’m thrilled to be doing this guest post! I’m Roselyn Jewell and I currently have 7 books on the market; of those 7, three are erotica and four are not. So since I have experience in writing and selling both erotica and “cleaner” books, I figured it would be interesting to do a pros and cons list for writing erotica vs. other genres. Since I hate to end anything on a negative note, I’ll start with the cons:

Cons:

• Erotica is definitely a niche market. I think these days it’s becoming more popular, but there are still a surprising number of sites that state they will not review or promote erotica, making it a bit harder to advertise and also limiting your potential audience and reviewers.
• It’s a controversial genre. Since erotica is filled with X rated content, it can be a controversial topic. Some people are dead set against it and are very vehement about it. Sadly, there are readers out there that may not even give your non X rated books a chance if you have X rated books out there. Also as stated before, there are sites that won’t advertise it all at because some of their viewers may see it as “offensive.” I think it is very unfortunate that it is viewed that way and that some people are so closed-minded, but even in 2014, that kind of thing still exists.
• It can be challenging to write. In my experience, it can be difficult and challenging to write a really steamy, hot book while still maintaining a solid plot line and real character depth and development. Another challenging aspect is continuing to come up with different and exciting sexual things that the characters can do. You don’t want to just have them doing the same things over and over or using the same descriptive words for certain body parts or acts. If you’ve written 50 books, all with detailed sex scenes, I imagine it would be quite challenging to keep the descriptions and the variety new and fresh.
• You could potentially lose some followers and fans. The first book I put out was PG rated. In fact, I didn’t put out an X rated book until the 4^th or 5^th. So by then I had already built up a bit of a fan base and had followers on social media. After I put out my first erotic novel, I did notice an increase in the number of unfollowers on Twitter. There were also some sites who had promoted me in the past that refused to promote me anymore, simply because I now had a book that was considered erotica. In my personal opinion, I’d rather not be associated with them anyway if that will make them turn on me so quick, but of course we all want as many readers, fans, followers, etc. as possible, so it is a consideration.

Okay, enough negativity. Let’s move on to the Pros:

Pros:

• Erotica readers tend to be very diehard and loyal fans. It may be a niche market, but if you gain fans in the erotica niche, they tend to be extremely loyal and dedicated. Not that fans in other markets aren’t just as loyal, but it’s a plus to know that even though the market may be more narrow, once you’ve made a fan, chances are you’ve made one for life.
• The challenges can be fun and help you grow as an author. Though it may be challenging to continue coming up with a variety of fresh erotic content, it can be really fun to challenge yourself. It also helps you grow as an author to continue to expand and grow your comfort zone and more thoroughly develop your writing abilities. Once your experience and your abilities grow, that will be reflected in any other genre you may write as well.
• It can spice up your own sex life. In my case, writing all of these detailed, erotic sex scenes definitely helped spice up my marriage a bit! Even if your sex life is already good, it can still be fun and different to say hey, check out this scene. Wouldn’t that be fun to try? It can also be used as a type of research to be able to know for sure whether that position you wrote about would actually be practical or not.
• You get to feel like a sex goddess. What woman doesn’t want to feel like a sex goddess now and again? While you’re writing all of these erotic scenes, you get to put yourself in the role of master sex goddess, which can be a lot of fun.
• You get to live out your fantasies. No matter what your sexual fantasies may be, if you’re an erotic author, you can “live them out” in the pages of your books. You can make the male main character have the looks and personality of your long time crush, you can have threesomes even if you’re married, or go wherever your imagination takes you! There’s nothing wrong with a little fantasy ;)

I’m sure there are more pros and cons that I have not covered. But I didn’t want this guest post to turn into a novel, so I just went with the main ones that I’ve had experience with. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your erotica J

About the Author:

Roselyn Jewell is the author of 7 novels, with another on the way. If you’d like to know more about her or her books, please see her website at http://www.roselynjewell.com.

She can also be emailed directly about anything at Roselyn@roselynjewell.com. She’s also on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter @jewellromance.

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Guest Post By Paris Rivera

My three rules for a hot story

Guest Post By Paris Rivera

If you take a few shapes – a line here, a circle there – and place them in a certain order, you may find that certain changes occur in the brains and bodies of those who examine these shapes.

That, I suppose, is the magic of erotica. By arranging these things we call ‘letters’ in the right order, you can bring a lot of pleasure – and even physiological changes – to the reader.

But getting those letters in the right order is not all that easy!

If it were just a case of describing sex between two (or more!) people, then every other person would be able to sell thousands of erotica books.

Which raises the age-old question: what is it that makes a story sexy!

Well, that’s obviously a very personal question. You know what they say: different strokes for different folks!

But I’ll tell you a few things that I think make for a sexy story. I’ve published more than 60 http://parisrivera1.wordpress.com/ books of lesbian erotica, and and now two audiobooks, which incidentally are fabulous fun to do. (There are some wonderful – and superfriendly – narrators out there!)

So let me give you my three ‘rules’ for a sexy story. This would pretty much apply across the board – it doesn’t have to be lesbian erotica.

Number 1: Build the Tension. There has to be something that stands in the way of just ripping our clothes off and getting straight down to it.. How interesting would we find Romeo and Juliet if the Capulets and the Montagues went out for pizza every Friday night?! These obstacles to love – or lust – obviously don’t have to take the form of gang warfare. It might just be two people who drawn to each other but constrained by a public train (as in my story Strangers on a Train). Or it might be a meeting between a sexy college professor and one of her students (If You Say So, Professor).

Another thing that might set people apart – and ramp up the erotic tension – is an age difference. I find the dynamic between a woman of, say, 35 and another of around 20 is incredibly sexy. Don’t ask me why! If you want to pay for my ‘shrink’ sessions, I’ll give you a proper answer!

Another element of tension might come when a married woman is tempted to try a ‘first time’ with another woman, as in my story A Second Awakening. Will she? Won’t she? Should she? Shouldn’t she? We kind of know which way it’s going to go (this is erotica, after all). But the tension is still important.

I think the importance of erotic tension is part of why stories with a ‘taboo’ are so popular. I personally don’t get into some of the really ‘taboo’ areas, but I know a lot of people do.

So let me get to rule number two: Do the Dance. This is related to building the tension, but I love it when two characters talk playfully and teasingly, dancing around the idea, the possibility, of a seduction. Sometimes the ‘upper-hand’ can change in mid-story: to me, this is more interesting than a piece where someone is clearly ‘domme’ and someone clearly ‘sub’. A good example is my story Your Bath is Ready, Madame, where the French maid gets to play at being in charge while the Englishwoman who has hired her for a massage humbly and teasingly searches for the ‘soap’. Since the French girl is fully clothed and in the bath at the time, the erotic tension is pretty intense. A fabulous example of an erotic bath scene (and a bit of an age difference as well) is Madeleine Stone’s very arousing and pleasingly literary novel Tangled.

Another example of ‘the dance’ is my ‘mile high’ story, Unfasten Your Belts. As the story unfolds, a sexy businesswoman with a confident manner and a husky voice is suggesting to Julie, a young student just dumped by her boyfriend, that a bit of massage might help to relax her during the flight. Julie is reluctant but Samantha persists:

The wine arrived and they both sipped thirstily. Samantha turned to Julie once more: “But why not, dear? Why not give it a go?”

“Well, for a start it’s a public plane.”

“That’s true, but as far as I’m aware there’s no law against a shoulder massage.”

“Oh, a shoulder massage, I see!”

Samantha gave a smile that she hoped was alluring: “Why, what were YOU thinking?!”

The fun – and the heat – of the scene comes partly from Julie’s resistance to the idea of a massage, and the fact that at some deep level she is deeply intrigued and her imagination is actually running riot!

That brings me to rule number three for making a sexy scene: You gotta care for the characters. (And that means that, at some level, they’ve probably got to care for each other). We don’t have to be too ambitious or pretentions here: writing erotica is not like writing War and Peace! But if you cannot identify with the emotions and passions of the people in a story, it will probably leave you pretty cold. That’s also where the dance comes in: I like it when characters can show their humor. And I think it’s sexy when one character conspicuously cares for another: it might be a massage; looking after them when they’re sick; letting them sleep (Gym Crush); helping them get over someone; putting them at ease; helping them to learn; whatever. To me, that’s sexy.

Call me weird, but erotica can be nice. While Fifty Shades did clearly create some characters that were compelling for very large numbers of people, my approach is a very long way from the weird ‘torture chamber’ in E. L. James’s blockbuster.

And that’s got to be a good thing, hasn’t it?

Guest Post by Michele Schalin

Proud Member Of the Sexual Sisterhood

Guest Post by Michele Schalin

I am a proud member of the Sexual Sisterhood, we are women who unapologetically OWN our sexuality. We are women who courageously rebuff the powerful cultural message of our society, the society that tells us to repress our sexuality. We are outspoken about the slut shaming our society engages in and we support other women to do the same.

I LOVE sex! I love having it. I love talking about it. I love watching porn (good porn), and I love looking at  erotic photos and reading erotic stories. I love to hear what turns other people on and I love to keep trying new things to discover what my lover and I like.

I haven’t always been this open about sex. In fact, for most of my adult life it was quite difficult for me to communicate what I wanted and needed from any partner.

For many years my thinking and behavior was heavily influenced by the shame based messages revolving around sex and how women should behave.

I had very limited knowledge of what I liked. And what I did know that I liked, and that I wanted and needed, I was uncomfortable asking for Even when I felt unsatisfied and wanted more, I felt selfish in asking for it. Because it usually took a good deal of time to bring me to orgasm, I basically just hoped the guy I was with would just find that “elusive spot" and figure out somehow what could get me there. 

The first five years I had sex, I never once orgasmed.

I didn’t get what the big deal was. The main reason I engaged in having sex at all was because I wanted so desperately to be desired and to be loved.I figured if men wanted to have sex with me that I would find love there somewhere??

At the age of 22 I had my first orgasm with a new boyfriend who was an expert at licking pussy. Many men had never even offered to give me head and to my surprise and delight, this guy loved it. 

When I look back now, I'm amazed at how much bullshit I put up with from men:  

Bullshit such as:

Extreme selfishness
Not bothering to ask me what I liked or even if I got off at all
Guys putting stay hard cream on their dicks and not even bothering to give me a “heads up” about it before I give them a blow job 
Men wanting me to give them a blow job  after they have told me that they don’t lick pussy.

So…My appropriate responses in these particular experiences SHOULD have been:

What the fuck? ..That was it? You can forget about ever having this piece of ass again... and, Hey Dude, think you could have given me a little warning here?  or... Wash your dick off and then maybe I'll give you a blow job?

But Nope, I just silently tolerated their selfishness, their thoughtlessness and their lack of reciprocity  and moved on to the next guy, who often behaved the exact same way. 

I know what you may be thinking... She just picked a lot of shitty lovers. Agreed. I had never really owned my sexuality and because of this I wasn't able to be sexually confident. That combined with low self esteem and a lack of self respect, meant that I was a virtual magnet for narcissists. Luck me!

Fast forward to meeting the love of my life. Rich, my husband of 25 years is not only the best friend I have ever had, he is truly the best lover I’ve ever had. By far. He was a breath of fresh air after all of the shitty lovers I’d had. He is very loving, he is giving, he is skillful and he is eager to please. He adores me and he loves making me feel great... 

But mind reading? That is not in his skill set. And I was still unable to tell him what I wanted. Rich has always cared about my sexual fulfillment, but after trying, for years, to get me to loosen up, to talk about what I liked and what I wanted, he, like anyone would, became complacent. And so we filed our sex away under the category of decent sex. 

The great sex category, for me, stayed empty

Many years passed and as they did my interest in sex diminished somewhat, because I wasn't being fulfilled. I very much wanted to have sex with Rich, but I felt that something was missing. I asked him if he could be more passionate in his kissing and in his love making. His response was: 

"Well it’s tough to be passionate all the time with someone you’ve been together with for so many years."  I felt deflated.

I know now that I could have been more direct. Instead of asking Rich to be more passionate, what I should have asked for was exactly what I wanted: for him to be aggressive forceful and dominant. After all it’s my responsibility to determine what I need to achieve sexual pleasure and it’s my responsibility to convey that to my partner. 

I realize now that I could have asked him to tell me what he wanted too. I wanted to please him, but I had a hard time approaching the subject. He never asked for anything different, so I assumed he was fine. However, I had never actually investigated how I might please him. The extent of my sexual education was watching porn to figure out how to give a good blow job.

Ahh... she is not sucking the entire time, good that gets tiring. She's licking his cock, his balls and some kind of twisting motion with her hand, cool. 

I stepped it up and my man noticed... but that was all I really did.

Then it happened.... About two years ago, a couple of friends had been reading “Fifty Shades Of Grey" ...... and were all going on about it. 

I know, I know, there has been a whole lot said about this being a poorly written book. But the way I look at it is that anything that opens the door to a subject that isn’t widely discussed is, I believe a great thing. And let me tell you.... this book blew the door WIDE open for me. We will get to more of that in a minute.

Rich bought me the trilogy as a birthday gift. Little did he know how this would change our life forever.

Did I mention that when I have a new interest I DIVE into it? Well.. dive I did and dragged him along for the ride!

I had never read anything like 50 shades. Because of my lack of knowledge, I had always assumed any kink or fetish was all scary and weird and maybe degrading and abusive.  I never let myself explore it because of the taboo and stigma attached to it. 

Fifty Shades was the marker of my baby steps into BDSM. In the story, Anastasia, the lead character, is deeply conflicted by the sexcapdes that she and Christian Grey have engaged in. Because she is extremely turned on by them, she believes that something is wrong with her. After all, she is a “good girl" and shouldn't enjoy such things. Christian asks her:

"Do you feel bad because you feel bad, or do you feel bad because you think you should feel bad."

That was like a lightning bolt of revelation for me!  Although I wasn't conflicted about being turned on by this stuff, I was VERY surprised that I was. I think Rich was even more surprised than I was. 
Lucky for me, he was all in and game for anything I wanted to try.

So... this was the beginning of my sexual awakening. I couldn't get enough of this book and I become a total addict for all kinds of erotic material.

Since expressing what I liked and wanted to try had always been so difficult for me, I got creative: I started reading aloud to Rich some of the sex scenes that turned me on from the erotic books I was reading. I would tell him specifically what I liked and we would then re-enact the scenes together the next time we had sex. 

It. Was. AMAZING! 

Almost everything the characters in the stories did, I wanted to try with Rich:

Bondage, blindfolds, crops, sex toys, spanking, biting, flogging, and yes … even a bit of anal play.. "Rich got to go where no man has ever gone before." And a big surprise to both of us? I have quite the greedy little ass.


I loved the reenactments! And so did Rich! And the biggest surprise for both of us was that I LOVED being submissive during sex. I am not submissive in any other area of my life. It totally turned me on to just let go of control and be completely dominated. It helped me get out of my head and much more into every sensation of the sexual act. My husband and I joke that he only gets to tell me what to do when I am naked.  Occasionally I catch him mumbling about wishing I were naked more often.

And so it is because of 50 shades... that for the first time in my life I am totally comfortable with telling my partner what I want: I can tell him what new things I’d like to try, I can tell him what feels good and what could feel even better, and I feel comfortable asking him what he wants and likes, AND, not only have I investigated all kind of techniques to improve my skills with him, I have also researched ways that I can pleasure myself when I am alone.

All of this exploration that we have done together has brought an even deeper bond to our relationship. The communication, the honesty, the vulnerability, the trust and the support we have shown each other has made us stronger as a couple and more in love than ever! We are in our 3rd decade of a truly jubilant marriage!

And now? We can categorize our sex as GREAT, instead of decent.

The whole experience has been incredibly empowering for me. I have finally owned my sexuality by taking responsibility for my pleasure instead of leaving it completely in the hands of someone else.  And it is because of this that I count myself a full fledged member of the Sexual Sisterhood. 

As a result of this journey and the revelations I discovered along the way I decided I wanted to help other women like me have the same experience... which is where the idea of Little Shop Of O's came in. I thought creating this business was the perfect avenue for helping women along their paths of sexual self-discovery. Remember I told you when I get a new interest I DIVE in? Yeah, I went deep.

I was recently asked what advice I would I give my younger self about sex.  This was my answer:

“Don’t let others define what is right or wrong for you, judge for yourself and don’t let anyone shame you. Give your sexuality the attention it deserves; be open in exploring everything you are interested in, know you deserve to be on the receiving end of pleasure, and don’t be shy about letting your partner know what you like and what you would like to try. Above all, enjoy, be safe and have fun!

Guest Post by Moctezuma Johnson

Seven Rules I have to re-teach myself every time I write

By Moctezuma Johnson

I want to thank the lovely and sexy Miss Tina Erotica, Christina Harding, for inviting me to post on her exquisite blog. I’ve often read posts that blow my mind and stay with me for days. All Christina’s guest bloggers are brutally charming and write like their cocks and pussies are on fire. I’m honored to be asked to write a guest post. I’m honored, but also scared.

You see, every time I write I know I’m a fraud. I cower in front of the keyboard and realize I have no idea what I’m doing. Worse, I’m a total sex addict. I was running a bar for the last five years in South Korea watching my life waste away with Captain Morgan and an endless supply of sexually-willing and increasingly-boring university student customers and part-time waitresses/bartenders. From the outside it looks like the male dream, but on the inside I was rotting away. I was once young, good-looking, and smart. I was nothing but potential. Smoking yellowed my teeth, drinking turned my six-pack abs into a six pack of beer, and meaningless sex left me emotionally empty. Now, twenty years later I’m nothing but potential. But potential is no longer enough. Each day my confidence dies and then I have to rebuild myself from scratch. I’m like a plane made of legos that my 3-year-old reduces to wreckage in moments. Every day I need to rebuild myself. Then I can write. I just wish that I came with a manual -- something as easy to follow as lego instructions. So this blog post is what would be in my manual if I ever got around to writing it. I won’t. When I manage to find some free time, I’m too busy looking at porn.

The Manual
These tips may be obvious to you, and in that case good on you because you’re ahead of me. As I wrote down these ideas I was struck once again with the notion that I have no idea what I’m doing. Please take everything I say with a grain of salt, and if you feel strongly that you have a better way to do something by all means do it your way. The key thing for any writer is to be herself and to find her own voice. Voice supersedes all.

1.  Your characters should charm. What makes a character charming? I find that I relate to characters that have a chip on their shoulder. That makes them interesting. And characters that are vulnerable. I always think of Walter White for this one. I’m not recommending that you have long sex scenes with Skyler and Heisenberg, or that you show Jesse’s parties with all the tripped out meth-heads in gangbangs, although that might be a bit of fun. I think Walter White is one of the most perfect characters written this decade. He has a chip on his shoulder because, although he’s a genius, he’s dead broke. Immediately he’s interesting and I’m rooting for him to get filthy rich in the drug trade. We empathize with him. He is vulnerable because he has cancer, but that isn’t the main thing the audience relates to. He is charming because he hasn’t learned to assert himself. He’s been living the “safe” life. He’s a coward and we watch him change into a man. Into Heisenberg. He’s vulnerable as a coward and that makes him lovable. When he becomes Heisenberg we feel proud of the accomplishment. If you give your characters something to be proud of and something that makes them weak, you have a stunning combination. Charm.

2.  Plot is all about conflict, and conflict is all about denial. Know what your protagonist wants, and throw in obstacles that prevent him from attaining it.  Without a sustainable conflict, a story becomes boring. If your protagonist wants a boyfriend, make sure nobody likes her and they’re all going for another girl close to her. Then there’s conflict and the reader will care about her. They will know what her goal is and relate to it. If all your male character wants is to jizz on her face, make sure she will do other amazing things (like lick his ass) while she won’t let him give her a facial. The tension is in the denial of a concrete goal.

3.  Choose a story that interests you, not one that you create because you think it will sell.  It’s obvious when an author has nothing invested in the plot. Doesn’t this seem obvious, especially to erotica authors who are not afraid of the taboo? Tell your story. Those who read my writing know that you’re getting hardcore literary porn. It’s not for the faint of heart. My stories and characters are up to all kinds of naughty, next-level shit. There are bukkakes, anal play, mind control, drug use, coercion, pressing of limits, race play, and much more. Some readers (including reviewers) hate this and just can’t get around it. For me, this is okay because I’m telling a story that interests me. Also, it’s quite therapeutic for me and I think it helps my marriage. I tell my wife all the time that writing for me is like taking the trash to the curb. All week (thanks to raging hormones) I get all pent up. Writing is like a great release. It’s like using two index fingers to work on that blemish and then finally getting it to pop pus all over the mirror. Ah, relief!

4.  Let the plot unfold naturally –– that is, without the obvious hand of the author at work. One scene should logically lead to the next, even though chronologically the scenes may be out of order. A writer who tries to force the plot to satisfy his intellectual vision will usually fail. I use all kinds of crazy ways to come up with the organic unfolding of plot. If my plots were erections they’d be taking all kind of Viagra. I think you need to give your storyline an invisible boost with a good outline. I’m a big fan of Italo Calvino and picked up some of his techniques. Try writing all your characters names down and then circling and connecting them with lines in a mind map. You will discover relationships that you may not have seen otherwise. Try writing each idea down on flash cards that you shuffle and reorganize continually until you get the most logical order. Another trick I use is to put my themes and character’s names on something, like some blocks that my son is playing with, and then play with it for a while until I get a structure I like. Then I write the story in the order of the blocks. These ideas may not help everybody but they all are ways to outline a story. One way or another, I think an outline is essential

5.  Each scene should complicate the conflict, and thus move the plot forward. If the conflict never changes, then the story becomes repetitive. I find this incredibly tough. I can write pretty easily but it is rarely relevant to the plot. For me, I need a constant reminder that there even is a plot. I often skip the salad and jump right to the meat and potatoes. That’s the way I eat. That’s the way I write. That said, there’s something deliciously fun about ruining the life of your characters and then further ruining it. This is where a good outline is really handy because you can keep ruining your characters while staying in the overall arc of the plot.

6.  Your character’s actions should develop the plot.  In other words their wants and desires and hang-ups should create more trouble for themselves and each other. Don’t let events happen to them. Make them the very reasons for conflict. Make them change events through their actions and personalities. Once your characters take an active role, the whole story becomes more vibrant. When a character’s actions result in her own demise, she is much more vulnerable and lovable.

7.  Plot isn’t everything. Remember to make sure you have character, setting, and theme. Character is what brings a reader into your story. Setting adds richness and tangibility to your story. The setting itself can be a character like Shalimar, Virginia in Song of Solomon. And theme is the final piece. Theme stays with the reader after the eReader is nestled away and charging. Plot is merely the engine that makes the reader turn the pages to get to the deeper stuff that stays with her once the book is finished. The deeper parts of your stories are the things that will make a reader hungry for more pages.

In conclusion, you can carve into your kindle however you want as long as there is a strong internal logic guiding it. Whether that logic is found by a carefully planned outline or by following the colorful pattern of your son’s blocks, the fact that there is intrinsic sense will lead to success. Just because we are writing erotica doesn’t mean that we can’t write the pants off the reader. In fact, that’s exactly what we need to do. Each writer finds her story’s internal logic for herself. Some of us have to find that logic over and over again for each piece or else we end up with a turkey in our hands.

Now put this down and get to your own writing. If you want more tips or want to be in the writing discussion, please visit my literary porn site where I hold a blog. Thanks for reading.

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Poet-turned-eroticist Moctezuma Johnson can be found on Twitter retweeting great writers. He is currently finishing Season One of his depraved literary porn psycho-thriller Chronicles of a Humiliation Backfired. When reviewing episode one of the series, erotica master Bella Swann said “I loved this story! It was funny and unbelievably offensive!”

Guest Post by Andrew Smith

Creating Erotic Stories

I write erotic short fiction. I've been doing it for about 10 years now. I blog my writing and share it for anyone who wants to read it and enjoy it. I am sometimes asked how I create my stories. Where do they come from? Today, I hope to answer that question.

I'm going to take a story I wrote, Mustard on His Tie, and explain how I came to create the erotic scene.

I get story ideas from all sorts of places. Sometimes, I'll be sitting waiting for my coffee and see someone in an interesting outfit or a great pair of shoes and my mind will wander. If I can feel a complete story coming on, I'll write it down.

Sometimes, I meet someone through my work and find them intriguing. Then, I'll imagine a sexual scenario involving them. Maybe an interview or a business trip.

And, in the case of Mustard on His Tie, I created the story after browsing Craigslist and responding to an ad.

Having always noticed the personals section on Craigslist, I browse there from time to time, mainly for entertainment. In the case of this story, I responded to an ad posted by a woman claiming to attend a local college. I thought I'd see what happened.

She responded. But, I wanted to be sure she was real. I didn't plan to meet her, but the idea of a meeting between two strangers from Craigslist piqued my interest.

I asked her for some pictures, and she sent back five. I remember them well, mainly because one was very clearly a picture of her and a friend on prom night.

I asked her a couple questions about the area to confirm she at least was somewhat legitimate. I told her I would let her know if I wanted to meet sometime in the next week or so.

The exchange started a thought process. Who are the young women posting on craigslist or backpage looking to meet men? What is their situation?

And, who are the men who respond and actually meet them?

In this case, I imagined a man in a mid-level job who had a pretty good life but was not entirely happy. He needed more attention that he didn't know how to ask for.

I started the story with this man reaching for a tie and then seeing a stain which triggered a memory. A memory of eating cheeseburgers but also of what had happened just before.

This is the man who responds to the college girl. This is the man she agrees to meet. She agrees because his pictures look nice, he writes in complete sentences, and he seems to care about her situation.

The girl is young. Not yet 20. And she comes from a working class family. Her family is barely able to send her to college. And she has what she needs, but certainly wants just a little more.

She's had a few sexual partners and enjoys her sexuality, but is not completely fulfilled. So, she decides to see if she can both earn a little money for school and satisfy her physical needs. She wants to be careful, but she's also willing to take some risks if it makes her situation a little easier to bear.

As I write most stories, I end up taking on the role of the male. That may seem like the easy way out, but it's what I have experience with. Yes, I try to write about what the female character is thinking and feeling, but in the moment, while I'm writing, I almost always become the male character.

I find writing erotica wildly arousing. Yes, it is fantasy. But that means things go the way you want. Though in the Mustard on His Tie story, the situation surrounding the sex is less than perfect.

As I start writing and get into a story, I always become aroused. I have finished many of my stories with a stain of pre-cum all the way through to my pants because I'm so aroused. I sometimes get the sensation that I'm physically connected to the woman in the story. That she is there. I have never had an orgasm just from writing a story, but I have often had amazing orgasms while masturbating after finishing.

I find the entire process exhilarating. From gaining pieces that contribute to a story's framework to starting to write, to feeling wildly aroused as I write and especially when I"m finished.

Each story, to me, is like the first time having sex with someone new. It can be frustrating and awkward but also intense and incredibly exciting. The new smells, tastes, sensations of a new person connecting with your body. That's what happens when I write and it is why I keep writing.