What type of erotica do you prefer.

Speaking for my late wife, she never had much interest in photos or drawings (except maybe those of herself) but she did like reading the supposedly 'letters to the editor' or advice column sections in 1970s Dutch sex mags that I bought. It's no secret that most of that material wasn't really written by readers, but even so she liked reading the usually short accounts and memoirs.

Usually editors wrote that kind of thing, but even now I too still find them quite fun to read, they were so cute and naïve and adventurous for the time they were written in.

But they were certainly not written by professional writers making full length novels. They were just short accounts and vignettes of sexual material written by (underpaid?) editors and staff working in the publishers office ...

When it comes to written material, I still find it best as well. Anything that gets past the self-imposed wall of a publishers censorship, is going to be too tame and polished to be any real arousing fun.

Sensual pegging . unfortunately there’s a lot of just harsh- punishment type videos/pics out there, but it’s the erotic ones I enjoy . Where a woman will put stockings and panties on her man, spend a lot of time with forplay/kissing, building up.

M/M - erotic sensual massages , frottage, over the knee erotic spanking , rectal temp , anal toys , underwear dress up (panties, etc..

F/m - sensual domination - spankings over the knee and other positions , with a lot of caressing , mommy/aunt type with lingerie , forced to wear panties , etc. pegging/strapon

When it comes to written material, I still find it best as well. Anything that gets past the self-imposed wall of a publishers censorship, is going to be too tame and polished to be any real arousing fun.

Publishing houses dedicated to erotica have very few things they will not publish, mostly to avoid legal liability. Sex with minors (even if they consent), rape portrayed as erotic, and incest or pseudo-incest (step-family, usually) are usually rejected out of hand.

And there are, of course, niche publishers that specialize in those very things. Hard to find, some of them, but the person with a special interest might buy a good bit of their inventory over time.

Mainstream publishers are far more conservative about what they'll allow portrayed in fiction, but they don't censor, just demand edits to remove content their readers might find offensive or too far out there.

Publishers specializing in erotica (or to a lesser degree erotic romance) don't censor or demand edits nearly so much. My second novel was fairly kinky FemDom, and while it didn't sell all that well, nobody asked me to tone down any of it.

Agree with @Nurse_Phillips and @honey_drizzle

As for images, I have so many in my own naughty head, usually that’s enough. But in the past few months some friends on Zity have shared some intimate personal photos and now those have become part of my special solo moments.

Mainstream publishers are far more conservative about what they'll allow portrayed in fiction, but they don't censor, just demand edits to remove content their readers might find offensive or too far out there.

Publishers specializing in erotica (or to a lesser degree erotic romance) don't censor or demand edits nearly so much.

When doing Speculumpages, we still rejected about one third to half of all the stories submitted. Not because of bad or unprofessional writing, but simply because of content. Lots of violent and unsavory material submitted. Things we wanted nothing to do with.

So, if a free site that catered to outré subject matter censored, I'm pretty sure that mainline publishers do it even more often. They have serious reputations to protect and substantial investments.

@agracier i get paid to read erotica for audiobooks. Aside from kids, animals and dead bodies, there’s not a lot that they won’t publish. I find myself rejecting a lot of stuff because I don’t want to be associated with it but it gets published.

I have recently been looking through 1850-1950s 'porn'. lots of black and white archive photos of models, mostly african and Asian women in various states of tribal undress. they have their lovely breasts on display. not just standing upright. many are bend over from the rear or on their back legs apart. quite progressive for the tme. the collection is about 500 assorted photographs from the colonial era. clearly some rich man's fetish of the time. and now mine.

I have recently been looking through 1850-1950s 'porn'. lots of black and white archive photos of models, mostly african and Asian women in various states of tribal undress..... the collection is about 500 assorted photographs from the colonial era. clearly some rich man's fetish of the time. and now mine.

I know a secondhand bookdealer in Brussels who is a passionate collector of colonial material, mainly photographs. Having a store he is offered some exceptional material at times and lets me have a look. It is often private photo albums of people who went to work in Africa in one way or another, as administrator or functionary in the civil service, as engineer or in business, even as journalists on assignments. Private photo collections of such kind fetch high prices, surmising he is even amenable to selling these kind of things which come into his possession. He isn't and keeps them for himself (which I would do too). He has better material than on display in the Royal Museum for Middle Africa in Tervuren, Brussels. At least that concerning the inhabitants.

He has some very lovely nudes, which to be honest, was a favorite subject for photographers back then. I've been urging, pestering to bring his imagery to a publisher. Such books sell well and with lots of photographic material available, all in his possession and therefore not copyrighted, not much text is needed to complete a book. Any half competant journalist could patch together an introductory text of a few pages and that would be it as far as writing is concerned. Maybe with some captions, tops. People don't buy such books for the text, but for the imagery.

But he doesn't seem to have any inclination to have a book to his name, even one so easy to compile. More's the pity.

@agracier i get paid to read erotica for audiobooks. Aside from kids, animals and dead bodies, there’s not a lot that they won’t publish. I find myself rejecting a lot of stuff because I don’t want to be associated with it but it gets published.

Maybe we were stricter on SpecPages than I thought or were given credit for.

Or perhaps there is already some pre-censoring going on before you are given anything to read for the audiobooks.

For me I love to read erotica much of which is here and from or by members of those I have as friends or have followed for some time. I am prone to masturbate a few times a day, lightly, to take the edge off and allow me to continue with my day but I love the release and the frame of mind I am left with afterwords. I prefer the written word because it involves my most active sex organ, my mind or brain, and I've no need to employ a video other then my own imagination.

So I would have to say that reading erotica is what I prefer when I masturbate and I love to masturbate and I am quite easy. 😘 I know all the right moves to make it work for me and I rarely say no to myself. 😁

@agracier Did I understand it correctly that this photos are quiet old? DrMatt mentioned 1850 to 1950 and this is a part of the colonial era. Honestly I feel torn about this photos. I believe this photos are realy fascinating and I can also understand the erotic interest in the photos of the nudes. But I think also that the photographed person usually was not asked for agreement during the colonial time. I think nowadays it would be self-evident to ask for permission before taking pictures with persons. I don‘t want to complain it is just my feeling. Of course this old pictures of countries in africa, asia and south america are valuable historic documents.

Maybe we were stricter on SpecPages than I thought or were given credit for.

Or perhaps there is already some pre-censoring going on before you are given anything to read for the audiobooks.

Maybe? But we’re talking rape, BDSM, futa, aliens - like I said the only off limits were kids, animals and necro. I did a few swinger stories, some non-consent and BDSM but I rejected a lot of the truly out there stuff.

When I was young I got off on the Penthouse letters. Later on I read some fiction by Clancy et.al….but I don’t enjoy fictional erotica. I read a bunch of the BDSM stories here a while back, but they were too contrived IMO and didn’t really grab me. I’m sure there are some great, well thought out, well written stories out there, but I’m not going to dig through the library to find the nuggets

I very much enjoy the couples threads and blogs here on Zity by members I’ve come to know through their posts. These are post/stories I can connect with.

Although I enjoy them, I don’t masturbate to them, that would cheapen it for me.

I prefer to see erotica live.... in person ... a female or several females looking at me while I am looking at them.! As they say, admire the differences!

From my teens until perhaps my forties my favourite erotica was the letters pages of 'Forum' magazine which I think quietly disappeared from the shelves twenty or more years ago. Heterosexual anal sex was illegal in the UK at that time but that didn't stop a number of readers sharing their butt fucking experiences albeit with stern warnings from the editors. As a teenager there was not much film material available but I did spend many hours sticking the pages of several of the top shelf magazines together! I think 'Men Only' was my favourite at that time. From about the 1990s VHS videos became readily available followed by DVDs until the advent of the internet finally meant an avalanche of video porn freely available. Much of this doesn't really work for me although occasionally I come across (sorry!) some well made amateur stuff with an anal or fetish slant. I have never really lost my first love of the written word though & the mind pictures it can conjure up. Just not sure where to find some really good stuff now.

DEFINITELY showing my age, but when I was 9 and 10, too young to jerk off, I either was sick a lot or faked it (can't remember, probably a bit of both) and was allowed to stay home alone, and I would often study the women's underwear section of my grandmother's Sears catalogue while stimulating my anus and rectum with a pencil lubricated with vaseline while stimulating my imagination. (I also liked my step-grandfather's bare-boobed girly calendar, hidden out in the garage.)

THESE DAYS, I still crave visual images that stimulate my imagination. The format doesn't matter so much... could be B&W or colour; photo or toon; still, GIF or video, as long as it hooks my imagination. GIFS have a bit of an edge, because while they're lifelike, they're also brief and out-of-context, inviting me to invent the scenario in my mind. Videos have a bit of an edge, because they have SOUND, and (sicko warning) the sound of a girl's sobbing or other vocal sounds of distress really give me the hots, when coupled with the right visual images. (Or sometimes the sound of a guy sobbing, if it's a hot woman making him sob.)

@agracier Did I understand it correctly that this photos are quiet old? DrMatt mentioned 1850 to 1950 and this is a part of the colonial era. Honestly I feel torn about this photos. I believe this photos are realy fascinating and I can also understand the erotic interest in the photos of the nudes. But I think also that the photographed person usually was not asked for agreement during the colonial time.

Most the photos were of the Interbellum era, 1920s-1930s and some later, probably late 1940s just after the war.

There were not only photos of people, who posed, often in groups, but also of landscapes, infrastructure (say a new airport control tower or hospital post), trains and new factories.

I'd rid myself of the notion that colonies were run like slave plantations in the antebellum south.

Albums of such nature are often found upon the death of a family member when things and possessions are cleaned out or when a house is sold. So truly old photos are seldom amongst those brought to specialist stores to sell. Perhaps not the original owners are now dying off of old age and the like, but perhaps their children and then the next in line to inherit an old house full of memories has no interest in what is left, or more likely given the new laws on home insulation and other ecologically mandated issues, have to either sell it for a complete renovation that they themselves cannot afford to pay for.

So you tend to get a lot of old things in general being sold off to secondhand stores, flea-markets, antique dealers and so on. That's why things like photos from the 1920-30s are the most common.

By the 1950s things had changed too much in Africa.

TBH some of the chats I’ve had on Zity and elsewhere, if those could be produced as video porn, THAT I would watch. And certain members here have posted some stories and experiences that I would LOVE to see… seriously naughty erotica. 🤩😳

I'd add the paintings of the Scots artist Jack Vettriano in with my favourite erotica. Often 1950s & sometimes American in style much of his work is quite 'dark' featuring lovers, ladies of the night etc. Never explicit, just stocking tops, high heels, a hint of thigh or cleavage & often with quite strong or femdom women subtly dominating their partners. I'd love a couple of his originals if I had that kind of cash..

It depends on my mood, I like to masturbate with a variety of images and stories. I especially like stories of pediatric exams. I even find writing about what I find erotic to be erotic in and of itself, I am semi erect now as I type with one hand.

As I mentioned 2 years ago, I'm primarily driven by imagery. I mainly look at pics. Some video can be erotic, such as videos of exams, or of people in bondage. Also reading about experiences can sometimes give me the urge, to try to envision their experience in how they describe it.

Bdsm, doctor/patient,bi,straight,younger with older.

Horace's erotica evolution:

Early teens:

What I could find around the house (Sears catalog, medical guides, sex scenes from novels, women's magazines. The real gem was "The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris which had a chapter with very explicit descriptions of arousal and sex)

Took up photography as a hobby. Found that most photography books had a chapter on photographing nudes. Borrowed all the photography books from library.

Late teens to mid 20s:

Playboy, Penthouse, other magazines.

Books about sex, such as The Hite Report.

Mid 20s to mid 30s:

Some videos and DVDs. Liked how-to videos, such a "Nina Hartley's Guide to Oral Sex"

Lots of business travel. Found that one could rewire the movie boxes in hotel rooms to bypass the scrambling.

The dawn of the internet age. Downloading still photos. Found a strip club that was ahead of its time and streamed video and chat with the girls. They allowed free viewing for a few minutes, but their mistake was they put the timer on the client side (software developers know what I mean)

To present:

Great variety of internet videos. As a young man, I had a fantasy of an older woman explaining her body to me and teaching me about sex, so I still have a thing about videos of that nature. I like to see women undress. I like to watch women masturbate. I prefer hairy, natural looking women and prefer amateur porn.

All of the above with the opposite sex.

Looking back at my earlier posts, it’s been a journey! Right now I prefer lesbian porn. It’s more sharing and intimate than most hetero porn. Plus the models are beautiful!

From an erotica standpoint, it’s the couples threads here on Zity because I sorta “know” them virtually as people and it resonates. Stories in the library don’t resonate with me like that, and I seldom read any of them although some are very well written.

Definitely pictures of the opposite sex! Smiling suggestive faces with beautiful eyes of mature women are the best along with frontal view!

Depends on the situation. If I'm on a cruise ship or beach, love looking at the girls butts and try to see if anybody has a butt plug in under their bikini bottoms. If home, I like videos first, pictures second. What I'm looking at is girls with anything up their butt. I'm a butt man for sure.

I don’t bother with any type of erotica or other sources of sexual stimuli when masturbating unless I am focused on my wife during a mutual session or some type of domination scenario. My imagination is sufficient to get and keep me going. In the past, I have found that if I try to watch porn, I get too busy trying to fast forward to the good stuff. Likewise, juggling books, magazines, phones, or tablets gets equally frustrating and distracting for me. I much prefer at least one hand stroking my penis and the other hand tending to my other erogenous zones. My hands never go numb or fall asleep when I do that like they do trying to hold my phone in front of my face or constantly manipulating the computer mouse trying to find the best images.

BDSM....

Anal!