Books that turn you on

The other day I was clearing out some old draws ( I was helping do a house clearance) when i found a GAY story book. I thought i was stright, but I started to read and found i was getting turned on in a short while I has a real big hard on!!!

(O well you never know about your self)

Mike

Mike: good for you. Don't let labels restrict you in your likes. You never know what you might have been missing out on all this time, even if it is only in the fantasy world of your mind.

A book that I'd like to read is "The Surrender" by Toni Bentley. Not LGBT but the unique and true story may appeal to many.

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A book that I'd like to read is "The Surrender" by Toni Bentley. Not LGBT but the unique and true story may appeal to many.

Thanks for the recommendation ... just put it on my amazon.fr list for ordering ...

You might like a site called "Literotica". No books but a lot of erotic stories in different catagories.

I started reading lesbian mysteries a couple of years ago and found them very entertaining. The stories were more cerebral and less violent. Plus I liked the romantic interactions.

The sleeping Beauty trilogy by anne rice is fantastic and features a huge variety of Kinks and pairings of all sorts. Lots of delicious spanking and Pony play.

Agree with @wetter

Literotica.com has stories for every interest. Mostly amateur but some are incredibly erotic.

As a writer, anyone posting here who fills in the details so that we, the readers, are there with, for me, him, works for me. Start back from the situation, check in, sit in the waiting room, get called back and let me walk beside you, hear, see what you hear, see.

I never actually read any book. But reading this discussion I think I may try one day.

Just finished "Well of Lonliness" by R Hall. Local library displayed books from women writers. Interesting. That led me to research Carl H. Ulrichs. Though this is a classic, I was surprised with the contemporary concepts and commentary - gave me much to consider. Worth the time.

V

Just finished "Well of Lonliness" by R Hall.

That book was once considered to be incredibly daring and provocative in the day.

OMG, There is no question.

The Story of O

The cab ride, the bondage and debauchery---YIKES!

I concur with Sue ...The Story of O is the classic ...

The Sleeping Beauty Series by Ann Rice is excellent too!

OMG, There is no question.

The Story of O

C'mon ... it is so classic that it should be assigned for high school reading classes ... ha ha ha.

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault. OMG. This book rocked my world. The book is a fictional account of Alexander the Great and his lover. As I remember it, the book is told from the lover's perspective and centers on his loyalty and love of his beloved master.

As a kid my dad had a subscription to Penthouse and he usually kept them in the downstairs bathroom under the sink for his (and mine) viewing pleasure.

One day they were gone. I was bummed because that was my ray of hope in an overall boring sexless adolescence. Either he stopped subscribing or maybe my stepmom had something to do with it since they were right there under the sink for anyone to see.

But I digress...I went out into the garage in search of some of the back issues I knew were in boxes—they were gone too! But as I looked through some boxes of books—my stepmom read a LOT—I came across an amazing book: Men In Love, by Nancy Friday. Wow.

It was stories from men she’d interviewed about their sex lives from adolescence to adulthood, their marriages (good and bad), their fantasies, their regrets, etc.

Some of them dealt with some pretty freaky stuff. From oedipal urges and actions to gender uncertainty to beastiality...it covered a lot. As a kid just finding out about his body and urges it was an eye opener to say the least. Just thinking about it made me look for the book online and finding a preview allowed me to reminisce a bit.

I find throw away lines in books and stories more arousing than anything long form. There is a moment when the two male leads in If We Were Villains end up sharing a bed and in the morning one wakes up with the other cuddling up to him. Whilst another character says 'why don't you two just admit you're queer for each other' earlier on and there is a gay under current it's so subtly handled it is more arousing by what isn't said or witnessed than what is. Does that make sense?

The great beauty in books is that it allows one to imagine the story in your own head, and be transported into the scene, some writers are incredibly good in their descriptive prose ones mind can become carried away, as a previous poster put it, what isn't said can convey implications,

I don't have a TeleVision as it causes me migraines, and thus read a ton, having learned to read age 3 thanks to my grandmother, over the years have read so many things that have tickled my fetishes some to the point of raging hard on, but it is difficult to pin point any one in particular

Back in my youth I found an old paperback pulp porn called "How To Make A Mini". It had a lot S&M flavor and one of the main plot devices was enemas.

FWIW, anyone who hasn't read recent commercially published erotic fiction should give it a try. While some of the stories available for free online are good, more are... not. Writing well is a learned skill, and many people who want to share their stories haven't yet mastered it.

The same is true of self-published erotic fiction, nearly all of it on Amazon. (In the book's description, look for Independently Published, Create Space, or Lulu.) Some is pretty damned good (the best is often by authors who write in other genres and don't want this one to be connected), and more is not so good. Some, you pay for a book but get only 25 or 30 pages. Or it starts out good and evolves, or devolves, into something you don't want to see, like child porn or sexual assault portrayed as erotic. Yuck.

But with a trade publisher acting as a quality gatekeeper, everything is well done. The basic writing, how the author uses the language, is excellent. It's been through three editing passes. There's an actual plot featuring interesting people with whole lives that aren't all about sex--and they're doing some very interesting sexual things that have significance to the characters, who grow or change because of it.

You don't have to buy a print book to get a trade publisher; nearly all the erotica presses offer digital versions. They're usually sold at both the publishers' own websites and at Amazon and other online markets.

It's badly dated now, but I quite enjoyed Anne Rice's "Exit to Eden," about an exclusive resort island sex club. (The movie adaptation was just awful.)

Many years ago (maybe 55 or so) I had a book which I think was called “The Good Parts”. It was an anthology of erotic passages from famous novels including classics by de Sade, Henry Miller, and others. I think it was published by Playboy magazine.

The plots were inventive and extremely stimulating. And the writing was first rate. I kept my copy in the bathroom so I could read a few pages when I was in there for a call of nature. Sometimes my stay was prolonged by a different call of nature.

I’m a serious bibliophile and I’m sure I still have this book around here somewhere. I’ll have to dig it out.