Dark Sex
DARK SEX represents the finest collection of 20th Century fetish photography ever assembled. Mostly recording sexual deviation of huge diversity from before the last war, it once more contradicts, with knobs on, Larkin's view that sex was only invented in 1963.
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The sixth issue of SEx is bigger and better than ever. It's all about sex and travel (the Fuck Off Issue), both armchair and otherwise. And for the first time, SEx will incorporate The Erotic Review, acquired only last month. The prodigal has returned after an absence of six years.
The seventh issue of SEx is, yes, bigger and better than ever. Crammed with literate smut, it now incorporates The Erotic Review, acquired only two months ago. The prodigal has returned after an absence of six years. And if this weren't enough cause for celebration at Erotic Towers, The Sex Fiend is back. He's as acerbically, excoriatingly funny as ever about the follies of the politically correct, the madness of scientists and medics, the treachery of whores and others too numerous to mention here. Nothing and none escape his eagle eye or his sulphuric-acid-dripping quill.
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From Superbikes and golf, to shunga and Post-Porn Modernism, we have something for everyone's most sublime and ridiculous needs in this eclectic issue. Regular readers will be delighted to read the latest instalment of Christopher Peachment's continued tales of the Sex Fiend: this month, debates in the panda porn in Chian Mai Zoo, doggie-porn in PC World, and an anatomically-correct chocolate Christ.
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Lynn Paula Russell's The Young Governess undergoes yet another Lesbian Conversion in her adult strip cartoon of the same name. And while we're on the Sapphic theme, John Gibb tells a moving tale of a lady sculptor and a conch, you know that pink, rather suggestively shaped shell. Bruno Phillips gets foxy with a lady huntress and Jonathon Green finds, among his lexicographical travels, a dusty old manuscript that tells us that at least some 18th Century Americans knew a thing or two about sex, Paris and 'deflowering the Lady Abbess'. Tilly Johnson dons her bikini and does a bit of perving from her hotel balcony. Plus photographs from Spanish Temptress Marian Alonso, fiction from the gorgeous Parisienne, Sharon Black and delectable Essex Gurl, Katie Kelly, book reviews from Rebecca Roberts Hughes, Colin Liddell and finally, really quite few of Stephen Bayley's Favourite Things.
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So where are the t-shirted strumpets, the boob-tubed bodacious babes, the burly bare-chested scaffolders? The seasonal parade of public semi-nudity has been interrupted by hail, sleet and snow. But inside the resplendent halls of Erotic Towers, it ain’t half hot. Matters are reaching boiling point as our band of ferocious frotteurs and eroto-plotteurs cook up a storm of filthy fact and feverish fiction for you.
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Summer's here. Huge, slate-grey clouds have unleashed torrential rain to lash at the noble edifice Erotic Towers, yet miraculously our spirits are undampened. Within the pages of this exciting double-issue, fiction and travel loom large: a sweltering, Turkish bath heat escapes from every page, our writers maintain form and give us steamy stories to make our most urbane readers pink-cheeked and hot under the collar.
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Welcome, sensationalists and libertines, to October’s issue of The Erotic Review. Outside the trees are aflame with the red, orange and yellows of this autumnal month, but the pages of our Paying For It issue will give rise to hues of another kind all together. We strive to maintain the high colour of all our readers and in this joyful task we have no doubt succeeded.
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Welcome to our November issue of the Erotic Review. Long gone are the hopeless dreams for a sun-spliced summer, instead let us embrace the chill-filled nights of a deep and dark autumn. Curl before the fire and let the heat of our pages steep you pink as we delve in to the darkest parts of our souls for this, Ladies and Gentlemen, our Infidelity Issue.
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The Erotic Review, Issue 85 - December 2007 to January 2008. It’s all change for the best in this super new, re-designed, larger-format, relaunch, Christmas bonanza, double-issue issue. Our theme is virginity. Well, almost….
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Frbraury's is the fabulous, guilty 'self-pleasuring' issue. Or is it self-abuse? Writers of both sexes take the matter in hand and give it a thorough dusting. Brilliant fiction by new writers Adnan Mahmutovic, Nnenna Marcia, NJ Streitberger and Tom Rice. A whole new 'Hot Stuff' section. Oliver Wilson shows his work in a dazzling portfolio. And much more...
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ER in March roars about censorship and how we can make it tame as a lamb. Our leading article by Professor Julian Petley examines this government's disastrous attempts to curb our liberties and imaginations. And the Erotic Review Photographer of the Year hots up. Who's your favourite for the Readers' Prize? And much more…
In this issue we look at the machine and mechanical side of sex. All manner of strange and wonderful contraptions emerge: John Gibb's story of an Exocet phallus, New York's Museum of Sex's display of Mike Sullivan's robots (at it like demented piledrivers), Stephen Bayley talks about a vibrator's aesthetics and our Far East Editor, CB Liddell, uncovers the Lovegety and the Anal Eye (no, don't ask). And we have the results for the ER Photographer of the Year Prizes.
Many thanks to all those who took part: the photographers, my fellow judges and, not least, all those who voted for the Readers' Prize Nearly half a million votes were cast.
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This issue's all about the sexualisation (not my word) of Britain. Are we swamped by sex? Is there just too much of it? And does it affect our daily life? Media-wise, the inheritors of the sexual revolution have jumped straight out of a puritan's frying pan into a libertine's fire: after dozing off in your armchair watching something gratuitously violent and gory on Five, you wake up to find yourself being instructed in the fine art of rimming by a lip-smacking sexpert hell-bent on telling a 21st century girl how she should enjoy herself. Of course, there's never, ever been any 'getting away from it all'. Thoughts of sex will plague even the most pious and remote. Apparently in his desert retreat, the big daddy of all monks, St Anthony, was plagued by lustful thoughts
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Why, when bande dessiné adult artists and authors are given cult celebrity status (and occasionally the legion d'honneur) in France, their work avidly consumed on the rest of the Continent and America do we seem to give it so little importance in this country? Could it be that the oxymoronic name, 'adult comic' is what confuses people? That we are incapable of separating humour and sex in our minds? Is it that the prototype our late 18th/early 19th century heritage of brilliant and often bawdy political cartoons Gillray, Rowlandson and Cruickshank was snuffed out by Victorian prudery?
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Our bulging summer double issue of ER casts a benign glance at our neighbours across the Channel, for it is time for 'L'Entente Sexuelle'. French kissing, château girls, the pretty ladies of Montpellier, how toad in ze 'ole translates ‐ (pretty well, actually ‐ saucisson en croute). Rich raunch in our 'Portfolio' sections by photographer Richard Watt and artist Jan van Rijn (no relation to Rembrandt). Nor are the jolly Germans forgotten, either. John Gibb pens a delightfully bittersweet, erotic short story about the German occupation as experienced in a small Normandy coast town, while Nick Curtis praises the Zärtlichkeit of German fräuleins. And yet further afield, Jeremy Clarke tells us about his unusual encounter with a Malaysian ladyboy.
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The PRIVACY ISSUE Sex, the tabloids and celebrity culture. Isn't it time, isn't it 'in the public interest' to say at last 'up yer bum!' to News of the Screws, 1950s-style hackery? John Gibb dissects the Mosley fiasco; a young New York dominatrix gives us a special insight into dungeons and 'Nazti-style' floggings, and Lisa Martinson waxes hot and cold on her countdown to getting a Mohican. We continue to serialise our pulp-porn fiction classic Lazonby's Heiress ‐ untrammelled smut of the worst, no, best, sort. Winner of the Readers' ER Photographer of the Year Prize, Guy Moberly has a cover and a Portfolio section devoted to his brilliant work.
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The Ecologist editor, Pat Thomas, brings the environmental debate to the sexual arena in our first Green issue, the brainchild of guest editors Sarah Duguid and John Gibb. She has a point when she tells us that slow sex is more fun. Nnena Marcia's Green Day is about how the girl and boy students of two African schools mingle at an eco-event on a hot summer night. All in the name of green sex, celeb chef Glynn Christian does it with his veg and Pete Clark eats his girlfriends panties, while Hannah Duguid explores green masochism. Jessica Lear asks is the Catholic church really right to consider making yet more babies 'environmentally responsible' or should they just put up with a few mutated fish?
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A glorious romp through the obsessions of erotomanes, fangirls, sex addicts, and the like. Our authors write obsessively about internet dating, Rachel Harcourt in 4B, fangirls, ladyboys, an overdose of sex, Kingsley Amis' hangover cure, Felicien Rops and a 1930s Japanese homicidal, penis-harvesting, prostitute. Stephen Bayley looks at the architecture of sex on wheels (i.e. cars) and Saskia Vogel watches Lucy Fox-Bohan shoot porno for Playboy's. And our erotic reviews? Neil Norman looks back fondly upon the uncut version of Guccione's Caligula while Lisa Martinson reviews Howard Jacobson's latest novel, The Act of Love. Enjoy - obsessively!
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Our bumper Christmas and New Year's double issue contains an abundance of wonderful features, fiction and reviews to take your mind off the current economic crisis. Which is why, of course, we've called it the 'Crisis Issue'. We look at how libertines, the nostalgic, economists, ghouls, lap dancers and Dominatrices (sorry, I had to give them a capital 'D' - more than my life is worth not to) are going to weather the stormy months ahead. And if all this is a too much reality for you, then fear not. The best form of escapism ever devised is lots of great erotic fiction – and we have lots. We have randy conference teachers playing away, adulterous ranchers home on another man's range, while Sloane Rangers indulge in some down-market sex, to name but some of our short stories. Add to this some witty erotic art and a resumé of our Annual Photo Competition and you have a real Christmas cracker of an issue.
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This issue tells us it's time to take the medicine. Not the nasty, bitter sort. Think more blanket baths and creamy flesh only just contained by a crisp, freshly-starched nurses' uniforms. Not only bursting at the seams with tales of naughty angels of mercy and wayward docs, our February issue is equally well endowed with feisty features – and packed with juicy reviews, too. Copstick visits a roadhouse in Kenya and, Nightingale-style, takes 400 Durex Pleasuremaxes to fucking's front line. We interview Susan Quilliam, author of the New Joy of Sex. Lisa Martinson examines the most offensive word in the English language. Stephen Bayley, style guru, tells you how to react if an angel of mercy wants to stick a finger up your bottom. Plus we look at Suicide Girls and give a glimpse of the new Erotic Review Photographer of the Year Prize entries. CJ Sims reviews the utterly filthy Wetlands. So in our Doctors & Nurses issue do we talk about VD? Uh-unh, narry a word on the dreaded Valentine's Day, we promise.
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What really gets you going? Is it a mouthful of fine claret or a heavenly malt? How about the moment when you reheat your F4 into a climb and the G pants laced up by that comely little WAAF in the squadron begin to squeeze you tight? How about the moment just before the wheel stops and you've stacked your stash on 29? Or the split second when you finish your speech and they're standing up to applaud? Perhaps it's a piece of fine chocolate on the tongue or the moment when the carbon monoxide and coal tar combine to give you a hit in the back of your throat? Might it be the dizziness you feel when your credit card goes through and makes you the owner of a yellow Porsche Carrera or the whisper of tissue as you pull your Jimmy Choos from the box? Whatever it is, you might just find it in our Better Than Sex Issue...
Extreme Sex
EXTREME SEX is a survey of perverse sex as it enters, not always with appropriate deference, the 21st Century, exposing aspects of sex that go beyond fetish... and even the outer limits of acceptability.
The Illustrated Book of Bottoms
The first and longest-in-print of the Illustrated Book of... series, Oliver Maitland's Illustrated Book of Bottoms is a tour de derrière - a posterior view of erotic art throughout the ages. Carefully selected from the Erotic Review Books archive of erotic images, this highly explicit, pocket-sized tome contains a positive cornucopia of female rumps: scores of illustrations showing rampant scenes of explicit sex with unapologetic captions.
The Illustrated Book of Breasts
Half the world has got them, and the other half wants to get hold of them. The Illustrated Book of Breasts is an even more erotic addition to the Society's famous series of "Illustrated Books". It has the same discreet format - ideal for the pocket, purse or bottom drawer - and the same scandalous approach to erotic abandon, albeit from a new, up-top perspective.
The Illustrated Book of Corporal Punishment
The sight of so many images of delectable, vulnerable bottoms (even out-thrust breasts) meekly offered up for chastisement, seems to bring out the whip-wielding dom in anyone. However, while most of us are content with fantasy, pure and simple, this book reflects some of the real experiences of author and illustrator Lynn Paula Russell: who better than she - and many others dedicated to the gentle art of chastisement - to take us to those dark, hidden places in our sexual imagination?
The Illustrated Book of Dominatrices
In Dominatrices, Roger Moineau looks directly (but oh-so respectfully) into the steely grey eyes of that uber-Bitch, the Dominatrix. In his snappy little book he lays out dominatrix etiquette like a boot camp recruit's underwear ready for inspection. Men are put firmly in their place. Men? Grovelling, snivelling, submissive curs, I mean. She Who Must Be Obeyed will brook no opposition.
The Illustrated Book of Sex Gadgets
This book can only nibble at the tip of this new universe of plugs, rings, balls, beads, sleeves, tubes, electrodes, clips, clamps, pumps, ticklers, tweakers, dildos, dolls, prods, probes, stirrups, wands and gerbil-shaped vibrators. Vicky and Charlie, video reviewers par excellence for the Erotic Review, turn their attentions to the sex toy, that staple of the erotic imagination, for this addition to the EPS's justly famous series of Illustrated Books.
The Illustrated Book of Oral Sex
Annie Blinkhorn, the gorgeous, diminutive deputy editor of The Erotic Review, explores the moist world of oral sex, leaving no nook or cranny unexplored. Although she looks as though butter would always stay firm in her mouth, reading her little book soon changes that impression. Her text scorches along at a raunchy pace, peppered with brash Northern wit and some of the filthiest, funniest observations on this sexual activity we've ever encountered.
The Illustrated Book of Orgies
The perfect orgy is a strangely elusive affair. The orgy is always at another house, another party, the next town, the neighbouring county, last year, next month. Orgies are fashioned in the imagination, anticipated and recalled, narcotic in their pleasures, balletic in their athleticism but in reality have some of the characteristics of the mirage, hovering tantalisingly out of reach of the traveller.
The Illustrated Book of Phalluses
These phalluses are fortunate in receiving the attention of a real connoisseur of erotic art whose scholarly insights never detract from an all-encompassing enthusiasm for her subject. An awesome selection of membri virilium that are equal to virtually any occasion - though most, it must be admitted, do involve some variant on coition. Indeed, the male copulatory organ is rarely seen at repose in this little book, and is rarely parted from his female counterpart.
The Illustrated Book of Sapphic Sex
The Illustrated Book of Sapphic Sex traces lesbian sex through the ages with its penetrating text and breath-takingly raunchy images. With more than 60 images, 96 pages of perfectly-formed prose are complemented by salacious lesbian pictures and irreverent captions. Far from being synonymous with lesbianism, Sapphic sex is about a state of body: the ultimate sensuality, sex until you're exhausted by exertion and orgasms - apparently, not many heterosexual women know about that... Why would they?
The Illustrated Book of Situational Sex
The long experience of one divorce practitioner is said to have impelled him to the conclusion that no circumstances or place should be regarded as impossible, save, perhaps, the ceiling, and if there is often something two-dimensional about sex in bed, the main aim of Richard Smithson's erotic book is to throw the bed out of the window - or at least, to give the bedding a good airing.
The Illustrated Book of Stockings
Not simply a history of hosiery, this book is a hymn to the women whom stockings have adorned. It examines the rolling-on and the rolling-off, including what happens below and above, the deep-seated desires they arouse in men and other women, and how these desires (especially in the explicit illustrations) have been satisfied.
The Illustrated Book of Filthy Victorian Photographs
For every prim little Victorian wife, there existed a veritable army of women who serviced those left outside the circle of wedded bliss and catered for a staggering range of sexual perversions; there were mistresses, models, grand courtesans, brothel madams, and professional prostitutes; there were casual young street prostitutes who might be seamstresses or flower-girls by day and enticing young sirens by night, and of whose age it was best not to enquire too closely.
Understanding Shunga
Japanese shunga prints occupy a unique place in the history of art. They form a popular, frank, and aesthetically superlative erotic tradition. Masterclass: Understanding Shunga takes us from the neon-packaged fantasies of fast-paced Tokyo to the refined courtesan district of the city's samurai past. The authorativie text deals with a wide range of subject matter. Masterclass: Understanding Shunga is lavishly illustrated, creating an opulent investiagtion of Japanese sexual practices and customs. For the first time, shunga prints are examined as part of a culture of eroticism, starting with ancient eastern manuals of sexual instruction such as the Kama Sutra, and concluding with recent work by contemporary artists inspired by the vitality and charm of shunga prints.
Dee McDonald's Pillow Book
Dee McDonald, the Erotic Review Books's Secretary, makes her own, definitive erotic choice: a sex therapist's view of the juiciest, earthiest and most intelligent stories and images.
Emily Ford's Pillow Book
To celebrate Emily Ford's seven years as the Erotic Review Books Secretary, and to celebrate we asked her to put together her own erotic compendium of favourite bits and pieces - a sort of sexual scrapbook, if you like. Artists, photographers, writers of fiction and journalists are also contributors, of course, but we are terrifically pleased - and pleasantly surprised - with the selection she has made.
Katie Kelly's Pillow Book
Katie Kelly's Pillow Book is an outrageous collection of rude stories and sensuous images selected by one of The Erotic Review's favourite columnists. It celebrates sexuality and life's more arousing pleasures with cheerful abandon, from kinky fiction to fetish photography; from touching love sonnets to the narrations of ghostly, lecherous sailors. Katie has also delved deep into our archives where she's found libidinous art: both graphic and photographic here today's erotica rubs saucy shoulders with that of bygone days.
Tilly Johnson's Pillow Book
Tilly Johnson selects the best, raunchiest and most original erotic short stories, art and photography from our collection, as well as an entire 1960s pulp-porn novella: The Blackmailed Wife. And as if that were not enough, the charming Miss Johnson obligingly takes all her clothes off for the photographer, too (sorry, she's a little shy, and you'll have to buy the book to see these images).
The Sins of our Fathers Volume I
Probably the first book published in England to unite the most explicit vintage nineteenth-century pornographic images with similar texts of the same period, The Sins of Our Fathers explores the outer limits of Victorian depravity. Often amusing, sometimes touching, usually explicit and always extremely erotic, these images, juxtaposed with their literary sisters, bring the Victorian era to life in a way that has eluded most historians.
The Sins of our Fathers Volume II
An exciting complement to The Sins of our Fathers. In this volume there are even more pictures - over 130 images, mostly published for the very first time - and, as before, carefully chosen excerpts from shamelessly explicit texts of the period. In addition, there's a fascinating commentary from the owners and curators of the collection. Distance lends enchantment, perhaps, but frankly, these underground photographic images leave little to the imagination.
Tijuana Bibles
As wry and raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art above ground for the first time since they were produced.
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What really gets you going? Is it a mouthful of fine claret or a heavenly malt? How about the moment when you reheat your F4 into a climb and the G pants laced up by that comely little WAAF in the squadron begin to squeeze you tight? How about the moment just before the wheel stops and you've stacked your stash on 29? Or the split second when you finish your speech and they're standing up to applaud? Perhaps it's a piece of fine chocolate on the tongue or the moment when the carbon monoxide and coal tar combine to give you a hit in the back of your throat? Might it be the dizziness you feel when your credit card goes through and makes you the owner of a yellow Porsche Carrera or the whisper of tissue as you pull your Jimmy Choos from the box? Whatever it is, you might just find it in our Better Than Sex Issue...
ER Books Christmas Cards
It's almost impossible to find a Christmas card which isn't either unbearably twee or insufferably vulgar - so this year we decided to make our own... Not, perhaps, absolutely suitable for every member of the family, but they'll stand out on any mantlepiece, and are guaranteed to break the ice at Christmas parties.
ER Books Christmas Cards
It's almost impossible to find a Christmas card which isn't either unbearably twee or insufferably vulgar - so this year we decided to make our own... Not, perhaps, absolutely suitable for every member of the family, but they'll stand out on any mantlepiece, and are guaranteed to break the ice at Christmas parties.
Young Lusty Sluts
A sure-fire, not to be missed, cult classic, Young Lusty Sluts contains a wealth of 70's and 80's American erotic pulp fiction book-covers and text extracts, collected in a fine volume which is in turn both arousing and amusing.Ranging from deeply offensive to outrageously camp, from political incorrectness on a scale never previously encountered to side-splitting and entirely unintentional humour, these books are a well-hidden treasure of Western culture.
Bespoke Erotic Prints & Cards
Build the erotica collection you've always lusted after! For years our members have been clamouring to buy one-off prints of images from our extensive collection and now, for the first time ever, we're opening up our archive, and in a few clicks you can select images from our collection and have them printed as bespoke postcards and greetings cards.
Bespoke Erotic Prints & Cards
Build the erotica collection you've always lusted after! For years our members have been clamouring to buy one-off prints of images from our extensive collection and now, for the first time ever, we're opening up our archive, and in a few clicks you can select images from our collection and have them printed as bespoke postcards and greetings cards.
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