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http://www.themarysue.com/monsteroticabigfoot-erotica/

http://www.westword.com/2014-02-13/news/virginia-wade-bigfoot-porn/

Never tried porn OR erotica, for that matter, but these people are cleaning up self-publishing e-books for Amazon. Bigfoot porn, dinosaur porn, monster porn. The titles kill me. "Ravaged by the Raptor," etc. Virginia Wade told Forbes or someone that she's raking in $30,000 a month writing that Bigfoot stuff.

"Choked by the Chupacabra?" "Licked by the Loch Ness Monster?"

It would have to be funny though. Don't see how anyone writes those with a straight face.

A man lost in the woods has sex with a female Bigfoot. She accidentally kills him. Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1969.

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I don't think we'll get much in the way of recommendations here, which is unfortunate. I'd love to get some new recs outside of the usual audience.

The unedited diaries of Anais Nin and her relationship with Henry and June Miller. I loved the movie version. So sensual, REAL sensuality. Please see it! Music is great. The first time I saw "Nine and 1/2 Weeks" it made me sad, but now I appreciate the great visuals, the 80s New York art scene, music, clothes, and Kim Bassinger's beauty.

But I didn't read the book. Nine and 1/2 weeks is interesting as well, especially as you say with the visuals. I adore Wild Orchid for its mix of visuals and music and still revisit it as a great piece of filmed mainstream erotica.

Though with the plethora of new authors out there, I keep hoping for some recs.

There's certainly things I've taken from erotica and film and brought into my own life.

A laugh here, a sigh there. I felt I'd found friends who shared similar political, social and cultural beliefs. What a relief. What joy. Over time I read more. One day in a fit of curiosity I mustered the courage to join DU and begin posting. Most were very nice. They warned me to go slow. Take it easy. Establish some credibility. I heeded their advice. A nice comment here, a rah rah there. This proceeded for about a year. As I built up my post count, so I built up confidence and trust. Gradually, inexorably, I became immersed. Speed-reading threads. Giving and receiving abuse. Getting beat up for deviating from the norm. I can't say I enjoyed it. But it was impossible to stop. It was like a train wreck. Too often, I was the train....

I really can't stand most of her stuff. She took the most racy stuff and made it some of the most boring things I've ever read in the 'Beauty' books. Ditto most of the 'Vampire' books. 'The Mummy' was probably the only thing of hers I've read that was consistently well written.

...particularly her "Seacoast Society" books. BDSN-themed, but a lot more relationship-based character development.

The character side is what makes everything else work, so have some good development and story is what I look for.

--that is it just about impossible to recommend any erotica that will get universal approval.

Just suggestions, which can work for some but not others. There's so much focus on the awful, why not a little discussion/recommendations on what's actually good?

She kind of epitomizes well-written erotica to me.

But I much prefer her diaries to her erotica.

Glad someone mentioned her... she's kinda like the pioneer of the genre imo.

I prefer the super old school books like Autobiography of a Flea. Old school movies like The Opening of Misty Beethoven. Just as an example, from those you can go off on digressions into Victorian literature and golden age classic porn that are very well-covered on the net. Google and Bing are your friend. There's lots of tumblir sites that have erotic images & movies. Reddit probably has some good subthreads. Amazon and netflix too. There's some search engines like nudevista that focus more on hardcore but also have searches for erotica or vintage. But one person's erotica is another's outrage. Tastes vary wildly, so it's impossible to recommend a lot that will suit your tastes. Hope this helps a bit. Best of luck!

Some of the Tinto Brass films are pretty decent, but you might have to strip the country encoding off your DVD player if DVD's are still doing that.

i think it's a little more explicit than that shades of gray junk but it's very well written, and has a sense of humor...

As a writer and reader of fanfic, I object to that.

Good and bad writing exists in all genres.
Yes, there is a lot of garbage in the fanfic world, as it is a genre largely populated by amateurs, but that doesn't mean that great fanfic doesn't exist.

Yeah, I could have phrased it differently. But I was going with what the general dialogue about it was.

But like everything else, there's an awful lot of trash. And the original fanfic work that she wrote is awful garbage.

I've only had a couple of fanfics over the years that I've stuck with - and largely continuations of anime series at that - but I'm definitely aware of the culture and some of the great works that it does.

On the positive side, it is a genre that does welcome and nurture new writers.
I know that my own writing has improved tremendously since I began to write FF.

In the "FSOG" case, I confess I haven't read it. I don't plan on ever reading it simply because of its "Twilight" roots.
Anything that has sparkly vampires as source material is not something I can take seriously.

As a fanfic reader I'm sure you're familiar with the term "crack."
I don't read or write "crack," so Twilight is a non-starter with me.

One of the first things you learn as a writer is write what you know. and fans heavily invested in a show, book or property tend to be really into it. It's a great way to step into the world of writing and find your own voice afterward.