I don't want my photography to just be 'pretty pictures', I want my work to tell a story. I want to make lasting impressions on the people around me and also document those fleeting moments of human sexuality.
L Is for Leather (Erotic Alphabet)... Black as a starless night and smooth as pure silk, nothing entices
eroticism like the look and feel of leather. Lisette Ashton exhults in
the sultry, distinctive aroma of leather with a perfect description of
the erotic aspects of sliding into her new leather jacket in "Truman
Capote Was Wrong." In "Sunday Service", author Kate Pearce takes a love
of leather and punishment even further in this homage to a black belt.
These stories will fill your senses with all there is to enjoy in and
out of leather.
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love... Prioleau's captivating debut is a fervid self-help tract well-disguised
as a history. "Seductresses are in fact the liberated women incarnate,"
asserts the author in her opening chapter. "They're the stealth
heroines of history. The first feminists." It's a persuasive argument,
which Prioleau pounds home with massive fists full of quotations,
attributions and texts from anthropology, religion, psychology,
history, art, literature, music and anything else she can get her
hyperintellectual hands on. Modern women have lost their
goddess-centered groove, the Manhattan College professor asserts, and
as a consequence the entire race is going to hell in a male-dominated,
bimbo-focused handbasket.
Erotic spanking... Erotic spanking is the practice of spanking another person for the sexual gratification of either or both parties. Subjects may use their hands, or other tools, such as spanking paddles or canes. Activities range from occasional sensual interplay to domestic discipline and may or may not include a variety of implements. Many cultures described pain as an aphrodisiac early on — the Kama Sutra, in particular, goes into specific detail on how to properly strike a partner during sex.
Practice
Many spankings are carried out with the use of bare hands, or with spanking implements such as paddles, straps, hairbrushes, and belts.
Sometimes other implements are used for the activity: such as a cane, riding crop, whip, switch (rod), birch, gloves, a plastic bottle (the action is called bottling), a ruler (even a yardstick) or martinet. However, these would not accurately be called spanking. Erotic spankings are commonly combined with other forms of sexual foreplay, such as oral sex, sexual roleplaying and/or ageplay. The most common type of erotic spanking is administered on the bare buttocks, but can also be combined with bondage, in order to heighten sexual arousal and feelings of helplessness in the spankee.
Positions used may include:
* over the knees (OTK) or across the lap
* stooped over a chair or couch, or bench
* on hands and knees (bed or floor)
* on shoulder of spanker
* kneeling on a bed or ottoman, stooped over with hands on the floor
* bent under the arm of the spanker
* lying face down on a bed
* bent over, touching toes or over a desk
* lying on back with legs raised upward and toward chest
* handcuffed to a bed
* tied to a doorway
* tied to a tree or pole that is in a safe area outside
* legs spread apart, almost in the splits position.
Those interested in giving or receiving erotic spankings are sometimes known as spankophiles. Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne (as implied repeatedly in his poetry) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:
... Miss Lambercier... exerted a mother's authority, even to inflicting on us... the punishment of infants... Who would believe this childish discipline, received at eight years old, from the hands of a woman of thirty, should influence my propensities, my desires, my passions, for the rest of my life... To fall at the feet of an imperious mistress, obey her mandates, or implore pardon, were for me the most exquisite enjoyments, and the more my blood was inflamed by the efforts of a lively imagination the more I acquired the appearance of a whining lover."
Egon Schiele: Erotic Sketches... An intimate look at the erotic studies and paintings of a controversial artist whose works continues to provoke even today.
Schiele’s fiercely drawn lines and confrontational compositions command our attention. His erotic art, most of all, evokes feelings of discomfort, titillation, curiosity, and even repulsion, and yet bears testimony to his talent and passion. This beautifully crafted collection of erotic masterpieces showcases the themes Schiele wove into all of his work: a fascination with the human psyche and sexuality, a desire to destroy the conservative facade of moral righteousness and expose the inner truth. Designed to resemble an artist’s sketchbook, this book offers viewers a chance to gain a better understanding of the technique and vision of this revolutionary painter.
Bedtime Erotica... Bedtime Erotica is a collection of eight explicit short stories that
will leave a lasting impression. It starts off with a cautionary tale
in Another Woman and quickly shifts to the more subtly erotic Double
The Trouble, a story of a woman desired equally by her boyfriend and
his identical twin. Lexy constantly turns the heat up and down with
each story, leaving the reader's passions simmering until they get toOxford Blue, a beautifully written tale of a mature woman's seduction
by her son's friend that will make you question your morals and ends in
a bang with Telephone Sex: a raw, nasty and in-your-face story which is
a prelude to the next book in the series: Bedtime Erotica for Freaks
(like me). The characters are all different: from the young, shy,
virginal to the sassy, sexy, downright outrageous, mature, older woman.
They each take a pleasure-filled adventure to satisfy a sexual hunger
that craves ultimate fulfilment.
Naked Happy Girls... As a collection of pictures of attractive women, Naked Happy Girls is
pleasing and a little unusual. While undoubtedly erotic, it avoids most
of the clichés of standard glamour photography. It remains voyeuristic
and feminists might condemn it as objectivizing, but it certainly isn't
pornographic by contemporary standards. The work is playful and even
cheerful, showing beautiful women in natural light. Ultimately though,
the book doesn't compare with more provocative and innovative nude
photography. There are some strong images, especially those in which
the subject looks directly and openly into the camera, because in
those, the women convey their own power, and show themselves as equal
to the photographer and the viewer.
Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching... Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned
for being "too close" while erotica is defended as "leaving room for
the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much
more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal. Art/Porn
argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis
between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for
centuries by art criticism.
F Is for Fetish (Erotic Alphabet) ...
"I began to lust for each fetish soon after opening Alison Tyler's recent book F is for Fetish.
A bike mechanic's smudged, strong hands, golden showers from a goddess
in a clawfoot bathtub, and decadently soiled maribou slippers -- each
of these quickly drew me in. Each story in this collection features a
distinct moment where the plot falls away and the story is devoted to
its fetish object, specifying its particular hotness and how it makes
the narrator feel -- one young man tastes his Mistress's toes through
her musky fishnets with adoration and lust; a hungry boot slut inhales
the whiff of acrid boot polish melting in the hot sun as she kneels to
polish a series of military boots. The stories were very hot for that
very intensity, that rareness." -- T.R. Moss-alt.com
Egon Schiele: Eros And Passion... Egon Schiele’s controversial nudes and self-portraits were fiercely reviled when they first appeared in the early decades of the twentieth century and, nearly one hundred years later, they still have the power to shock. Examining why Schiele’s work elicits this response, the author explores the social constrictions of Schiele’s generation and the role of the artist as a breaker of taboos. Incorporating superb reproductions of Schiele’s works, those of his contemporaries, and historical photographs, the author offers a penetrating study of an artist whose idea of beauty transcended the morality of his time.
G Is for Games (Erotic Alphabet) ... G is for Games sounds promising with its theme of "games of
skill and chance,"....Kristina Wright's "Seven Minutes in Heaven,"
about a young man tied in a closet so that he is "forced" to be the
object of desire for a series of increasingly more aggressive and sexy
women visitors was the best of the lot, and very hot and
squirm-inducing; "The Big Touchdown" by Erica Dumas was surprisingly
steamy as well, featuring a convincing cheerleader and football player
in the back seat on touchdown night. Alison Tyler's "The Game" revved
things up at the end with an edgy tale of sex and BDSM among a group of
queer women rock stars and groupies...I recommend reading G is for Games for the very good stories... -- T.R. Moss-alt.com
I don't want my photography to just be 'pretty pictures', I want my work to tell a story. I want to make lasting impressions on the people around me and also document those fleeting moments of human sexuality. 
