If you could only have one book of erotica on your bedside table, 'this' is it. From grand dame of erotica and editor of "The Best American Erotica" series, Susie Bright, this compelling collection features 40 of the best and most relished contemporary erotic short stories to date. Designed and packaged in a 'gotta-touch-it' slipcover, the package cultivates the quality, rarity, and taboo satisfaction that goes into the stories themselves. Looks so good, you'll leave it out on your nightstand. 

X: The Erotic Treasury

Susie Bright, also known as Susie Sexpert, is an author, editor, activist, performer, lecturer, sex guru, teacher, and mom. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. Bright co-founded and edited the first women's sex magazine, On Our Backs, "entertainment for the adventurous lesbian," from 1984 to 1991. She founded the first women's erotica book series, "Herotica" and edited the first three volumes. She started "The Best American Erotica" series in 1993-2008. Bright taught the first university class on the subject of the aesthetics and politics of pornography at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1986. She became well-known for her scholarship in sexual representation through her courses on the subject at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.