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Male sex toy article at Salon

I wrote about the rise of the male sex toy market for Salon, including new "guybrator" Pulse, Tenga masturbation eggs, Aneros prostate massagers and more.

Listen to me chat about erotica, nipple clamps and more on Rose Caraway's Sexy Librarian podcast

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with Rose Caraway in person for her Sexy Librarian podcast, about everything from writing, reading and editing erotica to nipple clamps, BDSM, sexual fantasies, erotic remote controls and more. Rose is the most excellent narrator of the audiobooks Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex and my favorite of my books, The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories and, if I'm very lucky, hopefully more in the future. She is a genius with a sexy voice, a smart take on erotica, her own Cleis Press anthology out in my birthday month, November, The Sexy Librarian's Book of Erotica , her audiobooks outsell all my other ones many times over, with the Gotta Have It one outselling print and ebook combined lately. She also loves to give readers free stories, so here are a few from my beloved The Big Book of Orgasms that we mention in our discussion: Pushing Boundaries on Public Transport" by Victoria Blisse, "Book Lover" by Donna George Storey and "Forced Orgasms" by Shoshanna Evers, with more coming soon. Happy listening!

Erotica sale: $1.99 Kindle ebooks Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories and Best Bondage Erotica 2011

It's ebook sale time again, through May 31! The Kindle editions of Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories , all about blowjobs, and Best Bondage Erotica 2011 , which kicked off the series and while it has 2011 in the title, these stories are as hot as ever for bondage fans. Check them out if you haven't already. I will always love my story "Gloss," about a very messy blowjob, in Tasting Him.

Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories

From a distinctly female perspective, lovers — committed and otherwise — explore the many ways oral sex can be an act of love, tenderness, and devotion, or a pure and unabashed sexual act. Readers will revel in the emotion and sensuality of this collection of stories, written by some of today's top erotica writers with the aim of creating full arousal.

Introduction: The Power and Pleasure of Cocksucking
Gloss by Rachel Kramer Bussel
A Treatise of Human Nature by Robert Peregrine
Quite a Mouthful: Confessions of a Sweet Cocksucker by Tish Andersen
This Just In by Heidi Champa
Blessed Benediction by Radclyffe
How I Learned to Give Good Head by Amanda Earl
Without Eyes by Terri Pray
Tony Tempo by Tsaurah Litzky
A Tongue is Just a Tongue by Michelle Robinson
It’s a Wonderful Blowjob by Simon Sheppard Down on the Beach by Alessia Brio
Getting Used to It by Tenille Brown
Cocksucker by Lori Selke
Prego by Alison Tyler
Equanimity Unbounded by Craig J. Sorensen
Fellatio: A Love Story by Scarlett French
Logic by Jacqueline Applebee
Frosted by Kristina Wright
Long Relief by T. Hitman
Open Wide by Marina Saint
Sketch of a Suckoff by Thomas S. Roche
Sculpted by Shanna Germain
After Dinner Mint by Donna George Storey

Best Bondage Erotica 2011

A superb selection of stories from great writers who have mastered the not-so-gentle art of bondage fiction, Best Bondage Erotica 2011 is the debut of a stimulating new series. These stories of forbidden desires and sexual fantasies shock, scintillate, and mesmerize. Award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel has created one of the most daring erotica collections, with work by Elizabeth Coldwell, Janine Ashbless, Dominic Santi, and more. How do you want to be tied up? Let Best Bondage Erotica 2011 count the ways . . . using everything from rope to handcuffs, silk ties to cling wrap, ethernet cables, and more. With stories that feature a sexy little mermaid, a randy circus act, an IT manager at a fetish club, and a Las Vegas photographer with an eye for kink, Best Bondage Erotica 2011 offers erotic insight for newbies and experienced players alike.

Read my story "Vegas Treat" free for a sample!

Free erotica: "Forced Orgasms" by Shoshanna Evers on The Kiss Me Quick's podcast

The Kiss Me Quick's podcaster Rose Caraway has outdone herself with this image involving her, me and a Hitachi Magic Wand to illustrate Shoshanna Evers' story "Forced Orgasms" in The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories . Listen to it free right here and subscribe to her podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Here's a snippet from the story, and do listen to the whole thing.

From "Forced Orgasms" by Shoshanna Evers

He’d been turned on by images of women all tied up since his teenage years. As far as Ivan was concerned, his sexual predilection toward kink was as natural as his lesbian friend stated her orientation had been; his had been ingrained since puberty. No trauma made him this way. No Freudian issues to resolve.

It was just that if he was going to get hard, the girl had to be tied up. And if the pornography he was viewing ended with the girl tied up with a vibrator still buzzing away in her pussy, he’d practically come in his pants. Forced orgasms. His fetish. His kink.

Want more free audio erotica from The Big Book of Orgasms? Listen to "Pushing Boundaries on Public Transport" by Victoria Blisse and "Book Lover" by Donna George Storey. Want more? Buy The Big Book of Orgasms audiobook of 69 stories narrated by Rose Caraway.

Very popular book fetish erotica - listen free now on Rose Caraway's podcast!

I am a very proud editor today upon seeing that the free podcast with "Book Lover" by Donna George Storey, from my favorite of my anthologies, The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories , is #6 on iTunes' sexuality charts, behind Dan Savage and Sex Nerd Sandra! It's all due to the genius of podcaster and audiobook narrator extraordinaire Rose Caraway, who I wish I could work with on every audiobook because she simply is excellent at her job, both her sexy narration and bringing audio erotica to the masses. I don't know how she does it but I'm thrilled! She's got 68 more hot flash fiction erotica stories for you in The Big Book of Orgasms audiobook. You can listen to more of her by subscribing to her podcast The Kiss Me Quick's on iTunes, and get another The Big Book of Orgasms freebie with "Pushing Boundaries on Public Transport" by Victoria Blisse. Also through April 30th you can get the Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex audiobook for only $3.99 when you buy the Kindle edition for $1.99. More from me and Rose very soon too!

All the naked ladies reading literature

and wrote about it for Elle.com. What was it like to hear naked women read from work by Woody Allen, Lorrie Moore, Lolita and more? Check out my piece. Fun fact: the last place I saw naked women in public was at the strip club where I saw Belle Knox strip, and I also interviewed her for Elle.com. The two environments couldn't have been more different.

8 things to do in New York this week

Are in The Eight-Day Week in The New York Observer, from a conversation about James Baldwin to Ralph Steadman, National Poetry Month, a restaurant with 800 bottles of wine and more. Do keep sending your NYC event listings at least 2 weeks in advance with full details (date/time/address/phone number/price/description in body) to 8dayweek at observer.com and please pass that on to anyone you know organizing cool events in NYC. Thanks for reading!

This is what book fetish erotica looks like

Would you sniff a book? Lick a book? Take a bite out of one? One of those happens in book fetish erotica story "Book Lover" by Donna George Storey, which you can now listen to for free at Rose Caraway's podcast The Kiss Me Quick's. Another freebie podcast listen is "Pushing Boundaries on Public Transport" by Victoria Blisse and for 69 stories, including those, listen to The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories audiobook narrated by Rose Caraway. I love so many things about this story, but most especially that it highlights a fetish that's a bit unusual and makes it seem plausible, whether you've ever wanted to get that intimate with a book or not. It's sexy and a little funny and creative and features a fetish being shared by lovers. It's everything I look for in an erotica story and I'm so glad you can now listen to it for free. You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes so you don't miss any episodes.

Very queer, very polyamorous romance Bound to Be a Groom by Megan Mulry

I wrote about how author Megan Mulry balances the multiple relationships in her new historical romance Bound to be a Groom at Heroes and Heartbreakers. I recommend the book even if you're only used to reading straight one man/one woman romances, because it captures all sorts of longing, and how love and desire can change and grow. And has lots of BDSM, voyeurism and hot sex as well as tender moments. And I wrote "polyamorous" but considering it's set in 1808 that's not the word they used, but loving multiple people is indeed what happens.

Talking to Violet Blue about internet safety and The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy

Over at DAME Magazine, I talked to Violet Blue, author of the newly released The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy , which I consider a must-read, about how to protect yourself online. I learned a ton from the book and can't recommend it highly enough. I truly thought I knew a fair amount about the topic and the book swiftly disabused me of that notion and I'm working to correct the gaps, especially for when I travel.