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The Erotic Thriller Everyone Hates

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The Great Divider. Bestselling erotic thriller Maestra.

By Elizabeth Shore

Last Christmas I was in the Helsinki airport awaiting a return flight to New York when I realized I didn’t have enough to read. Panic ensued. Facing an 8+ hour flight without backup material wasn’t in my deck of cards. No siree. With only minutes to spare, I made a beeline for the English-language section of the airport bookstore. I scanned the thriller section faster than a Google search and landed on Maestra by L.S....

Raising the Bar: Romance Has the Right to a Better Attorney

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Is Dean Strang the new face of romance? Maybe. But let’s find a sensitive way to tell him that.

By Alexa Day

I have not been a huge fan of the lawyer as romance hero. Part of my resistance comes from reality, I imagine. As an attorney, I spent a great deal of time around other attorneys, and nothing cures an infatuation with lawyers faster than constant proximity to them. No offense meant, of course, to any members of the bar who might be hanging out here with me.

A larger part of the problem...

This is Not Why We Need Diverse Romance–but it Sure Helps

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

There are a lot of reasons why #WeNeedDiverseRomance. We here at Lady Smut have discussed aspects of diverse romance regularly, whether it’s Alexa Day discussing the racial- and feminist-line blurring TV show Pitch or her examination of interracial romance through history or Thien-Kim Lam’s talking about #OwnVoices during #ReadHotter month, or my own look at the women who make America great, including the former first lady and the first Latina senator elected to office...

Sexy Saturday Round Up

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Don’t forget that we’re going to be at RT this year.

We’re blinding you with science! And with a lot of other interesting stuff from the internet this weekend, with our list of lusty links to entertain you.  Enjoy —

From Madeline:

5 artists making erotic art

Unicorn food is all the RAGE

Are you a demi-sexual? (A what?)

Must women constantly apologize for everything?

From Elizabeth Shore:

If you’re gonna do it, read this first. Your guide to clit piercing. It hurts. You’ve been warned.

New car...

Fantasizing About The Hot Villain: Women as Hunters

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Who here sees a movie and winds up fantasizing later on about the hot villain? Raising my hand. WHY is my question. Why aren’t we fantasizing about the hot hero? (I mean, maybe we are. Sometimes.) Last week I talked about the hot villain being redeemed all the way into becoming an anti-hero. Here is another post about how we are bitten by the compulsion to use a hot villain as fantasy fodder.

How many Harry Potter fans found Snape a bit more interesting than all the other char...

No Swinging, Please, We’re Jewish

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It’s pretty damn fun to be decadently naughty, isn’t it? To luxuriate in clandestine fantasies and hedonistic playtime that might make your friends utter a collective gasp if they knew you did such things. To have a secret, bad-girl self can be heady indeed, which of course is all part of the draw.

But what if indulging in your fantasies could result in total banishment from the life you know if you were ever discovered? What if you could lose your children, your emotional...

You Had Me At “Hi”: Scandal Goes Through the Looking Glass, People

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But is it all a dream?

By Alexa Day

“For of all sad words of tongue and pen

The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Two immensely powerful words: what if.

They lead to a world that doesn’t exist, an imagined world where we have the chance to fix mistakes or indulge in every imprudent temptation we avoided in real life. “What if” creates a world full of adventures and devoid of regrets.

It can be a place to turn around, to get back on course.

Scandal needed to s...

Monday Morning Meeps

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

That’s “meeps” lovely Lady Smutters, not “Peeps”.

I get the confusion, especially on this Easter Monday when, if you’re a person who celebrates the Easter holiday (which I am) you have church and family (and wine because of the same) hangover like nobody’s bidness. This is also the day Easter candy is half off everywhere, praise Jesus, so Peeps are definitely more front and center of one’s mind, those lovely sugar confections that look so adorable right before you bite...

Sexy Saturday Round Up

[image error]People! It’s glorious outside, but when you’ve had your fun, come on in and settle down to the joys of Sexy Saturday Round Up.  Happy Easter! Happy Passover!

From Madeline:

Millions of Asians can’t be wrong: here’s how to have fun with your Japanese facial razor

I love Man Repeller beauty articles: they tell it like it is: The Highs & Lows of Being A Bleach Blonde

Science is delving into how to keep the passion alive, sans viagra

K Drama Rules!!!: Sherlock Holmes is Now a Housewife

Thong unde...

Scandals, Secrets, and Subversion: Why I’m hooked on CW’s Riverdale

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Die hard fans of Archie and Betty and Veronica Comics will either love or hate the CWs new series Riverdale. Aside from the characters names and appearances, pretty much the only thing that is consistent with the old school comic series is the setting–the small, idyllic, East coast, town of Riverdale. Most everything else everything is different and way more scandalous. The series pushes the boundaries for sure and, as a die hard vintage Archie Comics fan, I’m here to say I love it.

**Spoile...