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In the End, Women Always Win

In our world, women win every time. Click to buy.

By Alexa Day

The first version of this post was much angrier. In the days since then, I’ve walked things back a little. I don’t feel great about doing that because it feels like I’m giving in, but the truth is that I’m exhausted. I’m not interested in going high. As a woman of color and a daughter and granddaughter of immigrants, I have serious concerns about the future, and smiling through it isn’t going to address any of those concerns. I’m...

Women Who Make America Great

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

While we deliberately workto not politicize here as we write for all women (and men) of diverse cultures and political beliefs, it’s no secret that we here at Lady Smut are deeply emotionally affected by the results of this year’s presidential election. We had planned to do a whole day celebrating the anticipated first female POTUS of America, but we, as it turned out, wisely decided to wait for the results “just in case”.

Like other women who write romance, I’ve found...

Untouchable, An Erotic Billionaire BDSM Free Read

By Elizabeth SaFleur

Continuing our series of Sexy Sunday Snippets, below is a free excerpt from Untouchable,a billionaire BDSM erotic romance.Wealthy, D.C. corporate attorney Carson Drake is the master of the romantic pre-emptive strike—until he meets London, the woman who tests every assumption he’s ever had about love.

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The woman pushed off the railing and made her way to the circular staircase on the far side of the balcony.

Carson left his drink on a side table and proceeded toward...

Dear men over forty,

by Isabelle Drake.

I little while back, I had an experience that got me thinking.

While at an intimate party, a guy came up to me and gave me the once over. You know what I’m talking about, that head to toe assessment. While I’m wondering why he didn’t have the decency to at least do that from a distance, so I could politely turn away and save us both additional awkwardness (and in his case some wasted time), he says, “hi.”

Before I finish this story, and get back to to the real point of this...

Toni Morrison Says This is the Time to Regroup

by Madeline Iva

Does your soul hurt?

I’ve always tried to respond to shocking, unexpected set-backs with action. It gets the body going, moves all the stress molecules around until finally those toxic chemicals drain away and at least my body feels back to normal again. Taking action helps us feel more empowered, more in control. It reminds us that we are strong and helps us remember the big picture.

If you want to take some kind of action, move the dial a fraction of an inch towards somethin...

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

– Ayn Rand

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From Isabelle Drake, thankful for strong women.

DID YOU STAY UP ALL NIGHT WATCHING THE ELECTION? NO? THEN YOU MISSED A F**K OF A LOT OF STRESS

We got this one, Susan B. (I think…)

I’ve experienced this (historic) election day in waves:

THE EXCITEMENT WAVE: 8:00am EST

I couldn’t get any work done today. I have things going on – my book came out last week. A blog tour for my book started yesterday. I got the galleys in the mail that need to be looked atright now. But I knew I wasn’t going to get anything done today. My book is all about a magic geek who wants power –because I think we need to get more young women and girls used to the...

Eyes Wide Shut: How I Plan to Avoid Election Coverage

If watching The Crown on Election Night is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

By Alexa Day

Pretty big day here in the States. Big enough that I probably don’t have to tell my friends in other nations what I’m talking about.

At long last, today is Election Day. Tomorrow, an election cycle that defies easy description will be over.

Because a great many people spent the last minutes of their lives in terror and agony so that I could vote, I will vote at some point today. And then I’ll go home and...

Not the Romance You Were Expecting: Brutal Game by Cara McKenna

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

It’s no secret that we here at Lady Smut are big–like, HUGE–fans of author Cara McKenna. Do a quick search of our site and you’ll see she practically has her own page here, if we did that sort of thing.

There’s good reason for this. McKenna writes complex, out-of-the-box, very sexy stories about a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a man and a woman andaman, thatare often deeply emotional and quite surprising. One of the things I like most about her is she seems...

Sexy Saturday Round Up

Is it summer? Is it fall? Who knows! While the weather is making up it’s mind, put down that rake and come on inside to enjoy ourlist of scintillating smexy links from around the world.

From Madeline:

What is erotica? Is it just a storywith explicit sex? No no no. Read her to get a handle on this evocative genre.

Romance as subversive lit – but y’know, in a good way.

Real life meet-cutes–did they end in an HEA?

From Elizabeth SaFleur:

Do you have attachment anxiety? These people are more like...