Best Lesbian Erotica 2004

by Tristan Taormino (Editor), Michelle Tea (Selector), Cheyenne Blue (Contributor)

Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 journeys into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. This year’s stories are selected by award-winning author Michelle Tea, whose gritty, personal writing has earned her the accolade "a modern-day Beat" from Publishers Weekly.

Genres: Erotica, Anthologies, Short Stories, Queer, Sexuality, Lesbian Fiction, Fiction

220 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2003

About the author

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning writer, sex educator, speaker, filmmaker, and radio host. She is the editor of 25 anthologies and author of seven books, including her latest, The Feminist Porn Book, 50 Shades of Kink: An Introduction to BDSM, The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation, The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge and Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, winner of a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. As the head of Smart Ass Productions, she has directed and produced twenty-four adult films. She is the producer and host of Sex Out Loud, a weekly radio show on the VoiceAmerica Network.

Reviews

[Corrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 (Best Lesbian Erotica #10) was a titillating anthology with a host of good names.

Tristan Taormino collected 30+ very diverse stories and I’m positive there is something for everyone in this mixed bag of delights to enjoy. The ones that really stood out for me where:

Loved It and Set It Free by Lisa Archer, You Can Write a Story about It by Jera Star, Stazione by Sarah Bardeen, Penny, Laid by Kristina Wright, Tattoo by Fiona Zedde, The Chick Magnet by Skian McGuire, Wire by Elspeth Potter, Class Struggle by María Helena Dolan, A Tangle of Vines by Cheyenne Blue, Paisley Comes Back by Kyle Walker and Learning the Present Perfect by Andrea Miller.

f/f, f/f/m, f/m explicit (and yes, there is some meat in this not entirely Sapphic sandwich).

4.2 stars

[Men D. · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book makes me want to be straight. How atrocious that this is the sexiest lesbies could get in 2004! Tip: it is better when read aloud, with a French accent, to your girlfriend, who is lying on a riverbank in a bikini and eating three kinds of grapes. Also, it is made funnier if you add the sentence "And then I had diarrhea on the bed" at the end of each lovingly crafted, politically meaningful, perfectly unerotic paragraph.

AND! I chose this book because it was the most- and best-reviewed entry on Amazon under lesbian erotica. For SHAME!

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars. A mixed bag of short stories. Some were better than others but then there were some that were only a page long while others were a lot longer. It just needed some consistency. Out of all of them my favorites were ‘You Can Write a Story About It’ by Jera Star and ‘The Brothel’ by Isa Magdalena. None of the stories were terrible or anything so there’s definitely something for everyone but those two were definitely the stand outs for me personally. Overall, an interesting collection but nothing special.

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

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