The Best American Erotica 2000

by Susie Bright (Editor)

For this special millennium edition, Susie Bright, our nation's trustworthy and tantalizing guide into the world of sexual fantasy and freedom, has gathered the best erotic writing of the year to produce a new, sizzling volume. In this collection we find human sexuality in all its diversity; pleasure and desire in all its forms. This doublelength, year 2000 edition offers a glimpse of what sex in the new millennium might be, a time when voices from the sexual underground will be heard and our ideas of perfection will be redefined. This most recent installment in the annual bestselling series includes the year's most provocative literature, guaranteed to have something for everyone.

Genres: Erotica, Fiction, Smut, Collections, Short Stories, Anthologies

302 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2000

About the author

Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.

Reviews

[Mine]

my officemate, a creative writing degree holder who is at present writing his own erotica, lent me this book. and this is what i told him about ms. bright's anthology: the problem with reading anais nin before getting introduced to the erotic lit of other authors is the "standard" gets set too high. almost everything pales by comparison. because with nin, the prose is positively brimming with sex. it really feels like literary prostitution. nin has, i think, jaded me to most erotic pieces. but i loved the first story in this collection, about the 28-year-old virgin explaining herself. and i remember the stories "scent" and "the blowfish." but remembering them isn't equal to liking them. so... two stars.

[HeavyReader]

Favorite stories in this collections are

"ReBecca" (about conjoined twins...one is getting laid and the other isn't)

"Midsummer of Love" (gay sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll in San Francisco back in the '60s)

"Two Cars in a Cornfield" (coming of age group sex in the US heartland)

"Ten Seconds to Love" (totally HOT fantasy by Michelle Tea about a good girl losing her virginity to Motley Crue)

[Lyn]

This is the book that got me started reading erotica. This series is consistently the best of the genre that I like to call literary smut.

This edition is consistently good - my favorite story is "Ten Seconds to Love" by Michelle Tea. Yes, it's about Motley Crue.