Best Lesbian Erotica 1996

by Tristan Taormino (Editor), Heather Lewis, Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Contributions by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Pat Califia, Trish Thomas, Linda Smukler, and Wickie Stamps highlight a collection of lesbian erotica, the first volume in a proposed annual series. Simultaneous. IP.

Genres: Erotica, Anthologies, Lesbian Fiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1996

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

[Freyja Vanadis · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't remember ever being so disappointed in a book. The title is completely misleading - there is very little actual erotica in this book, let alone of the lesbian variety, and it definitely isn't the "best" of anything. In the first 66 pages alone there were two stories about male/female sex that didn't even pretend to have a lesbian subtext. They were just about a male and a female. Silly me, I thought that male/female stuff is better suited for at least a bisexual erotica book, if not a heterosexual book. That they were included in a lesbian book is offensive. Also, some of the stories weren't even remotely about sex or erotica at all, such as the story about the little girl who was obsessed with eating glue. HUH??? That one has no place in this collection. I skipped over the stories by Dorothy Allison and Pat Califia because they're about bdsm, and skipped over the story by Kate Borstein because I have no interest in the transgender thing.
The few stories that are decent aren't enough to make this book worthwhile. Highly unrecommended.