Erotic Literature that you've enjoyed?

[+ Yellowrod]

Inspired by a sub theme in another thread I wanted to see what literature has stirred the loins of our members - for me, it was "My Secret Life" which although focused on heterosexual encounters got me going good as a child. (There were a couple of good "crossed sword" moments in that Victorian book too). Also loved "The Happy Hooker" which was mentioned in another thread. "Fanny Hill" was another one. Any others? Think I am going to start reading again.

[+ poolboy48220]

I enjoyed Gordon Merrick's novels; I read a fair amount of "An Idol For Others" in the department store's small book section, while my mother and sisters shopped for clothes. I think "The Great Urge Downward" was the one I liked most.

[Merboy]

S-E-C-R-E-T by L. Marie Adeline... I've made it through about 3/4 of the first book in the trilogy.... a bunch of hunky men visit her when she joins a secret club in New Orleans and her fantasies are fulfilled.

 

Also any of the "gay erotic stories" books that are out there like "Hired Hands" or "Show-Offs" ... a lot of them are anthology.

[+ Yellowrod]

I also discovered Rob Colton on Amazon -- not the greatest writing but the stories sure are hot and always gets me off.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

I have read several of Adam Carpenter's books that I stumbled across on Amazon. Many of his books are written in a series of three or four books.

[Becket]

Having read this as a teen at a boarding school, A Separate Peace hit so many of my adolescent buttons. Longing for someone you can't have, but stunned to become his friend. Losing that someone you love: did you play a part in it? How can you deal with that? But before the bad stuff, the joy of day after day being able to talk to this person, gaze at him, discretely tough him, and love him as a friend. Thoughts of this book still leave a pit in my stomach. It's like the line at the end of the movie, Stand By Me. The writer concludes. "I never had friends like those I had in the summer of 1964. In THAT summer, where so much happened. Jesus, does anybody."

[seattlebottom]

Whistling Girl by Helen Lawrenson

[Bargara Leatherboy]

Check out Nick Christie, the Misfits series, Lifesaver, Darkroom and a short novel Blondilocks

[liubit]

I enjoyed Gordon Merrick's novels; I read a fair amount of "An Idol For Others" in the department store's small book section, while my mother and sisters shopped for clothes. I think "The Great Urge Downward" was the one I liked most.

Gordon Merrick’s books were a very erotic discovery for me in my late teens. I just could not believe that so much hotness could be written, let alone sold in the open. I usually waited for the store to be empty of customers to purchase them, avoiding the clerk’s eyes and hoping he wouldn’t notice how embarrassed I was. I guess you could populate a small planet using all the seed I spilled while reading them ??. Thanks for the memories, @poolboy48220 ?

 

Full disclosure: I found them on Kindle recently, and was anticipating the thrill when re-reading them. Alas, I must admit I was disappointed: they seemed so bland nowadays ?

[+ Lucky]

The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick

Erotic stories by R.J. March

[kingsley88]

Having read this as a teen at a boarding school, A Separate Peace hit so many of my adolescent buttons. Longing for someone you can't have, but stunned to become his friend. Losing that someone you love: did you play a part in it? How can you deal with that? But before the bad stuff, the joy of day after day being able to talk to this person, gaze at him, discretely tough him, and love him as a friend. Thoughts of this book still leave a pit in my stomach. It's like the line at the end of the movie, Stand By Me. The writer concludes. "I never had friends like those I had in the summer of 1964. In THAT summer, where so much happened. Jesus, does anybody."

 

I first had to read that book back in 8th grade. I reread it again in college and then again in my late 20s and each time I read it I always discover something knew that I didn't realize before. I should read it again now that I'm in my 30s.

[kingsley88]

In my college days I really really loved reading Mel Keegan books. He's an Aussie who wrote gay-themed sci-fi and historical fiction erotica novels that I really liked!

[Phil_musc]

Let's not forget "Song of the Loon." Inspiring.

[Rod Hagen]

As a kid I'd always try to find a copy of Judy Blume's "adult" book, Forever. It wasn't particularly erotic, but it was sexual and I enjoyed seeing the author of SuperFudge write about Penis.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VH7OEMK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[+ Yellowrod]

One book I have in print - Gordon Merrick's "Perfect Freedom" is now listed on Amazon for $919.00 for the paperback - not only is it good for jerking off to, it's now going to make me some money! LOL!

[KrisParr]

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, Nexus and others turned my crank in college. Took a lit class where these were discussed in detail. First time I heard “normal” people say “fuck” and “cunt” without anyone giggling. So when my English teacher grandmother asked what I was reading, I was prepared with the usual Dickens, Longfellow, etc. “Hey Gran, let me read you a passage where this dude rams a candle up a girl’s twat ... it’s so well-written!”

[Best Kisser]

John Rechy City of Night..old, but for a teen back in the 70's, it was a brave new world!

[ats42]

I like the stories over at https://foxyfic.com

They have audios for the stories.

Edited August 17, 2021 by ats42
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[+ MysticMenace]

There was a true-to-life erotic story I read somewhere online...authored by an up and coming author named, @KrisParr

 

 

[+ keroscenefire]

I really think his story, Potential Encounter? should be collected in a short erotic fiction selection. 

[Danny-Darko]

 

'Barrack buddies and soldier lovers : dialogues with gay young men in the U.S. military'

by Zeeland, Steven

[Danny-Darko]

'The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories' by David Levitt & Mark Mitchell 

This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families.

Contents:

A poem of friendship / D. H. Lawrence -- Arthur Snatchfold / E. M. Forster -- Sally Bowles / C. Isherwood -- Me and the girls / N. Coward -- My father and myself [excerpt] / J. R. Ackerley -- May we borrow your husband? / G. Greene -- Hands / S. Anderson -- The teacher of American business English / J. Kirkup -- Falconer [excerpt] / J. Cheever -- The folded leaf [excerpt] / W. Maxwell -- Servants with torches / D. Windham -- Jimmy / D. Hogan -- Torridge / W. Trevor -- Some of these days / J. Purdy -- A glass of blessings [excerpt] / B. Pym -- Reprise / E. White -- Dramas / E. O'Brien -- Mrs. Tefillin' / L. Kramer -- Spunk / P. Bailey -- The Times as it knows us / A. Barnett -- The princess from Africa / D. Plante -- Adult art / A. Gurganus -- The Cinderella waltz / A. Beattie -- Good with words / S. Greco -- Nothing to ask for / D. McFarland -- Ignorant armies / M. Cunningham -- Run, mourner, run / R. Kenan -- Six fables / B. Cooper -- Perrin and the fallen angel / P. Wells -- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / R. McCann -- A place I've never been / D. Leavitt -- Notes towards a performance of Jean Racine's tragedy Athalie / N. Bartlett -- Buried treasure / G. Glickman -- Self-portrait in twenty-three rounds / D. Wojnarowicz -- Jump or dive / P. Cameron -- Gentlemen can wash their hands in the gents' / C. Coe -- The dancing lesson / G. Albarelli -- A real doll ; The whiz kids / A. M. Homes.

Edited November 3, 2021 by Danny-Darko

[marylander1940]

[+ Tygerscent]

Not exactly literature… it’s a musical muse of erotic poetry: (the entire dvd is fantastic). I feel this song deep deep inside~