Erotic Literature

I love to read erotic literature.

I am currently on vacation and have been for a week, we (my lover and I) ended up in a second hand bookstore yesterday. I adore second hand stores and my favorite of secondhand items is second hand books. My most favorite second hand books is of course erotic fiction. Provided that the pages aren't stuck together, I am all for imagining who may have last read them and how they ended up being cast aside to realm of a used bookstore.

I call these divine finds my "sloppy seconds" it is much less disgusting than it sounds, as rarely would any self respecting bookstore owner put anything less than a book in amazing quality on the shelf.

So what are the titles I managed to find under the heading of "Sexuality"? Well among the usual suspects of porn and tacky relationships books telling you how to find, and keep your man. (yawn) Were some very likely buys with lesbian literature that was very tempting. There were all anthologies however and as much as I love a good erotic short story I was in a different sort of mood.

It was then that I spotted the collection.

Very artfully bound in modern art was a delicious collection of works I had never read.

Anains Nin's "Little Birds" was the slimmest of the novels, and I was thrilled to have this historic copy of a delicious diary writers fantasies and escapades to add to my collection.

Next was two solid books titled simply "My Secret Life" parts one and two. Opening the covers revealed that these were the accounts of a high status Victorian gentleman who was obsessed with sex and sexual encounters. He meticulously chronicled his sexual exploits in six journals and I was about to possess the first two copies in these tastefully bound editions.

The last book was one I had long heard of but not had the chance to purchase, "Justine" by the Marquis de Sade. The author of course being the sadistic and twisted literati that many more modern writers aspire to. "Justine" of course being written while he was first imprisoned it is considered to be his first and most "pure" of his works.

I plan on slowly devouring every one of these literary classics, savouring the full flavour that they will impart, much like a wine connoisseur would enjoy a fine and rare vintage.

Expect the next few months to be filled with reviews of reading... mixed among a few surprises I have planned!