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Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath Paperback – August 22, 2000

by Mary Anne Mohanraj (Editor)

49 customer reviews

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Imagine a hot tub party where a married couple tests the boundaries of fidelity. A model who finds herself unaccountably aroused as she poses for a watercolor artist. A pool of water on a desert road and two lovers who know how to make the most of it. This is Aqua Erotica, a sensuous tasting of desire's liquid, ecstatic other worlds.

Aqua Erotica is a siren's song, a book so unforgettably sexy that you will want to take it with you to the bath, the sauna, the night-lit pool.

What's amazing is that you can.

The first-ever waterproof book for adults. The most seductive collection of original literary erotica ever gathered under one cover.

Aqua Erotica is a book that quite literally goes places you never imagined books could go. Featuring today's boldest erotic voices:

Francesca Lia Block
Poppy Z. Brite
Louise Erdrich
Carol Queen
Marcy Sheiner
Cecilia Tan
Barry Yourgrau
and many others --

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Product Details

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books; 1 edition (August 22, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0609806564
ISBN-13: 978-0609806562
Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 0.7 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #480 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Erotica > Collections & Anthologies
- #6133 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Anthologies
- #12279 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories

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2.9 out of 5 stars

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful

A good and wet collection

By Amazon Customer on January 28, 2001

Format: Paperback

Sex. Water. Jim Beam. These are things that bring me great pleasure. All three at once equal ecstasy or something close to it. So when I tumbled upon Aqua Erotica of course I had to read it in the tub with my drink in hand. Monhanraj has compiled a collection of 18 stories involving sex and water. Sometimes sex is the driving force, other times it's the water. Horror writer Poppy Z. Brite's contribution, "Nothing of Him That Doth Fade" is the highlight of the book. She creates a love story between two men set in a tragic ocean scene. This story is so rich in its character development and flow that it feels like so much more than a short story. The sexiest story in the collection is "I Want" by Mary Maxwell, which takes place on a desert road with two women and a jug of water. Another brilliant story is Cecelia Tan's version of "The Little Mermaid" in which she tells how it probably really went down, all slippery and wet. Thankfully all sexual orientations are represented in Aqua Erotica, though of course the focus is on hetro sex. Still the stories are hot, even if a few are conventional at times. I have to mention that many of the stories reminded me of the classic water-sex-death story "A Woman in the Dunes" by Anais Nin. So much so in fact that I had to go pull if off my shelf and reread it. Unfortunately, Monhanraj didn't include this in her collection, but I would highly recommend finding and reading "A Woman in the Dunes" with Aqua Erotica, they just fit. Oh, and the most important thing about this book. It's waterproof so you can get it wet with any substance you desire and just wipe it away...how cool.

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30 of 36 people found the following review helpful

The bathtub just became a lot more fun

By A Customer on September 4, 2000

Format: Paperback

Finally! Finally I can read while taking a bubble bath, and not worry about getting the book wet! That alone is worth the price.
Aqua Erotica is a sexy collection of well-written stories. Recommended to anyone who likes good quality erotica. There's a wide variety of moods, sexual orientations, and styles represented in these stories, but all are unusually creative and interesting for a book of erotica. Plus, they're hot.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

Good enough highbrow stuff

By A Customer on August 27, 2000

Format: Paperback

The many good stories in this book are hot enough for this middle-aged hetero female, and for that reason I give it five stars. But the first reviewer is correct; the font size is awfully small. My glasses can't be worn in a 'steamy bath'!
Intelligent erotica worth reading. The water theme makes sense, in or out of the tub.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Everything is better when it's VERY WET!

By girldiver on October 20, 2004

Format: Paperback

I enjoyed this anthology of erotic stories. Of course, not every story was my cup of tea which is why I only gave it four stars.

This anthology is visually exciting and sensually diverse. Contained between these pages are sexual situations from all walks of life. Therefore, if you are not sexually open-minded you might want to skip this book.

What really intrigued me was the deep emotional element with in the characters of the short stories. This certainly wasn't just an anthology describing intense sexual situations but more emotional journeys incorporated in sexual situations. I was surprised by some of the endings of the stories and the wonderful writing by various authors.

Another plus to this book was that it is water proof. So read it in the bath, pool, hot tub, or even in the rain! Heck, read it outloud during an adult game of slip-n-slide!

girldiver:)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Difficult to read

By A Customer on September 2, 2000

Format: Paperback

I agree with the comments here- it's just physically hard to read and I had to move to better light and lay it down on a desk to get into it. I don't know what kind of writing would make that worth reading, but this is definitely not it. I read a couple of OK stories, then I decided to return it.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Not very steamy

By Michael J on August 24, 2000

Format: Paperback

A disappointment - not very steamy or interesting, and hard to hold and read. Most of the stories read like a writing class assignment to "Write about water, and try to make it sexy". The only story that was at all memorable was the one called "Rainy Day Man." A couple of stories were just pretentious and bad - Edrich's and Mohanraj's in particular.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

An enchanting collection

By A Customer on September 7, 2000

Format: Paperback

I'm thoroughly enjoying the stories in this collection. There's a marvelous variety of settings, styles, and voices, and the quality of the writing is excellent. Some of the pieces are quick and hot, others are longer and more reflective. The water theme has inspired an amazing array of images and emotions. From the desert to exotic islands, from the American plains to imaginary worlds, there's plenty of material here to inspire the imagination and quicken the pulse. I gave it four stars because I didn't care for the waterproof format (the book feels small and slippery, the type is too small, and I don't like the texture of the paper), but the stories are enchanting.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Sexy and fun

By Tanja L. Walker on October 3, 2000

Format: Paperback

Like some other reviewers, I found the small type face to be a bother at times, though I liked the feel of the book itself. Overall, I enjoyed all the stories, but I found some of them to be rather uninspired. The premise behind "Velvet Glove," for example, seemed unoriginal (though kudos for at least making the unoriginal reasonably interesting). Others, though, were creative, exciting, and thought-provoking. I especially loved "Water Color" for its playfulness, "The Addiction" for its serious and painful take of the phenomina of cybering, and "Fisherman's Friend" for being the flat out most sexy of the bunch. Good book, just hope that magnifying glass doesn't steam up while you're reading the book in the bath!

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