Best Bisexual Women's Erotica [Paperback]

Cara Bruce (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 9, 2001

Cleis Press s Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Gay Erotica series are bestsellers every year, raising and exceeding readers expectations with each new edition. Bisexuality, like sex itself, is neither cut and dried nor black and white, writes editor Cara Bruce. Best Bisexual Women s Erotica explores the steamy sex lives and loves of bisexual women in various settings and combinations. Contributors include Carol Queen, Marcy Sheiner, Kathleen Bryson, and Anne Marino, and features 25 previously unpublished erotic short stories.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Bisexual women are a staple of everyone else’s porn and erotica, and maybe that’s why you rarely see collections specifically by and for them. In that sense, this collection is the first chance for bisexual women to explicitly reveal themselves, their sex lives, and their desires. I was ecstatic when Cleis Press asked me to edit this collection. To me, this project reflected the joys, difficulties, and exquisite range of sexual encounters that come with being a bisexual woman.

About the Author

Cara Bruce runs Venus Or Vixen Press and the erotic web magazine VenusOrVixen.com, which won the San Francisco Bay GuardianÂ’s Best of the Bay 2000 prize. She is the editor of Viscera and publisher of Embraces: Dark Erotica. She is coauthor, with Lisa Montanarelli, of The First Year: Hepatitis C (Morse & Co.). Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2001; Best WomenÂ’s Erotica 2000, 2001, and 2002; Best Lesbian Erotica 2000; The Unmade Bed: Twentieth Century Erotica; Starf*ckers; Uniform Sex; The Oy of Sex; Best S/M Erotica; Mammoth Best of the Year Erotica; Hot and Bothered 3; and Noirotica 4. Her nonfiction has appeared in Salon.com, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, While You Were Sleeping, On Our Backs, and Bust, among others. She is the editor of Good Vibrations Magazine. She is also editing Obsessed: Fetish Erotica for Cleis Press. She is very busy but always makes time for the best bisexual sex.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press; 1st edition (November 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573441341
• ISBN-13: 978-1573441346
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,974,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing collection of erotica, November 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Bisexual Women's Erotica (Paperback)

I was really surprised when I picked up this new collection of erotica. Sometims I've been disappointed by other "Best Of" collections. Some are great, but others I've found were fairly unspectacular and didn't feel like real collections. This one is different; the range of stories is surprising and the literary quality is well above the norm. Plus, most of the stories are unbelievably hot -- I had to read with one hand through most of it. Probably the best collection of erotica by women that I've read in a couple of years.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overrated, December 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Bisexual Women's Erotica (Paperback)

There are a few great stories in here, but the rest are quite mediocre, and I was surprised to find this after all the rave reviews here! Only worth it to read one or two stories - the first one and the last one in particular - and then skip the rest.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, May 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Bisexual Women's Erotica (Paperback)

Bisexual women are a novelty lately. Case in point: Ally McBeal is bi-curious. I suppose thousands of men got off watching Ally tongue kiss her co-worker, Ling (soft g), and maybe a few thousand women wondered if they ought to try it, too. If this is where your interest in this book originates, I say your interest is healthy, but don't anticipate the authors within to expose their sex lives for curiosity alone. Bisexuality is not merely a fad to try on but a hot and satisfying endeavor that sticks. More importantly, the voices in this collection speak of bisexuality as normal; it's natural. A bisexual woman once asked me, "Where's my people?" and I told her, "They're in here." Kudos...