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Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists

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..not a story in the book failed to arouse.

I don't consider myself necessarily "wired" for voyeurism/exhibitionism but on the advice of a knowledgeable friend I got this primer and learned delightfully that this is one kink all modern people share - perhaps most especially urbanites. 99% of the people we see each day disappear forever the minute we pass them on the street and so the anonymity and the perpetual gaze are somehow baked in.

Breakdown - my fav's: "Sharing The Perfect Cock." Completely unexpected and torrid. A great climax to the book. Again, not a single dud - but these are the ones I go back to in my head. I really loved "The Changing Room" and "The Poet, Dying." "The Key" was *steaming*. Quite a few brought enough blush to my cheeks that I became conscious of being in the company of fellow subway riders.

Hot enough keep the pages turning. Good enough to turn them again.

Watching and being watched is perhaps the most common kink. It is, by far, my favorite. And I think that most people will find a story or three, at the least, in this collection that speaks to a few of their own inner fantasies. I frequently had to put the book down to let my own mind wander to what I would do in similar situations and reach for my nearest......hmm. Can I say that here? ;) Well, nearest toy, let's put it that way.

I personally only found two stories to be lacking for my taste, but I think that's a fairly common thing with anthologies. You simply cannot please everyone with every single piece in the book. That being said, I found a much higher ratio of "Holy crap that's hot" to "Meh" in this anthology than most others.

It's not all about threesomes. There are some who are performing in some way, some who are knowingly being watched and some unknowing. There are 2 lesbian stories and 1 gay male story. Tales of sluts and prudish wall-flowers alike. I frequently found myself envious of the characters in the stories, to be honest.

I'm picky with my erotica; I don't like flowery euphemisms or 60 ways to says "cock". I like a happy medium between the no-build-up-straight-cut-to-sex and the so-subtle-its-pretentious, and nearly all of these stories fall wonderfully in that happy medium.


~Lilly
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I really enjoyed this book. Not quite as much as She's on Top or He's on Top because somehow in this book being a voyuer means almost always ending up in a threesome here. I'd like to see maybe a boy next door spying on his neighboor girl in the sequel Hide and Seek. My favorites in this were 'Curtain Call' and 'X-Ray Specs'. I can't wait to check out Hide and Seek also by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Also, forthcoming by her are Sex and Candy, Yes, Ma'am and Yes, Sir.

This is easily the second-hottest erotic anthology I've read. The first was "Do Not Disturb" which is all about hotel sex. In this 224 page book, there are 20 different stories that deal with the idea of public sex. All of the stories are amazingly well-written and almost all of them are very arousing. There's one story that deals with an elderly man that I wasn't fond of, but the story about sexy threesomes, spying on a couple having sex, and multitudes of other sexy stories easily made up for it.

Most of the stories in this collection are heterosexual in nature, but there are a couple gay and lesbian stories included as well. There's one story that includes mention of cheating on spouses. As it would come with the subject matter, there's also a lot of different stories where the sexual action includes more than one person. For example, there's a story about a couple who enjoys hosting sex parities and having sex with other couples. In another story, there's a story about a woman who performs in an exhibitionist booth at a local strip club. For another story (and easily one of the hotter stories), a woman recruits another woman to have sex with her boyfriend so she can watch - one of her deepest fantasies.

Each one of the stories, while it deals with either watching or performing sexually, still makes it unique. I was a bit surprised at how varied the plots are - each story is so amazingly different and arousing in its own way. The stories are pretty light on plot - enough plot to explain the action, but the action itself is explained in sexual, but not crass, terms that make it really enjoyable to read.

I'm impressed by this collection about public sex, and now I'm looking forward to looking into other Cleis Press voyeuristic novels. I think I may have discovered a new fetish!

Alison Tyler and Rachel Kramer Bussel have succeeded again with a collection of erotic short fiction. In Caught Looking, the theme is voyeurism and exhibitionism, and there is a story in here for everyone. This book will appeal to fans of erotic literature who don't live "the lifestyle." Tyler is our exhibitionist author, while Bussel is the voyeur, and each writes an introduction confessing to her specific kink. The final two stories in this twenty-story collection are written by the anthology editors.

The book concludes with a biography of each of the short story authors, which is very helpful for anyone looking to read more of their favorite stories in this collection.

The story by Radclyffe definitely got me looking and caused me to buy the book.

Contributors include -
Alison Tyler
Catherine Lundoff
Debra Hyde
Dominic Santi
Erica Dumas
Heather Peltier
Kristina Wright
M. Christian
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Radclyffe
Sage Vivant
Saskia Walker
Shanna Germain
Simon Shepard
Sophie Mouette
Stan Kent
Tara Alton
Tenille Brown
Teresa Noelle Roberts
Thomas S. Roche

With an entertaining introduction `Exposing the Exhibitionist' from Alison Tyler, another enlightening introduction "Confessions of a Confirmed Voyeur' by Rachel Kramer Bussel and biographies of the contributors.

I tried to read this book, but could not endure any of the stories. The writing seemed OK, but the stories were stupid.