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Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica (Live Girls)

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If you just want something quick, cheap, and tawdry, this probably is the wrong book for you. This is much, much better than that. These are visceral, emotional, introspective, and above all literary stories about the range of ways that sex has a part to play in women's lives, encompassing revenge, nostalgia, suffering, romance, and lots of lustiness in the scenarios. I got the feeling that these stories were selected with an eye toward what was erotic in our everyday lives and a range of realistic-feeling experiences, not as escapist fantasy, and I really love that. The book is fiction, but I keep wondering how many of the stories might be a little autobiographical, because some of them ring really true to me.

I picked it up after reading a review in The Seattle Weekly that said: "A Shameless romp is wet and creamy: You will collapse in a sweaty, spent pile afterward." Not every story did that to me, but the ones that did -- wow! And the ones that didn't were still worth reading just as stories. I read a lot of erotica and honestly, there aren't too many collections that I feel are just as worthwhile to read as fiction as they are to read for arousal.

A bit dull, and not very "shameless." Not as good as the usual Herotica type women's books, and really nothing that stands out.