The Erotica Project (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This is hot reading by any standard, a revelation of the unwieldy and unrelenting desires of straight women and an assertion that "it is revolutionary for women to take charge of and own their sexuality." The Erotica Project began as a program for WBAI Radio New York and moved to the stage in 1998, where performances sold out night after night and were critically lauded. While lesbian writers have been throwing off the sexually repressive views of some '70s feminists for the past 15 years, the authors of The Erotica Project felt that straight women still suffered from "anti-phallic theory" and needed a celebration of the male organ and their own frank infatuation with it. In brief vignettes drawn from memory, fantasy, and the life stories of friends, they explore heterosexual desire from the mainstream to the dark and transcendent, even including a few mundane and unhappy tales and a sprinkling of same-sex adventures. It is hard to imagine a straight man, straight woman, or lesbian who wouldn't want to hear these stories, by turns sordid and lyrical, graphic and tender, all of them grounded in a sense of sexual entitlement that would make Freud blush and Dr. Ruth wipe away a tear of pride. --Regina Marler

Review

Propriety prevents my quoting much of the dialog! Excellent...sexual...a titillation. -- NEW YORK TIMES

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press; 1 edition (October 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573441163
• ISBN-13: 978-1573441162
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,051,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy & poetic, February 24, 2001

By	Susannah Indigo (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

Some of my favorite erotic writing is short, poetic pieces that work best if read out loud -- writing that lands with the impact of a good poem. I've been reading "The Best American Poetry 2000" alongside "The Erotica Project," alternating back and forth, since neither can be read entirely in a single sitting without sensory overload. At some point the poetry mixes in with the erotic writing and it seems to me that with a little more boldness in our world, they could be intermixed. Both should be read with a bit of poetic drama for maximum impact, and both of them reach inside to touch you someplace beyond ordinary literature....

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Erotica is here to stay", November 14, 2001

By	Terri Knuth (IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Erotica Project is sort of a tiptoe through the Baskin-Robbins of erotica. Does sensuality have a flavor? Can the erotic be so thick it can be served with a scooper? Don't forget the flavored syrups, because this book doesn't!! Four and a half million years of evolution hasn't changed a thing - erotica is here to stay! The Erotica Project lusts, devours and consumes in waves of passion. Slip into this warm wet book tonight and invent your own fantasy right here in the real world. Let's just say, you won't need to wet your fingers to turn the pages . . . .
Terri Knuth
Antioch, Illinois

2.0 out of 5 stars *BORING*, August 23, 2006

By	Canadian Girl (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is not what I expected. It is full of random "sexual encounter" stories. I guess I did not read the summary very well. I enjoy a novel and not short stories, I mean a couple of pages to a few more. I was disappointed in the book.