Erotic Travel Tales (Paperback)

by Mitzi Szereto (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
Update your passport and embark on this round-the-world journey of wicked adventures. Further bedside reading from the author of Erotic Fairy Tales, Szereto's anthology brings together 21 stories of varying quality set in places as remote as the Himalayas and as familiar (to readers) as Venice and London. In Gerard Wozek's "Journey of My Hands," a young American writer makes his way in Paris by offering male-to-male massages to a series of eccentric Frenchmen. In Ann Dulaney's erotic gem, "Mitsuko," an earnest young housewife must find a way to make some expensive cuts of fresh salmon more appealing to her husband's boss, who has joined them for dinner. When the well-meaning Mitsuko finally determines how best to serve them, she is happy to note that "Mr. Miyataki's lips and tongue were skillful, as any general manager's should be." A diverting collection, with something for even the most jaded palate. --Regina Marler

Product Description
Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative locales -- from Kiev and the Sahara to Athens and the Amazon, from Barcelona and Paris to New Orleans and San Francisco. It features the work of established sex writers Maxim Jakubowski, Helena Settimana, Christopher Hart, Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, and M. Christian.

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press; 1 edition (November 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573441376
• ISBN-13: 978-1573441377
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,733,662 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a bit dull, January 21, 2002

By A Customer

Thank heavens for one single elegant, authentic story in this book- Ann Dulaney's "Mitsuko." Otherwise, quite forced, fuzzy on facts ( Taos is not a hot desert town), and nothing truly erotic to it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of ore for a few golden nuggets, June 23, 2002

By	"zachnjack" (kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Okay, I admit I don't know how anthologies work, and maybe some of the stories couldn't be more tightly edited for this book, because they had already been published, elsewhere. That's one possibility, but it only addresses one issue: the editing. Unfortunately, it was the nature of many of the stories themselves that I found off-putting, because of the heavy handed handling of the subject matter. Eros is a state of mind and as such it takes many forms, but an over reliance on descriptively graphic details of "orifice plugging" is not, in my opinion, erotic; that's about as sexually stimulating as pulling weeds.
"Mitsuko", however, is solid gold.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very sexy, December 19, 2001

By A Customer

Not very sexy, a few decent stories, the rest entirely forgettable.Promises much, delivers next to nothing.