Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica (Live Girls) (Paperback)

~ Hanne Blank (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

There's something for everyone in Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica, a collection of 18 fictional first-person pieces in which women recount sexual escapades. Edited by journalist and fiction writer Hanne Blank (Big Big Love), the anthology features a variety of voices and proclivities; S&M, pregnancy and physical disabilities figure into these tales, as well as a panoply of sexual orientations and configurations. Settings range from Port-au-Prince to the Midwest. One piece is the internal monologue of a gyrating stripper. Another character reminisces about an eye-opening study trip in Europe. The narrators tend to dwell on power dynamics between genders, but that doesn't stop them from fornicating like mad.
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Product Description

A daring darling from the Live Girls series offers a collection of provocative, confessional stories sure to inspire one-handed reading. This isn’t dusty, for-ladies-only fiction, just high-quality erotica that doesn’t require a whips-and-chains appetite for thorough enjoyment of each sensual, sometimes wicked admission. Recalling the sweat and sizzle of an old affair, a woman wonders if her former lover can ever forgive her for having ended up with his wife. A Haitian couple reveals the passion born of desperation and the searing fires of loss and love. A young woman abroad loses her virginity to a sophisticated older man in a scorching-hot life lesson in sexual possibility. Ovulation brings sweet, slippery horniness—and volatile, supercharged impregnation fantasies—to a childless-by-choice bi-chick. And a pregnant bitch goddess recounts the night she took over her husband’s body the same way her growing baby took over her own: relentlessly and with delicious, paradoxical pleasure and pain. The memoir-like style of these stories allows the reader to devour private letters, peek into diaries, and listen to the most intimate confessions of women acting out in inspirational sexual abandon. Seasoned editor Blank has collected only the hottest, most “confidential” and scintillating erotic moments by expert eroticists including Dawn O’Hara, Adhara Law, Lisa Bland, and R. Gay.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press; 1 edition (April 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580050603
• ISBN-13: 978-1580050609
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,131,679 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a disappointment, July 23, 2002

By A Customer

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

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give it a try!, July 30, 2002

By A Customer

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.