Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women (Paperback)

~ (Author) "I can be dirty and sweet at the same time" reads my self-proclaimed motto on my MySpace page..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

Bussel has done some of her best editorial work with Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women. Each and every one of the book's 394 pages shows she knows what girls like--and you're fortunate that she does. -- Baltimore City Paper, June 18, 2008

Product Description

What do women really want? To be sensually seduced or pressed up against the wall for a quickie? To be tantalized by a peep show or the chance to join the mile high club?

Acclaimed erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel knows: They want it all. They want to be worshiped, ordered around, sent blindly into ecstasy, and made hot in front of a mirror. They want strangers bearing ice cubes on a hot day and to be the party favor passed around among guests. They want sex at the office and in the great outdoors and on trains and airplanes. They want sex with the whole United States of America (or, at least, part of it). They want to be wooed, seduced, flirted with, taken. They want to handpick their lovers and make them do their bidding. They want men, women, and sometimes both at the same time.

In Dirty Girls, the country's best erotic writers explore their sexual psyches. With contributions from Carol Queen, Alison Tyler, Sofia Quintero, Shanna Germain, Lillian Ann Slugocki, Tsaurah Litzky, and many others, this collection will set your heart racing as you savor these intimate, shocking, and passionate female fantasies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press (March 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580052517
• ISBN-13: 978-1580052511
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #41,190 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sizzlingly Brilliant, July 10, 2008

By	Bigsby - See all my reviews

All of these stories are fantastic sexual fantasies of pure pleasure and although titled as 'Erotica for Women', it turned my (approaching middle age) husband into a rampaging sex god, whose performance was better than any Hollywood hunk. We have been blissfully exploring the sexual benefits of erotic literature recently and have also enjoyed and received great sexual benefit from Best Women's Erotica 2008 and the brilliant 100 Percent Erotica What more can I say but sizzlingly brilliant, as you would expect from these writers, who are giants of the world of erotic writing. Go to it kids.

8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly edited romance novel, December 20, 2008

By	Cheeke Maroo (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This is a mediocre book, which, for being titled "Dirty Girls," seems to be borderline romance-novel, and as one reviewer stated, the writers seemed to be trying too hard to get you off, rather than just enjoying the flow.

The thing that kills this book isn't that there are only 3-4 well-written stories, it's that this book is poorly edited. There are numerous grammatical errors that abrasively snap the reader out of the story. Here are some excerpts:

"Or maybe he's a cowboy, and he's going to whisk me away to his ranch in the mountains and [f..k] me in a field of wildflowers til every muscle is my body aches."

That's right: "is my body aches." But when the hell did "dirty" and getting "whisked away" ever meet each other? Oh, in this book. I thought we were trying to get away from being "WHISKED AWAY." Ugh.

Here's another for you:

"When all her clothes lay in a heap at her feet except her high heels, he pulled off his boots, stripped out of his jeans, walked up to her, and lovingly put her brassier back on. He said, 'Gracie Angelique DuBois, what am I doing[sic] to do with you?"

- Lillian Ann Slugocki "Truck Stop Cinderella"

"What am I doing to do with you?" Are you kidding me?

I became increasingly disappointed as I got into the book; "Truck Stop Cinderella" was the final irritant (merely 7 stories in), and I skimmed through the rest. I started story after story, but repeatedly encountered long-winded, romance-y, over-development.

Different strokes for different folks, but this book didn't stimulate my imagination; as a whole it was an intellectual let-down.

With that said, there were 3 excellent writers. High marks to Marie Lyn Bernard, Isabella Gray, and Andrea Dale. I will look for more from these particular authors. However, this book is very much like buying a CD and only liking 3 songs on the entire album.

25 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot Sex with a Dash of Character Development and Emotion, April 10, 2008

By	Kris Madison - See all my reviews

I've loved reading erotica ever since I discovered my older sister's well-worn copy of Penthouse Letters as a teenager. The stories in Dirty Girls are certainly as hardcore and dirty, maybe more so, than anything I ever read in Penthouse, but without any of the awful descriptors that make me cringe (and snap me back to reality).

Written by some very talented female writers, the collection of stories in Dirty Girls is incredibly diverse. Some stories gave me ideas I'd like to incorporate in my own bedroom activities, some pushed my boundaries and made me feel a little uncomfortable. There are no hearts and flowers or Harlequin romance story lines here, which is fine by me. I tend to avoid erotica designated specifically "for women" because it focuses too much on that stuff - romance, long drawn-out story lines or extraneous details that I don't need. The stories in this collection strike the perfect balance of hot sex with a dash of character development and emotion.

The only reason I can think of that this book would be designated as "erotica for women" is because nearly all of the stories have a female protagonist and are told from her point of view - her pleasure, her orgasm(s). This, to me, is a welcome change from the cock-centric porn industry.

It's truly a joy to read such hot, well-written material, particularly if you're curled up in bed with someone reading aloud.