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Curvy Girls: Erotica for Women Paperback – April 3, 2012

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From the editor of Dirty Girls comes a new anthology of steamy stories for women who don’t fit into a size zero—or two, or four—and the men and women who love them.

In this voluptuously erotic collection, editor and bestselling author Rachel Kramer Bussel showcases the sensual side of having "more to love,” from the sexiness of big butts and plus-size corsets to the irresistible allure of pregnant bellies. No aspect of full-figured female sexuality is left unexplored, whether heterosexual or same-sex, raunchy or romantic, femme or butch. Bussel also includes seductive stories featuring characters of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, exploring how different cultures approach size and eroticism.

From trysts between long-time partners to one-night stands, from vanilla encounters to kinky romps, Curvy Girls is an all-inclusive celebration of the sensuality of larger women—in all their curvy glory.

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"If you’re looking for a read that reminds you to enjoy yourself in the bedroom, on the kitchen floor and even outside of the house, pick up your own copy of Curvy Girls." —RT Book Reviews (4 Stars)

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Rachel Kramer Bussel is a New York-based author, editor, blogger, and reading series host. She has edited more than thirty erotica anthologies, and has won five IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards, three of them golds for Erotica (Tasting Him, Tasting Her, and Do Not Disturb). She is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a sex columnist for SexisMagazine.com and has hosted and curated In The Flesh Reading Series in New York since October 2005. Her writing has been published in more than 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury, Best American Erotica 2004, Best American Erotica 2006, Zane's Purple Panties, and the New York Times bestseller Succulent: Chocolate Flava II. She has also contributed to publications such as Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Fresh Yarn, mediabistro.com, Newsday, the New York Post, Penthouse, Time Out New York, and Zink.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seal Press (April 3, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580054080
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580054089
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,181,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,334 in Erotica Collections & Anthologies (Books)
- #18,676 in Romantic Erotica (Books)
- #25,508 in Short Stories Anthologies

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Rachel Kramer Bussel
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I write memorable stories and teach people how to craft their own. I've edited over 70 anthologies. My favorites are Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1-8, The Big Book of Orgasms, Fast Girls, Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories, Spanked and BDSM books Please, Sir and Please, Ma'am! My anthologies have won 3 Samois Anthology Award and I won the 2021 John Preston Short Fiction Award, all from National Leather Association-International (NLA-I). My mission is to tell powerful stories, including fiction, journalism and personal essays, and encourage others to get their words on the page and into the world. My nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Elle, Glamour, Salon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time.com, The Village Voice and numerous other publications.
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Donna George Storey
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Let the celebration begin! Amorous Woman is now available as an ebook, with a gorgeous cover (if you're interested in having this beautiful book to caress, contact my publisher about POD). This novel is my personal favorite of all my work (to date), and the most demanding and rewarding to write. If you like the free sample, dive in and take your own trip to a fascinating, exotic and erotic land. I'm also very excited to announce that a collection of six of my best short stories, "The Mammoth Book of Erotica Presents the Best of Donna George Storey: Picture Perfect" is now available on Kindle. Exhibitionism, cross-dressing, phone sex, Japanese erotic prints, there's lots to please everyone. All of the stories appeared in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series.
And now, for my official bio:
I've always wanted to write fiction, but didn't have the time or the courage until my oldest son was born and I decided to leave my job teaching Japanese literature to be a full-time parent in 1997. From the start, I was drawn to erotic themes and although I resisted at first--erotica seemed too scandalous for a shy bookworm like me--I soon realized I had to write what I loved.
Fortunately, over the years the love has translated into over 150 publications in various venues, from literary magazines like Prairie Schooner and The Gettysburg Review to best-of erotica anthologies like Best American Erotica and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.
I'm a Princeton graduate with a Ph.D. in Japanese literature, which I mention not to impress--who really cares?--but to suggest how far I've wandered from the path of propriety. But I like to think my new aspirations are as lofty. I truly believe we need more writers willing to acknowledge that the sexual urge and the erotic imagination are as worthy of a complex literary treatment as anger, jealousy, ambition or love in its PG-rated form. That's what I try to do in my work, one story at a time.
My other interests include delicious food, hearty wine, reading about history and cultural studies, and long walks at dawn. My author photographs were taken by the wonderfully talented Laura Boyd (www.ownyoursexy.com) who can capture the inner beauty in everyone, especially if you're wearing a gorgeous custom-made corset. Thanks for stopping by.
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Born in Virginia and raised on a sailboat, Angela Caperton has spent extended periods of her life traveling and living abroad. Her travels have given her an appreciation of the world in all its forms and she is always on the lookout for the next adventure. Her fiction is erotic, eclectic, and always surprising. Look for her stories in publications as diverse as Violet Blue's BEST WOMEN'S EROTICA 2010, Rachel Kramer Bussel's PEEP SHOW, and the indy magazine OUT OF THE GUTTER. Visit Angela at http://www.angelacaperton.com and http://blog.angelacaperton.com
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curvy erotica

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I am a woman who has some size to her and this seems to be a good book that gives us a round of applause for being able to get it on!

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Diverse and Pleasing Overall

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2012

This is a surprisingly diverse collection. It features women with the large breasts, butt and hips that I expected going in, but it also features women whose largeness manifests in less expected ways, like strongly muscled legs; there are stories of trysts between near-strangers, between people in heterosexual or homosexual monogamous relationships, and one featuring a polyamorous triad; the characters are mostly white but there are few interracial couples and couples where both partners are non-white; and while most of the sex is vanilla there are a few kinky stories involving BDSM and voyeurism. All that variety is in some ways a mixed blessing: on the one hand, at least one story is sure to please any reader; on the other hand, I'm pretty sure every reader will encounter some stories that are complete misses. Unfortunately for me, Bussel placed most of my favorites toward the beginning of the anthology and all of the ones I disliked at the end, causing me to end up liking the anthology as a whole less than I think I would have had it been organized differently. Still, the quality of the prose was consistently good, resulting in an eminently readable, decidedly sexy anthology that I'd certainly recommend.

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Generosity

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2013

Who is "overweight?" Who is "plus-sized?" These loaded terms are more culturally-specific than many people seem to realize. This anthology contains no precise definition of "curvy," but the fact that women's clothing in Size 14 and up is usually only available in "plus-size" stores (at least in North America) neatly serves to divide women on the basis of size in much the same way that apartheid once divided people on the basis of skin colour. Despite famous paintings of full-figured women and even famous centrefolds of the likes of Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, the current belief that gorgeous equals painfully thin seems to permeate Western culture.

This anthology not only aims to restore the self-esteem of "plus-sized" women, it aims to show why they are and always have been sexy. In these stories, fat-phobia is unpacked as a form of prejudice that is no more rational than racism or sexism. In fact, the equation of "overweight" with poor health is deliberately overturned on the first page of "Champagne and Cheesecake" by A.M. Hartnett:
"She called them her `victory tits.'

A whole year without smoking, and Sylvia had packed on thirty pounds, but she was no longer sorry for a single ounce of the blubber. In fact, now that she was staring at her reflection in the full-length mirror of the luxurious hotel room, she was feeling pretty good about the added girth."

Of course the hotel room where Sylvia has planned a tryst with two of her men friends is luxurious. Effective descriptions of sex, including scenes of mutual attraction and sexual tension, have always included delicious excess: extravagant settings, luxury items, feasts, multiple partners, extreme sensations (including pain so intense that it transmutes into pleasure and vice versa), explosive orgasms. The message of this anthology that fat can be beautiful is consistent with the traditional exaggerations in much erotic fiction.

Several of these stories combine esthetic excess with references to past periods when the ideal woman was imagined as plumper than the models of today. In "Wenching" by Justine Elyot, Ginny is dressed as a peasant wench of the 13th century to serve at a medieval feast, where she meets her modern-day prince, and he explains to her why she should never feel ashamed of her body:

"'Think of all the words associated with a bit of extra flesh. Generous. Ample. Voluptuous. Bountiful. Beautiful, sensual words. Contrast them with their opposites. Mean. Insufficient. Meager. Miserly.'"

Ginny and her admirer sneak off to a hideaway where he shows her in the most convincing ways that he adores her generous flesh.

"Before the Autumn Queen" by Angela Caperton focuses on a nineteenth-century painting of "Autumn" as a majestic woman who seems to be offering herself to a lover. A modern-day male art-lover notices the resemblance of a woman who works in the art gallery to the painting that graces one of its walls. The resulting seduction seems like a threesome which involves the man, the woman, and the eerily life-like image.

Most of the couplings in these stories are heterosexual, and the man's admiration for a woman with ample curves enables her to see herself through his eyes instead of through the self-punishing lens of the fat-phobic media. Two of these stories ("Cheesecake and Champagne" and "Appetite" by Elizabeth Coldwell) involve threesome scenes in which the woman shows her generosity and her appetite for pleasure by taking on two men. In at least one story ("Excuses"), the man-woman relationship is interracial, and the white man shows that he admires the beauty of a woman who is neither blonde nor skinny.

Three of these stories feature f/f sex between women who have defined themselves as lesbian for some time, and therefore their relationship with mainstream culture is different from that of women who have never lived anywhere else. In "Recognition" by Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, two women exchange glances in an airport and recognize each other as having something important in common despite their differences in race, culture, occupation, relationship status and home city (one lives in Atlanta, one New York). Their brief hookup in the cramped space of a lavatory is not meant to be repeated, but it seems likely to affect them both for a long time. In "At Last" by Jessica Lennox, a pair of long-term friends finally act on the attraction which has been simmering for years. "What Girls Are Made Of" by Evan Mora is more of a prose-poem than a narrative, and it sings the praises of a "dapper butch woman with a little substance to her." These stories encourage me to hope that lesbian culture will never adopt the degree of fat-phobia which causes too many heterosexual women to see their bodies as asexual and repulsive.

The two male-Dominant BDSM stories, "Big Girls Do Cry" by Rachel Kramer Bussel and "Marked" by Isabelle Gray, make a necessary distinction between desire and contempt. In these stories, a man goes to extreme measures to take ownership of a curvy woman while assuring her that he is not punishing her for any "flaws" of body or character.

The story which moved me the most, "In the Early Morning Light" by Kristina Wright, is told from the viewpoint of an exhausted mother of a newborn baby, not her first. The narrator dreads the thought of having to satisfy her husband's sexual needs while she feels that her body is bloated and hideous. His gentle touch is miraculously effective at reawakening her old desire for him. By the end of the story, their relationship has shifted profoundly for the better.

While some of these stories are predictable, some challenge conventional assumptions with confidence and wit. In general, this is a collection of well-told tales that would especially appeal to women who have been bullied because of their size, and the ones who love them.

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Erotica Virgin

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2012

Curvy Girls Erotica for Women was my first experience with erotica, and it was a pleasure from start to finish. A good read transports the reader into the story, its characters, and excites the reader as if it were happening to her. This is the great fun of Curvy Girls. Decadence took me through the kitchen door of that restaurant after hours, and behind the record store counter in Small Packages... I felt the cool leather and the daring silence of the museum in Before the Autumn Queen...
The heroines of these stories seem to know who they are. And while the self- portraits they paint ("Ample", "Wide", "Full-figured") risk isolation and judgment, their insecurities, desires, and responses are so universal, few will fail to relate. We know their curves because we know our own. Their adjectives describe us too, and we are given the choice to love our shapes and ourselves. In their pursuit of pleasure, these women embrace everything they are, broad, ample, and full-filled, and are rewarded for it.

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QuixoticOrchid

If Only The Book Were Thicker...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2014

Being an extra curvy girl myself, I both looked forward to reading this book and felt anxious about it at the same time. I wanted to read about women like me doing extra naughty things, not a book filled with little or no self-esteem filled women hiding in corners until the one Prince Charming who can see their worth drags them out. Luckily, this book wasn't about that. It was filled with women like me having lots of smoking hot sex in a high variety of ways. P.S. Read Justine Elyot's "Wenching" first. Damn!

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GEORGE L ARCE

Big Beautiful Women erotica, its about time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2012

I could not wait to read the newest tome by Rachel Kramer Bussel. It has a wonderful variety of stories where the heroines are large and beautiful and men make them queens. In some of the stories the vivid details of every curve was inspiring. Thanks again.

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Casan

Good Writing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2021

I would usually expect to find marginal writing, written by guys pretending to be women. But this collection of stories is very well written, by women, and is almost scary. The women are big, maybe a size 12-14, not fat. And they are strong women, not submissive. They know what turns them on, and if a guy can deliver, he gets to date them.

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