Erotic literature for women

Disambiguation 1: What is erotic literature

• Erotic literature and pornographic literature are two different things - would there otherwise be two kinds of adjectives? The demarcation is really not easy. An attempt to delimit pornographic literature focuses on a single desired effect: it is intended to induce sexual arousal.
• The main reason why it is difficult to make a distinction is that what irritates one person turns off the other. There are as many books as there are readers, it can be said here again, especially on this point. One drops a book in disgust on the first page of which she already reads the word "Tail", the other buys it - or even steals it! - exactly for that reason.

Disambiguation 2: What is literature for women?

• It is also questionable whether there is such a thing as erotic literature for women, i.e. erotic literature that is not suitable for men, at least not exclusively. Because there are also men who leaf through "Brigitte" and women who read the magazine GQ, which is more aimed at men.
• Some men are currently reading the literature that is designated as women's literature. Likewise, some women are reading a work when it is supposedly intended for the opposite sex.

Nevertheless, there are a number of classics of erotic literature that allow you to find a little more orientation.

Classics of erotic literature

• Ovid's "art of love" is one of the classics of erotic literature. This work has a strongly instructive character. The Kamasutra also belongs to the group of more instructive erotic literature.
• Choderlos de Laclos "Dangerous Liaisons" is another work that relatively unanimously falls into the category of erotic literature that has become socially acceptable. Anais Nin's books are also part of erotic literature that aims to entertain rather than instruct.
• When looking for a possible modern classic, Charlotte Roche Wetlands is sure to spring to mind. This book was also discussed in the relevant daily newspapers and noticed by the literature business.
• A few years ago, Catherine Millet's "The Sexual Life of Catherine M." Notice how autobiographical a work is. The more autobiographical it is, the more erotic it is usually. In addition, it can be said: French literature is generally considered more permissive about things eroticism than German literature.
• A well-known author among those interested in erotic literature is Sophy Andresky. She writes "feminist pornography" with lots of "masturbation-friendly sex scenes", if you believe her own words. It is published by Heyne.

Further guidance

• The publisher's name: It allows conclusions to be drawn about the quality. The Suhrkamp Verlag would probably not publish a book with the title "Fuck your friends".
• The book title: Titles like "Vögelfrei" or "Fröhliches Gevögel" rather suggest cheap, literarily undemanding, even primitive erotic literature.
• Listen to audio samples, read excerpts from the texts to see if it is a book for you. If, for example, words like "cunt" or "stiff tail" are, so to speak, naked in the text, that is not a bad indication of the kind of erotic literature that you have in front of you.
• In literarily demanding texts you will find words like "orgasm"," Schwanz "," horny "at least not right at the beginning and the ambition of good erotic authors is often to find paraphrase or not to spell out these crude words. Instead of: "She has an orgasm", it could be roughly described as: "A hot fountain gushed up in her".
• Read the first page. This will usually give you a good impression of the entire book.
• Also, pay attention to the cover. Does it look more like a porn movie or is it a painting by a respected painter?