Long before EL James broke up, with his Fifty Shades of Grey, the stigma that fell on erotic literature, had already been written pages and pages in which the erotic and the romantic were mixed with the pornographic. And we’re not just talking about the Marquis de Sade. There are many novels of the genre that are also classics of universal literature and that any reader can enjoy without shame. These titles are five examples.
delta of venusAnais Nin
Written in the early 1940s on behalf of an eccentric book collector who insisted on asking Nin “less poetry” and more explicit descriptions in sex scenes”the stories of delta of venus they did not see the light of day until the 1970s. Set in the Paris of their time and spun by the recurrent appearance of common characters of different importance, depending on each story, they offer a free vision of human relations as a whole, in which eroticism and the desire for pleasure exclude neither beauty nor sentiment, nor friendship nor the search for authenticity.
Delta of Venus: 646 (13/20)
Story of OPauline Reage
This great classic of erotic literature narrates the initiation of a young woman named O in a peculiar form of pleasure that was soon associated with sadomasochism. Incited by René, her lover, O she submits to various tests that gradually take her into a world in which pain and pleasure, punishment and relief are intimately intertwined. His shocking experiences, while investigating the limits of the human soul, laid the foundations for a new eroticism.
Story of O (The Vertical Smile)
the venus of furLeopold von Sacher-Masoch
This is a reference work for those who want delve into the abysses of human sensuality. The novel The Venus of fur contains in its pages the entire constellation of symbols that have come to define masochism: fetishes; whips; costumes; humiliations; punishments and, of course, the unchanging presence of a terrible coldness. The coldness that the relentless and beautiful Wanda exhibits towards Severin, whom she has completely enslaved.
Fanny HillJohn Cleland
Fanny Hill It is the mother of all erotic novels. Published in two installments in 1748 and 1749 in the United Kingdom, it was immediately censored and banned, and its author sent to jail. The reason was to describe the life of a licentious woman and to detail her sexuality in an intentionally obscene way. And it is that, in its abundant sex scenes with ever new scenariosdifferent characters and not always gratifying practices for a Fanny who is looking for herself in the heart of debauchery, her enormous influence is recognized in later works of the genre and in practically all of the pornography that we know today.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Classic Coffee)
EmmanuelleEmmanuelle Arsan
Emmanuelle is the very young wife of an engineer, Jean, who has moved to Thailand for work reasons. Emmanuelle, still in Paris, hopes to meet him shortly. However, already on the plane that transports her to Bangkok, she feels that she is powerfully attracted to men. And she likes that. His dalliances in full flight are nothing more than a prologue to what awaits him in the exotic country to which he is heading.. Once there, she is introduced to the colony of Europeans residing in Bangkok: a refined world, very select and restricted, and given over to the enjoyment of ALL the senses.
Emmanuelle 1. The lesson of man (The Vertical Smile)
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