Two books seem to have had a lot of publicity in the last couple of weeks. Sphere published a collection of erotic stories this week entitled 'In Bed With'. A series of well known female authors including Fay Weldon, Adele Parks, Jane Moore and Stella Duffy have been drawn upon to write 5,000 short stories under a "porn name". Louise Doughty (one of the authors) describes that this was achieved by taking the name of their first pet and following it with the name of the first street they lived on. This would give me the rather fabulous name of 'Smokey Southwood' which sounds like some sort of fabulous American (in my head). The general tone of the pieces surrounding the book is women emerge as sexual creatures. Significantly, the authors remain anonymous and the stories reflect female sexual fantasies. This follows various press about 'Wetlands' by Charlotte Roche which has also been pitched as a 'liberating text' about women. I was planning on getting that book for my journey to San Fran and it appears to have been published earlier than planned. That said, the reviews on Amazon seem to pan it.
Saturday 31 January 2009
Erotica for Women?
Two books seem to have had a lot of publicity in the last couple of weeks. Sphere published a collection of erotic stories this week entitled 'In Bed With'. A series of well known female authors including Fay Weldon, Adele Parks, Jane Moore and Stella Duffy have been drawn upon to write 5,000 short stories under a "porn name". Louise Doughty (one of the authors) describes that this was achieved by taking the name of their first pet and following it with the name of the first street they lived on. This would give me the rather fabulous name of 'Smokey Southwood' which sounds like some sort of fabulous American (in my head). The general tone of the pieces surrounding the book is women emerge as sexual creatures. Significantly, the authors remain anonymous and the stories reflect female sexual fantasies. This follows various press about 'Wetlands' by Charlotte Roche which has also been pitched as a 'liberating text' about women. I was planning on getting that book for my journey to San Fran and it appears to have been published earlier than planned. That said, the reviews on Amazon seem to pan it.
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Mine would be 'Shelley Waddington'. How rubbish! :-( lol
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