Book Review: Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica, Edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel - Page 3

I didn’t care for the stories that featured cruelly dominant women and submissive men; but that may just be a taste thing. And alas, a few of the stories read like the old Penthouse Forum letters. Remember the ones they made up? The ones about horny babysitters who were just dying to be with the daddy as he drove her home? Or the girl who just couldn’t get enough? Every man’s fantasy? Those few stories in the book seemed to read far more like pornography than erotica. I can’t tell you why, exactly, just that I know it when I read it.

But in the end, Spanked was an admirable re-introduction back into the world of erotica and a new journey into the modern, more compartmentalized, perhaps, world of erotica today, a world quite different from what I remember of The Delta of Venus lo those many years ago.

Article Author: Lisa Solod Warren

Short story writer and essayist Lisa Solod Warren has been published in a wide variety of literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She is the editor of Desire: Women Write About Wanting (Seal Press, 2007). She blogs at opensalon.com and redroom.com. …

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