First erotic text book you read was and where?

What was your first erotic text or book? Where did you first read it? One would imagine it was your father's Penthouse/Playboy etc readers' columns. Recall an ex telling me hers was reading her mother's rather racy novels that she would leave behind after bath time. Mine was by accident, a couple of books left on a bus: The Intimate Memoir of Dame Jennie Everleigh vol 3 and 5. Recall reading the books in secret with a huge erection and worried I would be spotted or miss my stop.

The cover of the book: The Intimate Memoir of Dame Jennie Everleigh

I think I, like a lot of young people my age, discovered the sex scenes in the James Herbert horror books.

Lol. Remember the spear and rats. Lol

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I think I, like a lot of young people my age, discovered the sex scenes in the James Herbert horror books.

Not in Herbert (one horror writer I never got into) but I remember reading some pretty racy scenes in thrillers when I went through my spy-fi phase in my late teens. Ken Follett's Triple, about an Israeli secret agent, had a love scene that got my rocks off once or twice.

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Lol. Remember the spear and rats. Lol

Never read The Spear, mostly remember The Rats and The Fog.

"Consider This: A Spinster Aunt's Advice to Young Women Everywhere."

A very rare, possibly unique, Victorian exploration of the joys to be found in sapphic love. No clue where my father acquired it or where it disappeared to, more's the pity.

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"Consider This: A Spinster Aunt's Advice to Young Women Everywhere."

A very rare, possibly unique, Victorian exploration of the joys to be found in sapphic love. No clue where my father acquired it or where it disappeared to, more's the pity.

LOL, a Spinsters Aunt no less. Was there any advice you took onboard?

Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth. The plot is focused on a professional assassin hired to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

There’s a scene where a woman seduces a government official to reveal information crucial to carrying out the plot.

I remember reading it when I was very young and visualizing the woman in black lingerie in the act of seduction. It was probably the first time I used text to masturbate.

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Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth. The plot is focused on a professional assassin hired to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

There’s a scene where a woman seduces a government official to reveal information crucial to carrying out the plot.

I remember reading it when I was very young and visualizing the woman in black lingerie in the act of seduction. It was probably the first time I used text to masturbate.

Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth is a classic book. Nice way to start.

Oooh, this is a very good question. The full diaries of Anais Nin were released after her death. I think I was doing my Bac - about 16 or 17. I remember a book review I read about them. I bought one of the books... wow.

This... this is what I wanted then.

"I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling - and that I am capable of doing - but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."

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Fuck - I was so turned on by that. I went on to read everything she wrote and read it many, many times over.

It is funny, we were studying Simone De Beauvoir - the Second Sex in philosophy. Two incredible women but I thought Anais Nin was better at understanding them.

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Anais Nin, was she one of the lovers or Henry Miller too? Excellent choice.

I’ve mentioned before that I sort of stumbled into erotica through horror. Hadn’t really read anything where sex was explicitly depicted till Books of Blood by Clive Barker.

It’s a collection of short stories, all horror. A few have sex and the sex is incredibly well depicted without inherent evil in the act itself. ‘Jaqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament’ is still one of the most erotic things I’ve ever read.

And now I read a variety of sexually charged pieces but I have a special place in my heart for horror and fantasy. They blend well.

This is the earliest book I recall reading. Late 70s, early 80s.

The dirty parts of The Godfather and Jaws. Penthouse mag letters. I hit D H Lawrence and Anais Nin hard in college.

(Love the Books of Blood, Rowan).

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Anais Nin, was she one of the lovers or Henry Miller too? Excellent choice.

Thank you, I love her ability to write about the erotic. Yes, Henry Miller had a long affair with Anais Nin, he wrote Tropic of Cancer... and that is one hell of a book. It is detailed in her diaries, and it was made into a reasonable film too - Henry and June.

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The dirty parts of The Godfather and Jaws. Penthouse mag letters. I hit D H Lawrence and Anais Nin hard in college.

(Love the Books of Blood, Rowan).

I’d nearly forgotten about Penthouse Letters!

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I’d nearly forgotten about Penthouse Letters!

I remember looking at my Dad’s penthouse’s he had stashed. I read a few letters and even then I was like. “This is such bullshit.”

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LOL, a Spinsters Aunt no less. Was there any advice you took onboard?

Quite a lot of it. I still have my notes somewhere. It was quite frank about the joy to be found, albeit in slightly convoluted Victorian terms.

Good advice is good advice. The Victorians did conquer a lot of the world with their knowledge I guess

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Quite a lot of it. I still have my notes somewhere. It was quite frank about the joy to be found, albeit in slightly convoluted Victorian terms.

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I’d nearly forgotten about Penthouse Letters!

I used to keep a copy of Variations handy for stroke fodder. Probably an early inspiration for me to write erotica, too.

50 Shades.
I think a most people in my generation started with this series of books.
Shame about the film, though.

In a paperback guide by Dr Ruth Westheimer; the few pages that described her female clients' sexual fantasies - very cringe, but obviously hadn't discovered proper erotica yet

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I’d nearly forgotten about Penthouse Letters!

"I'm a student at a small Midwestern university." I still remember some of those letters. It definitely helped shape my inner sexual life.

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50 Shades.
I think a most people in my generation started with this series of books.
Shame about the film, though.

Have yet to read or see the films. Once I read that the plot was a copy of the twilight saga, it put me off. Also maybe my socialist's leaning.

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Have yet to read or see the films. Once I read that the plot was a copy of the twilight saga, it put me off. Also maybe my socialist's leaning.

Misunderstanding here. It started out as Twilight fan fiction, where they created their own story and universe and just used the characters. Later the author realized that there was absolutely no reason to keep any connections to the source material and wanted to market it, so she dropped the fanfic element.

I’m not saying you should read it, just saying it’s not the plot log Twilight if that’s what’s stopping you.

Last time I was on this site I had a friend who was a Dominatrix in a committed BDSM relationship. She hated 50 Shades as she said it was an abusive relationship masquerading as BDSM. I trusted her judgement so that kind of put me off.

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Last time I was on this site I had a friend who was a Dominatrix in a committed BDSM relationship. She hated 50 Shades as she said it was an abusive relationship masquerading as BDSM. I trusted her judgement so that kind of put me off.

That is entirely accurate. There’s a film called ‘The Secretary’ about a BDSM relationship with a boss named Mr. Grey… came out a few years prior to 50 Shades being written.

How that got through without raising any eyebrows I don’t know but if your looking for a film depiction closer (still a bit problematic) that’s far superior.

Story of O - found it on my grandmother's bookshelf one day, read a few pages and hid it in my room lol. I was far too young to be reading it and she was not pleased when she found it. Certainly peaked my interest in erotica.

I think the first was Peyton Place. My mother had hidden it in what became my bedroom closet and must have forgotten she put it there. She also gave me a non-fiction book about sex for teenagers. Not really erotic but educational at the time.