The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica
by Victoria A. Brownworth (Editor)
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Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, the 20th century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of 'Sapphics' and 'inverts' in her classic lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and show more lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller's wife, June. show lessTags
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This collection suffers from an obvious lack of material. I'm sure there's a lot of lesbian erotica from the period that couldn't be reprinted because it's lost or because copyright holders find it improper. Too bad! The result is a few real erotic gems like "The Artist's Model" and "Shop Girls Wanted" hidden among sexually explicit or even just discreetly sensual excerpts from novels.
As extra filler, 3 newly written pieces of erotica set in the time period are added at the end. Unfortunately, despite potentially exciting settings, they are of vastly inferior quality and much less thrilling than even the dullest examples of the "real thing" preceeding them.
As extra filler, 3 newly written pieces of erotica set in the time period are added at the end. Unfortunately, despite potentially exciting settings, they are of vastly inferior quality and much less thrilling than even the dullest examples of the "real thing" preceeding them.
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