mainstream erotica

I absolutely loved my visit to this site - part blog, part erotic poetry and stories. Elizavetta Mora writes beautifully, whether it's a haunting story of a path not taken (Rioja) or a steamy pain/pleasure interlude during the most boring of household tasks (Ironing Sutra). The poems and stories are indexed along one column, then there is an ongoing blog as well. Again with the blog, I appreciate the introspection when it comes to power exchange - it's always refreshing to see someone write honestly about bdsm, instead of yet another caricature. Well done. - Jane

Date Reviewed: 2008-04-04
Cost: Free Advertising Content: None
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica

Lauren is a self-described suburban housewife and mom who got her start writing while on bedrest during a pregnancy. She has proven to be a prolific author over what is actually a very short time, offering several different series of novels via ebook or in paper. I saw two different paranormal werewolf series of books, a paranormal witch series, a contemporary romance series as well as a collection of stand-alone novels with a variety of themes. Many of those, but not all, have a paranormal theme. I was tickled to see that she also lives in the Seattle area - we do like our smut, we do we do. Stop by her site just to look at the cover art for her stories - some significant eye candy - but then I think if you read some of the excerpts offered you may find yourself ordering something. Encouraged! - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2008-03-03
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, Books / Zines, eBooks, mainstream erotica

Lust Bites has been around for about a year and has around 12 contributors, most of whom appear to be authors of interesting-sounding erotic novels. The site serves to mainly inform readers about newly released books by this troupe, but also gives fans a chance to interact more with these authors: ask them questions, hear their thoughts on different topics, and even win a prize or two. -Shay

Date Reviewed: 2008-02-07
Cost: free Advertising Content: none
Category Listings: Humor / Satire / Silly, mainstream erotica

Sssh.com is a site produced by women and geared toward women. It is chock-full of content. Seriously. It would take days to work your way through all the content on this site. Let me sum it up for you. Sssh.com has photo galleries, movies, audio files, columns, horoscopes, sex ed material, comics, chats, personals, games, shopping...see what I mean? There's just tons of stuff here. I liked the tease of the sexy audio files, and the image galleries were well done if fairly soft-core. Some of the content, however, is really not all that great. The personals, for example, seem to be pretty dead, and some of the advice and sex ed materials are poorly edited. Nevertheless, this is a nice site for women looking for a one-stop site that will meet many if not all of their online sexual needs. - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-11-07
Cost: $19.95/month recurring, other options Advertising Content: moderate
Category Listings: Downloadable Video, for women, mainstream erotica, men, webzines

One of my favorite sites that is no longer with us was a site devoted to erotic flash fiction. Snippets of erotica sometimes seem to do more for me than a whole story. I guess it's like seeing a flash of leg, or a single button undone, instead of full nudity. At any rate, I loved this site, lesbian themed erotic haiku. Newish, just started in September, but with a delicious collection of sexy snippets. - Jane

Date Reviewed: 2007-11-07
Cost: Free Advertising Content: None
Category Listings: mainstream erotica

This blog site is perfectly charming. What an enjoyable time I had here. Your hostess, and the site, is named Silent Porn Star - with no doubt interesting and untold stories behind the name. The focus here is in curating - and celebrating - sexual iconography. I browsed the site's last couple of years of archives, hip hopping over such delights as old pulp fiction cover art, black & white vintage photography, occasional contemporary censorship issues, and even - to my delight - a link to a YouTube clip of Cher and Raquel Welch, all glitter-glamoured up in their prime and glory, singing Peggy Lee's "I'm A Woman". If that isn't as iconic as you could ask for, you're not looking. The commentary is smart, positive, and insightful. This is just the sort of unique site we love to encourage. - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-11-05
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Moderate
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica, vintage / pinup

This free site is the home of Jodi Payne, an author of both gay and lesbian erotica. Her work has been published by Torquere Press, and can be ordered there, although I didn't see any purchasing links directly from her home site here. What is available here is a lot of sampling of free fiction, and exerpts from the published pieces. She is a good wordsmith, both in the lesbian erotica close to her heart and also in gay male fiction [what I saw was dominant/submissive leathermen stories] which she cowrites with a male author. She has links to blogs, commentary on works in progress, and so forth. I wish her well with her writing. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: GBLT Resources, mainstream erotica

Thomas S. Roche is one busy dude. The author of 50+ books and hundreds of short stories in a wide range of genre, Roche keeps busy (in his free time, perhaps?) writing ThomasRoche.com, blogging at Blowfish.com, and editing Eros-Zine.com. His writing at ThomasRoche.com is a medley of thoughts on movies, music, sexuality and culture. His tone ranges from informative to irreverent but it's always intelligent. In a review of one sadly ineffectual movie, Roche says, "[I]t bears the kiss of death for a porn movie — a slow, meditative guitar soundtrack intended to evoke the peacefulness of tropical surroundings, which in fact, for me at least, evokes the peacefulness of the insides of my eyelids." How can you not enjoy a blog that gives you the straight dope on which porns will put you to sleep? - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-29
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica

Skin Sin Films is a free porn site produced by a fellow that calls himself the Virtuous Pornographer. A large portion of his site is dedicated to his philosophies and political views in regards to pornography. He is a real character and his writing style is very unique. He offers about 20 photo galleries featuring nude women and oral sex photos. The main goal of the site is to direct traffic to his clips4sale store where he sells oral sex and smoking sex fetish videos, among others. It's an interesting little site and there's enough there to keep you entertained for hours. - Wolfe

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-11
Cost: free Advertising Content: lots
Category Listings: Hardcore, mainstream erotica, softcore

New from the UK is this site featuring UK amateur girls. On the main site the image galleries are free. There is an option to view streaming DVD smut [looks like commercial stuff rather than their homegrown stuff] paying per view. Back to their homegrown, however, is the membership area, which is a couple of dozen 20 minute film clips available for downloading. Some of the videos are solo, some girl/girl, and some are boy/girl. In the area labeled 'Little Miss Secret' they have female-written erotic fantasies, and I'd like to strongly recommend editing in paragraphs. One humongous paragraph makes for difficult reading. I downloaded several of the movie clips to sample and they are all as advertised and enjoyable. I always like to encourage homegrown smut, and this is no exception. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-11
Cost: $25.99/mo/recurring [Ticketsclub] Advertising Content: Moderate
Category Listings: amateur compilations, Downloadable Video, mainstream erotica, Streaming Video

Wow - this is my new favorite site! xNovel is an ever-growing archive of the golden age of pulp novels. The stuff that I hid in the coal bin or under my mattress during my formative years. This site is all free, making it a labor of love for the owner. Those dirty paperback books - from now-defunct publishing houses - from the 60's to the 80's are captured here in full. In many cases this is even including the original cover art. You can read it online or you can download in zipped text files to enjoy at your leisure. At time of review they have over 700 titles, searchable by author, by series, and so forth. They actively solicit help from folks of similar tastes to obtain, proofread, scan, and otherwise help in adding to the collection. Their links page is a great list of similarly minded sites. It's a simple little site with a simple little plan, and I love it. Two thumbs up. - Peter » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2007-10-05
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, eBooks, mainstream erotica

Molly's Mirror is a collaborative erotic poetry, prose and photography site. The namesake of the site, Molly, has a category for her journal postings, which definitely have a sensual thread. I suggest starting at the 'about molly' post, the moving down the righthand navigation to "collections", which group posts on a theme together. You'll find some to contain photos with just enough text to arouse and entice, and others to be collaborative serials. I absolutely enjoyed wandering through this site. Oh, and a note to those who want participation: Molly says "We will start with a small group of contributors and will draw more in as we go." -Jane

Date Reviewed: 2007-08-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, fine art nudes, mainstream erotica

EA has been writing for just over 2 years now, updating his blog around a half dozen times each month with smut steamy enough to tide his readers over until his next update. There is a theme of long distance love affairs that seems to come out in most of EA's stories. Far from being repetitive, this theme serves to draw in his female fans, who can easily imagine themselves as his wanton long-distance mistresses. I'm very picky about my erotica, but EA was able to seduce me with his smart and engaging writing style. Being smooth and eloquent without getting "fluffy", as well as being raw and sexual without losing his classiness, makes EA's erotica stand out in his field. It's just too bad that he doesn't have the time to update more often. - Shay

Date Reviewed: 2007-08-30
Cost: Free Advertising Content: very low
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica

Briana is a Canadian-Italian lady currently residing in Toronto, who has quite the following for her writings. She covers a wide gamut of genres, with current or planned offerings including an erotic time travel spiritual novel, a series of romance novellas, and an interactive illustrated erotic poetry book. Her website is very involved with her fans, exchanging healthy recipes and aromatherapy advice along with shared involvement with social and health issues. You can download her ebooks from silksvault.com, which she does link through to. This free site is the sort of thing we like to see and encourage. - Peter

Date Reviewed: 2007-08-19
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: eBooks, mainstream erotica

This is a wonderful introduction to the world of Sylvia Day (an award winning author that has written over a dozen novels). She introduces herself a bit in her bio section, and also makes herself available through her blog and online chat. Cover art from her books link to descriptions of the material, excerpts, reviews, and information on where it may be purchased. It appears that she enjoys writing about the sensual rather than the outright graphic, so most of her work would fall in the romantic and sensual fiction genre. Many of her books are available in print and ebook format. In addition to giving information about herself and her work, she has put together a list of resources for writers that is also very nice. Well done! - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-08-01
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Books / Zines, mainstream erotica

If you enjoy paranormal romance and erotica, you should check out the "Immortality's Caress" series by this author. Monica loves to write historical, contemporary, fantasy, and paranormal erotica and romance. You can check out the cover art for her different books here. If you click on them, you will be able to read full descriptions, excerpts, and reviews as well. If you want to know more about the author, you can read interviews with her or go check out her blog. There are a few free stories and poems on the site as well. A well done author's site! - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-21
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, Books / Zines, mainstream erotica

Laura Bacchi describes her work as, "...[C]ontemporary to futuristic to paranormal, vanilla to BDSM, het to M/M to more warm bodies than you can shake a stick at." Yep, that about covers it! This site links to her blog and myspace. It also lists her available titles that can be clicked on for blurbs, excerpts, purchase information, and reviews. She also posts some of her original erotic art, which is actually pretty dang interesting and reminded me of Aubrey Beardsley a bit. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-18
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, mainstream erotica

Helen L. is the author of over forty erotic stories, and she shares them with you for free on her personal site. Rather than emphasizing the mechanics of sex, she really tries to build characters that you care about and can relate to. She wants the emotional content to motivate your erotic response, rather than a simple laundry list of physical actions. Her tales consist exclusively of heterosexual and consensual encounters between adults, and they are heavy on romance. In addition to her erotic tales, she has an online diary that is a progressive story as well. I really like her take on the genre, it is very refreshing. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-16
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: Blogs / Journals - Sex, mainstream erotica

Let's say that you and your lover have had a small tiff. You'd like to send him a message to soothe his feelings...or maybe invite him over for some make-up sex. But you find that you lack the proper words. Whatever shall you do? You could sign up for an account with Erotic Purple, pay a small fee, and choose one of their messages to convey your thoughts. The site showcases quite a variety of messages, from sweet to sultry to "I'm so sorry." There are also erotic short stories, dares, and movies which can be downloaded to your phone or computer. You can pay Erotic Purple via credit card, debit card, or PayPal. They promise discreet billing. You can buy their services on an individual basis or by means of tokens; the tokens are a better value. I don't know...I might be a little put off if I found out that an anonymous stranger instead of my lover wrote to me. But really, isn't Erotic Purple providing the same service as does a greeting card? - AAG

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-13
Cost: varies with each service; prices in GBP Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: Audio, mainstream erotica, Postcards

Do you enjoy paranormal romance? Men in uniform? Erotic romance? Then you should probably check out this charming author's site for J.C. Wilder & Dominique Adair. You'll find lots of excerpts from books along those themes, and even two free ebooks! If you want to make a purchase, there are quick links to places where you can pick up the full novels in ebook or paperback form. The author seems very accessible and friendly, with a wide variety of information shared across chat groups and blogs. She lists info about appearances, contests, and even her daily life. I found the site perfectly charming, and the writing appears to be very hot. Then again, I have a rather predictable vampire fetish. - Vamp

Date Reviewed: 2007-07-09
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, mainstream erotica