Filthy gorgeous things: the Euphoria issue

The new issue of stunningly erotic webzine Filthy Gorgeous Things is out, and the theme is Euphoria. It’s my favorite online intellectual-explicit erotic magazine, and while a subscription is expensive, the freebees are fantastic. Take for example Chelsea G. Summers’ The Gift of Euphoria (and wow, click through to look at that photo):

(…) It’s not your euphoria. Not exactly. It not yours because yours is not the limp-taut rag of erotic compliance, yours are not the eyes fluttering delicate as moths, yours is not the lower-case vowel pout, your skin is unchanged, your breath is unremarkable. Yet with your hands, your mouth, your turgid parts, your fecund imagination, your wily ministrations, you have created this moment for another. You have given free wild reins to your perversity and you have made marvels.

On the turf of your bed, you stride as a colossus.

You have made this moment, shaped and created it, attenuated it, molded it like clay with your mastery. This body on the bed, this transported person, this human: you have made him your bitch. (…read more, filthygorgeousthings.com)

Summers’ piece is outrageous; gloriously authored and explicit without being predictable, stereotypical or crass. It’s hard-edged female desire. And it’s exactly the kind of story I put in my books — it would have fit right into the erotica collection I edited Girls On Top (also: UK), a new release which I’m told is selling like crazy in stores right now. Here’s a free sample: the story is called “A Woman In His Room” and it’s by the fabulous, prolific British erotica author Saskia Walker. The story centers on a young woman who erotically fixates on a very masculine male border her father let rent the bedroom next to hers, and what happens when he catches her pushing her interest too far. The piece is very layered, and I’m intrigued by the focus on her articulating her very non-romantic sexual urges. I think many of us can relate. It will still engage you emotionally, however — this is a Walker story after all.

* Here’s Open Source Sex #70. (post + MP3 file, violetblue.libsyn.com)
* Or, listen right now with this audio player.