Thread: How many women buy or have bought erotic books?

I have very recently discovered that my wife has bought an erotic book, it contains a series of steamy stories, it says will leave you hot and breathless..."Temptations Volume 1 is an anthology of steamy, passionate, and often filthy erotic stories that will leave you breathless and satisfied. Written entirely by women for women and edited by the world-famous Miranda Forbes, this book is ideal as a gift or for travelling."

Isnt this just porn for females or are you going to say this is totally different? I always thought women generally get aroused by mental images whereas men physical images, so what's the difference?

I have a few erotic novels. I am not going to say that it is not porn, because it is. There is a big difference between visual porn, like videos or magazines with photos. A lot of that stuff just focuses on the visceral sex which can work for women. But I believe that men definitely have the claim on that kind of porn. Some women need more than just a video of two people going at it, or erotic images. Erotic or romance novels offer an emotional side. It is a bit corny, yes but it helps that there is a connection. That is why it is considered porn for women. At least that is my two cents. lol I may be wrong. but that is why I enjoy it more than any other form of erotic material. Also, being able to imagine a sexual act can be more arousing than actually seeing it acted out.

i have recently been looking for romantic/erotic books/dvds by women for women. There r a few but few and far between!

I think most women by "romance" novels. They aren't "erotic" but they have tons of in depth and detailed sex scenes so they might as well be. I don't know what makes the cut off for erotic compared to romance, but they are very similar. Even the romance can get pretty hardcore. Tons of women buy them. I used to work at books-a-million and I sold erotic and romance everyday. However, most of those women weren't with their husbands. I have several romance novels myself, but they are pretty light on the sex. It just happens that some sci-fi and romance coincide at times. Reading about sex though I think is a lot sexier than watching it. I think writing allows for a lot more information than just the visual.

I agree the written word offers a deeper emotional component to it than video or pictures. What you can see on a screen in two minutes can be dragged out into several paragraphs of text that goes into great detail and includes emotion and deeper meaning than what you can see visually.

Personally I find many of them to be so obviously fake and unrealistic, like a chick flick where you know things would never play out like that in real life. For that reason, I prefer to write them rather than read them (I've written a few erotic short stories). But a well written story can be very HOT! Lol

I agree about them being sort of fake. I accidentally bought one that I thought was just a sci-fi about werewolves. The main girl met this guy that was to be her guide through Haiti, I think, and maybe about one plane ride later they were having sex. I was like, what? But I let it go because this was a new author for me. Then they kept on and on. Then they had sex in wolf form. AH?! I could not believe it. I didn't really go back to that author. Werewolf sex sort of traumatized me.

In my country (in Asia), women as sex education is a bad thing, so myself and all women of my country who never buy books of pornography to read .

Originally Posted by nyx

I agree about them being sort of fake. I accidentally bought one that I thought was just a sci-fi about werewolves. The main girl met this guy that was to be her guide through Haiti, I think, and maybe about one plane ride later they were having sex. I was like, what? But I let it go because this was a new author for me. Then they kept on and on. Then they had sex in wolf form. AH?! I could not believe it. I didn't really go back to that author. Werewolf sex sort of traumatized me.

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Werewolf sex? LOL!

NYX, why do you think the women came into your shop without their husbands?

A friend of mine has written erotica and showed me his draths and I have read a few pages in an old "romance" novel and agree reading about and imagining it is VERY hot indeed.
Seeing evidence of my wife buying this book came as a bit of a "pleasent-ish?" shock. She can show an interested side to sex, we have seen a few movies which seemed to get her going, not porn movies, things like the classic Basic Instinct and Eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise but also a sex scene has come on the TV and she's gone "oh for heaven sake" etc, etc and switched it over, much to my frustration.
How do you rate these books, minor titalation or does it heat things up in the bedroom with OR without their other half?