filthy gorgeous things: the Euphoria issue

by Violet Blue on November 16, 2009

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.

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Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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{ 4 comments }

1 Abolitionist November 21, 2009 at 1:38 am

also, he’s a male boarder, not a border…unless, maybe he likes to hang out around the edges? He’s edgy…yeah! Sneaky Violet, hiding all those metaphors.

2 chelsea g. November 17, 2009 at 7:44 am

Violet,

Thanks so much for your lavish praise. I really appreciate it. Any time you want anything for any anthology, your wish is my writing prompt.

kissykiss,
chelsea g.

3 violet November 16, 2009 at 5:34 pm

fixed it, thank you!

4 bg November 16, 2009 at 3:01 pm

you probably mean “theme” not “them”

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