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The Ecstatic Moment : The Best of Libido edited by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp
Since 1988, Libido magazine has set the standard for literary erotica, as a publication aimed at open-minded, adventurous men and women craving provocative, sexually-charged reading. This groundbreaking collection brings together the very best writing from the magazine the Chicago Tribune calls "A journal for highbrows who still have animal urges."

The Good Parts : The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction edited by J. H. Blair
From Kirkus reviews: ...includes Saul Bellow, Harold Brodkey, Frederick Busch, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Gordon, Oscar Hijuelos, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley, and Susan Sontag ...Not surprisingly, none of the A-list authors imagines a scene nearly as scorching as the likes of Kathy Acker, Pat Califia, A.M. Homes, Joan Mellen, Dale Peck, Dani Shapiro, and Scott Spencer (though William Styron does his best in a scene from Sophie's Choice).

Best American Erotica 2000 edited by Susie Bright
from Amazon.com's review of the 2000 edition: "For this special millennium edition, Susie Bright, our nation's trustworthy and tantalizing guide into the world of sexual fantasy and freedom, has gathered the best erotic writing of the year to produce a new, sizzling volume. In this collection we find human sexuality in all its diversity; pleasure and desire in all its forms. This doublelength, year 2000 edition offers a glimpse of what sex in the new millennium might be, a time when voices from the sexual underground will be heard and our ideas of perfection will be redefined. This most recent installment in the annual bestselling series includes the year's most provocative literature, guaranteed to have something for everyone."  Read the Clean Sheets review by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Viscera edited by Cara Bruce
An anthology of bizarre erotica, featuring 25 stories, ranging from a modern day Salome to a two-mouthed dwarf. Featuring authors such as Lydia Lunch, Carol Queen, Cecilia Tan, Blag Dahlia and Jarboe. Read the Clean Sheets review by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Dick For A Day edited by Fiona Giles
I thought this was one of the most fun books ever. It is a composition of women artists -- writers, poets, cartoonists, etc -- who were asked what they would do if they had a penis for one day. I think it's a must read for every man who wants a little insight on how women think. Just a little :-) 

Up All Hours : Scorching Tales of Sex Around the Clock
edited by Gerry Kroll and Fred Goss
This collection of sexy stories, culled from the provocative, stimulating fiction seen every month in Men, one of the country's top gay erotic publications, is guaranteed to entertain and arouse. Included is a story by CleanSheets contributor Bob Vickery.

On a Bed of Rice : An Asian American Erotic Feast edited by Geraldine Kudaka
On a Bed of Rice is "the first book to display the richness of erotic literature by Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, East Indian, Pakistani and Amerasian descent." Featuring stories, essays, poems and photographs by Ai, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Eyelyn Lau, David Mura, and dozens more. Read the Clean Sheets review by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Best Gay Erotica 2000 edited by Richard Labonte and Travers D. Scott
An elegant anthology which contains stories that go beyond gay or queer and take brave steps forward to capture the subtle masculine gestures of pleasure, if not masculinity itself, for a new millennium.

Libido's Best : Erotic Audio Sex and Sensibility
Provocative and sexually-charged stories explore the depth and variety of sexual desire from both male and female perspectives. An audio adaptation of the very best writing from Libido Magazine. Includes stories by Susannah Indigo, Susan St. Aubin and Stella Rosemarino.

Aqua Erotica edited by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Imagine a hot tub party where a married couple tests the boundaries of fidelity. A model who finds herself unaccountably aroused as she poses for a watercolor artist. A pool of water on a desert road and two lovers who know how to make the most of it. This is Aqua Erotica, a sensuous tasting of desire's liquid, ecstatic other worlds. -- Amazon Read the Clean Sheets review by Bill Noble

Pages Passed from Hand to hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 edited by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt
The title sounds far more daunting than the anthology really is. With a gorgeous Caillebotte painting reproduced on the cover, this collection excerpts Willa Cather, Owen Wister, Herman Melville, Walter Pater and many others to uncover some of the themes in these classics that your English 101 professor probably didn't point out.

Seven Hundred Kisses; a Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing edited by Lily Pond
Seven Hundred Kisses reflects the true meaning of eros -- the drawing together of separate individuals through need, attraction, affection, desire, and love -- and explores this universal subject through new stories and poems that will capture the interest and imagination of any reader: male or female, gay or straight. A masterwork of erotic literature, Seven Hundred Kisses is at once intelligent and sensual, joyful and hilarious -- an embodiment of passion.

Yellow Silk II: International Erotic Stories and Poems edited by Lily Pond
A companion to the earlier Yellow Silk collection (1991) that locates the most erogenous zone well above the belt, this time embracing erotic expression from around the world and arranged in sections labeled by global location (“inside,” “outside,” “center,” “the four directions”). Epigraphs from Samuel Green (“Psalm”) and Rumi establish the predominance of the imaginative over the carnal.-- Kirkus Read the Clean Sheets review by Susannah Indigo

Best Bisexual Erotica edited by Carol Queen and Bill Brent
"Carol Queen and Bill Brent are at it again, increasing bi visibility with tasty, literate smut fit to raise the hackles of monosexuals everywhere." -- Pat Califia

Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
This entertaining, explicit, and erotic anthology of short stories features writings about lesbians by gay men and tales about gay men written by lesbians and bisexual women, including works by D. Travers Scott, Lucy Taylor, Kevin Killian, Wickie Stamps, and others.

Best Women's Erotica 2001 edited by Marcy Sheiner
This year's collection is another delectable sampling of the best erotica writers today. In fact, Clean Sheets contributors make up a third of the collection! So, if you love Mary Anne Mohanraj, Susannah Indigo, Kris Hawes, Hanne Blanke, Debra Hyde, Helen Settimana and Anne Tourney ("Rope Burn"), you're sure to love this one. Read the Clean Sheets review by Bill Noble

Herotica 6 edited by Marcy Sheiner
The latest in this outstanding series of erotica by women, this time with a theme of sex within committed relationships. Includes Clean Sheets authors Susannah Indigo and Mary Anne Mohanraj. Read the Clean Sheets review by Mary Anne Mohanraj

The Oy of Sex : Jewish Women Write Erotica edited by Marcy Sheiner
The Oy of Sex represents the first anthology of Jewish women's erotica by mainstream authors, including Joan Nestle (author of A Fragile Union); Robin Bernstein (editor of Bridges, a journal of Jewish feminist culture and politics); and Judith Arcana (author of Grace Paley's Life Stories, A Literary Biography). The stories are laden with Jewish symbols, holy days, customs, and cultural references -- along with zaftig women, tempting food, and a hefty dose of Yiddish humor!

The Erotica Project edited by Lillian Ann Slugocki and Erin Cressida Wilson
The Erotica Project began as a program for WBAI Radio New York and moved to the stage in 1998, where performances sold out night after night and were critically lauded... It is hard to imagine a straight man, straight woman, or lesbian who wouldn't want to hear these stories, by turns sordid and lyrical, graphic and tender, all of them grounded in a sense of sexual entitlement that would make Freud blush and Dr. Ruth wipe away a tear of pride. -- Amazon Read the Clean Sheets review by Susannah Indigo

Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica edited by Tristan Taormino
The highlight of the book is probably a Pat Califia hot vampire story, but the rest of this book is guaranteed to both fascinate and heat you up, regardless of your own sexual preference.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2000 edited by Tristan Taormino
"The stories in this collection are freer, fiercer, more touched by both gender-specific erotics and gender play than any I have read before…It has taken many years of courage to win for us, both writers and readers, the fullness of expression to be found in this anthology." -- Joan Nestle