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From the Introduction:Quote:Recently I visited some old friends of high school vintage and showed them one of my anthologies of women’s erotica. The two men in the group began reading sections aloud to one another, tittering and remarking, “This is just like what we used to read in the navy.”Of course I felt crushed, but later on I consoled myself with reality: They had no concept of what’s been going on in the world of sex writing for the past decade, and by plucking out “the juicy bits” they failed to notice that the relatively new field of women’s erotica does indeed differ from what they “read in the navy.” Mind you, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the jackoff material they read in the navy; it’s just that the field of sex writing has evolved significantly over the past decade, and as we enter the new millennium, there’s one thing we can say for sure about the state of the art: The sex is not the story.By today’s standards, a good erotic story is not merely a description of sexual activity. It isn’t a predictable recitation of bov-meets-girl (or girl-meets-girl or boy-meets-boy) and they did it. No “wham, bam. thank you ma’am.” For me, and for most women writing sexually explicit fiction today—many of whom write “serious” literature as well—the standard is pretty much the same as for any other fiction: plot, character, command of literary craft. The added element is that, while the sex is not the story, it most certainly is a central part of any writing that claims to call itself erotica—and for an erotic story to qualify as such, the sex has to be fairly explicit. These are the criteria I’ve been using for over a decade in writing and editing sexual fiction.ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsIntroduction: The Sex is Not the StoryInterrogationService EntranceLitaThe Instigator The Album CyclesSomething for the PainEggs McMenopauseSanta’s Little HelperJack’s PrideKaliMy Kind of WomanSeverineArroganceBetween the ToesStrange BedfellowsCal’s PartyRatatouilleAbout the AuthorsAbout the EditorPaperback: 200 pagesPublisher: Cleis Press; 1st edition (March 31, 2000)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 157344099XISBN-13: 978-1573440998ASIN: B00A2X9RE0