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Flamesparrow · 24/09/2007 19:28

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RustyBear · 28/09/2007 21:06

Reminds me of when I worked at Merton libraries & all overdues for paperbacks were sent out just as 'Adult paperback', no details. We had a very distressed pensioner in, who was horrified that we thought she read 'that sort of book' ....

Bouquets · 27/09/2007 23:31

PMSL I spat my coffee out laughing at Littlelapin's post, am now thinking she may have typed it by accident actually which makes it even more funny.

Ulysees · 25/09/2007 21:22

Didn't get that far hifi, the one about the kids was enough for me, gross.

hifi · 25/09/2007 18:25

ulysees, i found the labia stretching one v. disturbing

daisyandbabybootoo · 25/09/2007 18:01

lol LL...was that a freudian slip of the keyboard???

Ulysees · 25/09/2007 18:01

oh no that's all we need!

daisyandbabybootoo · 25/09/2007 18:00

it does, it does.....about halfway down the page

Ulysees · 25/09/2007 17:59

I bought anais nin as recommended on here

daisyandbabybootoo · 25/09/2007 17:56

is this topic going to show up on google when the ubiquitous 14 year old wanker (literal, not an insult) is looking for porn????

stleger · 25/09/2007 17:49

Forever Amber...

SmartArse · 25/09/2007 16:11

I've just added The Secret Garden to my list on Amazon!

hifi · 25/09/2007 16:10

fanny hill is really dirty, i blushed.

stleger · 25/09/2007 15:58

By Anonymous is always they key to a good read!

Notyummy · 25/09/2007 15:11

I know it is significant in literary terms, but never did much me for me as a piece of erotica! In fact I never liked any of D H Lawrence's novels.

Poetry on the other hand is fab...anyone read 'The Snake' ?

Elasticwoman · 25/09/2007 15:04

Lady C was written much later than 1915 (about 1924 I think) because a big point of it is that life changed radically after WWI. Lady C's husband has been disabled by the war. It's the earliest novel I can think of in which women's sexuality is acknowledged without the woman being made out to be Bad.

Kathyis6incheshigh · 25/09/2007 14:07

Oh I thought Lady Chatterley was pretty damn raunchy, but in a naff phallus-worshipping sort of way that didn't do very much for me (so to speak).

Notyummy · 25/09/2007 14:05

I remember reading Lady Chatterleys Lover as a teenager because I thought it would be raunchy.....it probably was in 1915, but not in 1986. Now Jilly Coopers Riders...that was more exciting for a 14 year old.....

Bouquetsofdynomite · 25/09/2007 13:56

Well it might as well be a thread about chickporn now mightn't it?
Fanny Hill is a good one because it's 18th century and you can pretend it's literature (it aint, it's total smut).

Notyummy · 25/09/2007 13:51

I think its just supposed to be for books that adults read....like grown up ones(!!)...instead of the Gruffalo.

Apparently some people wnated the topics seperate.

But

its probably more fun to talk about porn

gorillas, dogs....I'd forgotten just how 'interesting' My Secret Garden was!

hifi · 25/09/2007 13:39

anais nin is quite good, bit freaky in some stories but varied in fantasys.

LadyOfWaffle · 25/09/2007 13:34

holy moley, porn then?

littlelapin · 25/09/2007 13:33

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 25/09/2007 13:29

Ah but mature fiction sounds like a euphemism for the sort of fiction that old ladies read
I think we should keep this as a porn section, personally.

Notyummy · 25/09/2007 13:04

I never thought about when risk assessing tree climbing.....puts a whole new spin on it!

But seriously, perhaps this subject should be called 'mature' fiction, because otherwise I'm always going to get the giggles and think of smut when I click on it.

Hmm....must go and find my black collection....

Kathyis6incheshigh · 25/09/2007 12:56

The other Nancy Friday ones, Women on Top and Men in Love are interesting too.

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