Let Me Count The Ways When writing any story at all, an author strives to avoid duplicating anything they’ve written before, especially pet turns of phrase, favourite words and expressions. This can be a challenge in erotic romances. Because I try not to repeat myself (it can happen quite unconsciously), I have become aware of […]
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Is A Relationship Possible Or Can It Only Be Hot Sweaty Sex? When I was studying law, back in the dark ages, I turned in an assignment that I had sweated to complete and was pretty confident of scoring a Distinction (95% or better). I scored Honours only and was distraught (yeah, I was that
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Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. Robert A. Heinlein Lazarus Long and The Long Family Robert A. Heinlein is one of my top five favourite writers of all time. He was
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News! And it’s all over the place this week, too. First up, I’m now doing a weekly post over at Get Lusty for Couples, for all things that fall into the area where sex and fiction collide. Think fantasies, pornography, erotica, on-line and text-based sex (I met my husband on-line, so I guess I’m a
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It started as a thing among the high school girls, and it has virused its way up to the older generations now, as a “hip” thing to do. Along with multiple coloured skinny adjustable straps for multiple camisoles layered on top of each other, two of those straps are going to be for the bra
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Despite the romance genre readership being 99% female, there’s room for argument that the romance storylines are anything but feminist. It depends on how you measure them. There are two “tests” out there by which romance novels fail miserably. The Smurfette Principle The “Smurfette” Principle is an interesting measure aimed at television shows, originating (surprise!)
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Lingerie – Make Your Own Manufacturers of lingerie would like you to think that there’s a whole lot of high-tech engineering and design involved in their incredibly expensive lingerie. There isn’t. Once you understand a few basic design concepts — the primary one being proper support in a bra, then making your own lingerie is
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There’s nothing as sexy and guaranteed to turn a man’s head as a simple skirt, a pair of classic stilettos and sheer, dark hosiery. Sit down, cross your legs and give a glimpse of stocking tops, and he’s gone – hook, line and sinker. It’s not like the skirt has to be all that short,
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Mothers the world over, for at least three generations, taught their daughters to always wear clean underwear, least they be caught dead in shoddy undergarments. And thus at least a century of women were train to be paranoid about being caught in public in a state of undress and that what you wore under your
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We don’t pay a lot of attention to guy’s mouths — except for what they’re doing with them. Heroines have to have the perfect cupid bow and full pillow-like, bee-stung lips, because the pouty look is sexy, and if she can get her bottom lip to quiver ever-so-slightly at the same time, she can bring
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