“Writing about sex has always been an honorable tradition. Just like good sex, good sex writing is in the details, the images, the picture, the scenario, the scene, the wonder of what is real and what is fantasy. Good sex writing paints a picture; it shows as well as tells, and it connects your mind to your body. This is the reason why I cannot have an orgasm without playing out – either mentally or physically – a fantasy.” – From Introduction of Brown Sugar by Carol taylor, Ed.
Like Black literature, Black Erotica is a very fascinating subject in understanding the wide spectrum of black sensuality. Black Erotica is a celebration of sensuality and desire of the wonderful Black community. It is a garland of 18 flowers of black sexuality and sensuality sewn together with the string of black experience. The contributors of this veritable collection of black sensual imagination are new as well as wellknown authors like Sapphire, Reginald harris, Pamela Sneed etc.
Nadine describes her orgasm in Preston Allen’s story Nadine’s Husband in these words –My flesh tingled. Johnny bucked my clit with his thumbs where it passed. My flesh tingled. Johnny bucked my clit with his thumb. I parted my legs. He inserted a finger and stirred. I released his tongue and said, “Love me, Johnny. I’m so hot.” Johnny kissed his way down to the finger in my pussy. His lips kissed the mound of Venus in small, respectful dabs. . .Another finger was up to the second knuckle in my anus. Then I felt his teeth. Oh Johnny. What are you doing to me?” “I’m leaving a passion mark.” “Watch out. I’m all gushy when I come.” “You taste good.” My arms flailing, I thrust my hips against his tongue and the bootie finger in wild orgasm. Johnny kissed his way back to my mouth. I tasted my joy on his lips.
In alpine Country, Sapphire writes –She is seventy, I’m sixty-five. . .She knows she still excites me naked in her overalls, the faint smell of her cunt like fresh-killed fish, her rosate-tipped breasts hanging down like cow udders. The feel of her skin is a memory now. I replay the taste, the feel of her. . .
In Never Say Never, we get a realistic picture of sensual arousal – After the plates were cleared, I excused myself to go to the ladies’ room. I was surprised to discover that my panties were wet from just our conversation. I had an idea. I took them off and tucked them inside my purse, then returned to the table with a secret smile on my face. . . I took Thomas’s hand, placed it under my skirt, and guided it to my center. He smiled; keeping his eyes on my face, he gently stroked me, slowly spread my lips apart, and inserted a curious finger deep inside me, then slowly removed it. The book is an excellent collection of contemporary erotic short stories, even though it delineates black sexual imagination.
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