Ageless Erotica

by Ageless Erotica [MF] (retail) (epub)

  D.L. KING is a New Yorker and a smut writer, the editor of The Harder She Comes; the IPPY Gold Medal winner Carnal Machines; Spank; The Sweetest Kiss; and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist Where the Girls Are. Her short stories can be found in anthologies such as The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica; Best Women’s Erotica; Best Lesbian Erotica; Please, Ma’am; Sex in the City: New York; Sweet Love; Frenzy; Gotta Have It; Yes, Sir; and Yes, Ma’am; among others. She’s published two novels and edits the erotica review site Erotica Revealed. Find her at www.dlkingerotica.blogspot.com. “I wrote ‘Mr. Smith’ shortly after my fifty-fifth birthday. I had been playing with my partner, who complained about his knees and that kneeling was becoming painful. I started thinking about what it means to lead an active BDSM lifestyle as we age. Kneepads seemed like a sensible idea.”

  MIRIAM KURA, sixty, owns her own business and lives in Portland, Oregon. She looks forward to the day when Madison Avenue catches up with the sensuality of the boomer generation and publishes a monthly Cosmo-type magazine for juicy over-fifty women. “I wrote this story because I found so little erotica that combines explicit sex scenes in the context of a longer term, loving relationship. Unfortunately for those of us who want both, relationship stories show very little sex, and hot erotica often depicts sex between strangers. I am a big supporter of adding to the emerging ‘Hot Relationship Sex’ bookshelf.”

  By day, LORNA LEE writes young adult and middle grade novels under her real name while wearing blue jeans and T-shirts. By night, she puts on her black nightie and indulges in her fantasies. She lives in the high desert of Washington State where she also quilts, blogs, and, when time permits, is an amateur photographer. “George is the name I gave to the photo portrait of the nude man that hangs on the wall at the foot of my bed. He is described in this story, and is my most faithful of lovers. How could I not write about him?”

  TSAURAH LITZKY’s erotica has appeared in over ninety-two publications, including Best American Erotica eight times. Her erotic novella, The Motion of the Ocean, was part of Three The Hard Way, a series edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah is also a poet, playwright, art critic, and a writer of book reviews. Her most recent book is the poetry collection Cleaning the Duck (Bowery Books, 2011). She has completed an erotic memoir, Flasher. Tsaurah writes sexy stories about seniors that she hopes adult readers of all ages will enjoy because she believes in sexual and personal liberation for everyone. Learn more at www.TsaurahLitzky.com. “At a family wedding, I danced with a seventy-nine-year-old cousin (he was some dancer!) who had been a xylophone player in the Paul Goodman Band. He lived in a home for aged musicians on Long Island. He inspired me to fabricate stories about the residents of this home.”

  EVVY LYNN is the pseudonym of a well-known sixty-eight-year-old writer of fiction and nonfiction. “I always believed that when I hit menopause, I would lose all interest in sex,” she says. “I was surprised to discover that was a myth. If anything, I’m more interested in sex than ever, though much more discriminating. ‘Jaguar Dreams’ began as an actual erotic dream, like the one Janice experiences. I’d been thinking about aging, and how I had become invisible to men, and the story almost wrote itself. I wanted to convey that the jaguar appears to all women when it is time, whether they have a figurine or not. I can’t wait for mine to show up again.”

  ERICA MANFRED is a freelance journalist and author in her sixties who separated from her husband in 2001. Making lemonade out of lemons, she used her own experience, plus interviews with experts and other divorcées, to write He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After Forty. Her most recent book is the paranormal romance Interview with a Jewish Vampire, which features Sheldon, the first sexy Jewish vampire. Erica’s humorous personal essays and self-help articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Magazine, Ms., New Age Journal, New York Newsday, and many others. Her website is www.ericamanfred.com. “I loved the instant gratification aspect of Internet dating. But it was too easy to get addicted, which I found myself doing in the wee hours when I got lonely. Unfortunately there were too many men who only wanted cybersex. It was hard to find real-life guys for non-virtual sex.”

  BILL NOBLE is a Northern California writer and poet, a naturalist and teacher, and a great-granddad. He was the longtime fiction editor at Clean Sheets. Susie Bright’s readers selected one of his short stories as an Erotic Story of the Decade. “I wrote ‘Wane of the Moon’ in my late fifties. The story grew partly out of a burgeoning personal awareness of aging, but more from witnessing age playing out in the lives of the generation ahead of me, sometimes very poignantly. It was written at a time when my reach as a writer and editor was substantial and I thought I could ‘get away’ with writing about senior sex and do it in a truthful and empathetic way.”

  LINDA POELZL has been learning a lot about senior sex for the past ten years, both personally and professionally. She is a fifty-nine-year-old bisexual woman who has been working in the field of human sexuality since 1990 as a sex educator, public speaker, writer, coach, and sexological bodyworker. She is currently writing a book about her career in sexual health and well-being and can be reached through her website at www.waterdragonwoman.com. “Older men turn me on! Through their eyes, I see the beauty of my aging self. I dedicate this story to all those older men who keep that eternal flame of passion alive within themselves.”

  BELLE BURROUGHS SHEPHERD has been writing erotic stories for many years, although she has kept most of them to herself. Belle was born in the United States but lived for many years in Canada, where she raised two daughters and helped to raise her two granddaughters. She recently moved back to the East Coast of the United States. When a lover from the past found her, after thirty years of being apart, writing erotica became a way for them to re-explore their sexual attraction. A self-taught web designer, Belle started an anonymous sex blog on Tumblr to further enhance the sexual communication with her lover. “I was inspired to write ‘Morning’ during the magical first months of our relationship. Since we moved in together, there has been no lack of inspiration for more stories.”

  SUSAN ST. AUBIN has been writing erotica for nearly thirty years, sometimes as Jean Casse. Her work has appeared in Yellow Silk, Libido, Herotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, and many other journals and anthologies, as well as online at Clean Sheets, www.fishnetmag.com, and www.forthegirls.com. Her story collection, A Love Drive-By: Stories of Ambition, Hunger, and Desire, was published in 2011 by Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions. “Since I retired, I’ve developed the strange new hobby of going to estate sales. My story is an attempt to capture the experience of going into people’s homes, pawing through their possessions, and vicariously entering their lives. It’s a voyeuristic sensation guaranteed to jog the imagination.”

  DONNA GEORGE STOREY is the author of Amorous Woman, a semi-autobiographical tale of an American woman’s love affair with Japan. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Penthouse, Best American Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Dirty Girls, Curvy Girls, and Nice Girls, Naughty Sex. She writes a column for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, “Cooking up a Storey,” about her favorite topics—sex, food, and writing erotica. Read more at www.DonnaGeorgeStorey.com. “‘By Invitation Only’ is based on a recent lunchtime interlude with my husband of twenty-five years. Our motto is ‘you never stop learning,’ especially when it comes to pleasure.”

  HARRIS TWEED is a pseudonym for a published novelist (four books and counting) who has won a national award and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Harris graduated from Stanford in the early ’60s and lived in Italy, New York City, Oakland, and Mexico before settling in Northern California. He is happily married, a parent, and a professional with long careers in mental health and education. “I’ve always found trains erotic—probably the motion combined with a sense of freedom and adventure. Th
e idea of sex in public with that combination of thrill and vulnerability also excites me. I resist becoming more conservative as I get older—regret is often composed of things never attempted, ideas never explored.”

  NANCY WEBER kicked up dust in 1974 with The Life Swap (Dial Press), about her attempt to become another woman—loving her lovers, doing her work, sneezing from her rose fever—while that woman was (supposedly) becoming Nancy. Her twenty other books include two slipstream novels, YA titles, eight romances, and “$500” fiction about sex workers. On LibidoForLife.com, Nancy writes the advice column and provocative essays. She covers food for NYCityWoman.com. “My first freelance sale, to the humor magazine Monocle, was a perverse little essay, ‘Why Republicans Are Better in Bed.’ The narrator of ‘Something Borrowed, Something Blue’ is the same girl, fifty years riper, still turned on by starched shirts and, oh God, power ties. (Anxious Democrats, please be assured that I vote with my head, not my libido.)”

  CELA WINTER has had various careers, including being a restaurant chef (really). She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is at work on a novel. Fifty-something, she calls all people under thirty “whippersnappers” and likes to whack them with her cane. “Who hasn’t had a ‘what if’ daydream about an early love? The return to a relationship after half a lifetime is bound to have some challenges as well as sweet rewards.”

  AUDRIENNE ROBERTS WOMACK is a native of Washington, DC, who holds a bachelor of science degree in education and a master’s degree in public administration. She is an educator in a public school system and also leads women’s empowerment/sexuality workshops and sells adult toys and products in her spare time. She is currently writing several projects for children and has published a book of her childhood memories (www.arwomack.com). She has also published several erotic stories in anthologies and a book of erotic poems (see www.lotusfalcon.com). “I encountered many flirtatious younger men who adored seasoned women long before the cougar phenomenon took root. I wanted to celebrate the normalcy of such encounters as a deliberate choice. Having gone through several life-altering surgeries, I wanted to also include that reality to emphasize the ongoing changes that women face, as they continuously reinvent and empower themselves again and again.”

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

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  Joan Price calls herself an “advocate for ageless sexuality” and has been writing, speaking, and blogging about senior sex since 2005. Formerly a health and fitness writer (and before that, a high school English teacher!), she switched topics to senior sex with her spicy memoir, Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty, written to celebrate the joys of older-age sexuality after meeting her great love, artist Robert Rice, when she was fifty-seven and he was sixty-four.

  After hundreds of readers wrote Joan with questions and concerns about their own senior sex life, she wrote Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex (Seal Press, 2011), to address the challenges of sex and aging. Naked at Our Age received two prestigious awards: Outstanding Service/Self-Help Book 2012 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the professional organization of nonfiction writers, and the 2012 Book Award “for a major contribution toward understanding the sexuality of seniors” from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the primary professional organization of this field.

  Joan’s candid, upbeat manner led the media to dub her “senior sexpert.” (She has also been called “our mighty, middle-aged Aphrodite,” “the beautiful face of senior sex, who turns up whenever the age group is ridiculed,” and a “wrinkly sex kitten”!)

  Although Robert died in 2008, Joan continues on her mission to change society’s view of elder sex, one mind at a time. She continues to talk out loud about senior sex with talks and workshops and offers educational consultations by phone and Skype. Her blog about sex and aging, www.NakedAtOurAge.com, has been ranked in the top twenty-five sexuality blogs for three years in a row, and has received numerous awards from health, aging, and sexuality sites.

  Joan also teaches contemporary line dancing—which she calls “the most fun you can have with both feet on the floor”—in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, California. Visit her at www.joanprice.com, or write to her at joan@joanprice.com.

  SELECTED TITLES FROM SEAL PRESS

  For more than thirty years, Seal Press has published groundbreaking books. By women. For women.

  Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex, by Joan Price. $16.95, 978-1-58005-338-9. Full of information from doctors, social workers, psychologists, and sex experts, this is an indispensable guide to handling and understanding the issues seniors face when it comes to relationships and sex.

  Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex after Sixty, by Joan Price. $17.00, 978-1-58005-152-1. A warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality.

  Getting Off: A Woman’s Guide to Masturbation, by Jamye Waxman, illustrations by Molly Crabapple. $15.95, 978-1-58005-219-1. Empowering and female-positive, this is a comprehensive guide for women on the history and mechanics of the oldest and most common sexual practice.

  Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity, by Candace Walsh. $16.00, 978-1-58005-391-4. The story of how—accompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guides—one woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life’s next meal.

  The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, by Delaine Moore. $17.00, 978-1-58005-386-0. The risqué story of a stay-at-home mom’s boundary-pushing experimentations with sex—and resulting self-awakening—after a painful divorce.

  Mind-Blowing Sex: A Woman’s Guide, by Diana Cage. $17.00, 978-1-58005-389-1. An instructive, accessible sexual guide that will help women and their partners make their sex life more empowering, exciting, and enjoyable.

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