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Best Bisexual Women's Erotica
Cleis Press’s Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Gay Erotica series are bestsellers every year, raising and exceeding readers’ expectations with each new edition. “Bisexuality, like sex itself, is neither cut and dried nor black and white,” writes editor Cara Bruce. Best Bisexual Women’s Erotica explores the steamy sex lives and loves of bisexual women in various settings and combinations. Contributors include Carol Queen, Marcy Sheiner, Kathleen Bryson, and Anne Marino, and features 25 previously unpublished erotic short stories.
187 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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Cara Bruce
11 books6 followersJennifer D. Munro's essays and stories have been widely published in literary journals and women's anthologies. Whether fiction or nonfiction, J.D. offers a candid yet often humorous exploration of sex and the sexes, with a quirky yet earthy take on women's issues such as body image, infertility, gender roles, and marriage. J.D.'s published fiction is collected in The Erotica Writer's Husband & Other Stories. She is from Hawaii but now lives in Seattle."
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July 9, 2024
4.5 stars
"Most people seem to think bisexual women have a magical ability to have their cake and eat it, too. This perception makes them sometimes the most hated and other times the most lusted after sexual group under the rainbow." This sentence starts the introduction to this wonderful collection of erotic short stories that feature bisexual female characters in a variety of settings and situations. The stories are all alluringly erotic and there is truly something here for everyone.
"Triptych" by Helena Settimana ~ An exploration of a woman's life and three stops on the path to her true sexuality.
"Double Down" by Esther Haas ~ Karen and Greg have just been married in Las Vegas and nothing is as it seems when Karen supposedly is shopping and Greg is playing poker.
"The Smell of It" by Thea Hillman ~ A woman helps her girlfriend, firefighter Casey, get off with dirty talk of a wet and sweaty fantasy of the guys watching Casey work out.
"Scenes from Thailand" by Rachel Resnick ~ A woman visits Bangkok and Phuket with her male partner and spends a short time with a Laos whore.
"Happy Loving Couple Makes It Look So Easy" by Susan Coss ~ A bisexual woman and her gay best friend enjoy the benefits of being "married" while on vacation in Cabo.
"Night on Twelfth Street" by Marilyn Jaye Lewis ~ A woman who turns tricks with uptown men is trapped between the violent man in her bed and the woman that comes to see her when she's clean.
"Surrender Dorothy" by Lisa Archer ~ A woman arranges to have her "straight" friend's fantasy come true, to help her come out once and for all.
"Party of One" by Elisa Tanner ~ A lesbian's partner sets up the ultimate fantasy for her involving anonymous sex.
"What She's Worth" by Michelle Scalise ~ Karen unknowingly plays a role in a woman's dangerous sexual game.
"Hands" by Ariel Hart ~ A manicurist uses her hands to satisfy female and male clients with a special service.
"Hilary's Swank on Billy the Kid" by Lana Gail Taylor ~ Cass is a singer and Keifer plays guitar and the two members of separate bands finally get together and share their sexual pasts.
"Go" by Jen Collins ~ Murphy's girlfriend sees the look in her eyes and lets Murphy go to a gay bar to snag a boy for hot anonymous sex.
"Extracurriculars" by Joy VanNuys ~ A culinary student sits and talks with her fellow students about men versus women while flashing to her past encounters with both.
"Full Service" by Erica Dumas ~ A girl turning tricks catches sight of a man who makes her contemplate breaking the rules that Janice demands.
"Thwack!" by Lynn A. Powers ~ A polyamorous phone sex operator has two relationships at one time and addresses some perceived infidelity by using one partner against the other.
"Hair Club for Bisexuals" by Carol Queen ~ A bisexual swinger's sexual escapades in reference to hair.
"The Devil Is a Squirrel" by Astrid Fox ~ A woman who hasn't had sex in six years, six months and six days meets the devil in an alley.
"Leaving the Past" by Nine Declare ~ Meeting a woman named Lisa helps Terra to leave the past behind and focus on the future.
"On the Care and Feeding of White Boys" by R. Gay ~ A lesbian couple decides to find a white boy to use as a sex toy.
"The Year of Fucking Badly" by Susannah Indigo ~ A research librarian attempts to investigate whether "bad sex" is a reality or just an urban legend.
This is an excellent anthology of erotic stories, focusing on a spectrum on the gay rainbow that is so often overlooked. Here we have women with both women and men, some in relationships and some not, some at the same time and others not. This easily could have fallen into the typical stereotypes or misconceptions of bisexual women, but each story is fresh and unique. It is fascinating that with one central idea, these twenty authors have come up with sinfully sexy stories that cover a wide range of emotions. Several are quite funny ("The Devil Is a Squirrel," "On the Care and Feeding of White Boys" and "The Year of Fucking Badly") while a few are decided dark and disturbing ("Scenes from Thailand" and "Night on Twelfth Street"), but all have a wickedly erotic vein. This anthology offers some of the most erotic stories I have ever read, no matter the sexuality of the characters, including "Party of One," "Go," "Full Service," "Leaving the Past" and "The Year of Fucking Badly."
This is one of the best anthologies I've read and I highly recommend it for anyone who is open to all types of sexuality. The stories all include bisexual characters but the brilliance is that being bisexual isn't the focus of the stories. These tales aren't an analysis of what it is to be bisexual, they are simply well written short stories with solid characters that are sexually open and embracing of others. It begins with a fantastic introduction by editor Cara Bruce, who has done a phenomenal job selecting these stories, and just keeps getting better and better. Bruce says it best in her anthology when describing the collection, "In this book, as in the ideal world, anything goes."
"Most people seem to think bisexual women have a magical ability to have their cake and eat it, too. This perception makes them sometimes the most hated and other times the most lusted after sexual group under the rainbow." This sentence starts the introduction to this wonderful collection of erotic short stories that feature bisexual female characters in a variety of settings and situations. The stories are all alluringly erotic and there is truly something here for everyone.
"Triptych" by Helena Settimana ~ An exploration of a woman's life and three stops on the path to her true sexuality.
"Double Down" by Esther Haas ~ Karen and Greg have just been married in Las Vegas and nothing is as it seems when Karen supposedly is shopping and Greg is playing poker.
"The Smell of It" by Thea Hillman ~ A woman helps her girlfriend, firefighter Casey, get off with dirty talk of a wet and sweaty fantasy of the guys watching Casey work out.
"Scenes from Thailand" by Rachel Resnick ~ A woman visits Bangkok and Phuket with her male partner and spends a short time with a Laos whore.
"Happy Loving Couple Makes It Look So Easy" by Susan Coss ~ A bisexual woman and her gay best friend enjoy the benefits of being "married" while on vacation in Cabo.
"Night on Twelfth Street" by Marilyn Jaye Lewis ~ A woman who turns tricks with uptown men is trapped between the violent man in her bed and the woman that comes to see her when she's clean.
"Surrender Dorothy" by Lisa Archer ~ A woman arranges to have her "straight" friend's fantasy come true, to help her come out once and for all.
"Party of One" by Elisa Tanner ~ A lesbian's partner sets up the ultimate fantasy for her involving anonymous sex.
"What She's Worth" by Michelle Scalise ~ Karen unknowingly plays a role in a woman's dangerous sexual game.
"Hands" by Ariel Hart ~ A manicurist uses her hands to satisfy female and male clients with a special service.
"Hilary's Swank on Billy the Kid" by Lana Gail Taylor ~ Cass is a singer and Keifer plays guitar and the two members of separate bands finally get together and share their sexual pasts.
"Go" by Jen Collins ~ Murphy's girlfriend sees the look in her eyes and lets Murphy go to a gay bar to snag a boy for hot anonymous sex.
"Extracurriculars" by Joy VanNuys ~ A culinary student sits and talks with her fellow students about men versus women while flashing to her past encounters with both.
"Full Service" by Erica Dumas ~ A girl turning tricks catches sight of a man who makes her contemplate breaking the rules that Janice demands.
"Thwack!" by Lynn A. Powers ~ A polyamorous phone sex operator has two relationships at one time and addresses some perceived infidelity by using one partner against the other.
"Hair Club for Bisexuals" by Carol Queen ~ A bisexual swinger's sexual escapades in reference to hair.
"The Devil Is a Squirrel" by Astrid Fox ~ A woman who hasn't had sex in six years, six months and six days meets the devil in an alley.
"Leaving the Past" by Nine Declare ~ Meeting a woman named Lisa helps Terra to leave the past behind and focus on the future.
"On the Care and Feeding of White Boys" by R. Gay ~ A lesbian couple decides to find a white boy to use as a sex toy.
"The Year of Fucking Badly" by Susannah Indigo ~ A research librarian attempts to investigate whether "bad sex" is a reality or just an urban legend.
This is an excellent anthology of erotic stories, focusing on a spectrum on the gay rainbow that is so often overlooked. Here we have women with both women and men, some in relationships and some not, some at the same time and others not. This easily could have fallen into the typical stereotypes or misconceptions of bisexual women, but each story is fresh and unique. It is fascinating that with one central idea, these twenty authors have come up with sinfully sexy stories that cover a wide range of emotions. Several are quite funny ("The Devil Is a Squirrel," "On the Care and Feeding of White Boys" and "The Year of Fucking Badly") while a few are decided dark and disturbing ("Scenes from Thailand" and "Night on Twelfth Street"), but all have a wickedly erotic vein. This anthology offers some of the most erotic stories I have ever read, no matter the sexuality of the characters, including "Party of One," "Go," "Full Service," "Leaving the Past" and "The Year of Fucking Badly."
This is one of the best anthologies I've read and I highly recommend it for anyone who is open to all types of sexuality. The stories all include bisexual characters but the brilliance is that being bisexual isn't the focus of the stories. These tales aren't an analysis of what it is to be bisexual, they are simply well written short stories with solid characters that are sexually open and embracing of others. It begins with a fantastic introduction by editor Cara Bruce, who has done a phenomenal job selecting these stories, and just keeps getting better and better. Bruce says it best in her anthology when describing the collection, "In this book, as in the ideal world, anything goes."
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June 1, 2022
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April 30, 2009
Stories that will turn you on and see how many people rarely understand another by discourse alone. You'll crack up at the story about two black women (a couple) who decide to find the perfect white boy for understanding "The Proper Care and Feeding of White Boys." What a riot. And the stories are very well-written as well as hot.
March 19, 2017
Delightful selection of erotic tales. As a submissive bi female I especially enjoyed this exciting collection. Nearly all the stories kept my temperature burning hot and my panties very, very wet:) XOXOXOs to the editor, Cara Bruce, for a great job!
April 3, 2021
Im only doing one star because I can't do zero. This book was actively un-sexy. Like I cancelled me time after reading this. There was just so much sexual predation. One story was this girls 18th birthday she has a gangbang with a bunch of full grown men....sounds like trauma to me.
May 30, 2011
Some of the smartest erotica I have read. I kept having to look up words, which is hot as fuck.
January 10, 2014
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Putting together a collection of bisexual women’s erotica must be difficult. On the one hand, you want to avoid hypersexualizing tropes that create bisexual women as existing only for the cishet male gaze, but… damn, can’t a bi women enjoy a little porn now and then? In the introduction to Best Bisexual Women’s Erotica, editor Cara Bruce describes wading through predictable submissions – threeways, experimenting straight women, and lesbians who have a fling with a man. The goal was to collect stories by bi women, for bi women, and even when stories followed the stereotypes, they had to break out of the predictable mold.
On the whole, the collection succeeds, but it gets off to a rocky start. In the very first story, a woman is described as jerking like a “meat marionette,” which is one of the least erotic phrases I can think of. Secondly, one of the other early stories is about an American woman traveling with her male partner in East Asia. She hires a prostitute, and is simultaneously turned on and grossed out by her smell, using words like “fetid” and “assaultive smell.” Between the racism and the fact that finding your bed mate repulsive is NOT hot, I was not impressed. Finally, I would not call this collection trans* friendly. Almost all of the stories feature cisgender characters, and none of the stories that did feature trans* or genderqueer characters featured transwomen.
The stories get better the further into the book you read, so you might be better off starting at the end and working backwards. “The Devil is a Squirrel” by Astrid Fox is a delightful, though not very erotic story about the devil tempting a woman in various guises. Better yet is “Thwack!” by Lynn A. Powers, about a phone sex operator who goes home and has hot anger sex with her partners. I would have continued reading just to find out what the deal is with her phone client Chicken George.
Some of the stories are playful. “Double Down” by Esther Haas has a delightful little twist at the end, and “Happy Loving Couples Make It Look So Easy” by Susan Coss is about new friends who meet on vacation and pretend to be married while they fuck their way around a resort. Some stories, like “Party of One” by Elsie Tanner and “Hair Club for Bisexuals” by Carol Queen have a little kink in them. This collection has some major flops, but the rest of the stories have something to offer many readers.
Putting together a collection of bisexual women’s erotica must be difficult. On the one hand, you want to avoid hypersexualizing tropes that create bisexual women as existing only for the cishet male gaze, but… damn, can’t a bi women enjoy a little porn now and then? In the introduction to Best Bisexual Women’s Erotica, editor Cara Bruce describes wading through predictable submissions – threeways, experimenting straight women, and lesbians who have a fling with a man. The goal was to collect stories by bi women, for bi women, and even when stories followed the stereotypes, they had to break out of the predictable mold.
On the whole, the collection succeeds, but it gets off to a rocky start. In the very first story, a woman is described as jerking like a “meat marionette,” which is one of the least erotic phrases I can think of. Secondly, one of the other early stories is about an American woman traveling with her male partner in East Asia. She hires a prostitute, and is simultaneously turned on and grossed out by her smell, using words like “fetid” and “assaultive smell.” Between the racism and the fact that finding your bed mate repulsive is NOT hot, I was not impressed. Finally, I would not call this collection trans* friendly. Almost all of the stories feature cisgender characters, and none of the stories that did feature trans* or genderqueer characters featured transwomen.
The stories get better the further into the book you read, so you might be better off starting at the end and working backwards. “The Devil is a Squirrel” by Astrid Fox is a delightful, though not very erotic story about the devil tempting a woman in various guises. Better yet is “Thwack!” by Lynn A. Powers, about a phone sex operator who goes home and has hot anger sex with her partners. I would have continued reading just to find out what the deal is with her phone client Chicken George.
Some of the stories are playful. “Double Down” by Esther Haas has a delightful little twist at the end, and “Happy Loving Couples Make It Look So Easy” by Susan Coss is about new friends who meet on vacation and pretend to be married while they fuck their way around a resort. Some stories, like “Party of One” by Elsie Tanner and “Hair Club for Bisexuals” by Carol Queen have a little kink in them. This collection has some major flops, but the rest of the stories have something to offer many readers.
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