Unruly Appetites: Erotica

by Hanne Blank

A tantalizing selection of twenty steamy and seductive tales by seasoned erotica writer Hanne Blank

This deftly written collection of twenty erotic tales is sure to titillate, intrigue and inspire. Editor of several successful erotica anthologies, Hanne Blank knows good sex, and this, her first book-length solo offering, demonstrates her considerable talents as a creator of erotic fiction. Blank's tantalizing descriptions, smart writing, and fantastic imagination are sure to hit their mark.

Unruly Appetites draws readers in immediately with the most scintillating, intimate details of its characters' unrestrained encounters. One story describes a chance meeting on the road where "maybe turns to yes without ceremony, without fuss." Readers may find themselves both shocked and enthralled by the human-feline encounter described in "The Princess and the Tiger," or lost in possibilities from the graphic memories of a foursome aroused by steamy Polaroids. Or intrigued by the adventures of pearls-from-Tiffany Katie with the nipple-less bra under her Chanel suit, or a young virgin's deflowering in "I wonder, does that make me a tramp, not knowing the last name of the man who took my virginity?". The myriad fantasies, perspectives, dreams, realities, groupings, shapes and ages presented here offer almost limitless variety.

Genres: Erotica, Fiction, Short Stories, Queer

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2002

About the author

Hanne Blank is a writer and historian.
Periodicals which have featured her work include Penthouse, In These Times, Southwest Art, Lilith, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, the Baltimore CityPaper, the Boston Phoenix, Santa Fean Magazine, and others. Her short fiction and essays are frequently anthologized.

Ms. Blank's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, NYLON, Entertainment Weekly , and many other periodicals, and she has been widely interviewed on radio and television in Australia, the US, UK, and Canada, including being featured on National Public Radio, BBC 4, and on the acclaimed Canadian program SexTV. As a public speaker and educator, Ms. Blank has appeared on the campuses of many universities and colleges, as well as at national and regional conferences of various types and centers for adult learning. She has been the Scholar of the Institute at the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson University, Maryland, and has taught at the university level at institutions including Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Whitworth College. Formally trained as a classical musician,as well as an historian, she has been a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, and was the 1991 recipient of the George Whitfield Chadwick medal.

Although Ms. Blank is a dyed-in-the-wool Midwesterner, she currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where she shares a 170-year-old stone house on a dirt road in the middle of the city with her spouse, two cats, and the world’s cutest Japanese Akita.

Reviews

[Ilona · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best-written erotica I've read in a long time, possibly ever, which is why I gave it four stars. Had I been rating it strictly on my response to the stories, I'd have given it a three, as most were a bit dark for my tastes. But excellent writing, by an author who has an exquisite grasp of the fine line between 'erotica' and 'porn', and sticks with erotica. (Not, please note, that I have anything against porn. But this collection? Erotica.)

[Rahadyan]

Quite powerfully arousing. Highly recommended.

[Mr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for sexy time. Still trying to top 22's Diary, that one is still my favorite.

[Helen Vilaranda · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF! Could not get into it at all!

[Flora · Rating 2 out of 5]

The introduction felt like electricity in my body, but the stories didn't do it for me.