Best Lesbian Erotica 2006

by Eileen Myles (Editor), Tristan Taormino (Editor), Sinclair Sexsmith (Contributor)

Where else but Best Lesbian Erotica can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch, and a snake charmer jostling for your attention? The salacious stories of Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 will draw you in like honeyed voices from an upstairs room. In Peggy Munson’s “Into the Baptismal,” two farm girls decide to test their virginity pledges one rainy summer night. Renee Rivera’s “Jubilee” describes a classic American rite of passage — a trip to a trailer brothel in the Nevada desert — but with a truck full of butch dykes in place of the local boys. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. And S. Bear Bergman’s “Silver Dollar Afternoon” makes it clear that hot, boundary-breaking sex isn’t the exclusive province of new love.

Guest editor Eileen Myles adds her street smarts and lyrical dynamism to Tristan Taormino’s annual powerhouse of riveting girl-girl erotica.

Genres: Erotica, Anthologies, Queer, Fiction, Lesbian, LGBT

308 pages, Paperback

First published November 11, 2005

About the author

Eileen Myles is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.

Reviews

[D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over twenty stories that will keep you so very, very wet;) There is something for everyone here.

[Hawthorn Mineart · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's a huge issue of personal taste involved when it comes to the stories in this book, and to the genre of erotica in general. I'm really not wired to find the idea of sadomasochism/bondage/dominance appealing or intriguing. I'm not offended or grossed out or against it in any fashion. I fully support other people's decisions to consensually tie each other up if they want to. But it's not interesting to me, and I'd say roughly half these stories included it in some fashion or another. After awhile, I just skipped over them. I wish the genre were broken down further so that I could opt out of that particular flavor of short story.

[Shaina Marie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've learned a lot of interesting things from this book. apparently all butch lesbians like to be called he, they always "pack", they view their strap on as an extension of their real body. oh and apparently alien erotica is a thing and in alien lesbian relations you need to change your species to mate. umm.. yea.. so this was definitely interesting.. glad I was only reading it for shits and giggles and not for actual sexual purposes or I would have been sorely disappointed.

[Ruth Temple · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kinda yawnsville, too samey-samey shallow, and not my particular cuppa chai in sight.