Erotica books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Delta of Venus
Anaïs NinWritten for a private collector in the 1940s and published posthumously, this collection established a distinct literary model for female-authored erotic vignettes.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
John ClelandOften considered the first English erotic novel, chronicling a prostitute's life through euphemistic prose and the target of prominent censorship cases.
Venus in Furs
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-MasochA novella exploring male submission to a dominant woman, from which the term masochism was derived.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. LawrenceAn explicit depiction of an affair across social classes that triggered a landmark 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom.
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