Richard Lord ed
Introduction
A Dummy’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity
And Then She Came
Awakening
Naked Screw
Body Drafts
Eduardo’s Honeymoon
Night at Passion Touch
Banging Bill’s Wife
Expeditions in the Twilight Zone
Two Men and a Plan
Less Than a Day
Aqua-Subculture
Mad For It
Self-Portrait With Three Monkeys
A Perfect Exit
Richard Lord ed
Best of Asian Erotica, Volume 1
Introduction
Eroticism is on the march; or maybe it’s more apt to say, it’s on the slink.
Whatever the proper term, perhaps nowhere is that advance more evident than in Asia, which has by far the largest population of any continent. Asia practices eroticism in fascinating ways and, recently, Asian writers and writers based in Asia have been chronicling some of this eroticism.
In the second half of 2006, Monsoon Books (Singapore) published
Strongly encouraged by the success of this venture, Monsoon decided a few years later to come out with a second collection of erotic short fiction.
This time, however, the company decided to cast its nets wider and brought out
The stories included in these first two e-collections represent a mix-and-match of the best works from the two earlier print volumes.
We have dropped the flash fictions and poems from ourAs the first collection was composed entirely of Singapore stories, there is still a heavy presence of Singapore fiction in both of these first volumes.
Subsequent volumes feature first-rate erotic fiction (and some non-fiction) from throughout Asia.
But what we offer here is exemplary of the principles we employed throughout in selecting stories for the first two print collections: good stories, well-written, though with a definite erotic flavour. This is not pornography; it is a sub-genre of full-bodied literature which looks at and celebrates the sensual and the sexual in the human experience. These stories were not chosen simply because they titillate (though many of them do that as well), but because they delight, inform and sometimes even enlighten and ennoble.
We enjoyed putting both collections together (as you might well imagine). We think you will enjoy reading these stories and seeing why Asia is fast becoming the world centre of eroticism in all its richness and variety.