Erotic Review

Erotic Review

Issue 3

Guest Art Editors
Fernanda Brenner & Yann Chateigné Tytelman
Artists
Paloma Bosquê, Karim Aïnouz, Val Souza, Benny Nemer & Kasia Fudakowski
Writers
Leïla Slimani (trans. Sam Taylor), Brit Dawson, Evan Tepest, Andrew Miller, Sophie Lewis, Mackenzie Davis, Hilal Chouman (trans. Katharine Halls), Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, Michael Bullock, lisa minerva luxx, Laura Ramadei, Sophie Mayer, Irati Elorrieta (trans. Samantha Schnee)
Poets
K Patrick, Timimie Gassko Märak, Larry Fondation
Cover
Studio Frith

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167 pages, 240mm x 170mm

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Essay

Next Chapter Please: Shame, Desire & Fanfiction

by Emily Waddell

“I’m not going to die yet, and a strange guy with horns is determined to give me oral pleasure. It’s just that... out of all the worst-case scenarios I’ve come up with since being abducted by aliens, being licked until I come isn’t anywhere on the list.”

My unshaven legs dangle out of the fourth-floor window of my apartment in Berlin as I flick through the latest adventure in the Ice Planet Barbarians universe. The erotic sci-fi series with seven-foot blue males with horns, tails and cocks the size of baseball bats has become my life. Thirty books into the series, I have given up all pretence of reading the serious prose stacked on my nightstand. The set-up of each book is similar and comforting. There may be quirks and twists in the world-building but, at heart, a girl is abducted, meets a monstrous-but-handsome alien, hijinks ensue, and fucking abounds.

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When I Miss America, I look at r/Gooncaves

by Rebecca Rukeyser

When I miss America, when I miss the heady American cycle of extremity and shame— glutting and then repenting with such extremity the penitence is itself a kind of glutting, abstaining until the abstinence is as voluptuous as excess—I look at r/gooncaves.

A few definitions. Gooning refers to entering a state of trance-like, porn-fueled masturbation. It’s edging plus: the idea is to hold off orgasm essentially indefinitely and fall into a sort of a drooling state of ecstasy. Consuming a profound amount of porn is integral to this.

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