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Title: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank ISBN: 1573441228 Publisher: Cleis Pr Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17
Rating: 5
Summary: four brillant pieces; good quality otherwise
Comment: If you get this book be careful: if you think that erotica is only hot sex, then you may be disappointed. Here, and in much of the erotica I like personally, erotica also means literature where sex and sexuality play an important role in characters' lives. This is a collection of stories about larger people who battle the social idea of "thin is sexy" and the people who empower or challenge them. There is plenty of hot scenes here for het and lesbians (I'd say it was about 50/50), nothing really for gay men however. Most of the characters are larger women with the men usually not described. The quality of the pieces varies but four were my favorite for their uniqueness and power to draw me into the tale. These were pieces by Catherine Lundoff,Eleanor Brown, Veronica Kelly, and Diana Lee (two lesbiand and two het piece by the way).
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspiring and Fulfilling, but Unarousing
Comment: I commend the book for pioneering a new section of the genre of erotica. I definitely found several real gems in the book that made it worth 10 times it's buying price, like "Breathing Lessons," and "Flesh Love," real works of absolute art. I've read them over and over and over, particularly "Breathing Lessons", which makes me cry every time. But I didn't find these two particularly erotic.
On the negative side, I didn't really feel like it focused on the desires of the average reader. This wouldn't have bothered me so much, except that since this is the only book that I know of that focuses on the zaftig figure, so I would have hoped for something that was perhaps a little less broad in it's ambitions. At times it even sort of felt like a compilation of obscure fetishes, like in the story "How Loretta Got a Schlong" - weird, not exotic, not quirky, not on the edge, just weird. There were several of those, like sex with a very old man, or masturbating with an idol which then becomes a fat gay man who then has sex with his male lover and then turns into a woman. It also felt as if most of them focused on butch lesbians - which had their place to be certain, but it really felt like they were the spot light. All of these would have been fine in a book several times it's length.
Overall, this is absolutely worth purchasing, but I wouldn't really plan on being aroused, it's just a really good read. You'll find maybe one or two that make you breathe heavily or move your soul, and they really are absolutely worth it. I'll be the first to buy a sequel if it comes out! Really, honest to goodness worth the money.
Rating: 5
Summary: YUMMMMM
Comment: This collection of stories celebrates the rich lustiness of larger women, and in a couple of cases, larger men. It's one of the few erotica collections that makes it loud and clear that large women are sexy too. As I read some of these stories, I imagined myself as being the lucky person to be with some of the gorgeous creatures described in these stories.
As far as there not being enough so-called "straight" stories, well I'm sorry but a collection of "all het" stories would be boring. Thank goodness Hanne chose all spectrums of sexuality, not just a narrow band. And heck, seems to me there were enough "het stories" here to satisfy most people. And I certainly don't mind the "girl-girl" stories by any means, but that probably has something to do with my being one of those dreaded "straight males."
Hooray to Hanne Blank for an anthology that proves large women are desireable and damn sexy.
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Title: Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them by Hanne Blank ISBN: 1890159166 Publisher: Greenery Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire by Bonnie Bernell, Carmen Renee Berry ISBN: 1885171471 Publisher: Wildcat Canyon Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Zaftig: The Case for Curves by Edward St. Paige, Edward St Paige ISBN: 1883211174 Publisher: Darling & Co Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: SEXY AT ANY SIZE : The Real Woman's Guide To Dating and Romance by Katie Arons ISBN: 0684854155 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann ISBN: 0898159954 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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