Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885865317 ISBN 13: 9781885865311

Publisher: Circlet Press, 2002

Synopsis

Sir Thomas More coined the term Utopia and spawned the literary genre of utopian fiction, where each writer envisions his or her perfect society. Early utopian writers dreamed up alternate systems of government, economics, religion, family structure, and so on. But few followed their visions into the bedroom until the 1970s when writers like Samuel R. Delany in Triton or Joanna Russ in The Female Man seriously considered the impact of society on the sexual lives of the citizens, and vice versa.

Now Circlet Press brings its uniquely erotic treatment of speculative fiction to the utopian exercise. These authors arouse, stimulate, and provoke in more ways than one, with stories that interweave sexual themes, desire, and love with imaginings of perfect (and not-so-perfect) worlds. Remember, one person's perfect world is another person's hell.

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What would Sex be Like in a Perfect World? In this bold venture into the realm of futuristic erotica, eleven gifted sex-writers offer sizzling, sharp stories about the intersection of the sexual and the societal. Delving into the way in which the construction ofa utopia would reconstruct sexual practice, these authors have stretched the limits of their imaginations to create an enticing and thought-provoking range of erotic possibilities. In Eric Del Carlo's imagined future carnality has been bred out, but the occasional riot born of suppressed needs is quelled by sex soldiers; Suzy McKee Charnas's heroine sculpts a wooden man from a tree, who not only saves her life but bestows another favour or two. From using sexual energy to fuel a spaceship in Jennifer Stevenson's story, to the tender treatment of the sexuality of a woman suffering from scleroderma (thickening and hardening of the skin) in A. R. Morlan's "Stone, Still," the stories in Sextopia will demand nothing less than complete engagement on the part of the reader. Also featuring the work of cutting edge erotica writers M. Christian, Renee M.

Charles and Catherine Asaro, as well as Raven Kaldera, Reina Delacroiz, Saskia Walker, and Zoe Bloom, these sexy, insightful tales are as strikingly original as they are sweetly erotic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Circlet Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885865317
• ISBN 13: 9781885865311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 181
• Editor: Tan Cecilia