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		<title>Sex &amp; Adventure: Susanna Valent (Almost) Has It All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin said, “read much but not many books.” That advice has some meaning for me as a picky reader, but as a writer, I need to keep current with the state of my genre. That means I have to read a variety of erotica, sometimes whether I want to or not.]]></description>
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		<title>Erotic Illustration: Darklaw Graphic Novel Page 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post some pencil layouts from a work in progress, but decided to move ahead and ink what I post first. This is page 10 of Darklaw: Hold Fast the String, a graphic novel I&#8217;m currently illustrating. The final project will be in color, but I hope you enjoy the inks, too.
Darklaw is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alter Christus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maggie consumed Duncan's face with voracious hands -- the fleshy cheeks, the bold nose, the mouth and eyes lined by a robust maturity. Her hands devoured every feature, as if she could draw meaning from mere form, ecstasy from mere touch. His masculine terrain provoked her with its potent solitude, as if a secret were stirring.]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Rose &#8211; Part 4 of 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright © 2006 Teresa Wymore. All rights reserved. Heart of the Rose is a fictional work of erotic romance. As Advent begins, the angel Raphael arrives to answer love&#8217;s unspoken prayers.
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Fourth Week of Advent
After receiving a phone call, Charles drove fifteen miles to the hospital in Maquoketa. Lillian had been under observation without any serious injuries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Rose &#8211; Part 3 of 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Advent begins, the angel Raphael arrives to answer love&#8217;s unspoken prayers. Copyright © 2006 Teresa Wymore. All rights reserved. Heart of the Rose is a fictional work of erotic romance.
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Third Week of Advent

“What’s that?”
Charles looked up in surprise. Raphael stood at his office door. “Nothing. A book of art.”
Raphael took a seat. “What kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Rose &#8211; Part 2 of 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raphael dunked his teabag and watched the routine. How odd it seemed to him that two such isolated people should possess this gentle affinity, especially when they refused to acknowledge it even existed.]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of the Rose &#8211; Part 1 of 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much could be understood from a woman’s attachments, and Lillian maintained the cottage as if it were a museum, displaying artifacts from her childhood, some unmoved since her parents had lived there. The house was an anchor, stranding her against a familiar shore, and Raphael decided he would have to find a way to free her.]]></description>
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		<title>Men Can Look at Women But Women Cannot Look at Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Filament, a magazine for women featuring semi-naked men, launched earlier this year, and it flew off the shelves, even though the women complained that the men kept their pants on. &#8220;A limp response to women&#8217;s erotica&#8221; (The Guardian, Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden).
When Filament tried to run an issue with fully-aroused and naked men, its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family-oriented Mission: No Place For Sex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“What intrigues me is the use of children as a standard to censor ideas and images. We drug them with sugared sodas and candies. But when it comes to sex we somehow muster all our parental muscle to make sure they are protected, to make sure they don’t see how people may celebrate and lovingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d Pay a Dollar For That &#8211; Victorian Erotica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


This happened a few years ago, but I just read about it and am wondering &#8212; in light of my last post &#8212; how well it would go over in a US public library.
Vienna&#8217;s City Hall launched a &#8220;sex hotline&#8221; to raise money for the capital&#8217;s main public library. Callers paid 53 cents a minute to listen [...]]]></description>
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