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BROWSING the bestseller shelves in a bookshop the other day, my eye was caught by a tasteful chick-lit cover. I leant in for a closer look and realised this was no romance, but a hardcore account of one woman's bed-hopping.
It's almost impossible to walk into a bookshop now without falling over a vast stack of erotica for women by women -- much of it in the mainstream section. The covers are designed for public transport and belie the contents. They're invariably a pale sugar pink with a cute line drawing of a slim girl's body in tasteful, girlie lingerie -- very Carrie Bradshaw.See the full content of this document
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Un-Erotica? [Eire Region]
A typical selection of titles includes: Loose Girl: A Memoir Of Promiscuity; Confessions Of A Working Girl; The Secret Life Of V; Insatiable: The Erotic Adventures Of A French Girl In Spain; and Girl With A One Track Mind.
This week sees the publication of the sexually explicit novel Wetlands by 30-year-old Charlotte Roche. Wetlands caused outrage when first published inGermany last year. It is a profoundly unsettling orbit around the bodily functions and desires of 18-year-old Helen Memel, who revels in her own lack of hygiene and narrates the book fro...See the full content of this document
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