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Article: Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 29, 1993
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Perhaps you have noticed recently as you have browsed in your upscale neighborhood bookstore the appearance of a new genre--the socially acceptable collection of erotica. Major publishers seem to have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into affirmative action for pornography. Tastefully produced and bound in matte covers with soft-focus photographs in muted colors, these works present sexually explicit stories for feminist women, profeminist men, African-Americans, gays and lesbians, bisexuals and even married people. I have not yet come across anthologies designed specifically for, say, Jews, Italians, Asians, the disabled or animal companions but I have no doubt those ...