Article: More heat between the covers; Aroused by demand, big publishers rush to add women's erotica imprints.(News)(Column)

Byline: Matthew Flamm

She's in bed with a man who might not be the love of her life. And the sex she engages in could include bondage, submission and multiple partners.

She is the heroine of the newest kind of women's erotica. With evocative titles like Bound, Big Guns out of Uniform and Gotta Have It, the action in these books might start on the first page. And the flowery euphemisms of traditional romance novels are traded for good old Anglo-Saxon four-letter words.

"I was looking for something in between mass romance and outright porn,'' says Melanie Brooks, a project administrator at a systems integration firm in Virginia. "They're a yummy ...

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