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In Sex, Lies, and Sugar, the polished façade of the perfect neighborhood shatters, revealing an undercurrent of desire, secrets, and scandal. Set in stylish mid-century Palm Springs, this seductive novel immerses readers in the intertwined lives of a community navigating love, deception, and the thrilling world of swinging and wife-swapping.

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as ‘Walter’. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author’s prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.
Women, in both mind and body, were the all consuming object of Walter’s interest.

Deze trilogie vertelt ons het verhaal achter het ontstaan van dit mythische werk, via het zwoele leven van Constance en haar vele minnaars. In dit deel wordt het verhaal verteld van haar vurige en dronken liefdesaffaire met Khalil, een Turks-Egyptische diplomaat, een flamboyante figuur in de Parijse elite van de jaren 1860 en de opdrachtgever van het schilderij. Dit verhaal is geïnspireerd op het beroemde schilderij De oorsprong van de wereld van Gustave Courbet, waarop enkel een vrouwelijk geslachtsdeel wordt afgebeeld.

Tess is een fraaie acrobate die zowel door haar acrobatiek als haar levendige, flamboyante charme het publiek weet te betoveren. Op tournee met haar circus komt ze Noah tegen, een plaatselijke illusionist die haar al bij de eerste ontmoeting fascineert. Vervolgens stelt ze verbaasd vast hoe ze zich probeert voor te stellen wat voor vonken de vakkundige aanraking van een goochelaar en de soepelheid van een acrobate zouden kunnen voortbrengen.

Om Khalil te vergeten, wiens huwelijksaanzoek Constance synoniem staat voor dienstbaarheid, en haar zou beroven van een vrijheid die haar erg dierbaar is, vindt Constance troost in de armen van nieuwe vluchtig voorbijkomende minnaars. Als fervente lezeres van de goddelijke Markies kent zij geen taboes, geen grenzen, behalve wederzijdse toestemming.

When 18-year-old Eliza Cross agrees to visit her school friend, Lady Celia, at her home for the summer, it's immediately clear how out of place she is at Caerdon Abbey. Eliza, orphan and charity student, can't help feeling different from the aristocracy who are living their lives in luxury. But when Celia's brother, Alan, the handsome Duke of Caerdon, comes home from France, Eliza finds herself irresistibly attracted to him - especially after he disciplines her on the very first morning after they meet.

Ruby Butterfly reveals more than the glamorous career highlights of the world's most notorious actress. It delves deeply into the macabre nature of her soul. During her erotica question-and-answer session with Ms. Consuelo Lovely of Porn Beat Television, Marty's thoughts and voices vividly recapture her most recent murders.

Chelsea Fergusson, daughter of the impoverished Earl of Dumfries, is a desperate young lady with an indecent plan to get out of an unwanted marriage to an old lecher by losing her virginity to London's most infamous libertine, Sinjin St. John, Duke of Seth, “the Saint.” Sinjin, sworn bachelor, sexy rogue and bedder of beautiful women, was sure nothing could surprise him.

After losing the love of her life, Lady Rosina Preston had no intentions of looking for love. Fortunately, for Rosina, love isn’t always part of the equation when it comes to indulging her desires. But all that changes one night at a country house party, where Rosina finds herself in the middle of a scandalous arrangement with James, the Duke of St. Albans. Soon, Rosina finds herself falling for James and his charming, steadfast heart. But is she able to forget the pains of the past and begin again? Or will she lose love a second time?

Inghilterra, 1770. Marcus Ashford, conte di Westfield nonché agente della Corona, è sopravvissuto a numerosi duelli all'arma bianca, due sparatorie e persino al fuoco di un cannone. Una vita nient'affatto noiosa, anzi piuttosto eccitante... ma non quanto la sua irresistibile ex fidanzata, Elizabeth. Lei lo ha respinto per sposare il più giovane e affascinante lord Hawthorne, ritrovandosi però presto vedova e al centro di un misterioso intrigo.

Edgar Hunton Smythe, Duke of Lovell, has spent six seasons sidestepping the marital trap with a carefully curated air of gruff detachment, general roguishness... and one humiliating secret. Though society whispers refer to him as a stallion in more ways than one, Edgar has never once been able to make those whispers a reality. His solution? Enlist his dearest friend, Giselle, as a faux mistress to preserve his reputation and buy time. But when Giselle offhandedly suggests his desires might lie not with women—but with his golden-haired, ever-watchful valet—Edgar begins to wonder…

Kate Collier is still recovering from the trauma of her rape and trying to make a success of her dress shop when Jason Randall and Anthony Richards return to London from the Continent, intent on winning her. She's known them for years, ever since they served with her late husband in the Peninsula against Napoleon. She'd been in love with them for almost that long. To discover they feel the same is a shock, but Kate isn't ready to turn her life back over to any man.

Nadia non lo sa nemmeno, cos'è la dolcezza. Ha sedici anni, è bellissima, e cresce in un mondo - siamo in una povera campagna a nord di Bucarest - dove le parole servono per dare ordini o per ferire. Da quel momento per lei inizia un'inesorabile discesa agli inferi: prima viene venduta come promessa sposa, poi viene ceduta a "protettori" brutali e feroci. Giorno dopo giorno scopre la terra di nessuno delle periferie, della crudeltà, della lotta spietata degli ultimi per la conquista di un letto, di un bagno, di una tazza di latte.

Fascynujący świat kobiet, dla których seks stanowił istotę życia i bodziec do działania, świat wybujałej erotyki panującej na dworach Francji, Szkocji, królestwa Neapolu, w Wersalu czy… na Kremlu. Znajdują się tu barwne portrety Wielkie nimfomanki, Pauliny Borghese, Emmy Hamilton, Marii Stuart, Izabeli Bawarskiej, George Sand, Wieroczki Dawidowej, Galiny Breżniewej – istot ulegających chorobliwym skłonnościom seksualnym. Narrację książki ubarwiają odważne, naturalistyczne opisy scen erotycznych.

Graeme Gunn ist ein Krieger durch und durch und hat die letzten Jahre damit verbracht, sich als Söldner zu verdingen. Doch als sein Bruder stirbt, kehrt er zurück, um den Titel als Clanführer anzunehmen. Womit er nicht gerechnet hat, ist, dass die junge Witwe seines Bruders, Annella Mackay, wenig begeistert von seiner Rückkehr ist. Annella war jahrelang auf sich gestellt bei der Führung des Clans, weil ihr Ehemann sie im Stich gelassen hatte. Sie hat ihre eigenen Pläne, und dabei kann sie den ungehobelten, aber leider unverschämt attraktiven Graeme gar nicht gebrauchen.

Women, in both mind and body, were the all consuming object of Walter's interest. From early youth through to old age his quest for erotic discovery and adventure with them was never diminished. Unlike contemporary 19th century erotic texts, such as The Pearl, whose sole object was to titillate, Walter's interest in his subjects did not end with the extinguishing of the carnal flame. His hunger to understand the circumstances and minds of the women he encountered is never upstaged by the sex.

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 9 Cuntal contrasts. • Feminine friggings. • Cuntal trials. • Pleasure-giving capabilities of different pudenda. • Baudy lessons to Liz. • Double gamahuching. • Liz gamahuches me. • A mouthful. • Micturating oddities. • The cunt funnel. • Bum slappings and fustigations. • The organs ministering to sexual pleasures. • Aunts and nieces. • Young virginities sold. • Fornication philosophy of the poor. • Absence. • Four months later. • Both on the pavé. • "She would turn out." • Sarah's efforts and kindness. • They disappear suddenly. • Fruitless enquiries

While working in the Chester household as a governess, the innocent Clara becomes sexually involved with Herbert Chester, her employer. Then, when the beautiful Catherine, Herbert's sister-in-law and secret lover, comes to stay at the house, Catherine introduces Clara into the pleasures of being with a woman. On learning how the women are enjoying each other, Herbert encourages them into a threesome with him. This spurs jealousy in Catherine, however, and Clara is dismissed.

Since the invention of photography people have been obsessed with both taking and looking at erotic images. The Nude Shots series visits five snapshots from this illustrious history, including a dirty postcard studio in Edwardian Paris, making stag movies in 1930s Coney Island, a beach photographer in the Blackpool of the 1960s, a glamour film coming back to haunt a respectable vicar's wife in 90s middle England and a sexy photoshoot for an internet porn site in present day New York.

A mysterious highwaywoman emerges out of the evening mist to inflict her special brand of retribution on Lord Nano for his debauched behaviour in the brothels of eighteenth-century Leeds. A flesh and blood female avenger or a ghostly phantom? Whoever she is, by the end of the evening he will be stripped, cruelly tormented and wickedly humiliated. Has Lord Nano finally met his Nemesis?