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- Erotic Notion #1: In Erotic Notion #1, a man and woman talk. They make a deal. The adventure begins.The Deal
- Telephone Interlude: Lisa has second thoughts about the deal. The narrator reassures her. Or does he? Especially When
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- Erotic Notion #7: A college student's real-life encounter with a porn star causes his erotic imagination to go wild. The Porn Star and the Choir Boy
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa asks, "Why write erotica when people are dying in the Middle East?" The narrator tries to answer, but stumbles. If It's Not Important...Why?
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- Erotic Notion #9:Erotic Notion #9: Germs tells the story of a girl studying abroad in Heidelberg and two college students discovering passion at the wrong time. This longish tale mixes sensuality with nostalgia and raises question about how we cling to certain evocative memories. Germs
- Erotic Interlude: Making love to a college student is a sexy thrill...or a source of endless aggravation? In this Erotic Interlude, Lisa and the narrator share contradictory views on the erotic life of a college student. "College," Lisa says, "is a time to love and hurt and play." One Lesson
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- Erotic Notion #12: Erotic Notion #12: Miniature Golf is a quick comic tale of two horny high school teens talking endlessly about sex. "Besides philosophy, John and Jeffrey talked about sex. And girls. Sex, girls, the same thing." Miniature Golf
- Erotic Interlude: The narrator and Lisa discuss the male and female versions of sex-obsessed protagonists. Is Carrie Bradshaw the female Portnoy?" Alexander Portnoy vs. Carrie Bradshaw
- Erotic Notion #13: A beautiful woman is brought to a Barcelona hotel and handed a key. When she uses the key to open a door to a hotel room, she finds a gift....or three! What she finds there -- what she feels --and what she discovers-- is the subject for Erotic Notion #13. Gift for a Spanish Beauty
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa complains about a lack of spontaneity in the project's erotic stories. "Why does everything need to be so elaborately scripted?" she says. The Joys of Spontaneity
- Erotic Notion #14: Passion is not hot; it is cold. In Erotic Notion #14: The Ice Cube, a young man has titillating dreams of bikinis, beautiful sweaty limbs and ice cubes.The Ice Cube
- Erotic Interlude Lisa and the narrator debate whether sexual submission is really a turnon. "Isn't it sexier to have two people actively participating?" Lisa asks. : Safewords
- Erotic Notion #15: A man at a party with three female friends takes a folk remedy for sexual happiness. The result is not what he expects... The Statue (An Erotic Fairy Tale)
- Erotic Interlude Lisa and the narrator debate the benefits of artificial aphrodisiacs. "If the human libido drives us towards the young and the beautiful," Lisa says, "what do 70 year old nymphomaniacs do?" : The Eternal Erection
- Erotic Notion #16: In Erotic Notion #16 a visit to a newlywed couple's apartment provides hints of sensual escapes. Was the Door Locked?
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- Erotic Notion #18: In Erotic Notion #18: Psyche's Revenge, a man has an opportunity for sex with a mysterious woman in a hotel room. There is a catch: he can never see what she looks like! "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be blind?" he wonders, never expecting the surprise which awaits him. Psyche's Revenge
- Erotic Interlude Lisa and the narrator debate whether erotic fiction demystifies sex or brings mystery to it. "The mysteries of sex are pretty much shattered after the first week of living together," Lisa says. : Mysteries into Marriage
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- Erotic Notion #20: An airline stewardess disrobes and dreams. An ex-stripper meditates on desire and beauty. Yes, I'm Beautiful Too
- Erotic Notion #21: A woman shows her husband an erotica story she wrote; how will he react? The Good Pussy, The Bad Short Story
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- Erotic Notion #23: "The woman I love is not the woman in my arms." Why does a man desire a woman he does not love? Such a simple question, such a metaphysical dilemma. Erotic Notion #23 meditates about distant love and the closeness of human touch. A MarriageCounselour Reminisces About the Future
- Erotic Interlude: A young entomologist in Brazil writes a letter to her boyfriend back home about the vagaries of the human heart. Erotic Interlude: Behavioral Adaptation in the Chapada
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- Erotic Notion #25: Not an erotic story in the conventional sense, this story Erotic Notion #25 asks, "What was life like before you learned about sex? How did it feel?" This story tells of first love and a boy's gradual awareness of sexuality and desire. "Jaded adults may scoff, but affections in elementary school are no less intense than later passions."Elementary School Amore
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- Erotic Notion #27: Think today's cybersex is a recipe for neurotica? Think again. Erotic Notion #27 Supersex 3000 is a comic look at sex in the future and how "in this age of virtual fucking, it is still possible to fall in love."Supersex 3000
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa and the narrator debate whether men can write erotic stories with convincing female characters. Androids and Contrapositives
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- Erotic Notion #30: A husband and wife pick imaginary lovers at an outdoor festival. The husband lusts after college girls. The wife is horrified.Festival Fucking
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- Erotic Notion #32: Has visiting a convenience store ever inspired your erotic imagination? Erotic Notion #32: Kinkiest Thing You Can Imagine talks precisely about that. It's a silly kind of sexy;Kinkiest Thing You Can Imagine
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa disparages the appeal of the one night stand...while admitting to having succumbed to its allure. The Magic Created
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- Erotic Notion #38: In Erotic Notion #38: Inside the Nun's Dormitory, a young man's imagination goes wild about what goes on at a nun's dormitory. He meets a nun or two or three..., all the time thinking chaste thoughts (sort of). Sexuality, it seems, is in the eyes of the beholder. Inside the Nun's Dormitory
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- Erotic Notion #41: This short prose piece (which conjures up a movie trailer for an imaginary porn film) mixes a well known children's story with erotic profanations. Coming Attractions
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- Erotic Notion #44: A sexy woman appears in the most unexpected places...in a church pew for instance. A man imagines a seduction. The Woman Who Tapped Her Shoe
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa and the narrator have a philosophical debate about whether novels are sexier than short stories. Socially Inept Men Make Me Feel So Horny
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- Erotic Notion #52: "We have never loved and never will, but can we still share a dream?" A young man's erotic letter to a married woman invites her to partake of forbidden dreams. September 27 7:00-8:00 PM EST
- Erotic Interlude: Lisa and the narrator debate the value of passionate confessions. "They are a sign of weakness," she says. The narrator admits discomfort at putting his characters in sexual situations. Confessions and their Dangers
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- Erotic Notion #68:In Erotic Notion #68, an aging photographer becomes philosophical about the pornographic photos he develops: "For the pornographer, the electricity of lust is conducted, never created; every touch, every point of contact directs the flow onward without stopping at a single point." Eros is a Small Dark Circle
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- Erotic Notion #79: You're not sure you feel love or even lust for this woman; should you fuck her? Half-Lust
- Erotic Interlude: Do erotic stories need sympathetic characters to turn readers on? The narrator thinks it's more important to convey the raw irrational aspects of sexuality. Lisa disagrees. "You can't just throw together a jumble of images or sensations and expect to titillate the reader," she says. Doing Things, Feeling Things
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- Erotic Notion #81: In Erotic Notion #81 a random telephone call reawakens a lusty dream about a beautiful (and unapproachable) high school girl. " I see before my eyes a sarcastic bikini-clad girl of sixteen in the front yard, lying on her towel, relaxed, giggling, self-absorbed and totally unaware of her effect on teenager boys. " The Telephone Call
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- Erotic Notion #89 & #90: In Erotic Notion #89, A voyeur describes how he watched a girl across the street take showers. Should he try to meet her? "Don't read this unless there is sympathy in your heart for voyeurs," he warns. Also contains a postscript (which is Erotic Notion #90). The High Rise
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- Erotic Notion #99: 10 Episodes of Lust and Disillusionment. The First Time, the Last Time
- Erotic Interlude: Should you avoid dating someone who writes erotica stories? Aren't they too cynical about matters of the heart? Backup Dreams
- Pleasure Manifesto Why pleasure can serve as a guiding principle for artistic creation and even for living. The problem with Americans is not too much emphasis on pleasure-seeking, but too little. Part rant, part analysis, this two part essay discusses pornography, Shakespeare, reader-response theory, violent cinema and ancient Egyptian poetry.
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