I began writing erotica at the age of fourteen in an all-boys boarding school. As any eighth-grade teacher can tell you, the first thing to go in the pubescent male's world is his mind once things get interesting. In our case, our history teacher was our main problem. One night, in a fit of hormonal imbalances, I wrote a torrid story about finding her naked on her desk, wet and willing for the class she taught that day.

It got stolen. And passed around. By the time the original copy came back to me, I barely recognized the figures. Stories, positiosn, and virtually everything else had been changed. In fact, now, the history teacher was activley going around seducing her students and pulling her skirt up whenever one of us came into the hallway. Apparently the headmaster was fulfilling his hiring duties as well. Regardless, a series of these came steadily marching out of my typewriter until a snitch passed a copy of one of my magnum opuses to the headmaster.

After a stern lecture about morality, I was reinstated in the school and told not to try any shenanigans again.

And then I got seduced by the librarian, Ms. Wolfe, who apparently had been doing this for quite some time. It was there, hanging by my fingertips to Sartre and Hemingway, my slender teenaged body enveloped by a thirty-five year old woman's, that I realized the power of erotica.

For my stories weren't hard and fast. They developed characters, plots, intrigues, interests and stories. Things happened outside of the horizontal mambo. They were not hard and fast pornography - of which there is no point outside of the main characters fucking as quickly and as often as possible. Often when I read something from a new young author, I find that I'm following Richard Bissell's admonitions to new writers - "If your characters aren't fucking by the first sentence, you've wasted your time writing."

Erotica is literature with a sexual theme. Pornography is "two dogs fucking". Pornography is clinical, detailed, graphic descriptions of two people getting it on. Were we to use the same rules of pornography to describe a baseball game, the majority of people would be bored out of their skulls. Personally, I'd be ready to ram one of those bats up someone's ass just to ellicit a response.

Were I to be confronted by aliens who wanted to know what porn was as opposed to erotica, I'd show them the two pictures below. The one on the left is just two attractive people breeding on a white bed in a blue room somewhere. She's young, he's young, and they are fucking for the sake of fucking. In the picture on the right, there are stories told. His hand is on her breast. Is he holding her skin above her heart? She is only half-dressed. Is this a good-bye? A marriage proposal? A new beginning? Or is she merely some lonely girl who wanders into the forest with a handsome young man looking for companiionship, ready to give her body for her love?

In the one on the left, he's playing "mash the titties" while slamming into her from behind. She's getting colon-tickled. In the one on the right, her hand holds his arm as his lips touch her throat. They will have sex, but will it be now or later?

I'm more interested as a writer in the why and how. What makes a good story is not what is happening, where it is happening, or who it is happening to, but why. (What do I care if someone dies? I am interested if someone dies to stop a steamroller from squashing a child. Likewise - what do I care that people are having sex? It's been happening for thousands of years. Having sex to hold onto a glorious moment of celebration, or to reward someone, or to comfort the sadness in another - these are interesting stories. "Because I'm a horny happy cheerleader" doth not cut the mustard.)

These stories are written for my pleasure as much as yours. If you wish to publish them, please feel free to contact me and we will discuss compensation packages. I am a serious writer; therefore, I take my publishing rights as an author much more seriously than many of my contemporaries.

Please enjoy my work, my site, and my recommended reads.

- Dionysus