Ooh La La!: Contemporary French Erotica by Women

By Maxim Jakubowski

Book Overview

People say the French stay slim thanks to their good wine and regular meals. This might prove to be the case, but the hottest erotica currently being written flows from the sexy pens of French women of letters. On the basis that writers of erotica are often known to find inspiration in their own lives and experiences, one can only draw certain conclusions Dominique Aury under the penname Pauline R (c)e wrote The Story of O in 1954 and opened the floodgates for a whole new, sulphurous tradition of female erotica, since appropriated by female writers all over the world, including Anne Rice in the USA writing as A.N. Roquelaure. But the wonderfully perverse imagination of French authors has continued unabated ever since, and the daughters of O are now legions, including leading lights like Catherine Millet, Regine Deforges, Francoise Rey, Vanessa Duries, Florence Dugas, Alina Reyes, and the famous fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, all of whom contributed to this collection. French literary sex is hot, elegant, gently perverse, quietly shocking, and always arousing -- and these twenty-nine stories will leave no reader indifferent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560259086
• ISBN13: 9781560259084
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A versatile collection of contemporary French erotica.

While I'm have never been a major devotee of erotic fiction, this is very good for beginners in the genre, like myself. Fortunately, none of these stories are over-explicit to the point of perversion, like some cheap erotica that's published in adult magazines. Not to say the stories aren't graphic and explicit, because they are. The art of erotic literature is knowing the difference between what's arousing and what's vulgar. The only story that I found myself not enjoying is "The Horsewoman", by Brigitte Lahaie. After reading the first few paragraphs of the story, I assumed this was a story of bestiality (a woman's sexual relationship with a horse), which I could never stomach whatsoever. I may have read it wrong, but this is one story I've decided to skip. The ending of Julie Saget's "The Man from Albuquerque" was also hard for me to stomach. And not for religious reasons, either. My favorite stories in this book include "The Garage", by Astrid Schilling "Tarot", by Florence Dugas "In Memory of a Cock", by Sandrine Le Coustumer "Lies", by Geraldine Zwang" "The Black Swan Hotel", by Nathalie Perreau "Sacrifice", by Karrine Keller "Mako", by Marie L. "The Ecstasies", by Sophie Cadalen Erotica is a genre I'm just starting to get into. As I've mentioned previously, it's not something I've been into, as far as reading. Nor am I good at writing it, personally. "Ooh La La!" opened my eyes up not only in the genre itself, but as to how immaculate female erotica can be. All of these stories are written by females and happen to be contemporary stories, that hasn't aged well. Pauline Reage, the female author behind "The Story of O" paved the way for female erotica and female writers to engage in this kind of mastery of erotic literature. Another erotica book that I've started to read is "Master/Slave", by N.T. Morley. The book cover for "Ooh La La!" is hands-down the hottest photo cover I've seen on a book since Trevor Watson's "Cheek" picture book.