Portal:Erotica
A listing of works widely held to be sexually titillating, and often written expressly for that purpose.
Works
Renaissance
- The Choise of Valentines, 1590 by Thomas Nashe
Early modern
- The School of Women, or The Seven Flirtatious Encounters of Aloisia, 1660 by Nicolas Chorier
- Venus in the Cloister, 1683
- The Farce of Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery, 1689
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749 by John Cleland
Modern
- The Lustful Turk, 1828
- Gamiani, or Two Passionate Nights, 1833 by Alfred de Musset
- The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr, 1861
- Venus in Furs, 1870 story from which the term "Masochism" arose
- The Romance of Lust, 1873
- The Pearl, 1879 magazine of erotic stories
- The Mysteries of Verbena House: Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving, 1882
- Manual of Classical Erotology, 1884 by Friedrich Karl Forberg
- The Autobiography of a Flea, 1887
- The First Appearance of the Horse in Aino-land, 1888
- Suburban Souls, 1901
- My Secret Life, collection published 1888-1894
- The Breaker of Eggs, 1890
- Venus in India, 1889 by Charles Devereaux
- The Lustful Turk, 1893
- Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, 1893
- The Way of a Man with a Maid, anonymous, 1895 or 1896
- Des Grieux, the Prelude to "Teleny", 1899
- Torture Garden, 1899 by Octave Mirbeau
- Lashed into Lust: The Caprice of a Flagellator, 1899
- A Night in a Moorish Harem, circa 1900
- Old Man Coyote and the Strawberry, 1903
- The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself, 1906
- The Beautiful Flagellants of Chicago, 1907
- The Amazing Chastisements of Miss Bostock, 1908
- The Sheik, 1921 by Edith Maude Hull
- The Way of a Virgin, 1922
- My Life and Loves, 1922 by Frank Harris
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928 by David Herbert Lawrence
- Maybe—Tomorrow, 1952 by Jay Little