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Bottoms Up: Spanking Good Stories

ISBN13: 9781573443623
ISBN10: 157344362x
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Getting Spanked Again (and Again)

A Thousand Words by Donna George Storey

The Hardest Part by Alison Tyler

A Firm Understanding by Elizabeth Coldwell

Prime Time by Teresa Noelle Roberts

Ass Worship by Jerry Arthur

The Purple Balloon by Tess Danesi

Sorority Sister by Dominique Dunbar

Days Simon by Sheppard

Bossy by Sommer Marsden

Oscar and Holly by Bill Ktepi

Lonnies Licks by Tenille Brown

The Swinging Spankers Club by Stan Kent

Reenactment by Zille Defeu

Confessor by Craig J. Sorensen

The Spanking Machine by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Stuffing the Ballot Box Andrea Dale

Tease for Two by Maddy Stuart

Im Going to Grab Your Hair by N. T. Morley

Flaming by Jean Roberta

Helping Those in Need by Gwen Masters

Synopsis:

Here, we have a spanking tour de force for any curiosity, appetite, and sexual preference. And to that end, Rachel Kramer Bussel offers Bottoms Up, another delicious collection of stories that celebrates the pleasures of an inviting bum turned rosy red by hand, crop, whip, or paddle. Whether written from the perspective of the spanker or the spankee, those who crave discipline or those discovering for the first time how good being bad can feel, each vivid tale trembles with erotic pleasure. Bottoms Up is essential reading for those with endless capacities to have their bare bottoms soundly smacked, those who revel in delivering the deliciously ecstatic pain to a lover, or those who simply believe in turning the other cheek — over and over and over again.

About the Author

Rachel Kramer Bussels other kinky books include Hes on Top, Shes on Top, Caught Looking, Hide and Seek, Crossdressing, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, and the non-fiction collection Best Sex Writing 2008. She hosts the In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series, is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations and formerly wrote the "Lusty Lady" sex column for The Village Voice.

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: Jvstin, August 2, 2009 (view all comments by Jvstin)
In addition to being an author herself, Rachel Kramer Bussel has been making a living editing a number of anthologies of erotic stories in the last few years. With subjects ranging from dominance and submission, to voyeurism, to even the delights (to those who are enthusiasts) of PVC.

In Bottoms Up, Bussel returns for the fourth time to spanking.

This anthology is one of the stronger anthologies in that genre, as well as being one of the stronger anthologies Bussel has edited. She has a good hand as an editor, and by now knows how to balance authors, themes, and story lengths.

I especially appreciated the diversity of authors in this anthology. The writing of erotic stories for publications in these anthologies is something that women seem to have colonized as their own. Openly male authors (I have no doubts that some men write under female pen names) are uncommon, but this anthology sports a significant minority of male writers.

So while you will find stories by stalwarts such as Alison Tyler and Sommer Marsden (two of the best stories in the anthology, in this reviewers opinion), you will also find stories here by Simon Sheppard, Craig J Sorensen and other male writers as well.

The subthemes in spanked run the gamut. We get stories from both sides of the hand or paddle, and stories range from the mostly cerebral to the delightfully and painfully *sharp*. The stories never felt repetitious.

About the only thing I can say about the book is that at 20 stories and 172 pages, its just a tiny bit short, for the price you pay.

If you are a fan of erotic stories, and the theme of spanking is at all interesting to you, I think you will enjoy Bottoms up.

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Product Details

ISBN:: 9781573443623
Publisher:: Cleis Press
Subject:: Erotica - General
Editor:: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
Compiled:: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
Author:: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
Subject:: Erotica
Edition Description:: Trade Paper
Publication Date:: 20090831
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Pages:: 188
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.5 in 7 oz

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