My first ever experience with written erotica was through Penthouse Forum. Of course, I know now just how tame and stylized they were, but at the time, I thought they were the most exciting and naughtiest things on earth. Keep in mind that this was long before the Internet was even an inkling in our collective eye. A more innocent time I guess, when sex was barely referenced on TV, and the thought of nudity in prime time was a long way off. I don’t know how my friends and I even used to get a hold of the magazine, but we always did. I can clearly recall the excitement and fervor a new edition always incited, how we would eagerly and greedily flip through the glossy pages to get to those stories.

Those stories weren’t my mother’s stuffy, conservative  romances, filled w...

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