Authors: Tenille Brown
Can't Get Enough
Copyright © 2014 by Tenille Brown.
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E-book ISBN: 978-1-62778-051-3
Contents
Introduction: Too Much Is Never Enough
⢠T
ENILLE
B
ROWN
Craving the Best Man
⢠J
O
A
NNE
K
ENRICK
Under His Watch
⢠R
ACHEL
K
RAMER
B
USSEL
Strip to My Lou
⢠A
LLISON
W
ONDERLAND
Rocket Fuel
⢠J
ACQUELINE
A
PPLEBEE
Those Damned Cobbles
⢠T
AMSIN
F
LOWERS
Embraceable You
⢠B
LAIR
E
ROTICA
When He Gets Home
⢠L
UCY
F
ELTHOUSE
Before They Burn
⢠B
EATRIX
E
LLROY
Won't Last the Week
⢠P
RESTON
A
VERY
The End of Sensible
⢠L
OUISE
B
LAYDON
Sleepless Need
⢠M
ONICA
C
ORWIN
The Girl on Your Skin
⢠G
ISELLE
R
ENARDE
The Beautiful Truth
⢠S
OPHIA
V
ALENTI
Blake Eats Out
⢠S
HOSHANNA
E
VERS
Famous Last Words
⢠T
ENILLE
B
ROWN
Objects of Desire
⢠A
NNABETH
L
EONG
E
rotica is a tricky business. It usually concerns such subjects as love, lust or various shades of carnal desire. Tenille Brown, a veteran practitioner of the flesh print wars, has edited a sublime example of erotica,
Can't Get Enough
, dedicated to the worthy theme of “hot, steamy, mouth-watering sex,” which will bewitch readers like a magical spell.
Desire, as interpreted by Tenille Brown, is a good thing. She issues a stern warning to her detractors that these stories are not enticements to “endless orgies and empty encounters,” but a positive tribute to moments of pleasurable, smoldering sex that anyone can embrace in all its glory. Those reading these tales should not be afraid of catching the virus of sexual promiscuity.
Nothing in these stories smacks of psychosis with its pathological, compulsive behavior, manic episodes, substance abuse or dependence. The characters contained within them are having a great time without guilt or shame. Good sex in these
pages doesn't take into account whether the man can be seduced or the woman is lovable. It's anything goes. Throw all the rules out. When willing partners are involved, anything can happen and fireworks can occur whether in public or between the sheets.
Although the editor states these stories were selected for the woman reader, there is something in them for men as well. A sense of free-spirited disregard for the traditional and the customary is dumped out of the window as the writers go for the max in trashing old stereotypes and clichés. Male readers should make room for this dose of powerful female hunger in their sexual vocabulary. It would do them well to absorb some of these prescriptions for satisfying their partners. Open themselves beyond limits and restrictions. Going beyond the notion of good pussy and a big dick can only expand their reach for great, sizzling, addictive sex.
An older woman I once dated said, “Good sex is like a drug. Once you have had it, it can make you do anything to capture that first high. If you're lucky, you can push past that point to something even better, even hotter, even crazier. When you get to that level, watch out! I've seen men and women jeopardize their jobs, careers and community standing just to get that good sex. Believe me, that feelingâ¦oh man!”
In each of the stories of
Can't Get Enough
, the key ingredients are openness, boldness, self-respect and an erotic connection not often seen in the real world. These lovers are not afraid to become vulnerable or to accommodate each other to reach the highest pleasure available. None of these folks need prompting or permission to get off and to keep coming back for more.
For example, take the threesome that roars into a torrid sexual flame in Rachel Kramer Bussel's “Under His Watch,” where ecstasy is all that matters: “Everyone had a roleâColin's to push his cock deeper down my throat, Josh's to tighten his
grip on my hair and bring his legs to either side of me, and Leonard's to touch himself while he looked on. Me? My role was to simply be the center of attention, to take what each man was offering me.”
Or the uninhibited woman, not a tramp, slut or any restrictive tag, in Jacqueline Applebee's “Rocket Fuel” who declares she loves dick and facials. “It's simple really: I can't get enough of cock. I love blow jobs, hand jobs, taking it up my arse or my cunt. I love the feel, the look and the smell of cock.”
And finally, Lucy Felthouse's “When He Gets Home” gives the perfect blueprint for a complete, drenching fulfillment: “Touching his wife's nub caused her eyes to roll back in her head and her pussy to contract around his cock, which in turn caused his cock to throb and twitch inside her. He'd have to up his game if he wanted to make sure she came beforeâor at the same time asâhim. Grasping the slippery and sensitive bundle of nerve endings between his finger and thumb, he rolled and pinched at it. Amazingly, it swelled further at his ministrations, and he looked up to see Nina stifling her own moans by biting down on her fist.”
We are a country who loves to be in love, loves to be desired. However, we are puritans who want to be free of emotional and sexual restraints. The stories in this book hold some of the cures for what ails us, and contain some of the answers for our popular moral cages.
Tenille Brown and Cleis Press are taking a firm stand for an end to sexual repression at a time when opposition has been shrill and resistant to progressive trends going full tilt. Both parties are to be commended for such bravery in an atmosphere of madcap cookie-cutter conformity and Tea Party conservative dogma.
Enjoy
Can't Get Enough
for all its treasured worth. We all
want the best in sex. Think about what poet Sylvia Plath wrote in her journals: “If they substituted the word âLust' for âLove' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”
Cole Riley
New York City
INTRODUCTION: TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH
I
'm not greedy. I've always been satisfied with my fair share, never asking for more than is necessaryâ¦except when it comes to good sex.
You see, I believe that the best sex is the sex that makes me want it again and again, and when I began seeking out stories for this book, I wanted them to evoke that same reaction from readers. I wanted erotica that would leave me not only satisfied, but wanting more. I wanted hot, steamy, mouth-watering sex. I wanted stories that took the theme and turned it on its head, and boy, did I ever get what I was looking for.
As my word count began bursting at the seams, I found myself anxious and wishing for the space to include more, but I soon realized that what had landed in my lap was precisely what it was supposed to beâa book jam-packed with stories that left me winded, wanting and hungry for more once I turned the last page, and that was what I wanted to present to my readers.
I was aware that the title of this collection could be misinterpreted, could hint at a theme of endless orgies and empty
encounters, but that was what I wanted to avoid. I made sure the stories presented were not only hot and racy, but also sex positive.
I didn't even want to think about the phrase “slut shaming.” On the contrary, this book is filled with characters who want it, love it and aren't ashamed to show it.
Take for instance Jack in Louise Blaydon's “The End of Sensible,” who is turned on by the sight of his lover, Tom, in women's lingerie:
At the top of the stairs
,
Tom disappeared into the bathroom without a word
,
and Jack went quiescently into his bedroom to wait. Probably it was stupid
,
thisâwaiting for Tom to come out of the bathroom in his (god) girl's clothes
,
just so that Jack could (oh god) take them off him again
,
but that was the point
,
wasn't it? Maybe Tom shouldn't be the prettiest girl Jack had ever seen
,
but there it was.
Or Miel Rose's female lead in “Big Appetites,” who experiences a moment of passion like no other when the fleeting thought of making a baby with her lover enters the picture:
She's looking straight ahead
,
drumming on the steering wheel
,
nonchalant. “It really gets me when you're all laid out for me
,
naked
,
your legs spread wide
,
and you pull me down on top of you and I slip my cock right up into your pussy. I can look right into your eyes as I rock my dick in and out of you
,
just the way you like it. That look in your eyes is so sweet
,
so fuckin' precious. It's like we're making love
,
like we're making babies
,
or some shit.”