My First Experience with Erotic Literature

By the time I was sixteen I had read a number of books that had erotic elements in them, but I had not read any thing that I would consider erotic literature. Then, I came across a curious work with the curious title "Pleasures and Follies of a Good-Natured Libertine" with the sub-title "Anti-Justine." And my eyes were opened, as the old saying goes. "Pleasures and Follies" influenced me so much in my writing. It still remains the best erotic work I have ever read. The strange thing about it is that the book was written more than two hundred years ago. When I first read it, the language of the writer and the setting and time of the novel made me think that--wow, this writer can really write. I didn't know anything about the writer, but I assumed that he was still living, and had written a novel of the past. I learned that Bretonne--the author of the novel--had lived in the eighteenth century and had written "Pleasures and Follies" in the midst of the French Revolution. I also learned that "Pleasures and Follies" is the first modern literary work of erotica. I have read the novel four times. Each time I read it, my admiration for Bretonne grows. For what he did was to write the first modern, "realistic" erotic novel. In a sense, Bretonne created modern, natural, realistic erotic literature. He was the father of erotic literature.

I had the book "Pleasures and Follies" when in college. At the time I only read-through parts of it think that I would get back to it later. Somewhere along the way the book got stolen that semester. Too bad, I like what I had red and have yet to find another copy. But it did turn me on better to erotic literature. I now always to find something new to read.

If you read a lot of erotic literature, you will come to know the good writers from the bad. There are perhaps a half dozen good erotic writers--I mean writers that are published a lot or that have their writing posted a lot on the net.

There was a book, now long since lost, and I can't remember the name of. But, if fueled many thoughts that I had in my early teens. I have read books by both men and women and feel for the most part, women do a better job at writing erotica. They have a better insight about sex.

I tend to agree with you that women do a better job of writing erotica. I don't know if they have a better insight about sex than men do. Roughly I think that women write better erotica; men write better porn.

Not my kind of story but good none the lless

I've found that the more erotic writing you read, the more discerning you become in what's good and what's not. Quality will always will out.

I used to have an erotic book called The Pearl.

I love "The Pearl"! It's amazing when you think that that book was a compliation of erotic Victorian literature, written circa 1890.

Interesting

wow thats nice