Macho Sluts

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Summary: This is the hottest book in the known universe
Review: "Pat Califia's writing is unbelievably erotic, even when she simply describes someone walking across a room. Given that she describes much hotter stuff in this book than walking, it is incredible.

Rating:
Summary: This is the hottest book in the known universe
Review: "Pat Califia's writing is unbelievably erotic, even when she simply describes someone walking across a room. Given that she describes much hotter stuff in this book than walking, it is incredible.

Rating:
Summary: Not for the weak willed or easily icked
Review: A collection of very rough and often bloody porn from Pat Califia. These aren't nice romantic tells, these stories cross gender lines, orientation boundaries, and get into SM in ways that only gay male writing had done before. If you like your sex rough yet the plots still deep and consider your constutition strong, you check out this book. I, personally, find a lot of the stories too intense but there are a few I've read over and over and I do not normal like lesbian SM porn.

Rating:
Summary: Not for the weak willed or easily icked
Review: A collection of very rough and often bloody porn from Pat Califia. These aren't nice romantic tells, these stories cross gender lines, orientation boundaries, and get into SM in ways that only gay male writing had done before. If you like your sex rough yet the plots still deep and consider your constutition strong, you check out this book. I, personally, find a lot of the stories too intense but there are a few I've read over and over and I do not normal like lesbian SM porn.

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Summary: I wasn't sure I'd like this one
Review: I bought this book and thought, "Well, this will be ... different." I'd never read SM porn before. Honestly, the first read-through, I thought, "This is interesting but it really bothers me." Now it's my favorite bedtime reading. If you are tired of lesbian "erotica" that somehow manages to leave out the sex, you'll like this book. There are lots of detailed, long sex scenes, and if one is not your cup of tea, another will be. It also had a good variety of scenarios, and each one is well-written. Even if you aren't interested in SM, Pat Califia is the best lesbian-porn writer out there, and you probably will find something you like in this book.

Rating:
Summary: I wasn't sure I'd like this one
Review: I bought this book and thought, "Well, this will be ... different." I'd never read SM porn before. Honestly, the first read-through, I thought, "This is interesting but it really bothers me." Now it's my favorite bedtime reading. If you are tired of lesbian "erotica" that somehow manages to leave out the sex, you'll like this book. There are lots of detailed, long sex scenes, and if one is not your cup of tea, another will be. It also had a good variety of scenarios, and each one is well-written. Even if you aren't interested in SM, Pat Califia is the best lesbian-porn writer out there, and you probably will find something you like in this book.

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Summary: Pat Califa goes to the Edge to help make room for all of us.
Review: It's a classic, it always was a classic, it opened up a genre. When first I saw Macho Sluts just the title appalled me. I'm a control freak and I get very formal behind my glasses. I could not put those two words together. You can be a butch. You can be a fem. You can think you are both. But MACHO AND SLUT, it was tough, tough in 1990. But when I picked up Macho Sluts, I didn't stopped reading it for days. {And I believe, off the record I orgasmed 3 times} Damn good book. It was the first ever, S AND M compilation of stories by one woman, and breaking taboos. (not a female writer pretending to be a man in order to be published) Pat Califia is a sincere believer that we can cross all gender and sexual lines, when it's done well. There is no need to stick within our boundaries Submissives can be dominant, gays can act like heterosexuals, women can be fucked like men. Life is good. Books don't get much better than Macho Sluts. It covers so many topics. When I talk to my friends, there's always one that they just couldn't take and it's always a different one. For everyone there's one story that's too much and one that is perfect. If you're like me, you're going to buy copies and send them to your friends. Stephanie Locke

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Summary: Not for the faint of heart, rewarding for the right person
Review: Most sex fiction is either too crude to be transporting or too highbrow to be sexy. Califia establishes a new benchmark in her work, which is achingly hot and filled with memorable images and characters. Some material in Macho Sluts is frightening, some hilarious, but all of it is lovingly crafted in the spirit of seeking and giving joy and asserting one's right to use one's body as an instrument of pleasure. No matter what your level of experience in the S & M world, you will find something to challenge and surprise you. While Califia's primary audience is women, I loved it from the first sentence despite my Y chromosome. NOTE: DON'T READ THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU'RE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR DEFINITIONS OF PLEASURE AND PAIN EXPLORED AND CHALLENGED IN SOMETIMES TROUBLING WAYS. IT'S DEFINITELY NOT FOR KIDS, OR FOR GROWNUPS WHO AREN'T CONFIDENT AND ADVENTUROUS.

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Summary: Quite the eye/heart/mind opener!
Review: Pat Califia's intense collection of lesbian erotica starts with a bang and does not slow down until the end of the final story. These are stories of possible realities, not fantasy or science fiction which I usually prefer and yet the characters and plots were so wonderfully interwoven with passioniate SM and sex that I found myself enjoying most of the stories. Definately a collection I return to every now and then.

Rating:
Summary: Not for the timid!
Review: Pat Califia's intense collection of lesbian erotica starts with a bang and does not slow down until the end of the final story. These are stories of possible realities, not fantasy or science fiction which I usually prefer and yet the characters and plots were so wonderfully interwoven with passioniate SM and sex that I found myself enjoying most of the stories. Definately a collection I return to every now and then.