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And there you have it. Just a taste of this episode of Dirty Poetry,using the word poetry very loosely, of course. Stay with me for allthe rest. The title of this episode of DirtyPoetry - Love and Sex With Robots is intended to commemorate theannual research conference of the same name, Love and Sex WithRobots. Recent advances in electromechanics, artificial intelligence,speech recognition technology, have changed the nature of ourrelationships to our non human, digital entities. This changingrelationship has raised an entirely new set of questions, that havein turn, created a whole new field of research. Every year,researchers and technologists come together in the month of Novemberto talk about these new questions at the annual Love and Sex WithRobots research conference. Some of them are entirely new questionsthat we never thought to ask before. Others are old questions thatnow have a newfound importance. Questions like, what does it mean togive and receive pleasure? And what balance do we as humans needbetween the two? Our next story examines just that question. Let'stake a listen. All Dolled Up written by Shawna HunterThat was All Dolled Up written by ShawnaHunter. Shawna Hunter is Canadian from Toronto. Her greatest passionis BDSM. Interrupted only by her passion for writing erotic shortstories. All Dolled Up is from the erotic short story anthology LoveTaps. Published 2020, in print and available at Dirty PoetsBookstore. We live in a time when digitalassistants have become ubiquitous. If you don't have a Siri orAlexa digital assistant, you probably know someone who does. Therehas been a wave of recent advances in artificial intelligence andspeech technology. Among other things, this will soon allow digitalentities to judge your mood from your vocal inflection and delivery,and to respond accordingly. Our digital assistants will soon becomefull fledged digital companions. Couple that with recent advances inrobotics and electromechanics, it becomes possible that for many ofus, our digital companions will be embodied as android companions.This raises all the questions of the human relationship to our nonhuman companions to a whole new level of importance. As fascinating as all these newdevelopments are, we should recognize that human erotic fascinationand sexual arousal with machines is not new. For example, Washingtonstate in the US, a man named Edward Smith says that he has had sexwith hundreds of automobiles. Yes, full copulatory sex with hundredsof automobiles, a few airplanes and even a helicopter. Not to beconcerned though, he has settled down to the quiet domestic life in acommitted, age appropriate relationship with a 1968 Volkswagen Beetlethat he calls the love of his life. And, there are a whole series ofother stories very much like that. Human sexual fascination withmachines has been in the popular culture for a long time. And asrecently as 2021, when the movie Titane received a controversialaward at the Cannes Film festival. Titane is in part, the story of awoman impregnated by a Cadillac. She lactates a high viscosity motoroil. And who can forget when Carmen Diaz had sex with a Ferrari inthe 2013 movie The Counselor written by Cormac McCarthy. Those of uswho go back far enough to remember 1996 will remember the blazinglyerotic movie, entitled “Crash” starring James Spader and HollyHunter. That also received a very controversial award at the CannesFilm Festival. The story that movie was based on comes from the 1973novel written by J. G. Ballard entitled

There you have it, the beginning of another episode of Dirty Poetry,using the word poetry very loosely. This episode is couple ofstories about libraries and librarians. Before we get to thegoddesses who bring life to these hallowed halls, let's give somecredit to the students and researchers who find their adventures backin the stacks. Our first story is about a grad student who, in a hazeof exhaustion, discovers what she is really looking for.Between The Pages by Z.S. RoeThat was Between The Pages written by Z.S. Roe who describeshimself as a book lover, a tea addict and by trade, a glass worker.Z.S. Row is primarily a poet but nevertheless has 10 published shortstories, the latest being what Grew Before the Sun, which waspublished in the Big Book of Orgasms, Volume 2 that came out in 2022.For many of us who came from a time before there was an internet,libraries were our window on the world. Like diving into an ocean,there was always so much more to explore. They were all, large andsmall, places that were cherished and revered. They were, and are,populated by brilliant women. Brilliant women who work so hard atbeing contained and proper. But to my eye, they are goddesses whobring life to hallowed halls. And they are always so much more awoman than their work allows them to be.When I was young, I would travel to one of the great libraries,sometimes several hours on a bus. There were statues by famousartists at the entrance and great art hung in the halls. The mainreading room was huge, long and cavernous with a high arched andvaulted ceiling. As you entered there was the scent of old books withthe promise of ancient knowledge for those who would dig. All of it,free to the people. It was a hallowed and solemn place.For a time, I would go there every week or two. The subject I wasinterested in those days was propulsion units. This caught theattention of a particular research librarian who set herself on thehunt for me. I would stop by her desk to pick up her list ofreferences and the bundle of photocopies she had collected for mefrom the latest journals and sometimes even restricted governmentresearch. She was brilliant. And beautiful. When there was occasionto come around the desk, I could catch the faint flowery springtimeperfume of my librarian mingled with the scent of fresh photocopiescopies on her desk. All of that with the bassnote of old books andleather that permeated the place. Those memories have not faded.I do have a confession though, it was not until very recently thatI realized that I am not the only one who has fantasies of theGoddesses who inhabit libraries. I'm not the only one who thinksintelligent women are sexy. Who knew? Joe Cocker sings ‘you canleave your hat on'. Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can leaveyour glasses on too. No doubt, the libraries were where myfascination with intelligent women began.And speaking of intelligent, interesting women. Our next story iswritten by Susannah Indigo. Susanna Indigo is a character in her ownright. She is, and has been for many years, a very active andprolific erotic short story author. She has edited many erotic shortstory anthologies. She founded in 1998 the erotic literary journalClean Sheets, which, in it's day, was a home to many great eroticwriters. She has since co-founded and is currently an editor at SlowTrains, a general literary journal that covers a wide range ofsubjects. Many of today's greatest writers have found a home there. The next story that I have for you, I read years ago and it...

Staywith me for this episode of Dirty Poetry. Go ahead. Take it all. Thewhole enchilada. This episode of Dirty Poetry is about shopkeepers who happen to bebig women. Women like sex. Big women like sex. Let's see how that allturns out. Let's give a listen to our first story. Small Packages by Tenille BrownThat story, Small Packages was written by Tenille Brown, whodescribes herself as a shoe shopping, wine drinking southern writer.She is an author of erotic short stories who has been at her tradefor quite some time. She's been published in over 30 different eroticstory anthologies among them Fast Girls, Making The Hookup, BestBondage Erotica, F Is For Fetish, and the anthology that our storiesin this episode come from, which is entitled Curvy Girls edited byRachel Kramer Bustle.Ms Bustle has edited over 30 erotic story anthologies. Her eroticshort story writing has been published in over 100 anthologies. She'sbeen an editor at Penthouse on television appearances, and hadregular magazine columns. Our Curvy Girls anthology comes to us froma name that you probably recognize Rachel Kramer bustle In this anthology, Curvy Girls, she asked April Flores to writethe forward. In that forward. Ms Flores says, “For the longest timewe've been told the lie that being thin equals being beautiful, happyand desirable. And somewhere along the line we've also been led tobelieve that fat people don't enjoy sex or possibly that we're notworthy of enjoying sex.” All right, let's back up a little bithere. April Flores is herself a big beautiful woman and, in additionto many other things, she is a model and a porn star. In the forwardto Curvy Girls she says, “Women enjoy sex. Fat women enjoy sex. Iam one of those women and have had the extreme privilege of beingable to explore and express my own sexuality within my work. I'vebeen able to live out many fantasies while making an effort to sendmy message of body and size positivity. I am an exhibitionist bynature and performing in adult films and posing for photographers andartists has allowed me to expand on my exhibitionism. I've been solucky as to have been able to broaden my sexuality by working with adiverse range of performers who representative variety of races,gender identities and levels of experience with each shoot. I havelearned from my partner and have been able to take away somethingnew. In my opinion, confidence is what makes someone attractive. Youhave good sex when you feel good about yourself, regardless of yourbody size. The characters and curvy girls are enjoying every bit oftheir sexuality and I enjoyed experiencing their sexuality too.”Amen Sister. Confidence is sexy, and we all want to be sexy. The next story in this episode also from the Curvy Girls anthologyis written by Lolita Lopez. Ms Lopez is actually a serial novelist.She generally tells her stories in a series of novels. Her writingstyle is what she describes as super sexy science fiction. Her titlesinclude Dead Sexy Dragon, one of the Dragon Heat series, Caught ByMenace, one of the titles from the Grabbed series, Margaritas andMayhem from the Holiday Menage series. In 2021 she was invited to agroup writing project with some of today's greatest science fictionwriters that was published under the title Cyborg Redemption. In thisepisode of Dirty Poetry, Ms Lopez, known to her friends and fans as‘Lo', has written an erotic short story about a big beautifulwoman. Lo is a Texas girl and she's written us a sexy short storyabout a shopkeeper in Houston. A baker...

And there you have it, just a taste of the Dirty Poetry yet to come.Stay with me for all the rest of this episode of Dirty Poetry, usingthe word poetry very loosely. Our first story is about a group of oldfriends who have known each other for years and years. They'vetraveled together and had adventures and have been a part of eachothers lives for a long time. They know each other well. They havefor a long time, had a monthly card game. Everything was alwaysfriendly and normal... until tonight... when things got strange.Let's take a listen. That was Heads-Up Poker. Written bySusan Di Placido. Ms Di Placido is a prolific author. She has, todate, published ten novels and one collection of short stories. Herstories almost always involve gambling and card playing and many ofthem are set in Las Vegas. But regardless of the setting, Ms DiPlacido always manages to work in a lot of steamy spicy sex scenes.Her work has been recognized and awarded in the literary world. Hershort story, “I, Candy” won the Spirit Award at the 2005 MoonDance International Film Festival. Her short story collection,American Cool won the bronze medal in the 2008 IPPY Awards and it wasa finalist for the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her novel Shuffle Up andDeal was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award forBest Erotic Fiction in 2010. Susan Di Placido's work has beenpublished in many places. Among them, Maxim Jakubowski's MammothBook Of Best New Erotica in both volume six and volume seven, Zane'sCaramel Flava, Run Devil Run, Slow Trains Literary Review, Rebellion:New Voices Of Fiction, Clean Sheets and Susie Bright's BestAmerican Erotica 2007, which is where we found our story, Heads-UpPoker. Let's take a moment and address theelephant in the room. Okay, one of the elephants in the room. Youmight notice that both of our stories in this episode of Dirty Poetryare written by women, one of them decidedly lesbian, but both storiesare told from the perspective of heterosexual men. This kind ofgender bending perspective shift is, and always has been, commonamong the authors of erotic literature. As readers and listeners,these stories allow us to walk a mile in someone else's panties.And our authors also take an equally joyful turn at that switch. Infact, part of the beauty of both erotic literature and our own eroticimagination is, that in the privacy of our own minds, we can allallow our imaginations, our desires and hungers, to roam freely, toventure into places that we would never allow to happen in our reallives. With all of our real life expressions of sexuality that are sotender, loving, comforting, well... okay, even with the ass slapping,hair pulling excitement that we want in our real life sexuality,still there are places, many places that our imagination goes that wewould never allow to see the light of day. Good writers take us tothese forbidden places and bring us safely back again from theadventures of foreign travel in exotic lands. With our own eroticfantasies encouraged to take wing, our sexual imaginations are nowallowed to travel to places that are unlikely, improbable. Placesthat stretch the boundaries of what sexuality is, and occasionallyeven jump the fence into the impossible. Stories that can arousepossibilities that we would have never imagined. But somehow theybecome real for us for just a few brilliant moments in the privacy ofour own minds. It is there, in the privacy of our imagination that wecan begin to discover our own most primal sexual arousals. It isgreat writers with their wild tales, with their exotic erotic...

“They fuck all over the house. And I watch. Lynette spreads her legs on the toilet and pees for Clifton. And I watch. She sits on his face while he lounges on the couch with an after dinner glass of wine.I sit on the adjoining couch. And I only get the wine.But I watch. I watch, and I stroke myself off into one of the handkerchiefs I purchased the third day”and then there is this...“This time he reached between his legs and soaped his balls, slowly stroking and squeezing them while the soapsuds ran down his leg.Lauren moved her foot from the floor and brought it up on the bench next to her,while she bent her knee away from her body, opening herself even wider.By the time he turned around to face her again she had two fingers buried to the second knuckle.Seeing the state of his hard cock, she groaned softly and began to pump her fingers in and out of her wet pussy grazing her clit just enough to bring her to the edge of coming and keep her there.”There you have it. Just a taste of what's to come in this episode of deliciously Dirty Poetry.Stay with me for the rest of the episode and I'll give you the whole enchilada.The theme of this episode is to watch and be watched. The voyeur and the exhibitionist. Our first story is about a possibility that you might not have considered. In today's world, even with our infinite variety of blended families, even with all of our polyamory and our monogamish relationships, and the multitude of a romantic and erotic and domestic arrangements...Still... perhaps you might not have considered the possibility of the live-in voyeur.You'll discover that uncommon arrangement in “Making Myself At Home”, the first story in this episode of Dirty Poetry. This flight of fancy, this ingenious invention, is a product of the soaring mind of the author, Jeremy Edwards.Jeremy Edwards is the author of what he calls the erotocomedic novels, "The Pleasure Dial" and "Rock My Socks Off" along with the erotic short story collection "Sparked My Moment”.His stories have appeared in over 50 short story anthologies, including several volumes in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series. The editor of the Mammoth Book erotica series, Maxim Jakubowski says: “Jeremy Edwards leads the pack of a new scintillating generation of American erotica writers who combine wit and sexiness in equal parts”.Both of our stories do come from the volume in that series that is entitled “The Mammoth Book Of Quick And Dirty Erotica”, an anthology of very short erotic stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski.Our second author is an experienced craftsperson in the world of erotic writing. D. L. King has written short stories that have appeared in over 75 different anthologies. Among them, “Best Women's Erotica”, “Best Lesbian Erotica”, “Girl Crazy”, “Frenzy”, “Yes, Ma'am”, “Yes, sir.”, and “The Mammoth Book Of Best New Erotica” from our own editor, Maxim Jakubowski.In addition, D. L. King has edited 13 anthologies of short stories herself. Among them, “The Harder She Comes, Butch Fem Erotica”. That one was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Independent Publishers Gold Medal.D.L. King lives in New York City.The exhibitionist and the voyeur depend on each other for their stimulation. One needs the other and many of us have both the urge to watch and to be watched balanced in us. Many of us can switch from one to the other.Our second story, “Her Turn”, is a tale of one of those situations that turned from the watched to the watcher.Give this episode of Dirty Poetry a listen.If you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe.There is much, much more Dirty...

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The reading in this episode of Dirty Poetry is entitled “A Life Of Seductions” written by Nancy Sasha Long. This is an erotic short story that appeared in the anthology Seductions, Tales Of Erotic Persuasions edited by Dr Lonnie Barbach. Our editor, the good Dr Barbach has this to say in the introduction; “When I think about the most erotic moments of a sexual experience, I am drawn to the delicious and unpredictable build up, the dance of seduction. A sexual experience often lodges in the memory most vividly because of the events that led up to the actual physical lovemaking. The invitation to sensually, provocatively play, the anticipation of an experience charged with pleasure and delight. Consequently, I have gathered a collection of stories that emphasis these openings, stories that set the stage for the sexual encounters that follow. Seduction is the kindling of romance. It ignites the spark of sexual desire and intensity. Unfortunately, the art of seduction becomes a lost art in many long term monogamous relationships, although it is usually an important part of nearly every courtship. This is a tragic loss because in its absence, relationships can become deprived of sexual liveliness and passion. The connection becomes humdrum, The mundane creeps in and the relationship is diminished. The word seduction comes from the latin term meaning to lead away. In every seduction, some psychological or emotional resistance is implied and must be overcome. The resistance may be something as simple as the preoccupation and routines of everyday life, or it may be as complex as a romantic involvement with another. In either case, one person begins to entice the other, drawing his or her attention away from its current focus and onto a new agenda. Yet every seduction is a cooperative venture. Ultimately both partners must be willing to play the escalating erotic game. At any point, one person could abdicate or drop out. The seduced could rebuff the seducer's advances and the interaction would end. In humans, romantic pathways are more extensive and complex than in any other species. We alone use fantasy and imagination as an important part of our seductive encounter. We have the capacity to raise seduction to a form of art though we are still animals. Our brains have been programmed to respond to someone that we are attracted to through a physiological chain of events that heightens feelings of pleasure in both the seducer and the one being seduced. When someone excites us, our bodies respond with a gush of natural chemicals that stimulate the nervous system, causing us to feel euphoric, energetic and optimistic. Our hearts be wildly. We're turned on and maybe following in love, or at least in lust. We may experience a racy sense of exuberance and power at these times, with some creative thoughts and attention. An artful seduction can create a surge of natural chemicals even in a relationship of long duration. We never lose our capacity to resurrect these pleasurable experiences. It remains with us for our entire lives.” Our story tonight is the story of a woman who's fantasies become so constant, so all consuming, that she is drawn into dangerous situations in real life and ultimately becomes an entirely different woman because of her fantasies. Our editor, Dr Barbach and the author, Nancy Long had this to say about our story; “Rather than moving towards someone, the motivation behind some seductions is to escape from a certain set of circumstances. When life is depressing or distressing, when a relationship is having difficulties, we may find ourselves moving away from a drab or uncomfortable reality, seeking relief through an illicit sexual relationship or seductive daydream. We may seduce ourselves with a fantasy and create the perfect lover who will rescue us from the emptiness...

Exploring how sun and soil, time and place effect the varieties our sexual expression. From electrically charged sex toys to sex inspired by farm animals, despite all of our regional and ethnic differences, we all have that same universal urge to merge.Our readings are from "The Good Parts, The Best Erotic Writing In Modern Fiction", an anthology of erotic writings edited by J.H. Blair. This is a collection of short stories and excerpts from most acclaimed and awarded, the very best American literary authors of the last half of the 20th century. The first story in this episode is "The Ring Of Brightest Angels Around Heaven", a story that requires an electrostim cockring and buttplug to be told. Written by Rick Moody from Brooklyn New York, who is extensively published with a series of novels. This is the title story from his short story collection.Our second story is about sexuality informed by midwestern American farm life and occasionally inspired by farm animals. Our reading is an excerpt from the Pulitzer prize winning novel "A Thousand Acres" written by Jane Smiley from Ames Iowa.Dozens of stories from America's finest literary minds, each one exquisitely individual from all the others, and yet every one trying to feed and fulfill the erotic urge that wells up in every one of us.Every warm blooded humanwants to find their way to the glories of sexin every city, town, and village on the planethumans passionately press themselves togetherto try to make sexmen and women feverishly rub themselves togetherto try to make sparksdeep in the nightunder the cover of darknessin the broad daylightbacked up deep into a shady turnoffout along some old country roadas long as women know what they wantas long as men know where to gowe will stoke the fires of human sexualityin our multitude of waysin every space and placemen and women will live outthe urge to mergeUsing the word poetry very loosely.

A reading from The Mammoth Book of Quick & Dirty Erotica, with a tip of the hat to the librarians at the Cleveland Public Library.