The novel 50 Shades of Grey has proved this. People in general are “out of the closet” as enjoyers of erotic books. Well, the same holds true now obviously for erotica. We are in a new golden age in which fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, historical drama, horror, gothic, and supernatural romance are all mainstream.
The literary world today is wide open for all kinds of creative endeavors. And why shouldn’t they be able to go home from the courtroom, the university, or the office and kick back and “pretend” they’re being swept away to the Queen’s sadomasochistic kingdom where all the fairy-tale court will watch them being ravaged by the handsome Prince?
They’re Supreme Court judges, senators, doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, executives, soldiers, cops. We go into a gilded dream here, luscious and engulfing, in which we’re free to imagine all sorts of things-a fairy-tale world indeed. And of course the fairy tale removes us from everyday life it removes us from the intrusion of garish headlines, literal violence, and all the ugliness of crime. And it seemed to work exquisitely with the old fairy tale. Beauty’s slavery is delicious, sensuous, abandoned, and ultimately liberating. The books aren’t about literal cruelty they’re about surrender, the fun of imagining you have no choice but to enjoy sex. It has to be remembered that within the frame of a sadomasochistic fantasy like the Beauty trilogy, the readers are invited to identify with and enjoy the predicament of the slaves. Rice has updated the trilogy with a new preface here's an excerpt: Of course, it's unclear whether the "mommy porn" readers will take to the Sleeping Beauty trilogy (here's the Wikipedia plot description) which, while fantasy, is also very intense (and non-consensual, because there's a slave theme) instances of domination and submission-check out the reviews on GoodReads. Roquelaure, come highly recommended by connoisseurs of erotica who scoff at the BDSM-lite depiction and terrible writing in the "50 Shades" trilogy. Rice's books, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishmentand Beauty’s Release, which she wrote under the pseudonym A.N. It's so hot that publisher Plume is re-releasing Anne Rice's classic hardcore fantasy erotica trilogy based around the tale of Sleeping Beauty with new covers and the line, "If You Loved 50 Shades Of Grey, You'll Love The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy." There are now over 1,300 holds for Fifty Shades of Grey in the New York Public Library system, and while it may be down from its 1,800+ hold count in May, Fifty Shades fever is still hot.
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