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The staff has picked for this month, thank you for your many suggestions, it was super easy this time! Please have a look at this page for the current pickings. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers.

Next month is, of course, our

LibriVersary - #17

already! :shock:

So, I'll do my usual "Anniversary Surprise" for August in the hope that you'll like it... ;-)
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Happy 17th Anniversary!


The staff has picked for this month! Please have a look at this page for the current pickings. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers.

When September comes along, the heat will go down (hopefully), and we can get up close and personal again. Therefore, I'd like to go out on a limb with

Sexy September


I'm looking for books that are a bit... naughty, sexy, erotic.... I know we have a good deal of erotica in our catalog (some of which are really funny), but maybe there are other books dealing with the subject that are not marked as such. Let me know. I'm afraid, this one will be decidedly adult themed... :D

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry!
And, as always: All languages welcome!

Suggest away! :thumbs:
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Yup, I know.
Not mentioning your Phallic Worship? :wink:
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:lol: I just wanted to mention the Phallic Worship, but you beat me to it.

We have bawdy comedies galore of course, where often sexual innuendoes are interspersed. Here is one for example, which satirized a "free love" sect dating back as far as the 16th century. "Sex sells" has been a motto even then. https://librivox.org/the-family-of-love-by-thomas-middleton/

Then of course there is the obvious Liaisons dangereuses which we have in English and original French:
https://librivox.org/dangerous-connections-by-pierre-choderlos-de-laclos/
https://librivox.org/les-liaisons-dangereuses-by-choderlos-de-laclos/

And Fanny Hill, which I haven't read yet but I take it it's racy too: https://librivox.org/fanny-hill-memoirs-of-a-woman-of-pleasure-by-john-cleland/

And the Kama Sutra, if only for some explicit chapters: https://librivox.org/the-kama-sutra-by-mallanaga-vatsyayana/

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these two deal with Prostitution:

> in essay form: https://librivox.org/the-history-of-prostitution-by-william-sanger/
> in novel form: https://librivox.org/nana-by-emile-zola/

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Thank you, Sonia!

I think Fanny Hill is also about a prostitute, "woman of pleasure" and all.
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Availle wrote: August 1st, 2022, 6:29 pmI think Fanny Hill is also about a prostitute, "woman of pleasure" and all.
ah yes, could be...

a simple search for "sex" also yields some books on the topic:

https://librivox.org/sex-avoided-subjects-discussed-in-plain-english-by-henry-stanton/ and https://librivox.org/sex/ - two versions of this book
https://librivox.org/studies-in-the-psychology-of-sex-volume-one-by-havelock-ellis/ - two volumes done already, but the third only in progress, not sure how many there are
https://librivox.org/three-contributions-to-the-theory-of-sex-by-sigmund-freud/ - and Mr Freud of course shouldn't be missing :lol:
https://librivox.org/private-sex-advice-to-women-by-r-b-armitage/ - probably a pioneer on the field

I found this one too, not sure how good it is, sounds like extreme pulp fiction: https://librivox.org/sex-life-of-the-gods-by-michael-knerr/

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Availle wrote: August 1st, 2022, 5:58 am
I'm looking for books that are a bit... naughty, sexy, erotic.... I know we have a good deal of erotica in our catalog (some of which are really funny), but maybe there are other books dealing with the subject that are not marked as such. Let me know.
Hi! I hadn't paid attention to this aspect before I saw that Maskarad (https://librivox.org/maskarad-by-elena-pchilka) by Olena Pchilka was related to erotic.
Proof: https://shron3.chtyvo.org.ua/Dontsov/Dvi_literatury_nashoi_doby.pdf?PHPSESSID=g81l08gt3frur5hdjpolp80717 p. 171
особливо в еротиці (гл. „Маскарада” Пчілки...
especially in erotic (mainly "Maskarad" by Pchilka...
In general the book is not naughty, sexy or erotic, but the part of it is, - where the main heroine finds herself at a masquerade where people act in somewhat erotic way (for Kiev at the beginning of 20 century): how they touch each other, how they speak and dance. One pair consists of a nun and Mephistopheles. The atmosphere on the masquerade is active, hot and with a touch of closeness.
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There is always the benchmark Dangerous Connections (also known as Dangerous Liaisons) -- our DR is surely as good as the movie :lol:

https://librivox.org/dangerous-connections-by-pierre-choderlos-de-laclos/
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There's Ball-of-Fat, about a carriage full of society-accepted people and one prostitute, fleeing France before some army gets there. They're stopped in some town, and the army captain won't let any of them go unless the prostitute sleeps with him. She refuses... and hence the story goes on.

Two versions in English:
https://librivox.org/ball-of-fat-by-guy-de-maupassant/
https://librivox.org/boule-de-suif-version-2-by-guy-de-maupassant/

Spanish:
https://librivox.org/bola-de-sebo-by-guy-de-maupassant/

and the original French:
https://librivox.org/boule-de-suif-by-guy-de-maupassant-0904/
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Thank you!

Hanna, I guess when nobody knows who you are, all your boundaries fall... Happens in carneval all the time. :lol:

Lynnet, it's better than the movie, naturally. :P

Wow Tricia, talk about sexploitation. :shock:
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The staff has picked for this month, thanks for your many suggestions! Please have a look at this page for the current pickings. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers.

October is blind-awareness month, so I'd like to have the theme
Disabilities

I'm looking for books with or about people who are blind, deaf, disabled... from birth or through illnesses or accidents (war comes to mind), also mental illnesses count (war again: PTSD), the treatment of disabilities...

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry!
And, as always: All languages welcome!

Suggest away! :thumbs:
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Well, something by Helen Keller would be an obvious choice.

https://librivox.org/author/438
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