Product Description

Product Details

• Published on: 2001-11-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 225 pages

Review
"This is a we-did-it-you-can-too anthology of real couples playing out their fantasies." — Lou Paget, author, The Big O -- From the book cover

From the Author
Who hasn’t fantasized about living the sweet life—or yearned for a life filled with pleasure and satisfaction? We, too, are always searching for that spark of excitement in life—and when it comes to sex, we want that spark to ignite fires.

Between these covers, you will meet many couples who have embraced the sweet life as more than a lovely phrase. They have made their fantasies into reality—even if only for a delicious moment. Some of these fantasies will be delightfully familiar while others emerge as new and inviting. Each offers up a taste of forbidden need, finally unleashed.

These stories are addictive, hot little reads. Girlfriends and wives try on schoolgirl outfits and strap-ons to discover what they’ve been missing. Boyfriends and husbands become doctors, headmasters, daddies—or simply do as they’re told and emerge more satisfied than ever. Lovers confess dark desires and inspire their partners to act on them; sweethearts scheme and take the upper hand. Couples add a woman, a man, or both to their already hot sexual encounters. Passion consistently takes precedent over taboo. There is nothing these lovers won’t try for each other, and it’s all here in twenty-one expertly crafted, arousingly explicit tales.

About the Author
Violet Blue is senior copywriter at Good Vibrations where she writes book and video reviews, which has her watching an awful lot of porn, and reading virtually everything imaginable written about sex. She is a sex columnist and a sex educator, and was the founding editor of the Good Vibrations Magazine. She is the author of two books on oral sex, The Ultimate Guide to Cunillingus and The Ultimate Guide to Felatio, forthcoming from Cleis Press. Visit her web site about all things oral, tinynibbles.com.

Customer Reviews

Sweet? Try Cloying...
'Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples' and I have essentially broken up by now. We've tried making it work for some months now, but the sexual chemistry just isn't there. It boils down to irreconcilable differences: I want something that is well-written and original; Sweet Life strives for as many cheap thrills as you can get with third-grade diction and vocabulary.

We gave it an earnest attempt at first: the wife and I got comfortable together and I read aloud the first five stories or so to her. Interest waned as it became apparent that certain phrases would be repeated throughout each tale. Phrases such as 'already erect', 'thrusting repeatedly', 'cries of pleasure' became commonplace, predictable. Every paragraph featured at least one superlative adjective.

Maybe if we'd built a drinking game around our reading-time ('Wet and slippery', take a drink!; 'So darn hard', take two drinks!), we could've made it work. But the inspiration wasn't there, so the inspiration wasn't there.

Besides droll repetition of stock erotica vocabulary, Sweet Life lacked the sophistication that I've come to desire in my fiction. I can't boast a collegiate background in literature, but I do appreciate it when my books can adroitly turn a phrase. I can count on Chuck Palahniuk's novels to titillate. Terry Pratchett does things with his sentences I didn't know were possible. And Stephen King, while getting on in years, still can work his prose into a frenzy, with a long-enough running start.

But Sweet Life's stories (with one exception, a doozy by Hanne Blank that has almost no sex in it) are, without fail, contrived, formulaic and cliché. Some examples:

'Although my internet-whiz husband spent his days in front of a computer screen, he kept in shape by by swimming laps at lunchtime at the health club next door to where he worked.'

'Negotiation has always been the hallmark of our relationship.'

'...it had literally been years...'

At 'literally', I nearly slammed the cover on Sweet Life, thinking, "There's just no excuse for this abuse of language in our relationship." But I kept my calm and just laughed it off, and let the distance grow naturally.

One day soon, I'll nonchalantly move the book to the cardboard box in the closet and the next thing it'll know, someone will be shelving it for purchase at the local thrift shop. And then I'll have completely moved on.

Sweet
I rate this book tops in its category and handy for all couples young and old for bedtime............

hot
My wife and I were never erotica readers before, and we really like this book. The stories are a good way to heat things up.