PURE FILTH! (Dark Desires - Maria del Rey)

Member Name: pan

Product:	Dark Desires - Maria del Rey
Date:	20/09/01 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: well written, imaginative, extremely pornographic

Disadvantages: none

Dark Desires – an erotic short story anthology enticingly subtitled as ‘The Bizarre Fantasies of Maria del Rey’ has just been re-issued as a Nexus Classic. Unlike most porno short story collections there’s more to the contents than a collection of different sexual scenarios designed to produce the maximum bang per buck (if you know what I mean). A good short story, in any genre, should draw the reader in, give us enough of the characters to engage our sympathy and then leave us with a twist in the tail or some other ending which makes the whole thing work. There’s a skill to writing good short stories, and unfortunately most writers of erotica either can’t or won’t bother. A lot of them read as though they’re straight from the letters pages of Men Only – need I say more?

Maria del Rey is, as many people have pointed out in the past, an honourable exception.

The stories in this collection work both as pornography (and pretty inventive porn at that), and also as short stories in their own right. However, if we’re honest, nobody buys a book like this because they want a literary treat. It’s finding the balance between the sexual and non-sexual content that this book scores so well.

Does it work as porn? There’s a great variety of themes on display here, most of it tinged with SM and fetishism, including cross-dressing, punishment, bondage and so on. Does it work? It certainly works for me.

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