Sometimes it seems that everyone with a keyboard, an internet connection, and a lurid thought or two are trying their hand at literary erotica these days. From my feature for the July issue of X Biz World magazine:
“I craved sexy stories; really good, really hot, sexy stories,” Benedicks says. “Much to my disappointment, all I found were boring, mechanical scenes with a lot of ‘Ohhh my Gawd, I’m cumming’ nonsense. Quantity does not translate into quality. Unfortunately too many people believe that if they can fuck, they can write erotica, and if they can write naughty little emails to turn on a lover, they can write erotica, which is hardly the case.”
So Benedicks founded ERWA, which today attracts 468,000 unique monthly users and is based on what she describes as a viable and successful business model.
Our own Valentine Bonnaire even gets in a comment or two. Read Stories For Sale by yours truly.
Hoorah for quality erotica! I started to write a really, really long anecdote about the horrible things (both in quality and in effects on sanity) you can find on the internet with the wrong search results, but I guess we all know about that…
…don’t we?