Christmas reading

Lots of sex bloggers have done some sort of ‘review of 2014’ over the last couple of weeks, many under the umbrella of the Bad Girl Blogger meme. I’ve even been mentioned in a few of them, something for which I’m both incredibly grateful and maybe just a little bit shy. I’m not going to do a proper round-up of what and who I’ve read this year: most of the sites I hit up regularly can be found in my sidebar, and those that can’t are either closely-guarded secrets or people to whom I clearly owe an apology!

What I am going to do is help y’all out with your Christmas Day entertainment. After the presents have been opened and the turkey’s been eaten, it’s not unusual for time to drag somewhat. If you don’t want to watch the <insert TV show here> Christmas special, and you weren’t blessed by Santa with a decent book or two, the temptation to open your laptop and explore other options can be hard to resist. Well here are those options. One story, op-ed, review, or general piece of distraction/entertainment from some of the writers and bloggers who have made my year so much more interesting than it would otherwise have been.

These choices are subjective, of course (and some of them were really fucking hard!). The authors themselves will, I’m sure, feel like I could’ve picked something better, or more representative of their work, for this list. Too bad. Each piece is one that I loved when I read it (several are why I started reading that writer in the first place), and I hope that if you’re at a loose end on Christmas Day – or at any other point over the festive period – you might enjoy a few of them too. As a collection, they’re sexy, sad, angry, thoughtful, wistful, filthy, funny, and – without exception – super-smart. In other words, a pretty fair representation of their authors.

So, in alphabetical order:

• Abbi Rode: Some of The Best Head Ever
• Bangs & Whimpers: On the sofa
• Cara Sutra: Eroticon 2014 – the UK’s erotic writing conference
• Cava Supernova: The sheer poetry of fucking a homophobe’s sweet, prejudiced arse
• Charlie in the Pool: Your Turn
• Charlie Powell: Cream doesn’t rise: the state of UK erotica*
• Doris Daze: How Ryan Gosling Rescued My Sex Life
• Dumb Domme: he doesn’t swallow
• Ella Dawson: Everything I know about sex writing I learned from Taylor Swift*
• Gaby Dunn: Am I the Only Woman Who Likes Getting a Picture of a Guy’s Junk?
• Girl on the Net: On the Doxy Massager*
• Horny Geek Girl: I love…
• Jade Waters: You Always Remember Your First
• Jilly Boyd: Necessary Sex – Which is not like Emergency Sex
• Juniper Three: Wedding
• Malin James: On Prowess*
• Maria Sibylla: Hotel
• Molly Moore: Mother’s Ruin
• Oleander Plume: Writing Dirty*
• Seaside Slut: Dirty encounters: Giving head to my 1000th Twitter follower
• Tamsin Flowers: Don’t Speak
• Vida Bailey: A long-winded post about fat-shaming and sexuality

Merry fucking Christmas!

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* These were the most difficult pieces to pick, because their authors have written so many brilliant posts and stories over the last 12 months. I agonised over all five of them, and for that reason I guess they have to go down as my unofficial ‘best of the best’ for 2014.