For me, the greatest erotica is measure more in what isn't said than what is.
Since the mind is clearly the biggest sex organ, a great story should paint a scene, but leave room for the mind to wander a little... when everything is 100% spelled out, the graphic details actually starts to become tiresome.
That's not to say you can't use 'fuck' or 'aching cock' etc... it's fine... but I would wager that anybody who really enjoys eroticism in their real life would say it's far more about 'situation' and far less about what physically happens.
A man (or woman) can touch you and it be heaven, or it can be hell.. it's not the touch that makes the difference, but the intent, the moment, the atmosphere.
A good story will play on those aspects.
Phrases to avoid:
"her steaming cunt hole"
"throbbing member"
"dripping cunt juices"
oh, I can't carry on....I'm starting to get aroused.
Any mention of throbbing gristle unless in connection with Genesis
When I'm reading erotica I am imagining what is happening. Not just the throbbing member entering throbbing hole etc etc etc but the whole body. What the hands are doing, the mouth, even the shape of the back.
So the most off putting thing is stuff like "Fred rammed her pussy from behind while she suck on his balls." Just how long is her neck supposed to be ffs?
I would far rather have less detail on the ins and outs in favour of some anatomical accuracy. Oh and repetion of the same phrase. They work once, but not twice in the same story.
I'm kind of caught between things here...
For me it depends entirely on context. I dislike it muchly when sexual swear words are used in an aggressive context. "I ram fucked her glistening cunt pocket" or whatever. However there are times when those words can be sexy, but the skill is knowing when to use them. Reading them cold from a page just makes them seem somewhat aggressive and a little desperate.
However somewhat worse is the flowery imagery that some use. "I vigorously thrust my heaving stallion-esque member inside her furry sausage pocket and lo, enrapture did follow and much smiling was begat with the gentle scent of lillies and tiny pixies floating above her as the orgasm swept over her like waves onto a previously deserted beach, that didn't even have a few sandcastles and an errant dog-turd to keep it company..."
Two of the sexiest words in the English language... Inner thigh...
In Edit : I don't like Animal-Sexual couplings much... Dog-Fucked, Horse-Whipped, Pussy-Mounds, Beaver-licked. To me we are just a few short yards away from Frog-Sucking, Polecat-juicing and Monkey-felching.
Excuse me if this sounds a tad up one's arse (seeing as I started the thread) but I'm actually finding this very interesting reading! :thumbup:
I find literary erotica often seems to inhertit the same preconceptions as visual porn - that it needs to be graphic to be erotic. Horses for courses I guess, but it's not what I look for in porn or in erotic literature.
For exampe, why does the porn industry insist that pleasure can only be achieved by sequentially having oral sex -> vaginal sex -> anal sex -> pulling out and ejaculating on face/back/breasts* ? I must be doing something very wrong! :shock:
*delete as appropriate
In the same way, written submissions seem to focus on the graphic aspects, whereas some of the sexiest scenes can be found in non-erotic books, where the reader is led to conclude that the act has been achieved without recourse to anatomical descriptions.
BTW Nola.... you're right.... it is interesting. ;-)
Hilarious!! Me and pom literally cried with laughter ... a literary classic!!
A phrase I haven't heard for a long time, thank goodness is an expression of deep penetration;
'Up to my nuts in guts'
I have visions of a bloke wading through offal. Just Gross!
Gleaming orbs is a phrase from a 70's mag that stuck in my mind. We shall not see its like again.
i just have to say that I read this while i was 'away' and its one of the funniest things ive read in a long time!
Put me in mind of a line in a John Godber play......
"take her for a meal, then try and knob her one"
throbbing gristle makes me :shock:
I hate it when there's a phrase like "I pounded her with my meat" - nauseous.
:x 
uke: :shock:
Naturally... where d'ya want me?! :wink: 
