Provocative Erotica

Word lover that I am, I want to recommend some erotic anthologies from my library:

The Ecstatic Moment, edited by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp, 1997, Dell Publishing. From the pages of Libido: The Journal of Sex and Sensibility.
"Over 40 superb stories and poems come together in a daring collection of sensual fantasies, taboo-breaking romps, and forbidden liaisons."

Best Women's Erotica 2010, edited by Violet Blue, 2010, Cleis Press.
"Best Women's Erotica 2010 delivers ecstatic, heady, and heart-pounding thrills . . . and showcases the most daring, best-written erotica of the year."

The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, edited by David Lehman, 2008,
Scribner Poetry.
"Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate . . . exuberant sensuality. With candor and imagination, they capture the pleasures and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, desire, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy."

Enjoy.

Belated Valentine's Day Words

Here are some words that are evocative of love, romance, sex--in all their intoxicating variety. See if you can find a way to incorporate some of them into your life soon:

alluring
callipygian: possessing a shapely derriere
concupiscent: lustful
curvaceous
lascivious
nubile
ogle
racy
risque
seductive
shapely
steamy
toothsome
voluptuous
wanton

A Few Quotes

Cecil B. DeMille returned a script to a screenwriter with the following note: "What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I am dissatisfied with."

My father gave me a bat for Christmas.
The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

                                             -- Rodney Dangerfield

I wasn't kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth.

                                            -- Chico Marx

Humor from Richard Lederer

Student bloopers (published in The Revenge of Anguished English, 2005):

The gift that the Phoenicians gave to civilization was Phoenician blinds.
The four gospels were written by John, Paul, George, and that other guy.
The ship that brought the first settlers to the new world was the Cauliflower.
Someone who runs for an office he already holds is called an incompetent.
The author of The Communist Manifesto was Harpo Marx.

Urban Dictionary

A few words from Urban Dictionary that you perhaps could sprinkle into a conversation when the occasion is right:

ego search: to search for one's own name online. Also called "ego surfing."
ridonkulous: completely absurd and laughable
sammich: a sandwich, with connotations of extra goodness. For example, if you pour gravy on a roast beef sandwich, you then have a roast beef sammich.

Women With "Flowery" Names

Why are some women named Rose or Daisy, but you rarely encounter a woman named Snapdragon or Aspidistra?

Funny Words

Which do you prefer: birdbrain or bumpkin? Clod or cretin? Dolt or dunce? Dweeb or flunky? Galoot or goon? Hayseed or ignoramus? Lout or lummox? Nitwit or nudnik? Oaf or pissant? Quack or schmo? Stooge or twerp? Twit or yokel?

Enliven your day tomorrow: try using one or more of these words. Surely you'll have at least one occasion to do so, and if you do, let me know what sort of reaction you caused.