[QUOTE]Originally posted by bbeale7
[B]The erotic story's to Dickens or Van gouh makes me cringe.

These are storys that we read to put a little spice in our meager live's

My apologies, if I 'Shanghai'ed' your thread, my friend, (sorry -- a little Jade Pavilion humor, there), but just as there is room for Beethoven, Gershwin, Lennon, and Tupac Shakur under the umbrella of music, there ought to be room for Raphael and Matisse and Bishop under the parasol of art and for Cervantes and Dickens and Pauline Reage (The Story of O) under that of literature.

It ought to be possible for an erotic story, like a nude by Rubens or Renoir, to be at once aesthetically pleasing and stirringly sensual.

In erotica one ought to be able to have one's, ummm, cake, and eat it too. :-)

Boccaccio