Geography of Longing

Essays on Writing Erotica

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In erotica, you must get as close to life as possible. Work in the theater of now; the instant of each supple movement. Discover the origin of salt in your lovers flesh. Translate each stroke of sublime movement into monument of touch.

You (the writer), must excavate the body of language to create a geography of the beating heart — the pulse, the volcanic…