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<p>Some <a href="http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/16137/das-kolumne-how-to-write-erotic-fiction.html" target="_self">tips</a>:</p>
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<p>Readers who seek out erotica tend to be motivated more out of curiosity  and boredom than actual lust. So the goal is not to be explicit in your  depictions of sex. Rather, you should endeavor to make the sexuality in  your fiction mysterious and surprising. Since even the most peculiar sex  acts have already been well-documented at this point, the best way to  keep readers guessing is to introduce them to new body parts. The simple  addition of a prehensile lobe protruding from the nape of your  heroine’s neck or an extra sinus cavity concealed coquettishly in her  armpit is all you need to provide your readers with a much needed  thrill.</p>
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<p>Or you could <a href="http://therumpus.net/2012/07/saturday-history-lesson-that-time-edith-wharton-wrote-erotica/" target="_self">follow</a> Edith Wharton&#39;s lead. In an outline for the story &quot;Beatrice Palmato,&quot; Wharton annotated the following as &quot;unpublishable&quot;:</p>
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<p>As his hand stole higher, she felt the secret bud of her body swelling,  yearning, quivering hotly to burst into bloom. Ah, here was his subtle  forefinger pressing it, forcing its tight petals softly apart, and  laying on their sensitive edges a circular touch so soft and yet so  fiery that already lightnings of heat shot from that palpitating center  all over her surrendered body, to the tips of her fingers and the ends  of her loosened hair.</p>
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<p>(Photo via Copyranter, who <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/sleazy-in-store-ad-stunt-for-50-shades-of-grey" target="_self">writes</a>, &quot;Vintage Books should place one of these in front of every display of the BSDM &quot;classic&quot; [<em>Fifty Shades Of Grey</em>]&quot;)</p>
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