Erotic Fiction
Erotic Fiction: While there are substantial quantities of written pornographic works, very few of these come near the standards of the best of mainstream literature.
Works of significant literary merit than can be classed as erotic/romantic literature include:
- The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
- The Story of O by Pauline Réage
- Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Bicycle Rider by Guy Davenport
Many women (and men?) find genre romantic novels to be powerfully erotic.