Erotic Prose Review : Erotica from Penthouse Volume I & II

Yeah, if you are actually buying the Penthouse magazine (and not saving up your coins for the more erotically densely packed titles like the micro sized Penthouse Forums) then one of the few things your reading Penthouse the Magazine for is it’s erotica (be it the letters from readers and other prose erotica within). Well, from the early 90’s on Penthouse began to publish a long string of books that collected up all this prose erotica from it’s pages for you to have, this being what seemingly is the first entry of the set (Erotica from Penthouse Volume I & II).

According to the teaser on the front jacket flap this book is all about “True Stories. Real People. Great Sex.” which is all true, because if you are a regular (or occasional accidential reader) then you know that their readership has been sending the most provocative letters to Penthouse in this side of forever (though I still think you’ll get more for your buck reading Penthouse Forums than the main magazine).

Filled with the contents of the first two Penthouse Erotica books, it has just about everything you’d want out of a good erotica book with little exception or complaint out of me. The first book is split up into “flavors” of sexual release, each with their own particular topic.

In “Not Just Your Average Relationship” we have such things as “Our First Vibrator” … yeah, and just imagine how much more endearing this whole story would have been if it was a gift between lesbians and not a guy giving it to his lady because she wanted it so.

“Sex During Divorce”… hmm… objection?

“Sex Rites” cover things like “Morning Before Erection”, “Dial S for Sex”, “Sex in the Dark” and “Fantasy Game” (featuring a white leather binder, pages of photos of couples in various stages of undress, and a three minute time limit to strip down, act out then dress back up again… won’t most of the time be wasted dressing/undressing?)

“Desperately Seeking Adventure”, aka “Say What?!?”
Some are… well… there’s “Lesbian Express” which actually isn’t as hot as you think it should be (nor does it actually take place on a train though part of the story does have a train in it).
As for the rest? “I Was A Coke Whore”, “I Slept With A Gangster” and “The Lesbian Who Loved Men” (No, no, no, no, no! You’re supposed to get your lesbian license revoked if you love men! At the very least you get downgraded to “bisexual”!)

Oral Histories, The Comedy of Sex (huh?), Girl Talk, A Fly On The4 Locker Room Wall (“The Deflowering of a Lesbian Stripper” (if she’s the one with the guy again I have to say that doesn’t that technically make her bisexual and NOT lesbian?) Oh, and let’s not forget “The Family Mistress” (every family needs one).

The second book is a string of tales of all sorts, getting away from the themed chapters of the first book. This one I have to say I liked better than the first because it’s got quite a few interesting stories (and more interesting lesbian tales to boot). Quite a few different scenarios (no themes), more interesting tales and overall better in all respects. The first half just warmed you up for this half, enjoy it.

Overall while I’m not a big fan of the first half of the book (the first volume), the second more than covers for the first half and rounds out the selection nicely. Nice bedstand material for becoming inspired with that special someone you love (and after the story is over you’ll hopefully get more than a milk and cookies for your reward… though milk isn’t all bad, reference back to the lady pouring milk down her naked body from the start of the Milk Mama review… just make sure it’s your girlfriend slash significant other slash life mate doing it lest you get charged by the glass.

So let’s see, it’s Penthouse so it’s good (but the first volume isn’t as good as the second, which is par for the course since not every letter in any given issue of Penthouse or Penthouse Forums is solid gold either), and if you’re looking for something for your bedroom reading shelf that is prose erotica of solid quality you can’t go wrong with the Penthouse line of erotica novels. 4 bisexuals in lesbian clothing out of 5.