Temptress Reading Club

These pages pulse with desire, power, and the erotic imagination, taking you, my dear, from the intimate and forbidden to the bold and transgressive. Let these books seduce your mind, awaken your fantasies, and make you feel the heat of ideas that linger long after the last page…

Georges Bataille — Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Herbert Marcuse — Eros and Civilization

Audre Lorde — Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Luce Irigaray — This Sex Which Is Not One

Anne Carson — Eros the Bittersweet

Paul B. Preciado — Pornotopia: Playboy and the Invention of the Sexual Revolution

Paul B. Preciado — Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

Morgane Billuart — Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed: Inquiries in Female Health Technologies

Donna Haraway — A Cyborg Manifesto

Legacy Russell — Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

James Bridle — New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School

Chris Kraus — I Love Dick

Susan Sontag — The Pornographic Imagination (essay)

Laura Mulvey — Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

McKenzie Wark — Raving

Sally Rooney — Normal People

Liv Strömquist — Fruit of Knowledge