Erotica

"Erotica" often has undertones of "love," or "eros," or soft mushy pastel-ly sweetness. Write a piece that is "erotic."

Pornography

"Pornography" often has undertones of something provocative, intentionally arousing, hardcore, sleazy. Take the piece you wrote as "erotica" and re-write it as "pornography."

Most Recent Exposure to Porn

What was your most recent exposure to porn?

First Exposure to Porn

What was your first exposure to porn?

Coming Out Letter

Take five minutes to start a letter to a significant ancestor (Hello Daddy, Hello Mom) or former lover to let them know you are a sexual being. "Dear Daddy..." Try it.

The Worst Fuck I Ever Had....

Finish this sentence in five minutes or less.

The Best Fuck I Ever Had....

Finish this sentence in five minutes or less.

Most forbidden adult sexual act

Five minutes. What was it?

Most forbidden childhood sexual act

What was it? Making out with your cousin? The girl next door? Riding the corner of the coffee table?

Great in Bed

Write a brag or boast about your sexual prowess. (You may want to direct it toward the object of your affections.)

Genre-Bending Exercise

(This exercise is inspired by Susie Bright's suggestions in How to Read/Write a Dirty Story) Give yourself five minutes to write an erotic scene in the language and imagery of any (or each) of the following:

science fiction, Penthouse letter, historical epic, bodice ripper, gothic, technical manual, cheesy "softcore" erotica, hardcore, beatnik, chick-lit, hip hop, poetic, white trash, urban sophisticate...and/or make up your very own genre!

What arouses you?

Any image, sense-object, fantasy, thought, music, food, landscape...whatever...that actually arouses you.

I surprised myself that I came really hard when…

Describe a small erotic gesture that turned you on...

Was it the time your sweetheart rolled around on his back naked, kicking his feet in the air? Was it the slow wink, the fast tongue flicker over dinner conversation? The back arching after writing a blog post? The eyes dropping down, half-mast, while the mouth drooled a little as s/he saw you walk in?

My object d'art

Well, not art so much as a precious object. With this little marvel of working class technology, I learned to masturbate.

My older brother and I would play "sharks." We had to stay up on the furniture - there were sharks on the ocean floor. Somehow we got in the habit of "reacharging" after particularly exhausting trips around the living room. I grabbed the bowling pin my parents used as a doorstop and embraced it.

It was half my size (I was only 3). At some point I noticed that if I topped it and pushed juuuust right, I'd get some fine results.

I was in my early 20s before I finally realized it was indeed an orgasm - it certainly didn't seem like anything I'd seen on TV or in movies, and wasn't anything I had experienced (until then) during sex. I thought I had discovered something else, and was in fact non-orgasmic.

To this day I get a little turned on at the thought of entering a bowling alley...

Describe an image from a book or movie that really turned you on...

It could be Harvey Keitel's fingertips brushing against the back of Holly Hunter's neck in "The Piano." It could be all those thunderstorms in Wuthering Heights, the full frontal of Ewan McGregor as Iggy Pop in "Velvet Goldmine." It could Pamela Anderson in "Baywatch" or "Barb Wire." Halle Berry in "Catwoman." You name it. What turned you on?

Finish this sentence: "The most engaging of all the senses for me is..."

Post Your Own Object

So feel free to post an image or suggest an inocuous (i.e. not yr usual fantasy fare) object that other contributors can run wild with. Take 5-10 minutes to write a sexy or erotically charged story featuring the object.

Inanimate Object Lesson

Take 5-10 minutes and write a sexy story involving THIS inanimate object!

Show and Tell

Look around you. Pick an ordinary object, a seemingly inocuous object even, and let your erotic imagination run wild with it. Time yourself; limit your erotic story with this inanimate object go 5-10 minutes.

I'm a Pervert Because...

What did you and/or your mother call your vagina?

...if your vagina got dressed up, what would it wear? What music would it listen to?

...if your vagina could talk, what would it say, in 2-3 words?

...if your vagina were a place, where would it be?

What is the story of your vagina? Hit all the milestones... illness, pregnancy, virginity, first orgasm, last orgasm, shaving, piercing, birth, etc.

Write your own Erotic Manifesto.

Check out Susie Bright's "Erotic Manifesto" for inspiration!

Your assignment: masturbate and write about it

That's right. This is a weekly homework assignment for the Gynomite "Breaking the Cherry" workshop. Homework was never so much fun!