EROTIC LITERATURE AND ESCORTS: EXCITING READINGS FOR A HOT WINTER IN IBIZA.
Winter is coming, Christmas is coming, and for many of us holidays and perhaps the only time of the year, especially for those of us who work in Ibiza, when we have enough time to be able to relax with reading a good book. And although there are all types of literary genres, in this article we are going to focus on a genre that has always been considered minor and even of very poor quality. While it is true that the famous trilogy of E.L. James "50 Shades of Grey" (2012, Editorial Grijalbo) was a revolution in erotic literature, setting sales charts on fire and even reaching the big screen, sex It has been a recurring theme in the history of letters in our world.
Historical Evolution of Erotic Literature.
Already in the year 1524, a book appeared in Italy that would occupy many curious people: "I Modi", the first erotic book published in history. Of course, it was not the first time that a material of this type was reproduced, although it was the first that was conceived for mass consumption.
The original book, whose first edition was destroyed by order of Pope Clement VII, was composed of 16 engravings by the artist Marcantonio Raimondi and were known as "The 16 Pleasures" since each of them reproduced explicit representations of sexual relations between mythological beings and historical figures.
There are those who, however, consider the work of Boccaccio "The Decameron" , written between 1348 and 1353, as the first erotic work of all time, although the 100 stories told by the ten protagonists that give the title to the work, combine in equal parts ingenuity, reflection, love, eroticism, virtue and fortune, all of them narrated with a masterful technique, although far from "warming up" today's society .
However, what we currently know as erotic literature does not begin to become a reality until 1928 with the novel by D.H.Lawrence "Lady Chatterlay's Lover" which narrates the love adventures of the aforementioned Lady with her servant while her husband serves in the First World War. This book, considered one of the main anti-feminist works, very explicitly describes the sexual relations between the protagonists, showing us sex as a force that does not understand classism in a era marked by social barriers.
On the other side of the ocean, Henry Miller warmed the minds of the most avid readers of torrid paragraphs with his Novels "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn", 1934 and 1938 respectively, both banned in the puritan United States of the 1930s and set in the 1920s in both Paris and New York , narrate Miller's own sexual adventures from a first-person point of view.
Long before the Gray phenomenon, Marayat Rollet-Andriane, a French novelist born in Thailand and better known as Emmanuelle Arsan, wrote the novel in 1959 "Emmanuelle", distributed in France clandestinely and published without the name of its writer. With explicit texts about sex and a stronger character than her predecessors, she saw two film adaptations. The first film from 1969 barely went unnoticed, while the second, from 1974, in which the Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel played the protagonist, was the first great success of erotic cinema of all time.
Violence and stark sex, in scenes like the rape, hard and explicit sex, without taboos, like the one with the "Mile High Club" dancer holding a lit cigarette with the vaginaand "smoking" with her genitals, or that of the protagonist's masturbation, caused rivers of ink to flow, being censored in many countries, including ours, and causing people to run en masse to France to visualize this and classic of the erotic.
In fact in the neighboring country, "Emmanuelle" has been one of the most played films in movie theaters, where it has been projected almost to this day.
" Emmanuelle" is and will continue to be an icon of softcore cinema, immediately associating the fetish image of the wicker chair with sex and masturbation.
Contemporary of "Emmanuelle" and perhaps overshadowed by its success on the big screen, it was published in 1954 "History of O" by the French Pauline Réage. This novel narrates the transition of a Parisian fashion photographer known as "O" to her voluntary conversion into a mere sexual object after entering as a submissive, with the condition of "Sex Slave" in a sado-masochist club with the intention of pleasing her master and lover René. All types of BDSM relationships are described very clearly in this book, from spanking to sodomy.
In 1955 Nabokov published his masterpiece "Lolita" and sets the networks on fire.
Claimed as pornographic and sick, the term Lolita is associated in some circles with terms such as pedophilia.
In its lightest form, a lolita is a sexually desirable teenager and has given rise to multiple sexual role plays as well as infinite fantasies.
Even on a musical level, the song "Moi, Lolita" by Alizee plays with Nabokov's eroticism with hot and insinuating lyrics like: "It's not my fault if as soon as I give up I see them ready to jump on me. It's not my fault if I hear around me hello, hello, you're a (L.O.L.I.T.A)"
A jump in time.
Despite these wonderful precedents, it can be said that the erotic narrative has been a minor genre within literature. Very identified especially with the female romantic novel of the late 20th century and early 21st century, in which light sext was translated into a couple of lines where the lovers They got tangled in satin sheets in adulterous or forbidden relationships and where the descriptions were superficial and superficial, we found some work that is saved from mediocrity to delve into the most sordid of sex.
With harsh and very clear descriptions, Almudena Grandes brings us with her book "The Ages of Lulú" (2004) where the protagonist marked by her first sexual relationship at the age of 15 abandons the reality in which she lives at the age of 30 to seek new sexual experiences in threesomes, orgies, rough sex and even relationships with transsexuals.
From 2003 is "Diary of a nymphomaniac" work by the writer and sexologist Valerie Tasso, narrated in an autobiographical way and where the similarity between both protagonists due to sexual satisfaction through relationships with strangers of all socioeconomic status and in unexpected places as a journey to fulfillment sexual.
The work, adapted to the big screen, had two furious enemies in both the community of Madrid and COPE who even managed to get that the premiere poster was censored in our capital.(Source: 20Minutes).
Judge for yourself if it's that bad.
Grey's shadow is long.
And we come to the crowning work of erotic literature:The "50 Shades of Grey" trilogy by E.L. James.It can be said that when practically the entire Western female population has had in their hands, either bought or borrowed this "Best Seller", which has given rise to rivers of ink in terms of criticism of all kinds and which became a BlockBuster when Universal Studios acquired its rights for just 5 million dollars.
When a virginal and naive literature student, Anastasia Steele, comes into contact with the promising billionaire businessman Christian Grey, it begins between They a relationship of seduction, power, submission and uncontrollable desire that will lead to the wildest, most humiliating and consensual relationships between Gray and Steele.
Sadism, manipulation and romantic love go hand in hand in this work in which Grey's phrase: "I don't make love, I fuck hard" summarizes a modus vivirdi that has ignited the minds and moistened the crotches of countless women in recent years.
Although it sounds cliché, and on this occasion it is, the strength of the descriptions of the purely sexual acts between the protagonists and the powerful narrative style of the author makes the book infinitely better than a movie, in which not only are the characters not believable at all, but from a good erotic book we went to a Soft Porn movie that has incredibly generated profits of almost 1 billion dollars and merchandising that ranges fromclothing and costumes to sex toys of all kinds.
Literature about Escorts
I wanted to finish this article by talking about the world of Escorts in literature. And what better way than to make the transition after talking about a trilogy that no longer has anything to prove to move on to a saga composed of 4 volumes that hooked me from its first lines, especially due to the proximity of the topic to this website.
"Calendar Girl" by Audrey Carlanis already considered by many readers to be the Grey's heir. On this occasion, Mia, twenty-four years old, becomes an "Escort" in a desperate attempt to save her father's debt. Twelve months and twelve different men with whom she accompanies, with whom she has sex and even falls in love.
The phrase: "I won't have to take off your clothes, you'll do it without me asking you. I'm not going to pay you to do it, you'll do it for me at one time or another" needs no further explanation and clearly summarizes what mentioned lines above since Mia will come to fall completely in love with Wes.
We have talked little about national eroticism except for Almudena Grandes, but another Spanish writer addresses the world of prostitution. It is in this case, Mari Cielo Pajares, who in her work "Yo Puta" puts us in the shoes of Antonia, Rita in her duality with a book with true anecdotes and in which in In many cases, the characters are taken from reality.
According to the writer, Antonia enters the world of prostitution as a result of a crisis that made her flee Spain (Source: El Mundo)
Already on the first page In the book we find the harsh reality defined by Antonia's words: «My name is Antonia, but let's be honest: fucking a Rita is not the same as fucking an Antonia. In every house there are Antonias, usually in a bathrobe, sick to death with children, exhausted from thinking about how to make ends meet and with little desire to have sex. But a Rita... A Rita is always willing to please."
About to finish, what better way to do it than with an old acquaintance.Valerie Tasso addresses the issue of prostitution in the continuation of "Memoirs of a Nymphomaniac."
In this novel, Valerie goes from being a luxury escort to a media star. This exclusive world portrayed in "Memoirs of a Public Woman" is the perfect setting for Valérie, without losing sight of her personal and open relationship with sex and literature, to cross boundaries never before crossed by her.
And we close with a work that is much less known but that surprises from the first to the last of its pages. In "Gigola" by Laure Charpentier, the protagonist is a young medical student, Laure, who suffers the hard trauma of remembering her only love, Sybil, who disappeared prematurely to transform his beloved into a nocturnal animal that dresses in a tuxedo, combs his hair elegantly and walks with elegant arrogance.
An old millionaire lesbian, Odette, who in the autumn of her existence still insists on delighting with young girls to satisfy her pleasure will be the test of overcoming disgust to achieve what is set in the road book. This book harshly portrays the world of the "garçonnes", lesbian prostitutes for women who marked an entire era in Paris in the 70s.
IbizaTops. Give yourself a treat.
