I am an erotica writer.
You can find The Provocateur's stories on my website:
www.provocateurerotica.com
In February of 2007 I began this project, of writing erotica. An editor of a local art and music review, I have spent my adult life publishing poetry, non-fiction and short fiction. However, this erotica project has been a truly transformational endeavor and the response I have received from my constantly-expanding readership has been profound. Within this I have grown into a new, unadulterated and honest self that is finally unafraid of my emotional, physical and sexual history.
Like Pauline Reage said, after she wrote her seminal work, The Story of O, The Provocateur's erotica has been coming out of me just as it does when, "you speak in the dark when you've held back the words of love too long and they flow out at last." Like Reage, I have found myself writing, "without hesitation, without stopping, rewriting or discarding..." In this, I am writing as Reage was: in the way "one breathes, or dreams..."
The stories I write and publish are true.
"Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy."
- Giacamo Casanova
"Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love."
- Lester Bangs
"The creation of a story is a quest for meaning."
- Anais Nin
"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained - and in being restrained it does by degrees become passive until at last it is nothing but the shadow of a desire."
- William Blake
