Erotica Readers and Writers Association
Founded in 1996, the Erotica Readers & Writers Association (ERWA) has become an important and trusted source of information for people who enjoy sensuality, the pleasures of reading erotica, and the challenges of writing erotica.
For an international community interested in the provocative world of erotica, ERWA provides a website which serves as a reference and resource site for authors, a forum for discussions about sexuality, and as a showcase gallery for erotic fiction and poetry.
For six years, ERWA has realized steady growth and has been commended by Playboy, ELLE magazine, AVN online magazine, cited in 2002 by Writer's Digest as "One of the Best Website For Writers," and recommended in a host of books and articles as the premier reference and resource for erotica readers and writers. Every month ERWA entertains, educates and provides information for over 900,000 people interested in erotica.
ERWA website, updated monthly, consists of 10 sections; each section providing current, in-depth information.
- Books for Sensual Readers: Offers monthly title notices, book reviews and recommendations for anthologies and novels of all persuasions. Included are Black Lace, Nexus, and Blue Moon book titles, sex guides, nonfiction and erotic art and photography books.
- Author Resources: Writers (including M. Christian, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Susie Bright and others) address important issues and concerns about authorship, provide information about writing classes, recommend books for help with the technical side of writing (dictionaries, thesauri and more), how to publish and who to publish with. Also included: current calls for submissions, market information, and copyright issues.
- Smutters Lounge: Where authors and readers pursue the ins and outs of erotica and sexuality via articles, interviews and opinions.
- Erotica Gallery: Consists of five galleries of original erotic fiction and poetry, and monthly special theme features.
- Inside the Erotic Mind: Dedicated to issues of sexuality, sex information, and sexual concerns. Interactive discussions cover dozens of subjects including fisting, blind dates, female ejaculation, cyber sex, erotic lactation, fantasies, anal sex, oral sex, gang bangs, who is wearing speedos, swallowing vs spitting and why, and much more.
- Sex Toy Playground: Provides sex toy reviews and recommendations. Featured are articles, written by Anne Semans, on what, why and how of individual toys, and suggest ways they can enliven sex play. Anne Semans is author of The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex, The Mother's Guide to Sex, The Woman's Guide to Sex on the Web, and editor of Sex Toy Tales.
- Best Adult Videos: What's this video stuff doing on a website dedicated to readers and writers? We just couldn't help ourselves; it's the visual beast within, drooling. In this section we review and recommended adult videos including Classics of the 70s and 80s, present day award winners, Lesbian, Gay, and Fetish videos, Sex education videos, and the softer side of porn. Special consideration is given to outstanding directors such as Candida Royalle, John Leslie, Paul Thomas and Michael Ninn.
- Music to Set the Mood: Perhaps music soothes the savage beast; we rather arouse the beast. In this section ERWA web users recommend music that sets the mood for a sweet romantic interlude, or a savage raunchy screw.
- Portfolio of Links: A provocative collection of links dedicated to authors, readers, viewers and seekers of erotica. Carefully select sites offer quality content and ease of use.
- Website of the Month: Our monthly choice of the best the Internet has to offer.
