In the dim light of a hotel bedroom, a cool blonde sheds her clothes and her arrogance in the arms of two strangers...

Beneath the blue skies of California an unhappy woman explores the exquisite pleasure of adulterous revenge...

Among the elegant surroundings of a Parisian salon, two sisters cast aside the chains of their past in an orgy of frankness...

Here are the excerpts from a baker's dozen of classic erotic works from the past one hundred years and more. These include literary rarities such as Pleasure-Bound Afloat, With Open Mouth and The Cousins, as well as candid confessions from Frank Harris's My Life and Loves and Walter's My Secret Life, the most notorious sexual autobiography ever written.