Cleis Press imprint: 438 books

Mark Pritchard is known for his intelligent, complex, and uncompromisingly graphic explorations of sexual taboos — from incest and drugs to S/M and sex among youth. How I Adore You, Pritchard’s new collection of stories, spans the erotic spectrum, with "riveting first-person views between...

Sweet Danger is a delicious confection and collection of exquisitely explicit stories. This carefully crafted erotica is specifically aimed at inspiring couples to act on their fantasies and long-held forbidden desires. Master editrix Violet Blue dares to ask the question,"What is YOUR deepest,...

Just Watch Me is a sassy selection of the very best erotica by women, for women. Hand-picked by Violet Blue from the Best Women's Erotica series, these stories should be read nice and slow so that every outrageous scenario can be savored. Sydney Beier's "Reading to Horst" follows an American...

Read Lips Like Sugar in private or aloud to your favorite bedmate. Or turn down the corner of your favorite story's opening page and slip the book into just the right spot, where someone is sure to discover it... Violet Blue is known for erotica anthologies depicting joyful, unabashed sex...

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2004 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

The Best Women’s Erotica series is known for its sexual honesty and intensity, presenting stories that tell the truth about women’s sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth. Now in its sixth year, with a whole new look, Best Women’s Erotica 2005 satisfies even the most sexually voracious...

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2003 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2001 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

The idea of a woman enslaved to her lover has captured the imagination of millions and created bestsellers such as The Story of O, Carrie's Story and 50 Shades of Grey. Top award-winning editor and writer D.L. King pulls back the velvet curtains to reveal a world where every sexual fantasy is realized,...

Richard Labonté is a self-confessed true romantic and it shows — Best Gay Romance 2011 covers every romantic possibility with first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between. Labonté has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work,...

Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, Best Gay Romance 2012 captures the raw energy of man-on man desire like no other. Once again, award-winning editor Richard Labonté has gathered hot, heart-pounding, tent-raising, gorgeous stories of no-holds-barred sex between men that will...

Best Gay Romance 2009 is short fiction at its finest on the subject of love—first love, true love, and love everlasting (with makeup sex, wake-up sex, and everything in between). The romantic possibilities range from a surprising encounter between two blue-collar buddies to a brief airport...

We all know the fairy tale. The handsome prince comes riding up on his white stallion and rescues the beautiful princess from her enchantment with a single kiss. Then they ride off together to live happily ever after. But what if the person longing for that handsome prince is a man himself? And, why...

An explicit collection of young adult erotica, Boy Crazy explores in heady detail the “first time:” the first time feeling lustful toward another boy, the first time falling into bed with a peer, the first time discovering love with another young man. This youthful collection relishes the thrill...