"My own work, Pub 2007. An intense look at the bond between a man and a preteen girl in his care. When the bond becomes sexual, fear of the consequence drives him to murder."
"My second novel. Drastic social changes make bisexuality the favoured norm in 2035, when Zorn, on holiday in France, seeks romance but finds instead love that involves a rite of passage"
"Pub. 2002. An account of the author's boyhood in a sexually liberated family of the seventies. Criticised as too fantastical to believe; having seen a few true goings on, I think it’s accurate."
"Pub. 2004, In Afghanistan, the guilt of a homosexual rape reveals ancient themes: the power of friendship, and the clash between good and evil that transcends passing governments such as the Taliban."
"Pub. 1979, the first of a wildly popular series about a family of incestuous children. Perhaps a bit tame by today’s standards, or perhaps still a shocker?"
""Pub. 1978. Anais Nin has been described as the greatest female author of erotica, and wrote this collection of short stories as a commission for a private collector.""
"Pub. ‘69, a Sci-fi classic years ahead of its time, with alien’s changing sex in response to the gender of potential partners. As usual with Le Guin, people are more important than technology."
"Pub. 1969. Greene, known for his bitter and melancholy novels, here examined the liberalism and joy of the sixties. A hilarious comedy of an elderly man’s discovery of his sexually disreputable aunt."
"Pub. ‘63, filmed ‘66 with Michael Caine. Comments on the easy sexuality of the Swinging Sixties. Refilmed 2004, Jude Law, but creating less stir. Different times, different shock values."
"Pub. 1960. Farmer has been known for many decades for his exploration of sexuality through his medium - sci-fi. In these five short stories he produces a family both strange and memorable."
"Pub. 1960, filmed 1962, represents the "kitchen sink drama" genre influencing society in the 50s and 60s. Interesting to help understand attitudes then, it deals with a casual sex ending in pregnancy"
"Pub. 1959, a masterpiece on England at the end of WWI, a time of endless summers where cars and telephones were a rarity. Also reveals the strange mixture of sexual prudery and laxity of those times"
"Due to its homoerotic content, this second novel by black American author James Baldwin aroused much controversy when published in 1956. Today it seems very mild, but was then considered very candid"
"Pub. 1955, the classic story of a man's lust for an underage girl. A study in selfishness and delusion, its complex layers of subtlety, have been analysed than any other work of erotic literature"
"Pub. 1955, The story of sexual adventures in Dublin, hailed as one of the greats of last century. Readers seem equally divided as to whether it is genius or trash. I find it leaning more to trash"
"Pub. 1951, when its story of teenage anger and sexuality shocked the USA. It has held cult status ever since. In 1981 it was the most challenged book, yet the second most taught in high schools"
"Pub. 1949. A future world of fear and oppression. As usual in oppressive societies, sex is taboo, and Winston rebels by the most basic of human rights: he loves a girl, Julia"
"Pub. 1934, the subject of an obscenity trial in 1961, an extreme example of an author's reaction to censorship. Praised by serious writers - including George Orwell - and damned as trash by others."
"Pub. 1930, Hesse's novel explores two polar opposites of the human character: Narzis, a disciplined scholar, and Goldmund, his pupil, an adventuring sensualist fascinated by the eternal feminine."
"Pub. 1928, Lawrence's most notorious novel on sexuality. Pub. in England in 1960, when it was prosecuted under the obscenity act. This failed prosecution did much to confirm the sixties as "Swinging.""
"Pub. 1922, banned as obscene in 1923. Follows the general pattern of many works read for sexual content: once the sexual part begins to bore, there's not much more in it to hold the reader's interest."
