- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: CLEIS PRESS; 1 edition (April 17 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1573441228
- ISBN-13: 978-1573441223
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 313 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #612,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From School Library Journal
Though only two syllables long, zaftig has a certain voluptuousness about it, much like a dollop of chocolate. Derived from Yiddish, it means "juicy." Organized in response to America's ongoing obsession with bony slimness, this collection of 18 tales celebrates the love handle, the stretch mark, the double chin, and the double-D cup in other words, the plus-size woman (straight and gay) as well as what Blank (editor, Big, Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them) calls "the liberatory power of sex." Erotica, regardless of its focus, should spark the libido, but the selections here are often too obvious in their come-ons and cringingly girl-power-political. In Eleanor Brown's "Breathing Lessons," for example, a woman's cathartic love-making session is spliced with vignettes of her as a self-loathing chubby girl: "Our mothers' eyes are joyless as they surrender their credit cards to clothe their fat daughters." And so on. Though it raises some excellent questions about femininity and sexuality, Zaftig isn't as juicy as it should be. For larger erotica or gay/lesbian collections only. Heather McCormack, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Though only two syllables long, zaftig has a certain voluptuousness about it, much like a dollop of chocolate. Derived from Yiddish, it means "juicy." Organized in response to America's ongoing obsession with bony slimness, this collection of 18 tales celebrates the love handle, the stretch mark, the double chin, and the double-D cup in other words, the plus-size woman (straight and gay) as well as what Blank (editor, Big, Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them) calls "the liberatory power of sex." Erotica, regardless of its focus, should spark the libido, but the selections here are often too obvious in their come-ons and cringingly girl-power-political. In Eleanor Brown's "Breathing Lessons," for example, a woman's cathartic love-making session is spliced with vignettes of her as a self-loathing chubby girl: "Our mothers' eyes are joyless as they surrender their credit cards to clothe their fat daughters." And so on. Though it raises some excellent questions about femininity and sexuality, Zaftig isn't as juicy as it should be. For larger erotica or gay/lesbian collections only. Heather McCormack,"Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring and Fulfilling, but Unarousing,
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This review is from: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (Paperback)
I commend the book for pioneering a new section of the genre of erotica. I definitely found several real gems in the book that made it worth 10 times it's buying price, like "Breathing Lessons," and "Flesh Love," real works of absolute art. I've read them over and over and over, particularly "Breathing Lessons", which makes me cry every time. But I didn't find these two particularly erotic.On the negative side, I didn't really feel like it focused on the desires of the average reader. This wouldn't have bothered me so much, except that since this is the only book that I know of that focuses on the zaftig figure, so I would have hoped for something that was perhaps a little less broad in it's ambitions. At times it even sort of felt like a compilation of obscure fetishes, like in the story "How Loretta Got a Schlong" - weird, not exotic, not quirky, not on the edge, just weird. There were several of those, like sex with a very old man, or masturbating with an idol which then becomes a fat gay man who then has sex with his male lover and then turns into a woman. It also felt as if most of them focused on butch lesbians - which had their place to be certain, but it really felt like they were the spot light. All of these would have been fine in a book several times it's length. Overall, this is absolutely worth purchasing, but I wouldn't really plan on being aroused, it's just a really good read. You'll find maybe one or two that make you breathe heavily or move your soul, and they really are absolutely worth it. I'll be the first to buy a sequel if it comes out! Really, honest to goodness worth the money.
4.0 out of 5 stars
...YUMMMY!,
By Denise (Ohio, for now) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (Paperback)
At first I didn't know what to expect reading this book. And while some of the short stories are a reach to reality...all I needed some privacy, a lil' chocolate and smoke for afterwards!
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than Erotica Stories..,
By Denise (Ohio, for now) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (Paperback)
I didn't know what to expect when I started reading this book.., but I wish someone had really warned me! I haven't been able to find anyone who shares my same drive for sex and erotica, unitl I read this book. All I needed was this book, some privacy and a little bit of chocolate, and I was a very satisfied woman!
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