As you can see from the graphic standing proudly ovehead, I did it.

On November 1st, I sat staring at a blank screen, with a head half-filled with a vague idea of a story and a few pages of notes I’d scribbled on a boring train journey six months ago. At 9pm on November 30th, I typed the word ‘with’. I’d be the first to admit it’s not the most spectacular of words. It certainly wasn’t the first time I’d typed it this month. But what made that particular ‘with’ a rather remarkable word was the fact that it was the fifty thousandth word I’d typed since I started working on “The Sisters” some thirty days before.

It’s not all glory though. I’ve completed 50000 words, which was the challenge I accepted from the bods at NaNoWriMo … but I haven’t completed “The Sisters” yet. I’ve still got quite a few thousand words ahead of me. Maybe as many as another 50000. And without NaNoWriMo pushing me to produce an average of 1667 words a day, it may take me a little while to get the first draft of the story completed.

And then there will be the second draft.

Oh my – what have I started?

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For those who think I’ve been rather inactive on the writing front for a while … you’re absolutely right. I’ve been sat on my duff, eating and drinking heartily, singling merrily, and dancing like a man with legs of uneven length and pants full of ants. Writing of any sort has been the last thing on my mind. In fact, I’ve gone out of my way not to be left alone with a keyboard. I even considered selling my house just so I wouldn’t have to go in my study this month.

Alas, my reticence where writing was concerned was bound to dry up eventually. A little while ago, a fellow blogger mentioned that she was about to celebrate her blogiversary, and she asked if I would consider writing something to mark the occasion. And being a man who doesn’t like disappointing women, I said I’d try and come up with a suitable piece.

So if you’d like to read it, you’ll need to take a little trip over to From There To Here, where you can read my new tale of Eros, The Falls.

In the meantime … a happy, successful and – most importantly of all – peaceful New Year to you all.

I almost didn’t bother mentioning this, but in the end, I thought: What the hell. It’s a reasonably significant event. And something of an achievement, too. So here goes.

It’s exactly five years since Easily Aroused first appeared. Happy birthday to me.

I plan on doing something special to celebrate half a decade of relatively creative filth. Once I know what that is, I’ll let you all know too.

~EA

Edit:

Thank you to all those who’ve taken the time to send me their best wishes – they’re all much appreciated. For those who are interested in reading the work from my archives, check out EA in Print. As a bonus, here are a couple of check out codes you can use at Lulu.com to bring the price of your purchases down:

VOLCANO: 10% off the total price of your order

FREEMAILUK305: £2.99 towards the cost of postage

Unfortunately, the codes can’t be used in combination with each other, or any other offers.

It’s been almost a year since I last changed the appearance of Easily Aroused. I’d meant to do it when the five-year anniversary came around, but the blog was being hosted by WordPress.com, and the choice of included themes was too limited to tempt me to change the design’s previous incarnation.

My foster home has been good to me, taking me in when I decided to give up my own web space. But if truth be told, I’ve missed the autonomy that comes with self-hosting, and so I’ve taken the plunge once more. I’m going to leave the WordPress.com version of Easily Aroused intact until the end of this month, and then it’s going to be deleted. So if you want to keep reading, make sure you’ve reset your browser’s bookmark to http://www.easilyaroused.co.uk/. And if you’ve been good enough to include a link to my blog on your own site, then I respectfully request that you change it to the same URL.

~EA

When I first started posting my erotic writing on-line back in April 2005, I never imagined that I’d still be doing so more than half a decade later (the actual anniversary was referred to back here). And yet here I am.

So as we’ve just added yet another digit to the running year count, I thought it might be appropriate to mark the occasion.

ПЯТЬ – aka [five] – is a hardback-only volume of my collected work covering the entire period I’ve been writing : 2005 to 2010. More than 70 stories, over 260 pages of intense, passionate, sensual erotica for you to ease into your book case … or for you to slip beneath your pillow, where you can keep it close at hand.

So if you still have some Christmas gift money burning a hole in your pocket, allow me to make your buying decisions a little easier by guiding you in the direction of Lulu.com….

And just to keep your juices flowing (contrary to what you might think given my occupation, pun unintended) there’s another new book coming out very, very soon … a collection of brand new erotic fiction called ‘Concupiscent‘. You’ll hear about it right here….

As I mentioned a little while ago, I’ve been working on a new collection of short erotic stories. The book – Concupiscent – is close to completion, and so I thought it might be an idea to share a taste with you – an amuse bouche, if you will – just to whet your appetite a touch.

This particular excerpt is from a tale I’ve simply called, The Gift.

I hope that you think it bodes well for the future.

Swallowing hard, he raps his knuckles against the solid wood, then does it a second time, and then a third. He hesitates before he knocks for the fourth time, and then, unable to prevent himself, he takes a nervous step back from the threshold, and waits.

At first, only silence greets the announcement of his arrival. Then he hears someone approaching the door from inside the apartment, the sound of stiletto heels clicking against a hard, naked floor. A key turns slowly in a lock, and there is a faint squeal of dry hinges as the door swings inwards and stops half-open.

“Hello,” the girl standing in the doorway says to him.

He stares at her, bemused. The girl is young: in her early twenties, perhaps a shade younger. The thought excites him more than propriety should allow. She is completely naked, but for a silver domino mask that hides the upper part of her face – save for her piercing jade green eyes and her petite, turn-up nose – and an intricate harness of thin straps fashioned from soft matt-black leather. The harness criss-crosses her torso, coming over her shoulders and around her hips, outlining her full, proud breasts and meeting in a six-pointed studded star that rests upon the centre of her taut abdomen. Where the straps come together, they are fastened to gleaming chrome rings by flat metal studs. Two of the straps that form part of the star descend over her pubis to be drawn tight on either side of her sex, disappearing between her thighs. Their stark presence only serves to accentuate the visual impact of her perfectly denuded vulva.

She smiles at his incredulous examination.

“Do I repulse you, Sir?” she asks.

He doesn’t answer straight away, because he is unable to make sense of the question she has put to him. It is inconceivable to him that any man would – could – be repulsed by her, and so the question seems too absurd to merit serious consideration. But after a few seconds, he feels his head shaking from side to side, and a few seconds after that, he hears himself saying, “No. Good God, no.”

“Then I invite you to come inside.”

Again, he looks at her as though the invitation has been enunciated in Greek or another exotic language. He takes a hesitant step forwards before he stops himself again.

“What is this?” he asks.

She smiles impishly. “It’s your gift, Sir.”

“My … gift?”

“You celebrated your birthday last week.”

“I did, yes. How did you-“

She raises her hand to silence him. “Everything’s been arranged, Sir. There’s absolutely nothing for you to be concerned about.” She cocks her head slightly to one side and her smile broadens. “Trust me.”

With that, she steps back from the threshold, opening the distance between them and clearing the way for him to enter. He finds himself doubly alarmed, by the possibility of what lies in wait on the other side of the doorway, and by the fact that he can no longer touch her from where he stands.

Stop being such a child.

He pulls back his shoulders without realising he has done so, and then he walks forward into the opening she has created for him.

‘Concupiscent’ will be available to purchase soon from Lulu.com.

My new erotic fiction book – Concupiscent – is finally out and available to purchase. As usual, it’s published by Lulu.com, and is available in both print and download versions. For the early birds amongst you, there’s a 10% discount on the paperback price and a 15% discount on the price of the download.

Concupiscent is a collection of ten erotic stories written at various times over the last few years, and saved up especially for just such a volume. The stories are:

• Coquine – One man sees the subject of a long-held desire come surprisingly into focus.
• Public – Just how daring can two people be in plain sight of the World?
• The Gift – A mysterious invitation leads a married man to an unexpected doorway.
• Resurrection – A neglected woman finds that rebirth can come from within and without.
• Focus – Two is often better than one – especially when it comes to hosts.
• Contractual Obligations – Prying into the lives of others can be revelatory in unexpected ways.
• L’avantage – If you put yourself in a vulnerable position, don’t be surprised when someone tries to take advantage.
• Hour of the Wolf – Late at night is the perfect time for illicit thoughts … and assignations.
• Voile – People have all sorts of reasons for being unfaithful.
• The Ultimate – A jaded woman learns that satisfaction can be addictive … and dangerous.

It’s seven years since I started this erotic fiction writing nonsense.

I admit, I was more than a little reticent about making this the subject of a public proclamation. It’s not exactly been an unbroken seven years (I’ve taken a couple of sabbaticals along the way), and even when I’ve been posting regularly … well, let’s just say that I’ve never set any records for being prolific. Nor, I strongly suspect, am I ever likely to.

But then I considered how quite a few of the on-line erotica writers who were around back in April 2005 have long since ceased to be active. So, ultimately, I concluded that that date was worthy of a mention, even if it’s self-propelled.

The remainder of the top 100 can be found over at Between My Sheets

Each year since 2009, I’ve been fortunate enough to find myself on the Top 100 Sex Blogs list put together by the extremely dedicated Rori of ‘Between The Sheets’. This year, I’ve been similarly fortunate – to have been included by Rori, and to have been nominated by some of my readers in the first place. My sincere thanks to you all.

Rori’s top ten is below. You can view the entire top 100 here.

For those new readers who’ve found their way here thanks to Rory’s Top 100 Sex Bloggers of 2013, I thought I’d take the opportunity for some shameless self-pluggery.

Though there’s already plenty of erotic fiction for you to read in the Archives, there’s a good deal more that’s now only available to purchase through the folks at Lulu.com.

For instance, Compulsive Ardour contains the very earliest of my work, which once formed the basis for my online archives. Similarly, Zealous Kisses contains the remainder of my old archives. To mark my fifth anniversary of publishing erotic fiction online, I decided to issue a special hardcover edition, [five], which contains the vast majority of Compulsive Ardour and Zealous Kisses. Though this will likely sound immodest, please don’t take ‘early work‘ as being shorthand for ‘crap‘. There’s some good stuff in those volumes.

Then there’s Concupiscent, a collection of ten standalone stories of erotica, and Five Sips of Darkness, which features a quintet of erotic tales that feature some of the darker aspects of sexuality. With the exception of The Ultimate taken from Concupsicent, the work in those books has never featured on the blog.

Nor have the Pulp Sex stories, erotica inspired by the intense covers of American pulp sex novels from the 1950s and 1960s. The first – The Third Lust – tells the tale of Jennifer, a new arrival in tranquil suburbia, and Gina, the woman who has all, and wants more. The second is Love Me Wild, the story of a high-flying architect, his dissatisfied wife, and their sultry new neighbour Marcia, whose desire for pleasure respects no boundaries.

The Pulp Sex titles are only avaialble as e-books, and [five] is only available in hardback; all of the remaining titles are available in either paperback or electronic formats, as you prefer.

You can peruse the whole of my store at Lulu.com right here.

I hope you find something to tempt you.

My apologies to all my readers for the recent disappearance of ‘Easily Aroused’ from the Interweb, due largely to circumstances out of my control. My webhosts of the past few years decided that I was in breach of their Accept Usage Policies for:

1. Excessive traffic
2. Hosting images

and abruptly suspended the site. Things weren’t helped by the company’s steadfast refusal to even allow me access to my backups, which left me facing the possibility of having to resurrect things from cached versions of the site stored elsewhere around the web. Fortunately, after two weeks of simply ignoring all of my many requests, a more reasonable person at the company finally forwarded me a link that allowed me to download my data.

I’ve encountered a few teething problems in bringing the site back to life, but everything appears to be working normally now. If you do encounter any issues, I’d apprectiate it if you pointed them out to me.

Sorry again.

~EA

• Astonishingly…*
• Incredibly…*
• Remarkably…*
• Surprisingly…*

…it’s nine years since ‘Easily Aroused’ first hit the Wor(l)d Wide Web.

(* please feel free to choose an adverb from the list above, or to add one of your own in the comments)

The folks over at Kinkly are compiling their ‘Best Sex Bloggers‘ list for 2014.

So if you’ve enjoyed what you’ve read here at ‘Easily Aroused‘ during the past nine months, can I ask you to consider voting for the site by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post?

Ti ringrazio tanto.

http://www.kinkly.com/top-sex-bloggers/easily-aroused-erotic-fiction-by-an-oversexed-englishman

Update: 30th October 2014

‘Easily Aroused’ was ranked #16 on Kinkly’s Top 100 Sex Blogging Superheroes of 2014. My thanks to all those who nominated the site.

April 25th, 2005. I made my first ever erotica post writing as ‘Easily Aroused’, using a long since defunct gateway called ‘Indecent Blogging’.

April 25th, 2015. I’m about to post my latest piece of erotica to my web site.

Ten years.

When I started this, I’d no expectations about how long it would go on for. I certainly didn’t have any idea that I’d still be doing it a decade later. I’ve come close to pulling the plug on a number of occasions, and I’ve taken several extended ‘sabbaticals’ along the way. I’m always lured back, though. The siren call of the blank page, of the waiting keyboard. The satisfaction at seeing the words unfurl before my eyes. The rush that comes from hitting ‘publish’ and waiting for the first comments to appear.

My appreciation for those things has never wavered. I’ve always enjoyed the creative process. I’ve always craved the positive reactions of my readers.

Comments have always been something of a sensitive issue for me. According to WordPress, I have over 130 people subscribing to my site, receiving updates by email, and hundreds of visitors to the site each day … and yet at the moment I have less than a dozen regular commenters. It’d be nice to have a few more. The stories are free, and I think they’ve maintained their quality over the years.

I’m still shaking my head in wonderment that it’s really a decade since all of this began. I don’t think I’ll be carrying on for another decade, though. How much can one man have to say about sex and sexuality though the medium of fiction? Not that much, I’ll wager. I’m not suggesting that I’ll be calling it a day next week, or even next month. But next year? Well, we’ll see.

But in the meantime, to all of the people who have taken the time over the years to read my work and to share their thoughts, I’d like to say a sincere thank you. Thank you for being my audience.

Bien des choses à tous

~EA

It’s audience participation time!

Quite a few years ago (it’s still slightly unsettling to be in a position to say that with a straight face), I posted a poll consisting of five photographs, and asked readers to choose the image they wanted to be the inspiration for a new piece of erotica. ‘Concessions’, and the winning image that inspired that particular tale, can both be found right here.

Given how long it’s been since I conducted that little experiment in audience participation, I thought it might be time to resurrect it.

So – for your visual delectation – here’s a gallery of seven erotic images. Click on any of them to see the full image in a slideshow that you can control. Your task is simple: vote for whichever photograph you’d most like to see a story written about.
 

The Demonstrator The Feaster The Devourer The Seductress The Watcher The Possessor The Anticipator

Simply select your choice in the poll below. The poll will close at just after midnight (British Summer Time) on July 1st. And if you want to try and accumulate some bonus points for your selection, leave me a comment telling me why that image appeals to you.

Over to you!
 
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

So, the audience has spoken, a total of 260 times. As a result, the photograph below is going to be the central inspiration for a new piece of erotic fiction:

My thanks to everyone who took the time to vote in the poll. If you were amongst the 70% of readers who voted for one of the other images … I’m sorry that you didn’t get your choice, and I hope that you’ll still enjoy the story that’s inspired by the winning selection.

And if you were one of the 78 who did vote for ‘The Possessor’ … congratulations. And watch this space.

The writer Erica Jong once said:

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Now I’m not famous, and there are billions of people out there who have no idea who I am. But the very nice people over at Kinkly kindly invited me to be their sex blogger of the month for July, which meant publicly answering ten questions about my time as a writer of erotic fiction.

If you’re interested in reading the answers to those questions, you can find them right here.