| This week, the Cut is devoted to smut: What it is, how it gets made, the best tropes and subgenres for newbies to start with, and why it’s taken over best-seller lists and “For You” pages everywhere. To kick things off today, Emily Gould takes a deep dive into the world of monster sex books, the newest trend in romance publishing. While love stories about vampires and fairies are nothing new, this crop of books is for readers who want something even less human: gargoyles, krakens, demons, minotaurs, big blue aliens. “Though many of us may be carrying the latest literary fiction from Riverhead or Pantheon in our tote bags,” Emily writes, “our phones runneth over with stories of men with tails and two dicks.” Maybe there’s even a creature in here for you? |
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