Chesed's ClitLit Picks

Note: All of the links below should be followed at your own risk. They are only appropriate for adults (18+), not safe for work, and potentially disturbing.

I believe the first smut I read was Harry Potter fanfic (not HPMOR, which I haven’t read and also is not erotica as far as I know). I was a voracious reader as a child, tween, and teen. My parents did not monitor the books I brought home from the library nor track my Internet history. I was also very, very horny. Harry Potter fanfic and horny young adult romance novels sustained me for a few years, but eventually I branched out. I found Literotica and was immediately drawn to the noncon/reluctance category. I found a variety of other online erotica too. By college, I had realized the convenience and privacy of reading smut on the Kindle app of my phone (if you use a physical Kindle, people may ask what you’re reading).

I have spent years in search of good smut which is aligned to my sexual interests. By “good” I essentially just mean that it turns me on and the writing is not distractingly bad. I love elaborate worldbuilding and a coherent plot, but they aren’t requirements. I can’t promise that you’ll enjoy my recommendations, but I hope you’ll find them an inspiration to begin your own search.

My recommendations are most likely to get you off if you’re a woman who gets turned on by scenarios of submission and loss of control. Some of my partners have enjoyed reading my favorites, but I think more as a tool to understand my sexuality than as a masturbatory aid. My preferences don’t reflect those of all women, but if you think you might be dating a Chesed/Pandora type (or want to be), you might gain a bit of insight from diving in.

Quick and dirty

Remittance Girl was one of the first erotica writers I followed. Her short stories are well-written, original, and often very strange. Happy endings not guaranteed. A few favorites:

• Heat Sink: Very sweet story about a couple’s approach to anger management. Includes caning.

• On A Very Dry Afternoon in Early Summer: Rape and rape fantasy.

• Grown-Up Games: Teacher/student.

• Amanda, Agnus Dei: A couple goes to church.

• Dark Garden: Rough sex with a loathsome man.

• Mister Charles & the Gold Digger: An age gap romance with spanking.

• Beautiful Losers: A MMF novella.

Favorite Kindle authors and books

Asking For It, by Lilah Pace: A contemporary romance novel that centers a young woman with a rape fantasy. Her love interest, a hunky professor who is also secretly wealthy and tortured (because again, it’s a romance novel) also has a rape kink (as a perpetrator). This is pretty bold - most kinky books shy away from consensual non-consent/rape fantasy, and those that do tend to emphasize female desire. Pace employs some tropes which feel overused (e.g., rape fantasy as a response to sexual trauma) but also writes sex scenes that have stayed in my head for years. There are two more in this series.

Emily Tilton: If you like female submission and detailed worldbuilding, there’s probably at least one Tilton book that will appeal to you (she has 155 titles currently available on Amazon). The settings vary from Victorian England to alien planets to near future 1950s style trad wife dystopia. The ladies typically begin resistant but ultimately accept and enjoy submission. If you, like me, read a spanking scene and need to know why the spanking is occurring in order to get off, Tilton is perfect. Some of her books explore themes that I dislike, but these are titled pretty clearly and not hard to avoid.

A few favorites:

• Bound and Initiated: Spy infiltrates a secretive and powerful corporation through a sex slave training program.

• Kept for Training: Imagine if the early Mormon church had more gangbangs.

• Her Shameful Wedding Night: Same secretive corporation that controls the world wants to hire this bride’s new husband…on the condition that he does some very specific things on their wedding night.

• The Duke’s School for Young Ladies: Imagine if you masturbated in Victorian times and then were sent to a finishing school for being a slut.

Kristina Lloyd: Lloyd writes contemporary romantic erotica set in the UK. Her style is darker and less fantastical than Emily Tilton, often featuring themes of shame, tawdriness, and humiliation along with submission and bondage. Her books are better written than average for erotica or romance, and the plot is more than perfunctory window dressing for the sex.

My favorites:

• Undone: Combines murder mystery, romance, and erotica into one sweet package with a happy ending.

• Thrill Seeker: After a breakup, a woman explores some dangerous kinks with a stranger. A bit more disturbing than Undone but with a mostly happy ending.

Recommended for those not afraid of the dark:

• Asking For Trouble: A woman begins playing escalating sexual games with a neighbor. Things get out of hand.

• Split: A librarian takes a job at a creepy puppet museum in the English countryside, begins dating two brothers and finds herself enmeshed in murky village secrets.

Hope you enjoy perusing some of the choices above. Do you have favorites you think Pandora or I would like? Share in the comments or in our private subscriber Discord!