When the UK Government introduced ‘Support Bubbles’ in England on June 13th, the Daily Mail ran the headline “BORIS LIFTS SEX BAN”. It wasn’t classy, but it wasn’t wrong exactly. The Support Bubbles were to intended to ease the isolation for single adult households who hadn’t been able to so much as shake hands with another…
Author: Etta Stark
Etta Stark is an enthusiastic reader and writer of spanky romance novels. Her particular areas of interest are BDSM, feminism, romance and, of course, tea.
Book Review – Cowboys for a Cause: A Western Romance Anthology
Five Stars! Is there anything better than a book chock full twenty seven (27!) sexy spanky Cowboy stories? Well, yes there is, as it turns out. It’s a book full of sexy spanky Cowboy stories which is raising money for two amazing charities – Direct Relief Coronavirus Response and Feeding America Covid 19…
Netflix recommends… Erotica
I watched 365 Dni recently. It wasn’t great but as I said in my review, I do want to see more of this sort of thing. So what other erotic, kinky delights does Netflix have on its virtual video store shelves for the girl who’s already seen the infamous Polish bonkbuster and all the Fifty Shades…
Book Review – Claimed by Daddy by Vanessa Brooks
Five Stars! What would you do if you suddenly found yourself transported to a parallel universe where everything was different? You have a different home, different job and instead of being single, you discover you are actually married to a sexy tall American guy who shares all your kinky preferences? To be honest I would…
365 Dni – Why I’m OK with Dubious Consent in Romance
The Polish film 365 Dni (now available on Netflix) is causing a bit of a stir around the internets. The film is based on the book of the same name by Blanka Lipińska, an erotic romance very much in the tradition of the sort of books I read and review here. I haven’t read the original…
The Goop Lab – “The Pleasure is Ours”
With this whole lockdown business, you’d think I’d have plenty more time for Netflixing. But what with work and writing and my new found talent for daytime napping, I haven’t been spending much time at all watching television. However, I have been enjoying Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘Goop Lab’ series. Is ‘enjoy’ even the right word? It’s…
Should I spunk a hundred quid on a bluetooth vibrator?
Gentleman friend and I are still undertaking an extended break from one another. It’s been two months since we’ve engaged in any of the that hanging out together, cuddling, kissing and spanking business that used to take up quite a lot of our weekends. This is what my social calendar looks like right now. It’s…
The Sex Symposium – A fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon
Yesterday I went to my first ever online Sex Symposium. It was in fact my first ever Sex Symposium full stop. Online or otherwise. Come to think of it, it is probably the first event I’ve ever attended in my life that was called a “symposium”. Usually, I’m just not that classy. Plato’s Symposium. The…
Looking for something to read during lockdown?
Plenty of us are a bit limited in the amount of actual IRL sex and spanking we can undertake at the moment. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t still enjoy the virtual pleasures of curling up with a nice, sexy spanky novel. If your virtual bookshelf is looking a bit empty, might I recommend…
Spankless in Surrey
It’s thirty six days since I went further than my front garden and I’m fine. You know, the way Ross Geller was totally fine. It’s thirty-seven days since I saw my lovely Gentleman Friend. I’m isolating over here with my elderly parents and he’s isolating over there with his grown-up sons and, once again, it’s…