Weird Beard Press publishes erotica.  Some would even say we specialize in it.  The most successful descriptions of sexual encounters always stimulate the intellect as well as the imagination, to excite the mind as much as the body.  Why shouldn't literature elaborate on our deepest sexual fantasies, putting them into words and lending them substance, even if they’re slightly taboo?  Expertly crafted erotic narratives will leave readers feeling satisfied yet linger in their memory long enough to lure them back for a second look, or even a third.  Though both are intended to arouse, erotica shouldn't be confused with pornography, though the two may seem similar to the inexperienced eye.  If pornography is like beer – canned for quick consumption and full of foam – then erotica is more like champagne – aged to pressurized perfection and infused with effervescence.  Bubbly narrative intoxicates but also refreshes. That’s the kind of erotica we’re looking for at Weird Beard Press – writing that sparkles.  Fine erotica should be witty, urbane, cogent, yet edgy, even transgressive.  It may embrace kink so long as it doesn’t glamorize crime.  By crime we mean any sort of wrongdoing that deprives adults of their right to consent to sexual activity.  Animals, minors, corpses, and the mentally incapacitated can’t consent to sex, so we don’t write about them. 

               We understand that not everyone appreciates erotic narrative.  That’s why we seclude these pages behind warnings that advise the faint of heart against allowing their curiosity to get the better of them when it comes to topics their higher minds would prefer not to entertain.  We respect their decision not to follow the rest of us down the proverbial rabbit hole of subliminal impulses into the shadowy underworld of sexual license.  We nonetheless yearn to hear from ever strand in our social fabric – men, women, transgenders, and those who refuse to be pigeonholed into a conventional gender identity – regardless if your sexual orientation (if indeed you profess to have one).  The world craves education in spite of itself.  Tell it what sexual frustration and fulfillment are like for you.             

               Those of us who, to paraphrase William Faulkner, prefer to “write not of the heart but of the glands” typically need guidance in the formative phases of their career.  Weird Beard Press is here to assist you.  With our expertise at editing both fiction and nonfiction in various genres, we can help assiduous authors transform a “Cracklin’ Rosie” into a cuvée de prestige.  We want to teach you how to turn a string of descriptives (“the soft, creamy, young flesh of her beautifully rounded bouncing bosom was beckoning him to bury his unshaven face in the deep, warm, sweaty cleavage between them”) into a sturdy brickwork of nouns and verbs. 

               We publish poems, essays, sketches, short stories, and novels in the following fourteen categories of erotica.  Unleash your imagination and give one (or more) of them a try.

1) Straight

2) Gay

3) Lesbian

4) Bisexual

5) Transgender

6) BDSM

7) Exhibitionism and Voyeurism

8) Abuse of Authority

9) Body Part Fetishes
10) Body Type Fetishes

11) Group Sex

12) Intergenerational Attraction

13) Clothing Fetishes

14) Ritual Fetishes

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