Erotic Review #3
Started in London in 1995 as a photocopied newsletter about erotic art, the Erotic Review became a humorous bimonthly with 30,000 subscribers by the late 1990s. Over its varied history, the Erotic Review has published over 100 books, run an annual photography prize and had a short story collection published by Zeus. The title went solely online in 2010. The Erotic Review was relaunched and reconceived for a contemporary audience in Spring 2024 by editor, Lucy Roeber, and Berlin-based deputy editor, Saskia Vogel. This new chapter recognized the need for a serious cultural platform that explored desire through essays, stories, poetry and art.
In this issue: Exploring Desire
Editor's Letter
Art can delve and challenge and question our assumptions; it can explore the mundane and the explicit, the traumatic and the transcendent. It can help us find an authentic cultural language for desire. It's time to reframe the culture around the erotic and attempt to reintegrate this vital, creative force into our lives. As poet and activist Audre Lorde wrote: "We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way." Let us spring free.
London, UK, 170 x 240 mm, 170 pages; Spring/Summer 2025