The Museum of Deviant Desires

By Fulani

Eleven erotic stories to excite, entertain, enthrall, and overstimulate the imagination.

In no particular order, they cover the attractions of men’s adventure magazines with their sleazy sexploitation and politically incorrect pictures of tortured women; sex and bondage in an abandoned building and a burned-out car wreck; and sex, photography, and the internet. They investigate the sense of anticipation just before a corporal punishment scene, and what characters in bdsm stories think about the painful pleasures the author inflicts on them. They explore internet piracy and how royalties may be collected in the future. And they expose you to the late-night weirdness of sex, perversion, and fetish at a music festival. And then there’s the question of vacuum cleaners. Vacuum cleaners can be erotic in a technosexual kind of way.

Fulani is a master of erotic writing and a prolific author whose recent publications include the lesbian vampire novella "The Vampire Skye," and stories of sex, fetish, and bondage in the bohemian world of "Hanging Around." Rich with insights into the passion that attracts and binds, his distinctive dark erotica blends bdsm, fetish, and futuristic themes with imagination and humor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 1001 Nights Press
• Release date: Apr 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476496900

Fulani

Fulani has been writing erotica for around ten years now, much of it dealing with BDSM and fetish, which are worlds he’s known for longer than he cares to remember. He is a chronic insomniac and writes mainly in the small hours. He has published numerous short stories, several novellas, and a novel with, among others, Xcite Books, Pink Flamingo, Renaissance Sizzler and Sweetmeats Press.

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The Museum of Deviant Desires

This collection is copyright © 2012 by Fulani.

Individual stories copyright © 2010-2012 by Fulani.

Edited by Sharazade for 1001 Nights Press. Cover design by Sharazade.

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Contents

Introduction: The FAQ

Poppy Seeks Pain

Waiting

Something Different

Burnout

The Plastics Factory

Fashion, Intent, Desire, Choice

Don’t Mess With the Author

Sex and the Giant Squid

Voiceover

The Museum of Deviant Desires

$2.99

Introduction: The FAQ

What have I just bought?

First of all, thank you for buying this collection of stories instead of downloading it from a pirate website. Your dollar, pound, or euro means I can continue to live in my house, pay my bills, and buy groceries. It is of course possible to write stories when you’re homeless and broke. Plenty of authors have done it. However, it’s not a lot of fun, and you can’t keep writing that way forever.

Yes, I know Stanislaw Lem, the science fiction writer, once said The number of one’s possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one’s liquid assets. There’s some truth in that, but truth also in the point that a hunger tends to deaden the author’s sexual imagination. And if you wanted a book about food, you wouldn’t be buying this collection of smut, would you?

Apart from that, your purchase is funding my continuing personal research into different aspects of the erotic. This is more expensive than you might imagine, especially given the cost of good quality handcuffs. And vacuum cleaners. Vacuum cleaners can be erotic in a technosexual kind of way, as you’ll see in the story Something Different.

Most of the fiction in this collection has been previously published in some form, on one or other of my two blogs, deliciouslydeviant.wordpress.com and fulanismut.blogspot.com. For this collection, though, they’re adapted, expanded, and generally remastered versions that now bear very little resemblance to the original blog posts. And apart from that you have two completely new, never-seen-before stories: Sex and the Giant Squid and $2.99.

What are the stories about?

Well, they’re smut. They’re about sex. But at the same time, they explore different and perhaps changing ideas about how sex relates to other aspects of our psyche, our lifestyles, and our society. And to an extent they use sex as the vehicle to explore some of those things.

Poppy Seeks Pain springs from a fascination I have with men’s pulp magazines. These were cheaply produced sexploitation and violence mags that started around the late 1940s and were pretty much dead and gone by the 1970s. They weren’t, by today’s standards, remotely politically correct, but they still have a certain visceral charm and there are collectors out there. For those who know anything about the history of these mags, I’d point out that at no point during the writing of these stories were weasels used to rip any flesh. Nor is there any bestiality involving baboons.

Burnout and The Plastics Factory both have their origins in a kind of industrial bondage fetish. A lot of bondage photography seems to be shot in locations that look like, or perhaps are, abandoned factories, warehouses, hospitals, and the like. Such locations provide plenty of space along with useful props such as exposed rafters for suspension: pipes and machinery, pallets, and storage racks that victims can be tied to; and even, sometimes, hospital beds or cages once used for storing industrial components, which can be used for fetish and sexual purposes. However, some of the practices described in these stories are inadvisable due to the possible toxic nature of the materials and locations involved!

Sex and the Giant Squid evolved from a bunch of influences: a place I used to live, the fact that pretty much everyone there had, at some time, had relationships with everyone else, and my observation that a small number of people I knew there did in fact make an occasional income from the internet to supplement their minimum-wage existence. Mostly they used Ebay, and a couple of them put stuff on Etsy. For all I know, some of them had webcams and suchlike, but I branched out and chose another option.

I wouldn’t mind trying to film the scenes described in Voiceover, which I think could work well as a piece of Nu Fetish. If you don’t know what Nu Fetish is, have a look at www.nufetish.com, or try it as a search term on the video download site vimeo.com, which is a kind of YouTube for more experimental, arty, and occasionally surreal content. Essentially it’s an exploration of how ordinary, everyday strangeness can trigger a sexual response. It can be weird, it can be erotic, it can be weird and erotic; different people react to it differently, and anyone can have a go. Voiceover is a short piece, of a type often described as flash fiction. You’ll find some other flash fiction in the collection as well. Waiting is the internal monologue of a woman involved in a BDSM scene. Fashion, Intent, Desire, Choice springs from the way in which characters can become so real to a writer that a story plot is driven by conversations and arguments that take place in the writer’s imagination. Don’t Mess With the Author has a similar quality, and was written around a character who appears in a forthcoming novel of mine.

The Museum of Deviant Desires is a take on music festivals. Many festivals have a late-night area with a libidinous, deviant, carnivalesque ambience. Who knows what really goes on there?

Finally, you’ll find a look at the possible fate of those who download stories from pirate websites.

And what if I did download this book as a pirate copy?

Well, you might want to read the story $2.99. And be worried.

Happy reading!

Poppy Seeks Pain

1. Tuesday Afternoon, Comic Store

You may not have caught up with this, but there’s been a resurgence of interest in men’s adventure magazines.

They were big in the fifties and sixties, which is to say before I was born and up to the time I was in kindergarten. The first time I encountered one was as a young teenager, in the back of a disreputable secondhand bookstore that mainly sold well-thumbed copies of girlie mags, with stains on the pages. The guy who worked there kept a hammer beneath the counter and would remind people who browsed for too long that he didn’t have a try before you buy policy.

What got to me was that the cover was reproduced from a painting, not a photo. Because it was a painting, it could depict sex and