In today’s episode, Mou sits down with Rachel Kramer Bussel to explore what makes something erotic and arousing, how the art of narrative and imagination can transform one’s understanding of self, and how the “build up” of tension can be one of the sexiest aspects of the journey.
About Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel (rachelkramerbussel.com) is the author of craft guides How to Write Erotica as well as Lap Dance Lust: A Collection of Erotica Stories and editor of personal essay magazine Open Secrets. She is the editor of over 70 erotica anthologies, including 10 volumes of the Best Women's Erotica of the Year series, The Big Book of Quickies, The Big Book of Orgasms Volumes 1 and 2, Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, and more.
Her anthology Surrender won the National Leather Association Samois Anthology Award, and she won the 2021 National Leather Association John Preston Short Fiction Award for her short story "Necessary Roughness" in her anthology Best Bondage Erotica of the Year, Volume 1. Rachel's essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, Marie Claire, Salon, The Village Voice, and many other publications. Follow her @raquelita on X and @rachelkramerbussel on Instagram and subscribe to her newsletter at rachelkramerbussel.substack.com
Learn the ropes of erotic writing from the renowned erotica maven herself, Rachel Kramer Bussel!
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