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Société: A salon for erotic culture. Stories, literature, art and cultural essays exploring attention, desire and the dangerous lives of women. A lens on erotic life.
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Friday’s Tart - The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir with Caramel Tart (opens the original)
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Chef’s NoteCaramel, that simple coming together of sugar and heat, expresses itself in lots of ways.From the same root ingredients, it can end up very differently. Best friends can often be like this, each enviously eyeing the qualities of the other as they drift silently out of each other’s reach. Even, ironically, if their feelings don’t change. Even if it’s painful.The two caramels in this tart speak to the complexity of this story. One is soft and beautiful, filling the tart space evenly as
Erinn Bjorn and Melvina Art: In Conversation: (opens the original)
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This conversation has been some time in the making, and it’s the start of a new series within Société on erotic power, the first to lean more toward an iterative conversation between writers of the erotic. I wanted to bring together two talented craftswomen, Erinn Bjorn and Melvina, whose work highlights how the resistance to flattening can reveal a nexus between dignity and danger.In Erinn’s case, the resistance is to the flattening of BDSM into degradation, fantasy, or empty extremity; in Melv
Fridays Tart - The Sexual Life of Catherine M by Catherine Millet with Tart Tartin (opens the original)
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Chef’s NoteFrench culinary legend has it that this tart was created by accident; a distracted chef overcooking apples during a busy service. Legends, of course, are sums of their parts with the inconvenient truths left out.The parts of this tart, like Catherine’s story, are readily explained as one fresh fruit, more heat than convention thought acceptable, sugar pushed to the very edge of darkness, served as if that’s how it was meant to be, and takes courage to replicate.This tart is Catherine’
Erotica is not a shortcut (opens the original)
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Sometimes I just want a quickie but not too quick.As I fall into bed, I am relatively sure I never peed today, and there are parts of the day that read as gaps. I have most certainly used up my word limit for the day and need a little space of my own.I pick up the book beside the bed, Anne Serre’s The Governesses, and I am engrossed in a scene of debauchery in the woods. One young governess has her skirt hitched and is sitting on a stranger’s face and, for the first time today, my pelvis lowers
Fridays Tart - Strip by Hannah Sward with Quince Tart (opens the original)
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Chef’s NoteQuinces really are a tale of two personalities. Often misshapen, blemished, with a hardness and blandness that doesn’t have much appeal. It’s the fruit of an unattractive tree, that ripens in fairly hostile cold, and is not a chef’s darling. But given attention, warmth and sweetness, the quince becomes a beauty its harsh life never earned it credit for. In this tart, the quince part hides and part nestles in the warm blanket of frangipane, happy to show glimpses of its beautiful side.
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