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 Tired of those haughty, white cover erotic books filled with breathy writing and short on the action? Fancy some literature with a bit more authoritative substance on the sticky subject of sex? Well, bugger me, so do I. Problem is, English shoppes are full of the aforementioned tawdry tomes that fail to titillate my torrid tastes. Shit, now I’ve used up my magic bag of alliterations this week.  As Christopher Lee might intone, “You know of what I speak.” And if you like your erotica with a little more “oomph” and a little less Victorian packaging, let me suggest that you check out the Erotic Print Society.Yes, this London publisher prints such classics as Fanny Hill (complete with new artwork, mind you), but here you’ll also find illustrated books on everything from anal sex to dominatrices. EPS publishes limited editions of both rare and contemporary erotic art using the highest standards of printing techniques and the most appropriate quality of paper for each edition. These editions can usually be purchased in elegant card folders or luxury, hand-crafted portfolios. The prints can be preserved in their portfolios or framed. Often the accompanying texts of the original editions will have been published in a foreign language. EPS commissions translations in English for its own editions, often for the very first time. They also publish anthologies of the work of single artists in book-form in a limited and a popular edition.  According to EPS, their purpose is to bring these works to a wider audience and within financial reach of most collectors.“Erotica is one of the last frontiers of art to be crossed and a serious investigation is long overdue,” their website states. “Sex is a significant human activity and from prehistoric times artists have given their own creative interpretation of the subject.” Amen to that. The Erotic Print Society was founded in 1993 by two art dealers who had curated the first exhibition of historic and contemporary erotic art in London eight years before. With considerable knowledge of the field, they recognised that public access to great examples of the genre was becoming more and more limited—increasingly the domain of restricted museum collections and that of private collectors. At the same time they saw that there was, in the UK at least, no real showplace for the erotic works of contemporary artists, a sentiment echoed by other English erotica authors and artists.  In addition to their series of illustrated books on various salacious subjects (from artists like Lee Manning and Oliver Maitland), EPS publishes many books of art, the styles of which range from sophisticated charcoal sketches of lovemaking to downright graphic depictions of sexy tarts engaging in, say, serial fellatio. (How’s that with a spot of milk, eh?)A particular standout is The Singular Art of Julian Murphy, which New Statesman deemed, “a collection of ingenious and witty designs tracing the fetishistic subtext in household utensils.” Sound interesting? Well, it looks even more interesting. Murphy takes everyday objects and transforms them into images of raw, unadulterated sex. As EPS points out, “in Julian Murphy's strange, Escher-like world, there is compensatory humour as well—and enough sexual complexity to give Freud nightmares.”
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