Author Archive

The Queen of Whiskeytown

By Thomas S. Roche • Mar 9th, 2004 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

They came through the razorwire at the top of the stone wall and dropped down into the soft bed of Madame Krusher’s prized red roses. Crouching low, their black-clad bodies blending into the darkness, they listened for the sounds of an alarm — nothing.
Riley, their man inside the house of domination, had done his job. [...]



Test Drive: Photography for Perverts by Charles Gatewood

By Thomas S. Roche • Feb 10th, 2004 • Category: Research Labs

Part One: Photographing a Lover
Charles Gatewood has written a truly wonderful book called Photography for Perverts — a book that covers a topic heretofore ignored in photography books. Photography for Perverts is a fun exploration of Gatewood’s life work and what he’s learned with it, including many sexy photos from the author’s portfolio. A renowned [...]



The Goosing of Goldie

By Thomas S. Roche • Oct 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Goldie Gosling had lived all her life in the luxury apartment building on the Upper East Side. She and her parents all loved the place. She remembered being very young and frightened by the elevator operators; it seemed so strange to have this uniformed gentleman, polite and refined to a fault, privy to all the [...]



The House Of Poison

By Thomas S. Roche • Oct 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

The Saturday stink of the Quarter swirls in your nostrils: blood, sex, beer, sweat and at least three different kinds of smoke: cigars, cigarettes and crack. Crowds of laughing college students swarm around you like a school of fish or a flock of birds — each of separate mind, but inexplicably moving together like a [...]



Cybersex with Your Lover

By Thomas S. Roche • Sep 21st, 2003 • Category: Sex and Culture

As most of us know, the Internet can be one of the easiest ways to keep in touch with a lover when you’re apart. It’s also a great tool for maintaining an erotic connection — or for spicing up a sexual relationship, whether or not you’re in different zip codes. Whether your partner is across [...]



Under My Thumb

By Thomas S. Roche • Sep 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Spider was horny when he walked into the hotel room — he was always horny after a gig. But it wasn’t like he planned to do anything about it — at least, not right away. After all, he had a three am “dinner” date with Sierra Verdi from Darkness Calls magazine, who reviewed Spider’s last [...]



Cosmetic Surgery: Breast Augmentation

By Thomas S. Roche • Aug 21st, 2003 • Category: Sex and Culture

Among many people who consider themselves sexual libertines — to whom any manner of consensual sexual behavior or body modification is perfectly acceptable — cosmetic surgery is often the exception that proves the rule. The mention of cosmetic surgery, especially sexual surgeries like cosmetic vaginoplasty, breast augmentation or penis enlargement, frequently merits a disapproving groan [...]



Dysfunction Junction, What’s Your Function?

By Thomas S. Roche • Jul 1st, 2003 • Category: Sexual Pleasure

In October 1998, the city of Boston hosted the first international consensus development conference on female sexual dysfunction. This meeting was made up of physicians chosen by the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, and came to the conclusion that female sexual dysfunction was a legitimate, diagnosable psychiatric condition. The year 1998 just happens to be [...]



Gearhead

By Thomas S. Roche • Jun 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Shawn had left a note on the bed, next to Robin’s little black PVC dress. Robin stiffened as she read the big block capitals, rendered in Shawn’s familiar hand.
SOMETHING CAME UP AT WORK
UNAVOIDABLE
GAVE ERIC THE TICKETS
HE’LL PICK YOU UP AT EIGHT
WEAR THE BLACK DRESS
Robin fumed. It wasn’t like Shawn to flake on her unless it [...]



Caffeine Kisses

By Thomas S. Roche • May 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

My eyes roved wildly over the apartment as I paced back and forth.
“That definitely wasn’t decaf,” I said.
“You don’t say,” Sherry yawned. She had stripped down to her sleeping clothes: a white tank top and soft cotton shorts. She was curled up with a woolen blanket covering her legs and Che Guevara delicately washing his [...]



Erectile Dysfunction Part Two: Physical Causes

By Thomas S. Roche • Mar 21st, 2003 • Category: Sexual Pleasure

In part one of this series, I discussed erectile dysfunction (ED) and some of its psychological causes. The mental aspects of erection and arousal in men are murky at best, partially because each man has such a different relationship to arousal. Many myths and cultural values can aggravate the discomfort a man feels when he [...]



Erectile Dysfunction Part One: Psychological Causes

By Thomas S. Roche • Jan 21st, 2003 • Category: Sexual Pleasure

We hear a lot about erectile dysfunction (ED) in the news, in commercials, in advertisements. The most talked-about new prescription drug in recent years is Viagra, the trade name for sildenafil, which treats erectile dysfunction. But what is erectile dysfunction, how common is it, and what does it really mean for a healthy sex life?
Erectile [...]



Make It Real, Santa

By Thomas S. Roche • Jan 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

It took Emma until Richmond Station to stop fuming. Why did she always forget about how much Christmas pissed her off? The required shopping for holiday gifts irritated her, but the real ball-busting started when she showed up at her parents’ place for Christmas. If it hadn’t been the repeated quizzing from her grandmother about [...]



Panty Trick

By Thomas S. Roche • Jan 9th, 2003 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Blake jimmied the bedroom window with a rusty crowbar he found on the side of the house under the Chevy Nova up on blocks. His favorite brand of white trash: those who thoughtfully provided their own burglary tools.
He crawled through the window and found himself in the bedroom. It was a typical low-rent SoCal suburban [...]



Spider Bites

By Thomas S. Roche • Oct 9th, 2002 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Halloween has never been the same.
I used to have this problem with Halloween. I had it every year. I’m the kind of guy who wears my black hair long, rings dangling from my ears, nose and nipples. My T-shirts range from FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK to YOU’VE BEEN A BAD GIRL, GO TO MY [...]



Under the Weather

By Thomas S. Roche • Jul 9th, 2002 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Just after the soup, I realize you’re not wearing much of anything under your cocktail dress. The top part, I knew about; you never wear a bra under this particular dress. It’s one of the things that makes it so sexy, just a bit too low-cut to support even the slightest of bras, while being [...]



Sweet Transvestite

By Thomas S. Roche • May 9th, 2002 • Category: Blog

When Brooke saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show poster on the wall, she knew she was going to wank. It’s not like it should have surprised her; after all, she had spent her last two years in this house fetishizing that image, dreaming about that pout on Tim Curry’s face coming wickedly close to hers. [...]



Two Guys and a Girl

By Thomas S. Roche • Apr 9th, 2002 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

The lobby didn’t smell half as bad as Naomi expected. In fact, it smelled better than the alley it was located on, and in comparison it seemed almost clean. She had never been inside a porn theater, but she’d heard all the stories — feet sticking to the floor, rats the size of cats, that [...]



Triple-X Requiem

By Thomas S. Roche • Sep 9th, 2001 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Crypta and Damien were watching on the wrong side of the streetcar, so they missed their stop.
They yelled polite obscenities at the driver — “fucking stop, please, Mr. Driver, goddamn it” — until finally, groaning, he stopped. They hopped off the streetcar and hoofed the two blocks back to the cemetery, dripping sweat. It was [...]



Sex and Depression

By Thomas S. Roche • Jul 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Culture

If you’ve ever suffered from ongoing depression, you know that it can have profound effects on your life, especially your sex life. And if you haven’t suffered ongoing or chronic depression, you’ve still probably experienced short term or situational depression — which can be just as severe, and more immediate. Depression can be triggered by [...]



Sex and Diabetes

By Thomas S. Roche • Jun 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Disability

Many people aren’t aware of the impact that diabetes can have on their sex life. Like anyone else, people with diabetes may find it difficult to talk to their physician about their sex life.
Much of the information that has been available about sex and diabetes has focused on erectile dysfunction in diabetic men. And, in [...]