Even the most voracious book readers who dabble in different genres are unlikely to come across ‘dinosaur erotica’ as a recommendation on the various ‘best books of the year’ lists. Erotica in general, especially in India, is not a topic discussed widely. Often forgetting that they brought the Kamasutra to the world.
Open discussions on sex and sexual fetishes are still considered taboo in Kenya, which is insane considering the number of people born here. But in the quiet and personal space of our bedrooms (or hotel rooms) though, mainstream sexual fetishes like BDSM which have existed for a long, long time are just about getting attention due to the popularity of theFifty Shades series. It does, after all, boil down to books teaching you a thing or two about sexual fluidity.
But sometimes, the fertile imagination and frankly strange fantasies of some authors can take you by surprise (or shock, depending on your capacity to consume “different types of content. Dinosaur Erotica (which has its own Wikipedia page) is basically an extremely twisted part of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and dinosaurs. Most of these works are self-published short stories, primarily written by women.
There are a number of pleasures potentially on offer here – the fact that this is really fantasy. Even if there is evidence that dinosaurs existed, we don’t know masses about them, and they have mythological qualities. The idea of having sex with one is outside the realms of possibility. It’s a bit like ‘magic’, where all rules become suspended, and for that reason it may well allow for kinds of imaginative risk-taking impossible in more standard couplings.
