Feline Fetishes: Erotic Tales of Science Fiction

Why "feline fetishes?" A number of reasons. First, by challenging authors to write something that "connected the feline universe to the erotic one" we were assured that we wouldn't be seeing anything typical or run-of-the-mill. Secondly, both the publisher and editor have a "thing" for cats. And third, there was something about the thought of feline erotica that just sounded right.

But of course there was. Our cultural references all connect the cat to the sexual, viz: common slang for the female genitalia, a sexuallv aggressive female is a "tigress," but if she's real cute she's a "sex kitten," a house of prostitution is a "cat house," and so on. In pop culture the feline has always carried with it a certain air of eroticism. Think of Catwoman, the only woman Batman ever loved in the old comic book and TV show. (And now Tim Burton's gone one more step to make her an SM/fetish goddess, up there with Emma Peel and Bettie Page). Or in the Billy Crystal film When Harry Met Sally, when the line "You made a woman meow!?" was delivered. Or the ultimate cat-lover's film, Cat People. The 1980s remake of the classic film was billed as "an erotic thriller about the animal in us all."

With stories of cat aliens, cat gods, cats who turn into humans, and more, these authors have made the connection between the feline universe and the erotic one explicit, exploring that juncture through fantasy and science fiction in a way it cannot be examined in the so-called real world.

Contains stories by Lauren P. Burka, K. A. Kristiansen, Mary Malmros, and Reina Delacroix

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