Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica Book

My feelings about this book are deeply, deeply mixed. I think it's an excellent vampire-themed sexual horror collection, but I don't think the majority of the stories are remotely erotic. Just because something has sexual content, doesn't mean it's sexy. I have a hard time imagining anyone finding the majority of these stories very erotic. I mean, what is erotic about a ten year-old boy watching is prostitute mother have sex with a john through a crack in the door, and then seeing him suck her emotional capacity away and turn her into a catatonic? I suppose there must be someone who finds that idea sexy, but I don't know that I'd want to be writing for them.

Don't get me wrong--I think that story was one of the most powerful in the collection. But I can't see it as smut. These stories deal with rape, coercion, incest, child molestation, sadism and violence. These are not themes I like to get into during my, ahem, private time. A couple of the stories were genuinely triggery. But nearly all of them were excellently written and quite effective horror stories.

I think the "erotica" tag may just have to do with the publishing industries' tendency to relegate anything with sex to the romance/erotica corner. It feels like such a misnomer to me. Then again, what do I know? I mean, Rule 34 exists for a reason.