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F/F Friday: An Intimate Study
Jul. 9th, 2021 06:52 amI have been informed that in real life, “artist’s model” is not a very sexy occupation, but in my heart it is the sexiest occupation, so I was thrilled when Kalikoi put out Margaret K. Mac’s An Intimate Study, an f/f novelette about a 19th century doctor in London who hires a model for anatomical studies… which lead to… anatomical studies, if you know what I mean.
This is pretty short, but the sex is burning hot, which leans into all the things that I want from artist model sex: the tension between professionalism and the sexiness of it all, the clothed artist and the nude body, the eroticism of parts of the body that are less obviously eroticized, characters who are really into the dynamic of being posed and looked at and praised and having to keep still under all kinds of stimulation…
There’s also a very sexy little bonus story involving a hairbrush, used in just about every possible way that you could use a hairbrush.
One thing that did distract me: Victoria, the model, is supposedly newly arrived in London from Boston, Massachusetts, but she’s by far the most English-sounding person in the book. In fact, I checked to be sure I had her trajectory right - surely Victoria had emigrated from London to Boston, and that’s why she sounds like a maid at Downton Abbey? But no.
This is pretty short, but the sex is burning hot, which leans into all the things that I want from artist model sex: the tension between professionalism and the sexiness of it all, the clothed artist and the nude body, the eroticism of parts of the body that are less obviously eroticized, characters who are really into the dynamic of being posed and looked at and praised and having to keep still under all kinds of stimulation…
There’s also a very sexy little bonus story involving a hairbrush, used in just about every possible way that you could use a hairbrush.
One thing that did distract me: Victoria, the model, is supposedly newly arrived in London from Boston, Massachusetts, but she’s by far the most English-sounding person in the book. In fact, I checked to be sure I had her trajectory right - surely Victoria had emigrated from London to Boston, and that’s why she sounds like a maid at Downton Abbey? But no.
