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1. Similarly, in Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2006), Ariel Levy charts the mainstreaming of the sex industry in American popular culture.

2. I define mass-market erotic memoirs as those which have experienced commercial success and are marketed at a mainstream audience. Examples include, but are not limited to, Belle de Jour’s The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl (2005), Abby Lee’s Girl with a One Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door (2006), and Catherine Townsend’s Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress (2007). For a more extensive discussion of the genre, see J. Gwynne, Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

3. See Sigmund Freud. “The Sexual Aberrations.” Ed. and trans. James Strachey. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 1987. 24. Print.

4. See Fowles, S. M. “The Fantasy of Acceptable ‘Non-Consent’: Why the Female Sexual Submissive Scares Us (and Why She Shouldn’t).” Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. Ed. J. Friedman and J. Valenti. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008. 117–125. Print.