Review: Now that's comedy! (as in, that's not erotica!)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
Allie Blake, <strong>Dumpsterotica, vol. 1: How Dirty <em>Are</em> You?</strong> (Allie Blake, 2011)"The author wishes to thank the two skunks she found chewing on an old John Edwards campaign poster, thus inspiring the entire <em>Dumpsterotica</em> series." If you find that sentence, from the acknowledgements, delightful despite a minor grammatical faux pas, then you've probably got the sense of humor to get the fullest out of this disgusting-yet-hilarious story. Funny stuff about a normally-frigid woman who consents to sex with her husband once a month after drinking expensive champagne, and what happens when fumbling in a back alley plus a cruising police car find them horny in a half-full dumpster. I warn you, this is some pretty nasty stuff, but this is more straight comedy than it is erotica; I don't think Blake's intent was to arouse, but to amuse, and this is quite a success in that regard. Assuming, of course, you've got the sense of humor for it. ***