By way of an offset to Steve Black's Guilty Pleasures, what's your choice for sexiest (not crudest, Coopey - oops, that's me) poem or song.
Since it's my ball, I'll have first kick.
Shelley - Love's Philosophy
Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad
Any advance?

There's an album by a guy called Amir Baghiri called Ghazal that is one of the most arousing and erm, fit-for-purpose, albums I've ever heard. *cough*

Can't think of any sexy poems, I barely read any poetry. Ooo - your poem called The Bidding I thought was verrry sexy.

Black Cherry - Goldfrapp quite simply sexiest thing ever.
Donna Summer - I feel love, high energy gay anthems, why not?

Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye, anything by Al Green.

lets get it on is very sexy very very, especially if arrived at after ages of otis redding 'these arms of mine'...possibly mr barry white can do it as an opposite of alison goldfrapp
phylis nelson..move closer...then lets get it on oooo

Otis just makes me sob tbh. Oh, apart from Hard to Handle - which is rarrr.

Good choice Rach with Donna Summer - we had that on 7"

There's a few that spring to mind - most of them showing my age unfortunately. I think the when/where/who associations are important for all of us - the "perfect storm" of time, place, memory, emotions and hormones. Ah, those were the days . . .

Here goes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhCYC_TEFw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn4i8bAfnMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POL7RDoNAFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7tcIAkF4g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6vl8mP2Ic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi3cOw5iJ10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQaJugjMfEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjVLlZRplec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfzmVUrZplw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5_SFbWn48

As for poetry, I guess I haven't found anything that erotic as yet. I always wanted to have a bash at writing something steamy - but where to start and how, without it sounding trashy and cheap? I'll think on it. Great thread by the way!

Regards,

A.E.

Thanks, AE.
I'll check out the YouTube links when I'm home. But great idea.
Here's a link for my favourite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ
Ignore the obvious miming!
As for Shelley, I'll have to look into that.

no smaller than 12" for me bess, oooo ifeelloveifeeloveifeelove...

i think truly sexy songs are very personal and to be kept private. like the one s that remind of all the secret things you find attractive in your partner. the small things you want to be just about you and he/she whoever.

generally, toxic by britney spears does it...dancing about in an air hostess outfit, well! theres something to be said for possible subliminal messages in trashy girl pop that kid me into thinking they re sexy. girls aloud are really slightly anorexic, talentless mannequin types, but all that hair and make up sometimes blurrs my vision and i sing along like a stepford wife, the way that we walk, the way that we talk...so easily caught
anyone seen the new f&f tesco clothes add? pure stepford.

No contest: Move Over Darling, Doris Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XkVORAuC1Y

Used to listen to this song on Radio Luxembourg. I might add, for Mr Coopey's benefit, that I am not a fan of Ms Day's entire oeuvre. Although the Deadwood Stage is pretty good as well, come to think of it ... all those whips cracking away ...

For an alternative, more knowing, ironic take, here's Tracey Ullmann's version. Very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gdI1YN5qXg

Or here's another version, involving steam engines and sidecars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKpwwfTJpI&feature=related

Ha Rach - I'm Laura, not Bess ;p This is getting daft - people are actually calling me Bess to my face too now! :D

Re what you say about the girls...just last night I was introducing Bob to the delights of The Sopranos, Season 1, and despite my brain telling me that the nearly naked dancing girls in the bar are all silicone, and they look wrong, and it's all exploitation...I just cannot help myself looking at them and thinking little phwoars. It's wrong, I don't really fancy them...but...they're almost naked. Whaddaya gonna do?!

http://youtu.be/vsmXBQawrRk

(Don't know why it has this effect - I was in a shop when I first heard it playing and I was mad about someone at the time. That's why!)

As a spin-off point:
The responses all seem to be submissions of music and not poetry.
Don't we read poetry or don't we read erotic poetry or is poetry not a suitable vehicle for eroticism?

haha laura...i have same quandry with these young things, like ellie goulding. if she were my real life girlfriend id become like a big macho butch and stop people even looking at her. but real thing is im not gay and shes just gorgeous in the way that some girls are...semi naked topless girls dancing in bars (silicon or no) dance in a very specific way that takes a lot of training. pole dancing is an admirable art for eg. but it is all designed to turn on the sex part of the brain, in man, woman, dog or even budgie...
I am often over awed by the sexy ness of some women, but i tend to use this experience for fashion tips which is how i know im still a girl really...i hope this helps. Nothing wrong with saying phwoar...i have taken to strutting past building sites and phwoaring young men with their tops off, sometimes they phwoar back. those are the good days, not many left ;) builders as represents of hetero males are the only bunch allowed to openly phwoar who they like but they may secretly fancy the guy who works at the library for eg. I take pleasure in knowing that the more private ones fantasies are...the better they get
I am now officially aunt bessie puds sexline advice :)

Thank you Ms Bond - that is marvellous news. I can phwoar at the silicone dollies now, completely guilt-free, knowing that it is their FILTHY DANCING that is to blame, not me ;)

When I am over-awed by the sexiness of some women, I tend to just lose my ability to articulate myself :(

Sex is prime fodder for great poetry. Have a look at John Siddique's most current work. If the lines have to be delivered/acted in overkill sound effects, then the poem doesn't qualify... IMO, of course.

Gosh - sex sells cos this is a runaway thread...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHo0W5x_eaE

I'm posting the above for John Coopey. I listened to fleetwood mac but it sounded a bit slow to my mind. I also found Ann's a bit too high brow. I need to put some time aside to listen to everyone else's.

I'd agree with Rachel on Donna Summer's being the raunchiest. An orgasm put to music is so original and much easier to learn the lryics....

Haven't read much erotic poetry but I now have a list to plough through - thanks Cynth ;)

Real eroticism lies in the brain - the memory and the imagination. Better if you don't need a song or a poem to extract it :)

Yus. Oim very 'ighbrow me! I just think a bloke saying to a lady "crush me!" is kinda cute! In phwaaaar kinda way.

Crush me? You've led a sheltered life Ann ;

I'm no good at writing sexy poetry. Two poems come to mind that I've read on here though.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=7876

and(I'm just looking it up)

I've given up. It was the one you wrote about Whales, Ann. About looking into your partner's eyes. There were too many to look through - you'll have to point me in the right direction.

Whale Music Nov 2010 - wow! ages ago! Ta Iz - I thought you didn't like nature poems!!XX

Oooh, I remember Rachel's poem very well!

I did put a poem I thought was sexy on here once, with music - wtf was it? It had an audio I was quite proud of. Erm . . . I'll have to go and look for it now! I was going to call in Masturbation Song but I chickened out!

Hey! I just found it and I re-named it! 1st Feb 2010 - It's a bit quiet though. Now AKA MASTURBATION SONG

I used to find some of Augusta's poems quite raunchy.

haha@ laura, filthy dancing indeed!

i too thought augusta darlings stuff a bit raunchy.
my friend was published in an anthology of womens witing about sex and i must say her poem still lingers in my mind, all about caressing someones lips with a feather.

The song of solomon in the Old Testament is very sexy.

I think with songs it's a lot to do with the time in your life when the song was around and the associations. Like Laura, I haven't read enough poetry to find any sexy ones. Maybe poems are too cerebral - you can't dance to a poem. Maybe you can't make out to a poem either.

i totally agree Ann. the thought of gettin it on to a poem is well, highly amusing haha :) its all in the the rythm although i could be turned on by someones clever words...but just not actually make out even if they read it again out loud haha i have met some men who might think it a good idea however hahaha x

http://youtu.be/KmQ_1sXZJxI

but maybe cos if I was gay i'd really fancy her!!!!!

You've got a very weird idea of sexy, Ann. I'm sure she wouldn't do anything for me if I was a man. The sexiest singer and outfit has to be Cher in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEszTzdUMcY

What a body! What an outfit! On a ship with a hundred sailors.... What an idea!

All these new starlets are just playing at it.

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=17287

That poem had nothing to do with nature, Ann. :) x

There's some right Dirty Gerties on this site!
I hope you realise that I started this thread not out of literary interest but by way of personal research. Thankyou, ladies.
Freeman - you weren't a blind bit of help. Doris Bloody Day!
Isobel - wotcha mean "it was a bit slow"? At my age it is bloody slow.
Can't find a good link to Shelley's Love's Philosophy but, believe me, it's worked in a couple of my wet dreams.

Oh yes. Augusta Darling - she hit my spot.

the spanish are ver passionate peoples,volver is good.loads of dramatic solos

ive never wooed a vicar although 1 did have a crush on me. i might have quoted revelations at the time... i say we keep poetry out of it and deal only in music in bed.

ste sobbing uncontrollably is only allowed if enforced..otherwise i would suggest either a course in correction of this behaviour or hiding face down in the pillow, lots of people have fun suffocating this way ;)

Sade is king, no queen, crowned in her heart. i love all this romanticism, and i would not argue with a girl that sang like butter. Sade could never get angry and as such is a perfect example of a sophisticate of cool beauty and therefore truly sexy.

"I Like The Way You Move" - by: The Bodyrockers
http://youtu.be/0yUWO2PFVF4

darlenne - i agree i like the way you move is very sexy. threres something about crescendo and climax in the rythms of these songs...new order blue monday has them aswell...s express theme from s express...they must be all over.

'i bet that you look good on the dancefloor' is sexy for me but all about the accent...

what about je t'aime? or erotic by madonna as more obvious examples? black cherry goldfrapp is really only a recording of alison in full flow?

Ooohh no, Rachel.
Not Je t'aime.
It reminds me of the farm next door.

ive got the damn song associated with an advert but thankfully cant remember the ad...

i find this band sexy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQZPozjCX8
film scene: bande apart
band/song:nouvelle vague/'dance with me'


i love the awkwardness of the dancing, the gorgeousness of him on the right( watch him include his own slight reference to touching the girls right shoulder with a light gesture) and the sophisticate of her hat/kilt combo, french film stars or everyday joe taxis?..did you know that vanessa paradis (famous for being petit french bird and one woman able to marry and still be married to johnny very sexy depp)was also responsible for singing joe le taxi song (which may even have inspired mr depp to woo said bird) and that that song translated into english from its version of mock french meant absolutely nothing at all whatsoever, bit like le piat d'or...goes to show that if you look like miss paradis AND are french you can have what you like and what every other girl likes aswell because there is nothing really sexier than a pretty young french girl and no men better for stealing your girlfriends than the frogs??

...but who invited the third guy into bed? wearing a pringle?? I think the scene is showing how the pringle guy has his gfriend whisked off him by a suave guy with a sneaky right shoulder caress or two, a confident placement of a hat and our guy in diamonds' position as his weakness. it highlights the harmony of the other two dancers and its just delightful at the end the way she expresses that delight with being central focus to two men and then goes to pieces when they leave, her face in the final frame of this scene...ah.
(bande apart fans please do critique this theory.)

anyway thats as close as i come to revealing what i find truly sexy. Something seemingly simple yet extremely complicated , involving dance, some kind of 3 way intrigue oh and set in France, in B&W.) dont want much really.

Rachel
You just had me waste 3 minutes of my life watching this in the forlorn hope it would end up as an Osset Sandwich.
If you think this is sexy you should see me and Our Gert doing the Military Two Step or my solo performance of Oops Upside Your Head.

John. Re Peter Green. Quite aside from any sexual effects this is a brilliant song / clip. thanks for bringing it to my attention. I saw Peter with his 'splinter group' at the Ritz in Mcr in 1998. Met Cozy Powell after the gig. soon after he died in a motorway smash. Win

This song makes my bones ache.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvEXChflEE&feature=related

Win
I always thought Peter Green was the underated member of the Hendrix/Clapton/Green axis. Not as technically gifted but had far more touch and soul in his guitar.
I've only seen the Splinter Group on You Tube and it seems PG has a lead guitarist to play for him and a vocalist to sing. Truly sad when you see the talent he was.
Apparently for 2 years in the late 60s Fleetwood Mac outsold The Beatles and Stones combined.

Yes, sad indeed. He was singing and playing though. Nothing fancy with Peter's playing for me every note considered and harmonious.

haha john serves you right for writing about sex on a pretensious poetry site.sexy 3some vids can generally be found on porn.com ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXnXkDioS0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htNqf-vp0-U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKK47bK_WA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c9qhRQhXE&feature=related

for portishead ste, i award incredible taste points. Ive never heard this live version before so thanks.

Well - I've listened to most of those and though the girls have nice sexy, purry voices, they don't do a lot for me.

I like Darlenne's 'I like the way you move'. It has a naughty edge to it and it's very masculine.

I like 'Because You're Gorgeous' cos it encapsulates all the fun you can have in a highly charged sexual relationship. Not that I've ever had one of course... For some reason I can't cut and paste it - it's by Babybird.

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

You have a point Is. Julie London et al are all a bit dull really. the marylin 'daddy' song aught to be banned and i genuinely only really find penelope cruz' performance in volver there sexy as she is an incredibly passionate consummate actress, the drama, the tears, and it was all dubbed because we all know that real life characters as that one dont look like penelope cruz or sing like Estrella Morente but she had me fooled for a minute.

more masculine appeal i find in all that nasty stuff...light tasters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtczBseiAac

great freestyle dancing but still really all held together by fergieliscious booty booty x which is yet another indication of my very gayness but its all in the power she yields with one shake of the hip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnzzZyVd08

this should go in 'guilty pleasures' category also...anyone would beg for that pink all in one!

The BEST til LAST:

one of the best partnerships in dance EVER, best dance films EVER, the most sexually revealing scene that inspired in me a lifetime of dance lessons and sexual relationships so abysmally second rate, i would rather cut and paste film clips on the internet for EVER. Mr Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes and the amazing dance cast of the opening dance hall scene, i give you, dirrrty dancing. Enjoy the Contours... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x43vK0k6A2I

I'd agree that dance is the sexiest artform - combined with music it is so powerful. I enjoyed all the bumping and grinding of Dirty Dancing but my all time favourite dance film is Strictly Ballroom. Very low budget but the dancing is sultry and that hint of love spices it up. It must be great to be in love with a dancer.
I can't cut and paste but my favourite scene is the one to Doris Day's version of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps. It's on Youtube if you can be bothered looking :)

i love strictly ballroom, great , great film. love the build up and tension throughout the real flamenco passion of the girl's humble background set against all those poncey bouffant orange show offs! so good. Shes beautiful and Guy pearce another incredibly multi talented star. i dont know how they do it ?!

ill have a look at DD I know I like the song.

Of all the male dancers that I know I would say 80 % are gay. i know a lot of straight men CAN dance but don't, gay men who CANT dance but look good anyway, too many straight guys who CANT dance but insist and then there is the one and only. My very own partner in tango argentinia so top secret cannot give out even his initial as he is tall dark handsome, straight and very very good at dancing...he must be worth a million. anyway he lives miles away and all tango milonga are held miles away. So maybe ill wait till the smashing pumkins turn up at the door and whisk me up to the next new year do at edinburgh and ill keep polishing my slippers and practising my steps till then x as for prince charming himself...i would never fall in love with a dancer they are so full of themselves (ooo have you heard her!)

i do not claim that is me on this vid, but this is what we do..tango argentina (milonga)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnWO_8f-1O0&feature=related

more stylised, commercial tango fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeAwZslAHY&feature=related

any excuse to post this. its what sex is all about..love, passion, beauty, fear, hate, lust, money, blood...all of it and more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhjR2XLIUuU

There have to be straight guys out there who would make brilliant dancers but have never given into the beat. Dancing has to be made more cool. It should be on the school curriculum. Sod all this sport. Kids could keep fit and have fun if they learned to dance.

Nice clips Rachel - I think they are a lot beyond the ability of the average Joe Bloggs though - even those with a sense of rythm. Anyone wanting to learn a few basic steps and look good on the dance floor quickly should consider Ciroc (french jive). It's great fun, dead easy to learn and looks great. That's me over and out. I'm in danger of taking over the thread LOL. I just have far too much to say. xx

absolutely agree Is. we should all dance more too much self consciousness, you can only bust a move if you break the groove. ie make an ass of yourself, get it wrong to get it right and in dance its an expressive art, there is no wrong or right. just like poetry....i am fortunate in knowing i was just born to it. i literally cannot keep still, especially not if theres a beat on. ive sat in halls on seats with posh folk paying lots of money to sit in the aisles while fascinating japanese men bang on massive drums big as a house...i couldnt believe they all managed to sit still! im hoping for a job in dance teaching one day, say a little prayer for me x

ciroc sounds good...tango argentina not as hard as it looks. well it is, takes years but initially is gentle.

dont worry bout that, its my thread now ;) sorry everyone, please go back to sexy songs/poems apologies for turning it into rachels favourite dances, im so bored :)

I'm currently working at a ballet school (yes, me!) but think it best if I don't comment on whether I think it's sexy or not.
18 year old kids might interpret the scholastic interest of a 59 year old git rather sceptically.
Rather I say, " Marilyn Monroe? Sexy? Eat your heart out".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjDm0An190&feature=related

that song, as I say aught best be banned.

for Ray:

this one slightly chilling rather than sexy but this is what its all about. aching bones :) sure mazzy star sang on a live version of this track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYfITA6h1a4&feature=related

less chilling, just lovely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uOJlXzJfN0&feature=related

But still no poetry.
Does this mean that poetry is not a suitable vehicle for eroticism? Can it only ever be a vessel which contains love, humour, observation, narrative, outrage, etc but can never stimulate?
Has Leonard Cohen wasted his breath?
Discuss.

of course all sorts of poetry is erotically charged either blatantly or in subtle reference and gentle/stimulating sound. eroticism and sex or sexiness are different things.

for me, there is a certain amount of wooing/character playing can be done with words but at the end of the day i prefer a man not to say too much.

i would still find a man reading verse poetry to me in bed hilarious. *cringe*

I'd have to agree with Rachel. We'd have to remove the ducting tape first anyway...

Here's another 59 year old git that does find the ballet erotic, why not? It's all legs and bottoms isn't it?

If we are allwed to call some of Shakespeare's work poetry, I am never more moved than when listening to Romeo and Juliet.
"Beauty too rich for use", "she doth teach the stars to burn bright" etc. What else compares?

Graham, you old tryer.I'm the same; just as sexy now at 59 as I was at 29!You never lose it, do you?

Here's a mildly erotic poem by Fleur Adcock that I like. With a name like hers it ought to be raunchier, perhaps.

Kissing

The young are walking on the riverbank
arms around each other’s waist and shoulders,
pretending to be looking at the waterlilies
and what might be a nest of some kind, over
there, which two who are clamped together
mouth to mouth have forgotten about.
The others, making courteous detours
around them, talk, stop talking, kiss.
They can see no one older than themselves.
It’s their river. They’ve got all day.

Seeing’s not everything. At this very
moment the middle-aged are kissing
in the backs of taxis, on the way
to airports and stations. Their mouths and tongues
are soft and powerful and as moist as ever.
Their hands are not inside each other’s clothes
(because of the driver) but locked so tightly
together that it hurts: it may leave marks
on their not of course youthful skin, which they won’t
notice. They too may have futures.

I LOVE that poem Ray - never heard or her or read that before, but it's great. Thanks :)

haha Isobel...yeh duct tape for the more talkative. If i find a man brave enough to just get it taped up on me, no suggestion, just to shut me up like...well i just might be willing to be quiet for 5 :)

but if he then started reading poetry, even nice fleur adcock poetry, well, there'd be trouble then.

John Donne

Although he wrote

I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.

he also wrote the dead sexy 'To His Mistress Going to Bed', which includes, eg

Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Behind, before, above, between, below.
O my America, my new found land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned.

It's Kate Bush for me. Her 'Song of Solomon' beats the bible any day. Plus she's easy on the eye and the imagination. Thats what it's all about. And... she's getting better with age.

OO..errr misses..!!
what about Ann Foxlgoves 'Whale Music'? that is one good poem Ann.

Ohhhh!.... I forgot... Helen Dunmore and 'Wild Strawbwrry'...... See I can't even write it properly...!

In its day the poem below was racy; today it is just good poetry and a little dusty.


TO HIS COY MISTRESS

by: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

AD we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Crackin' cheese, Chris.
I remember this one by Andrew Marvell.
I often wondered if it worked for him. It's certainly more of an investment in time than "Hurry up and get your knickers off", which was never very successful for me.
Likewise "rolling all my sweetness into one ball" proved troublesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_hYWb-q18&feature=related

for its masculine, objectified poetry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGKPU2uJkrQ

cos im a basic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu0F92RDW0&feature=related

for the bisceps, tats and mainly for being a fackin fanny and a crap dancer...still doing it for me, a man that can laugh at himself x

Rachel, Thank you for that m&m link. Not sure about him or his music but the vid was great fun, would never have watched something like that, in fact not sure why I did, or what I feel... Stop waffling man and get to bed! Win :-)

haha great . i wondered if any one person might watch that and at least smile...people take it all too seriously, when most importantly we need to laugh :)
i mean when did the law lay down that men could no longer chase fine ass and girls couldnt shake em and love it?
its all natural

i say everyone should watch american pie and remember what it was like pre- neurosis ;)

Just go to the old standard "You're
Getting To Be A Habit With Me" for the lines...
"I can't break away,
I must have you every day,
As regularly as coffee or tea
Yo've got me in your clutches and I
can't get free.
You're getting to be a habit with me".
Wow!
(And that song is older than your
grandmother!)