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| Fore/Play | |
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| Preface In(se)duction: Out of the Closet and into the Bedroom | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Love Juices and Other Squeezables | |
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| Tasty Knees | |
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| Love Poem | |
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| Sweet Sugarcane From The Women of Brewster Place | |
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| Stolen | |
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| Afro-Hispanic Triptych: Three Women | |
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| Haiku #9 | |
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| Midnight Licorice Nights | |
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| Put Your Tongue in It | |
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| A Dinner Invitation | |
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| Cuntinent | |
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| Temple Oranges | |
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| Beached | |
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| My All Day Sucker | |
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| Forbidden Fruits and Unholy Lusts: Illicit Sex in Black American Literature | |
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| When the Spirits Come | |
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| Saint Chant | |
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| The Seal | |
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| Sexy Signs | |
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| Haiku #79 | |
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| sudden ecstasies in lefthanded places (whatever the traffic will bear) | |
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| From Say Jesus and Come to Me | |
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| Man to Man | |
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| There | |
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| Faded Roses | |
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| A Single Rose | |
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| Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | |
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| At Sixty | |
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| All in Good Taste | |
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| African-American Erotica and Other Curiosities: "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice . . ." | |
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| Movin to the Beat | |
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| The Sweetest Sound | |
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| Double Congas | |
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| From Under the Skin of the Drums | |
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| when the horn fits, blow it | |
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| Gorgeous Puddin' | |
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| Taking a Six for a Nine: Sexual Imagery in the Trinidad Calypso | |
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| From Sounds of Joy | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Songs They Could Sing #789 | |
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| Dew's Song | |
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| Swimming in Your Wetness | |
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| All Wet in Green | |
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| P.G. | |
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| Black Male/Tales | |
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| Haiku #107 | |
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| Erotic Note #4 | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Wet Kisses | |
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| Meet | |
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| Insatiable | |
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| From Echo of Lions | |
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| From Woman Story | |
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| Haiku #52 | |
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| Birds | |
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| Haiku #102 | |
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| Edible or Incredible: Black Erotic Collectibles | |
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| Naughty, Nasty, and Nice | |
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| Pin-up Poems | |
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| Tocame | |
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| The Fight | |
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| From Hadriana dans tous mes reves | |
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| Stray Thoughts | |
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| Nasty Delightful Things From Down These Mean Streets | |
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| Telegram from Topeka | |
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| Teasing Tales and Tit(Bit)s From Shuckin' and Jivin' | |
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| Warning | |
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| Channeling | |
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| Channeling | |
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| A New Year's Eve Celebration | |
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| Dyke Hands | |
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| Dildo | |
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| Ooohwee, Baby, You Feel So Good | |
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| Fresh | |
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| Trotting Through the Park | |
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| What Makes Siedah Zip From EveryBody Knows What Time It Is | |
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| Baby | |
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| We'll Be Real Good Together | |
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| Commitment to Hardness | |
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| Haiku #29 | |
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| Summer | |
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| The Three-Token Stradivarius | |
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| Sunburst from the Earth | |
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| Untitled 2 | |
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| From Long Distance Life | |
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| Plain Wrappers | |
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| Taking the Plunge | |
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| Haiku #25 | |
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| Cafe Noir | |
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| Sexionnaire | |
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| To a Boy | |
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| From First Person Singular | |
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| You Knew | |
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| Erector Set | |
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| Teaching the Sweet Thing | |
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| From Teach Me | |
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| From The Initiation of Belfon | |
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| Discoveries | |
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| Opening Night | |
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| Dear Diary | |
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| bangarang mesticagem | |
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| The 1st 3 Daze | |
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| Flipping to the Wild Side | |
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| From Making Whoopee | |
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| Touching | |
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| Lust | |
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| Fuck | |
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| Lonnie's Cousin | |
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| The X-Lovers | |
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| I Wanna Be Wild and Wonderful! | |
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| Love Poem | |
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| A Good Knight's Leap | |
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| Haiku #28 | |
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| Comin to Terms | |
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| (hug) | |
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| From Black Borealis | |
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| Pt. 9 | |
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| Kool N Kinky/Hot N Heavy | |
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| For Kazuko | |
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| Cabin Fever From The Lakestown Rebellion | |
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| From GAR | |
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| The Joys and Power in Celibacy | |
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| From Running Come Touch | |
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| Olive Oil | |
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| Victory | |
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| Wrestling and Pole Vaulting From Pinktoes | |
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| Summer Madness | |
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| From Platitudes | |
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| Interpenetration Side Two | |
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| The Hog Caller's Party | |
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| Exotic Landscapes/Erotic Mindsets | |
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| The Joy of Sex | |
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| Piece of Time | |
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| Cleopatra | |
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| Antony | |
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| On a Night of the Full Moon | |
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| Venus Rising | |
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| An Utrillo, Possibly | |
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| Hot Missives | |
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| Movement III From The Tomb of Sorrow | |
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| I Have a Memory | |
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| From Smoke, Lilies and Jade | |
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| Tell Me You Love Me | |
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| Poetica Erotica | |
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| Godze 1783 From Valide | |
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| 405 Scott Street | |
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| Eroticism in Sub-Saharan African Films | |
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| After/Play | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |