| Fore/Play | |
| Preface In(se)duction: Out of the Closet and into the Bedroom | |
| Introduction | |
| Love Juices and Other Squeezables | |
| Tasty Knees | p. 5 |
| Love Poem | p. 6 |
| Sweet Sugarcane From The Women of Brewster Place | p. 7 |
| Stolen | p. 11 |
| Afro-Hispanic Triptych: Three Women | p. 13 |
| Haiku #9 | p. 17 |
| Midnight Licorice Nights | p. 18 |
| Put Your Tongue in It | p. 19 |
| A Dinner Invitation | p. 21 |
| Cuntinent | p. 23 |
| Temple Oranges | p. 29 |
| Beached | p. 31 |
| My All Day Sucker | p. 33 |
| Forbidden Fruits and Unholy Lusts: Illicit Sex in Black American Literature | p. 35 |
| When the Spirits Come | |
| Saint Chant | p. 49 |
| The Seal | p. 51 |
| Sexy Signs | p. 52 |
| Haiku #79 | p. 60 |
| sudden ecstasies in lefthanded places (whatever the traffic will bear) | p. 61 |
| From Say Jesus and Come to Me | p. 64 |
| Man to Man | p. 70 |
| There | p. 72 |
| Faded Roses | p. 76 |
| A Single Rose | p. 77 |
| Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | p. 78 |
| At Sixty | p. 84 |
| All in Good Taste | p. 85 |
| African-American Erotica and Other Curiosities: "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice . . ." | p. 86 |
| Movin to the Beat | |
| The Sweetest Sound | p. 99 |
| Double Congas | p. 100 |
| From Under the Skin of the Drums | p. 101 |
| when the horn fits, blow it | p. 104 |
| Gorgeous Puddin' | p. 105 |
| Taking a Six for a Nine: Sexual Imagery in the Trinidad Calypso | p. 107 |
| From Sounds of Joy | p. 114 |
| Untitled | p. 117 |
| Songs They Could Sing #789 | p. 118 |
| Dew's Song | p. 119 |
| Swimming in Your Wetness | |
| All Wet in Green | p. 129 |
| P.G. | p. 130 |
| Black Male/Tales | p. 132 |
| Haiku #107 | p. 141 |
| Erotic Note #4 | p. 142 |
| Untitled | p. 143 |
| Wet Kisses | p. 144 |
| Meet | p. 149 |
| Insatiable | p. 151 |
| From Echo of Lions | p. 154 |
| From Woman Story | p. 156 |
| Haiku #52 | p. 159 |
| Birds | p. 160 |
| Haiku #102 | p. 161 |
| Edible or Incredible: Black Erotic Collectibles | p. 162 |
| Naughty, Nasty, and Nice | |
| Pin-up Poems | p. 171 |
| Tocame | p. 176 |
| The Fight | p. 180 |
| From Hadriana dans tous mes reves | p. 181 |
| Stray Thoughts | p. 184 |
| Nasty Delightful Things From Down These Mean Streets | p. 185 |
| Telegram from Topeka | p. 188 |
| Teasing Tales and Tit(Bit)s From Shuckin' and Jivin' | p. 189 |
| Warning | p. 193 |
| Channeling | p. 193 |
| Channeling | p. 194 |
| A New Year's Eve Celebration | p. 196 |
| Dyke Hands | p. 198 |
| Dildo | p. 200 |
| Ooohwee, Baby, You Feel So Good | |
| Fresh | p. 207 |
| Trotting Through the Park | p. 209 |
| What Makes Siedah Zip From EveryBody Knows What Time It Is | p. 210 |
| Baby | p. 217 |
| We'll Be Real Good Together | p. 219 |
| Commitment to Hardness | p. 224 |
| Haiku #29 | p. 227 |
| Summer | p. 228 |
| The Three-Token Stradivarius | p. 229 |
| Sunburst from the Earth | p. 240 |
| Untitled 2 | p. 241 |
| From Long Distance Life | p. 242 |
| Plain Wrappers | p. 246 |
| Taking the Plunge | |
| Haiku #25 | p. 255 |
| Cafe Noir | p. 256 |
| Sexionnaire | p. 258 |
| To a Boy | p. 260 |
| From First Person Singular | p. 261 |
| You Knew | p. 265 |
| Erector Set | p. 268 |
| Teaching the Sweet Thing | p. 269 |
| From Teach Me | p. 271 |
| From The Initiation of Belfon | p. 273 |
| Discoveries | p. 276 |
| Opening Night | p. 278 |
| Dear Diary | p. 280 |
| bangarang mesticagem | p. 283 |
| The 1st 3 Daze | p. 285 |
| Flipping to the Wild Side | |
| From Making Whoopee | p. 299 |
| Touching | p. 301 |
| Lust | p. 308 |
| Fuck | p. 309 |
| Lonnie's Cousin | p. 310 |
| The X-Lovers | p. 319 |
| I Wanna Be Wild and Wonderful! | p. 321 |
| Love Poem | p. 325 |
| A Good Knight's Leap | p. 326 |
| Haiku #28 | p. 334 |
| Comin to Terms | p. 335 |
| (hug) | p. 339 |
| From Black Borealis | p. 340 |
| Pt. 9 | |
| Kool N Kinky/Hot N Heavy | |
| For Kazuko | p. 349 |
| Cabin Fever From The Lakestown Rebellion | p. 350 |
| From GAR | p. 355 |
| The Joys and Power in Celibacy | p. 357 |
| From Running Come Touch | p. 360 |
| Olive Oil | p. 362 |
| Victory | p. 367 |
| Wrestling and Pole Vaulting From Pinktoes | p. 368 |
| Summer Madness | p. 373 |
| From Platitudes | p. 375 |
| Interpenetration Side Two | p. 377 |
| The Hog Caller's Party | p. 378 |
| Exotic Landscapes/Erotic Mindsets | |
| The Joy of Sex | p. 385 |
| Piece of Time | p. 387 |
| Cleopatra | p. 392 |
| Antony | p. 393 |
| On a Night of the Full Moon | p. 394 |
| Venus Rising | p. 396 |
| An Utrillo, Possibly | p. 398 |
| Hot Missives | p. 399 |
| Movement III From The Tomb of Sorrow | p. 410 |
| I Have a Memory | p. 414 |
| From Smoke, Lilies and Jade | p. 416 |
| Tell Me You Love Me | p. 420 |
| Poetica Erotica | p. 422 |
| Godze 1783 From Valide | p. 425 |
| 405 Scott Street | p. 431 |
| Eroticism in Sub-Saharan African Films | p. 433 |
| After/Play | p. 438 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 440 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 452 |
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