Her book

[Homicidalheathen]

*snicker!* its called,

'wetlands'

kinda like soaked nether regions I presume

Wetlands, by Charlotte Roche, was first published in Germany last year and became the only German book to top Amazon's worldwide best-seller list.

The book sparked an international bidding war and will be published in the UK by Fourth Estate on February 5. It has provoked debate over whether Roche can call herself a feminist yet write porn, and is the most extreme example yet of an increasingly popular genre: erotic material written by women.

The narrator of Wetlands is Helen, an 18-year-old who regales readers with a stream of sexually explicit subject matter.

According to Roche, she is "a heroine that has a totally creative attitude towards her body" and the character is somewhat autobiographical. "Men think they can be disgusting and sexual and stuff, and now I've shown them that women can do the same," she said. "I am very much for pornography."

Roche was born in High Wycombe, Bucks but moved with her British parents to Germany when she was a child. She became a television presenter for an MTV-style music channel and initially began writing a work of non-fiction, before turning it into a novel.

The book was rejected by one German publisher on the grounds that it was too pornographic. Roche's literary readings are restricted to the over-18s, and in Germany there were several reports of over-excited fans fainting upon hearing certain excerpts.

Several best-sellers of recent years have featured pornographic material written from a female perspective. They include The Sexual Life of Catherine M, an explicit memoir by the respected Parisian art critic Catherine Millet.

A number of the books started life as anonymous internet blogs, including The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour and Girl With A One Track Mind by Abby Lee.

neth·er re·gions

• pl. n. the lowest or furthest parts of a place, esp. with allusion to hell or the underworld: rumors of strange creatures hauting the lake's bottomless nether regions.

∎ (one's nether regions) used euphemistically to refer to a person's genitals and buttocks.

[Destroit]

A woman wrote a porn book and it's big news? Man, I'm glad I don't live in Germany, never thought I'd say that.

In Japan, all Yaoi (gay male porn, for those who don't know) is written exclusively by females for females. I say this to the women of the world, and especially Germany now: Ladies, be more like Japanese women, they are correct. Men should be liking girl on girl, women SHOULD be liking guy on guy...but due to our horrible male-oriented brainwashing society, we've lost that inherent female trait.

Good for this woman for breaking the barrier, now more need to follow.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

It can't be worse than The Secret.

[e-jewell]

Personally I masturbate to Aleister Crowley, but that's only when I'm shitting bats.

[Rev.Reverence]

Personally I masturbate to Aleister Crowley, but that's only when I'm shitting bats.

I thought I was the only one that did that...but I don't shit bats...bats shit lil' mes...

[Azeuron]

Personally I masturbate to Aleister Crowley, but that's only when I'm shitting bats.

I personally never understood masturbating to literature but whatever gets your rocks off eh?