The Best American Erotica, Volume 2, a national best seller, features literary erotic stories by Chris Offutt, John Preston, Pat Califia, and Leslie Feinberg.

Included in this collection:

• "Gorgeous" by J. Maynard
• "C is for Closet, Crevice, and Colossus" by Marianna Beck
• "From the Same River Twice" by Chris Offut
• "Absolution" by John Preston
• "PG Diary" by Linda Hooper
• "Big Nouns, Unconjugated Verbs" by Bart Plantenga
• "Love Art" by Debra Martens
• "Better Safe" by Michael Lowenthal
• "Slow Dance on the Fault Line" by Donald Rawley
• "Cool and Clean and Crisp" by Mark Butler
• "Unsafe Sex" by Pat Califia
• "Elegy for Andy Gibb" by Danielle Willis
• "Finally, a Coherent Explanation of Straight White Male Sexuality" by Sigfried Gold
• "Intercore" by M. Christian
• "Full Metal Corset" by Anne Tourney
• "Sweating Profusely in Merida" by Carol Queen
• From Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• "None of the Above" by Bernadette Lynn Bosky
• "The Waking State" by Gerry Pearlberg
• "A Tooth for Every Child" by Abigail Thomas

Previously published as Best American Erotica 1994.