* "The Two Hellos" by Michael Faber: an infidelity story--started the anthology off on the wrong foot for me. Some rather unerotic, crude details, but there was a sad point at the end.
* "For Sale" by Cara Bruce: fun story about the intersection of two different fetishes in a red chair.
* "Truly Scrumptious" by Mark Ramsden: spanking and an open marriage.
* "Sweet, Sweet Annie" by Rich Logsdon: violent, crude, and too creepy to be erotic.
* "London Derriere" by Dawn O'Hara: Orlando will do anything to get Isabella--and her fabulous ass--back.
* "The Holy Bright Number" by Andy Duncan: strange, confusing, "literary" story about a back-woods hooker.
* "On Hallowed Ground" by Debra Hyde: sex in a graveyard.
* "The Colour of Lust" by M. Christian: lesbian couple--one plays pool while the other cheats on her.
* "Wild Roses" by Mary Anne Mohanraj: Sarah & Saul and Ruth & Daniel had been a foursome years ago. Now Daniel's dead, and Sarah offers Ruth Saul to console her. Touching story--more poignant than erotic.
* "The VIP Room" by Nicholas Kaufmann: amusing story about a philanderer who gets more than he bargained for.
* "Cactus Ass" by Cheyenne Blue: picking cactus needles out of Susan's butt leads to English tourist Geordie crossing one more thing of his to-do list.
* "The Shape of Cities" by Maxim Jakubowski: memories of a lost lover. Kind of depressed, kind of literary.
* "The Death and Life of Edward Grable" by Adhara Law: almost a paranormal story, about a sexual artist seeking fulfillment.
* "Alchemical Ink: Shattered Angel" by Morgan Hawke: this one is paranormal, about a guy who helps a desperate young woman save herself by giving her a magical tattoo.
* "Making Woofie" by Lilian Pizzichini: weird, weird story--a woman having puppies. Ick.
* "Six Before Nine" by Michael Crawley: detailed description of oral sex.
* "Mothering" by Jacqueline Lucas: a photo shoot that ends up in a three-way, with alternating first-person accounts from all three. A little confusing, but not bad.
* "Diver's Moon" by E. M. Arthur: recovered cancer patient whose wife left him for his nurse starts over.
* "The Little American" by Sage Vivant: a not-well-endowed American gets teased by Greek women, but gets some anyway.
* "Fugu" by Bianca James: intense story about a Japanese mob assassin's suicide.
* "Deserving Ruth" by Mike Kimera: his infidelity turns them into swingers until he proves himself.
* "Cat" by Anya Wassenberg: a P.I. who goes to extraordinary lengths to catch cheating husbands.
* "If It Makes You Happy" by Cole Riley: inmate seduces a guard to help her escape.
* "Going Out With Angela" by David Surface: a straight guy with a thing for a lesbian.
* "Diving Into Oceans of Air" by Renee M. Charles: paranormal story about an empath, specializing in long-distance sex, who meets the perfect lover in person.
* "The Water Hole" by Michele Larue: pee fetish.
* "The Adventure of Thomas the Rock Star in the Court of the Queen of Faery" by John Grant: the title pretty much says it all. Nice fae story.
* "San Sebastian" by Justine Dubois: wife angrily sends husband off to hike on his own; he has a better time than he'd expected.
* "Wanting That Man" by Karen Taylor: a lesbian finds herself inexplicably attracted to a man. Nice twist, surprisingly sensitive.
* "La Deesse Terre" by Madeleine Oh: a discarded wife becomes the Earth Goddess.
* "To Remember You By" by Sacchi Green: a grandmother reminisces about her lesbian experiences as a nurse during WWII.
* "Death on Denial" by O'Neil De Noux: trickle-down economics as it applies to mob assassins. Funny, but not very sexy.
* "The Sweater" by Tara Alton: kind of a Cyrano de Bergerac story with a bi twist.
* "Trying It On" by Jennifer Footman: a costume shop. I didn't quite get the point of this one.
* "Tomatoes: A Love Story in Three Parts" by Claire Tristram: a literary sort of story in which tomatoes punctuate a woman's lesson to seize the day.
* "The Whore Gene" by Lisa Montanarelli: a scientist studies prostitues to find "the whore gene." Nice twist at the end.
* "Show Time" by Julia Peters: she wants to break up with him until they share a sex show.
* "Progressive Party" by Alison Tyler: a couple does something different at each apartment during a progressive party. Cute concept, but it didn't live up to its promise.
* "Horsepower" by Tom Piccirilli: comic geek turns tough guy when he drives his dead brother's Mustang.
* "English Lessons" by Lee Elliott: she teachers her Japanese student more than just English.
* "Butterfly" by Lisabet Sarai: he's enamored of a Thai prostitute who turns out to be a post-op transsexual.
* "Lap Dance Lust" by Rachel Kramer Bussel: woman gets her first lap dance.
* "A Cool Dry Place" by R. Gay: Haitians emigrating.
* "Bacon, Lola and Tomato" by Susannah Indigo: Lola meets the "tomato"--the phone sex operator with whom her boyfriend's sort-of cheating on her. "Bacon" is the "tomato's" nickname for him.
* "The Swing" by Mari Ness: a man calls Ask A Nurse when he's handcuffed to the bed and his wife is stuck in a sex swing. Funny.
* "The Blood Virgin" by Anne Tourney: kind of like Psycho, about the daughter of a man who writes true crime stories about killers.
* "Sakura" by Diane Kepler: I had to look up the section titles: Japanese numbers, one through eight. Irritating story about a spoiled young woman and a man who bends over backward for her but she just wants expensive gifts.
* "Drift" by Christopher Hart: kind of like in So Long and Thanks for All the Fish when Arthur Dent and Fenchurch are having sex while flying.

It's not called "mammoth" for nothing. Still, a surprising number of the stories didn't seem very erotic at all. My reactions to the stories were more often either amusement or boredom than excitement.

But I'm not sorry I read it. I wouldn't have wanted to miss "The VIP Room," "Alchemical Ink," "Fugu," and "Diving into Oceans of Air," in my opinion the best of the stories. ( )