I Went Hunting for Smut at the Library, and I Found My Tribe
Something So Much Better than I Expected
3 min readAug 26, 2023
I wasn’t particularly interested in the novel my book club planned to read, and I didn’t want to invest in it. My twenty-one year-old son said he’d heard it was “one step up from pure smut.” So I went to the public library to borrow the book.