Erotic literature is no longer a taboo hobby as more people are buying bondage-style clothes and embracing filthy humour, it has been suggested.

Sex writer and blogger Susie Bright noted that TV shows are increasingly littered with saucy jokes, thereby helping society shed the stigma of body-based bawdiness.

As a result of this move of all things sex-themed to the mainstream, according to the sensual scribe, erotic fiction is no longer a niche market and publishers have become more open to immortalising naughty notions on paper.

"I don't know if you can write literary fiction these days and pretend sex doesn't exist," Ms Bright remarked to the LA Times.

The publication went on to document the growing trend for "not-so-vanilla" literary loving, which experts trace back to graphic guru the Marquis de Sade.

"Now, when whatever suits your fancy is easily found online, exploring intense or unusual sexuality has become the purview of commercial and even highbrow literary writers," it concluded.

So be ashamed no more of your fictional flights of fancy, you bookworms - looks like your favourite rude writers are here to stay!

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