I'm pretty sure they stay on that level if I understood my friend correctly (is it bad that she rec'ed them to me specifically because of the kinky smut? I'm not sure what that says about her opinion of me...)

mwaha the Black Jewels books make me giggle for certain. I began reading them long before I was allowed Sex Ed long story so for much of the first two books I was like 'really? you can do that? For that long?! Wow!' and finally in Sex Ed when I learned how ::ahem:: unusual some of the stuff they engaged in was I laughed and had to explain to the instructor which explaining about how I knew what a cockring was, was mighty uncomfortable