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Delta of Venus
by Anaïs Nin
Trigger warning: Skip the first story if you are faint-hearted. It features abuse.
If like me, you find it hard to read mainstream erotica or find good erotica to read, this may interest you.
The book is a series of separate instances with some recurring characters, but there isn't necessarily a 'plot' to it. Think of an essay only on the act of sex with several chapters. Some of it is titillating, some even philosophical and some just plain shocking.
For a book on erotica I did find non hetero normative sex inadequately represented. Even the lesbian sex featured in the book comes across as the kind manufactured to 'present' or 'perform' rather than something that occurs naturally. I think this arises from the author's limitations. Similarly the kink featured in the book is fairly repetitive - the obsession of the main character, a woman, with rape, wanting to be rape, desiring violence. After a few times, it makes one wonder if the author's personal preferences and dilemmas have creeped into it. This makes sense too considering some of the 'stories' in the book are diary entries of the author.
Do try if you have ever wondering if erotica can be written well. This one is atleast a good attempt, albeit I could not read it in one sitting.
If like me, you find it hard to read mainstream erotica or find good erotica to read, this may interest you.
The book is a series of separate instances with some recurring characters, but there isn't necessarily a 'plot' to it. Think of an essay only on the act of sex with several chapters. Some of it is titillating, some even philosophical and some just plain shocking.
For a book on erotica I did find non hetero normative sex inadequately represented. Even the lesbian sex featured in the book comes across as the kind manufactured to 'present' or 'perform' rather than something that occurs naturally. I think this arises from the author's limitations. Similarly the kink featured in the book is fairly repetitive - the obsession of the main character, a woman, with rape, wanting to be rape, desiring violence. After a few times, it makes one wonder if the author's personal preferences and dilemmas have creeped into it. This makes sense too considering some of the 'stories' in the book are diary entries of the author.
Do try if you have ever wondering if erotica can be written well. This one is atleast a good attempt, albeit I could not read it in one sitting.