Delta of Venus (1994)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 17, 2014 . Retrieved July 12, 2014. When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.” Andrew Gibson, Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: from Leavis to Levinas, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0-415-19895-X, p.177 Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence - was published in the 1930s. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). During her later years Anaïs Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA, in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.”

Delta of Venus". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017 . Retrieved June 29, 2017. becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities. This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Hundreds of vintage erotica movies from the early 1900s through the 1970s, innocent burlesque to lusty & explicit retro sex. Currently there are 900+ movies with more added weekly! The novel by Anaïs Nin on which the film is based is not autobiographical, nor does it have a frame narrative. The film imposes a frame-narrative about a "Nin-like" American who begins an affair with another expatriate American in pre– World War II Paris, and who writes erotic stories that represent her fantasies. Some of these stories/fantasies, based on those of Nin, are explored on-screen. And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.” Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 [1]—though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. [2] Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.”

Anaïs Nin was largely ignored until the 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the leading female writers of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles. French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966) Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2023-06-23 . Retrieved 2023-06-14. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) You get a wide array of whimsical plots and locales, plus all the sex you know & love: straight sex, girl-girl, burlesque & striptease, blowjobs & cunnilingus, orgies, masturbation, whipping & spanking, erotic animation, and much more. French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)Anne T. Salvatore, Anaïs Nin's Narratives, University Press of Florida (2001) ISBN 0-8130-2113-8, p. 17 Welcome! You’ve arrived at DeltaofVenus.com, the net’s premiere source for vintage smut, classic erotic photography, and a vast array of history and sex-related musings. Dishing out antique porn since 2002. In our archives you'll find: The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.” Despite being told to leave poetic language aside and concentrate on graphic, sexually explicit scenarios, Nin was able to give these stories a literary flourish and a layer of images and ideas beyond the pornographic. In her Diary (Oct. 1941), she jokingly referred to herself as "the madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution, from which vulgarity was excluded". [5] urn:lcp:deltaofvenuserot0000nina:epub:81f9353e-178f-41f3-9f0f-b9c787eafa69 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier deltaofvenuserot0000nina Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t79s8d197 Invoice 1213 Isbn 0553237543