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flowerytale · 8 months

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Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

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shisasan · 3 months

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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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petaltexturedskies · 4 months

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He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.

Anaïs Nin, from Delta of Venus

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metamorphesque · 1 year

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— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

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derangedrhythms · 7 months

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She could think only of erotic images in connection with him, his body.

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus; from ‘Elena’

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angels-holocaust · 7 months

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Costas Mandylor in Delta of Venus (1995) [3/3]

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marscia · 1 year

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this semester i’m doing a challenge called thesis it’s where i try to write my bachelor thesis without going feral

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mournfulroses · 6 months

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Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977

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fredbydawn · 4 months

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realized it's funny that i watched these two after falling down the rabbit hole and gave them the same rating when they're very different movies, like one is about a character getting to explore taboo elements of their sexuality and desires that most people sought out cuz of a scene which is centered on the ass of a male Saw actor, and the other is Delta of Venus

#cuz like WHY DID LEIGH WRITE THAT?!?!#and james HIS BEST FRIEND JAMES was like yeah i'll direct that and edit in the squelching noises :)#WHY DID THEY MAKE ME SEE THAT???#eating the dog food tho... *i turn away and blush like a victorian*#also yeah the only real reason to watch delta of venus is for Costas' incredibly round ass #oh fuck theres also a scene where costas gets on all fours and barks like a dog #crossover methinks??? *is shot*#saw franchise #leigh whannell #costas mandylor #adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #mark hoffman #doggie heaven #delta of venus

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flowerytale · 2 years

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Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

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shisasan · 3 months

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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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petaltexturedskies · 10 months

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She was extraordinarily lovely, with something of both satin and velvet in her. Her eyes were dark and moist, her mouth glowed, her skin reflected the light.

Anaïs Nin, from "Delta of Venus" originally published c. August 1977

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derangedrhythms · 8 months

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At the same time, he was fully aware of her own attraction to the demonic and the sordid, to the pleasure of falling, of desecrating and destroying the ideal self.

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus; from ‘Elena’

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Costas Mandylor in Delta of Venus (1995) [1/3]

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How pleasurable was the feeling of utter abandon!

By Anaïs Nin, from Delta of Venus

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The Duality of Woman: Anais Nin

Vogue Magazine, Anais Nin talks about being a woman, 15 October 1971

Anais Nin is a woman of duality. It's been a well-known fact for those who know or love her that she is truly a two-sided coin. She said it herself in her book Henry and June,

"I will always be the virgin prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman"(bookquoters.com).

From her intense marriages to two different men on opposite sides of the country, to her literary career, to even her personal reflections and essays, Nin was a figure bathed in duality. How does one split the image of Anais Nin ideally in half? You just have to find the seam between diarist and eroticist.

The Diarist

Anais Nin is most well-loved by her adoring fans because of her published diary. As a young girl, Nin wrote her father a letter begging him to return to the family he had abandoned (The Anais Nin Foundation). This was the beginning of Nin's diary, which would be published in seven volumes, with four unexpurgated diaries later appearing after their original publication.

Her diaries were incredibly personal, full of secrets and thoughts she never thought would come to light. The biggest secret within these diaries was that she was married to two different men simultaneously, something she would remove from the diaries upon initial publication. Years later, Nin compiled the removed sections into one volume, the first of her unexpurgated diaries. It was called Henry and June, and detailed the letters and writings the two shared. The duality of Nin stretched throughout every aspect of her life.

These highly intimate journals struck twentieth-century American women directly in their souls. As one journalist famously put it in an article for The Conversation,

Anaïs Nin dreamed, in all senses. She dreamed of lives and possibilities. She dreamed in slumber and allowed her dreams to leak into the day. As I regularly committed the cardinal social sin of recounting my dreams over breakfast, she seemed a soulmate across oceans and generations (Gorman).

These teenage girls and their daydreams were instantly hooked on Nin's likeminded wonder and splendid prose. She became a sensation after the diary publications almost instantly, giving her a decent seat in literary history.

It wouldn't be long until something else gave her another boost of fame.

Ramon Casas, Decadent Young Woman. After the Dance, 1899

The Eroticist

In the late 1970s, Anais Nine published three volumes of erotic short fiction, each containing approximately ten stories. Despite their popularity, the term erotic is a tad inappropriate. Although she wasn't a follower of the transgressive art movement like Georges Bataille, Anais Nin's erotic stories are more disturbing and controversial than actually arousing.

Nin wrote about such topics as sexual abuse, incest, pedophilia, and other forms of sexual violence within her stories. These works would go on to shock and challenge readers even today (Maza).

Lost Lenore Antiques, Anais Nin ~ Little Birds and Delta of Venus ~ 1st Edition Books ~ Vintage Erotica, 27 August 2021

Works Cited

The Anais Nin Foundation. “bio — The Anais Nin Foundation.” The Anais Nin Foundation, https://theanaisninfoundation.org/bio. Accessed 11 December 2023.

Gorman, Alice. “The book that changed me: journeying to the self with Anaïs Nin's sensual, transgressive diaries.” The Conversation, 25 April 2022, https://theconversation.com/the-book-that-changed-me-journeying-to-the-self-with-ana-s-nins-sensual-transgressive-diaries-176135. Accessed 11 December 2023.

Maza, Sarah, and Paul Herron. “Swinging: The Double Life of Anaïs Nin.” Public Books, 19 February 2018, https://www.publicbooks.org/swinging-the-double-life-of-anais-nin/. Accessed 11 December 2023.

Nin, Anaïs. “Quotes from Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin.” BookQuoters, https://bookquoters.com/book/henry-and-june-from-a-journal-of-love-the-unexpurgated-diary-of-anais-nin. Accessed 11 December 2023.