Delta of Venus: Erotica

Raping children, incest, & child abuse is Erotica?!?

I found this book to be highly disturbing. If you're looking for a sultry read I would definitly NOT recommend. I am about as open minded and sexually liberated as they come and usually I thoroughly enjoy erotica. However, I could not get past the first chapter of this book. This is the first and only book I have ever returned and received a refund for within two hours of purchasing it. Within the first chapter, the author begins depicting sex games between an adult male and 10 & 12 years old girls! She then describes the main charachter raping his daughters and forcing sexual acts on his sleeping son. How is this 'exquisite' literature?!? Would it be okay to purchase a video or a photograph of this happening? Condoning imagery of forced sex with children is far beyond acceptable imagery. By allowing these kinds of images to be glorified we are saying 'it's okay to think about children in a sexual way.' Not only is that disturbing but its not EROTIC! That is terrifying! There are a great many things we adults may fantasize about doing to each other. There are plenty of people in the world who think even consenting adults shouldn't be able to control their own sex lives. I am not one of those. I do, however, feel that children have NO PART of adult fantasies. I'm amazed that this book has come so far with people glorifying such sad acts as 'erotica.'

7 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Cannot condone...

I love to read erotica as much as the next sexually charged female - when it involes adults. I cannot begin to express my disgust over the first story in this book. If this story were in pictoral form someone would be going to jail because it would be child pornography!

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Hot stuff!

This is my first exposure to this genre. WOW! Nin knew her stuff. She made even the most debauched behavior seem sensual at the same time. This is not romance. This is the physical side. The cover is so beautiful. It conveys the idea of the book perfectly-sexy without being dirty. Take a couple of hours and dive right in.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Bravo Anais Nin!!!!!!!!

I first read this book at the tender age of 14. As a you male starting out on my own awakening, I was overwhelmed with the imagination, eroticism and pure delight reading this book. Fast forward 22 years later. I've re-ordered this book to read agian and to add it to my private library. A must read for everyone, but especially for, in my view, MEN! As a happily married man, this book taught me many things in the development of me becoming that man/person that I am today. Nin, bless her soul, was a woman way ahead of her time and growth. Strong, proud, a seeker of truths that are within us all. BRAVO. Buy this book!

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Anais makes love

Anais makes love while wrapped in irony. She strokes her lover like a pet boa, the snake within and the tigress without. Anais makes love in willful uncertainty, always aware of the tentative touch, the quotable caress, the trespass between raw nerves and a gift of nature. Anais makes love like a cellist, never knowing for sure whether she is the musician or the sonorous body that made the sound.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A Celebration of Beauty and Sensuality

Delta of Venus joyously explores the art of human sexuality. Anais Nin's writing style is at once lyrical and straightforward. While she leaves no doubt in the reader's mind just what is going on, her countless love scenes are imbued with so much warmth and dignity that one could scarcely find them offensive. But most importantly, Anais understood that sex is nothing without emotion, and it's the emotions of her myriad characters that cause the reader to turn happily florid with every page. She understood that while sex is not to be taken lightly, it's certainly not something to be restrained, either. Lastly, of all the locales depicted in this collection of stories, she lends a special affection to Paris. I suspect that of all of Anais' lovers, the City of Light was the dearest to her heart, to wit: 'At five I always felt shivers of sensuality, shared with the sensual Paris. As soon as the light faded, it seemed to me that every woman I saw was running to meet her lover, that every man was running to meet his mistress.' and 'But we were enjoying an orgasm, as couples do in doorways and under bridges at night all over Paris.'

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Absolute Perfection

This book took me from memory to mind controlled love in a matter of seconds. The thoughts and words that are flowing off the pages, are pure bliss.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Written for an old pervert

Anias Nin was much more talented than this. Although this book wasn't horrible,it lacked the romance and poetry that here other work has.

A Classic Book of Erotic Treasures......

One of the very first erotic books I've read....read it first back in 1996....and I haven't looked back since then. Its been one of my favorites to read when I'm looking for some erotic inspiration.....I recommend 'Delta of Venus' to anyone who is a 'beginner' in erotica because this is a timeless classic by a classic author!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a hot book

This book will definateley be one you won't put down...an array of stories, characters, human emotions, lust, fantasies, everything. Erotica explains it all!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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