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Delta of Venus
Not quite pornography, nor simply literary short stories.
Perfect if you want to wander through a cabinet of erotic fantasies — lush, surreal, sometimes playful, sometimes cruel.
Synopsis
“Each story is a gesture of the imagination, where desire is allowed to invent itself freely.”
Written on commission during the 1940s, these stories were originally intended as “pure erotica,” yet Nin could not help but lace them with poetry, psychology, and the tremors of her own inner world. Delta of Venus is not about realism — it is about possibility: fantasies as scripts for the body, written with both candour and artistry.
Mood:
lush · playful · surreal · dangerous
Tone:
imaginative · lyrical · daring · intimate
It Feels Like
Body:
tingling curiosity, desire aroused and unsettled.
Tempo:
shifting, like dancers improvising in half-light.
Texture:
velvet curtains hiding strange stages.
A Little Taste
“You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are the fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional.”
“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”
The Aftertaste
Reading feels like opening a forbidden drawer, each page a different mask of desire.
Eroticism mingles with surrealism — the fantastic intrudes, making pleasure uncanny.
You leave with the sense that fantasy is not escape, but revelation.
Peel With a Drink
To be served with a glass of ruby Port — dark, thick, slow to move. It glows like a hidden ember, coating the mouth in velvet warmth.
Sweet at first, then heavy with smoke and spice, it turns the body languid, ready to surrender to imagination.
Peel With a Reel
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1967) — a surreal exploration of fantasy and secrecy.
The Duke of Burgundy (dir. Peter Strickland, 2014) — a dreamlike study of desire’s rituals and play.
Peel with a Beat
Peel me a Book
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Georges Bataille
where language itself collapses under the weight of desire, leaving only the body’s scream.
Let's Peel
Delta of Venus
Not quite pornography, nor simply literary short stories.
Perfect if you want to wander through a cabinet of erotic fantasies — lush, surreal, sometimes playful, sometimes cruel.
Synopsis
“Each story is a gesture of the imagination, where desire is allowed to invent itself freely.”
Written on commission during the 1940s, these stories were originally intended as “pure erotica,” yet Nin could not help but lace them with poetry, psychology, and the tremors of her own inner world. Delta of Venus is not about realism — it is about possibility: fantasies as scripts for the body, written with both candour and artistry.
Mood:
lush · playful · surreal · dangerous
Tone:
imaginative · lyrical · daring · intimate
It Feels Like
Body:
tingling curiosity, desire aroused and unsettled.
Tempo:
shifting, like dancers improvising in half-light.
Texture:
velvet curtains hiding strange stages.
A Little Taste
“You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are the fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional.”
“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”
The Aftertaste
Reading feels like opening a forbidden drawer, each page a different mask of desire.
Eroticism mingles with surrealism — the fantastic intrudes, making pleasure uncanny.
You leave with the sense that fantasy is not escape, but revelation.
Peel With a Drink
To be served with a glass of ruby Port — dark, thick, slow to move. It glows like a hidden ember, coating the mouth in velvet warmth.
Sweet at first, then heavy with smoke and spice, it turns the body languid, ready to surrender to imagination.
Peel With a Reel
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1967) — a surreal exploration of fantasy and secrecy.
The Duke of Burgundy (dir. Peter Strickland, 2014) — a dreamlike study of desire’s rituals and play.