The Revolutionary who wrote about Sexuality when Women were expected to exist for Men
I am in love with the writings of Anais Nin.
I am in love with the writings of Anais Nin.
She has a way of expounding on the desires and challenges we often struggle with as humans. As a writer, I believe the pictures her words create mirror my own feelings and understanding about sex, love, and loss. She understood and explored the contradiction between the longing for possession and the feeling of conquering by her lovers, while she desired freedom from engulfment.
She wrote of her sexuality in a way women were not allowed to discuss, during a time women were expected to exist only for the pleasure of men. She crossed cultural and societal boundaries without shame. Her sexual writings convey a depth of eroticism and an ownership of her own pleasure that began with the basics of kissing- her mental connections stimulating all the physical desires.
For she believed, “…there are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.”
Kissing is everything, it is breathing, life, and transcendence. Recently, I was reminded of the desire and discovery that accompanies life-altering kissing. It is an…
