For anyone who thinks Anais Nin is the apex of kink

Free yourself from all political correctedness, and meet a woman who was bona fide kinky in the book The House of the Fortunate Buddhas.

http://www.amazon.com/House-Fortunate-Buddhas-Brazilian-Literature/dp/1564785890/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364730034&sr=1-2&keywords=a+casa+dos+budas+ditosos"]House of the Fortunate Buddhas (Brazilian Literature Series): Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Clifford E. Landers: 9781564785893: Amazon.com: Books


This is the woman that I've been waiting to meet my whole life. I can relate almost perfectly to her on anything from politics, and prostitution, to feminism, to sexual preferences.

She is the anti-Cinderella par excellence. A real tigress.

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Edit: This is the second best book I've read in my life, second only to Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Had I known it was available in english, I would've recommended it to my english-speaking friends a while back. This book truly changed my life.

Edit2: I should also mention that my cock was rock hard through most of the book. I'd never had an erotic experience reading a book prior.

 

Wait, are there people who think Anais Nin is the apex of kink? Really?

 

I have two books by Anais Nin,"Under a Glass Bell" and "In Favor of the Sensitive Man",which I both read and enjoyed.

 

That's what people suggest any time I ask them to pleeeeeeeeeease suggest me a book by a woman who likes to have sex for sex's sake and yet isn't an emotional cripple.

It turns out, even fantasizing fodder is hard to get my hands on. Do you have a better suggestion for me? I'd be much obliged.

 

If you're looking for kink, something like The Story of O is much more along the lines of "kink," IMO. I've never considered Nin a writer of kink, per se. She's a good writer in general, but not kinky.

ETA: Also Carrie's Story.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, but I guess I should clarify that by kinky I mean open, not necessarily BDSM.

 

What do you mean by "open," and how does that translate to "kink" for you?

 

I stand accused, I use kink vs. vanilla out of the BDSM context.

By open, I mean non-monogamous. But, I think non-monogamous is a mouthful. Perhaps I should haved titled the thread, "(...) the apex of openess"? Sounds gay.

Either way, I'd be totally satisfied with letting go of the semantics if someone suggested another book like the one I suggest in the OP.

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Edit: I should also mention that, even though there's controversy, the book in the OP is non-fictional.

 

It wasn't accusatory, but rather driven by curiosity. But I do think most people don't consider "openness" or simple non-monogamy as kinky. I was just trying to get my head around what you were looking for, specifically.

 

Maybe this...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sexual-Life-Catherine-M/dp/0802139868/ref=pd_sim_b_90"]The Sexual Life of Catherine M.: Catherine Millet: 9780802139863: Amazon.com: Books

 

Cool.

 

That is a decent book, but many dislike the way it's written (you'd like it if you enjoyed her graphic recollections of being gang banged and whatnot).

 

I'd definitely enjoy those. It seems exactly what I'm looking for. I'm immediately fascinated by Ms. Millet.

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Makes me wonder whether there'd be room for a Memoirs of a john sort of book. I'd be willing to pen it. Although, I'd have to find a way to skirt legal issues.

Do you think there'd be a market for it?

 

That's hard to say; you just never know when one particular book is going to catch hold and become the next great story. It'd have to be exceptionally well-written. Though, that didn't seem to hinder Fifty Shades of Grey. lol

 

I'm fairly confident in my writing ability as well as the peculiarity of the experiences I would relate.

I'm more worried about the backlash and legal issues that certainly would surface. It'd have to be anonymously written.

 

Legal issues/backlash because of the specific acts, or people involved...or what?

You'd have to overcome the hurdle of most readers not being terribly interested in reading about sexual escapades from a male perspective. It's far easier to "sell" books about sex when they're written from a female perspective since it is somewhat rare (relatively speaking). But if you self publish it you encounter little cost and if it sells to any significant extent at all, you can probably still make a bit of money off of it. And there's always the chance you'd get lucky with it.

 

Yes. I'm fully aware of that. In a way, if it were marketable at all, I think it would be primarily as a provocation. I'd be putting myself up for being a "moster", etc. and a feminist/Christian punching bag.

When, in fact, my intention is quite another. The readers I'd prize would be fairly small in number, indeed.

 

I'll check out your suggestion, but while I wouldn't say Anais Ninn is the apex of anything, I think what I ultimately find appealing is her sexual conformism. She might have gone down as the premiere literary pornographer, also by affiliation with boyfriend Henry Miller, whose confused ramblings I've never taken to, but beyond the functionally lyrical voice, this is little more than Harlequin pocket prose. That said, I like the purple parts in her writing. She succeeds in evoking a very primal experience of sex that is less about sophistication then powerful erotic feeling. Despite what she herself claimed, I don't think you can even say her writing is necessarily all that 'feminist', or adroit at rendering sex in a distinctly 'female' mode of expression - I think she is quite convincing in capturing a 'male' way of seeing women as the wonderful creatures that they are, so full of love and desire. To me, this is far closer to the way I (no doubt glossed over some) remember my early forays into sex, the shock at learning what young women are willing to do with you - unlike so much run of the mill porn.

BTW, I've only actually read a short story volume of hers called Delta of Venus. I don't know if her novels are more ambitious than this.

 

Sex is great, reading about sex... meh.

Funny title, I was recently wondering why there's so many friends (girls) who seem to be SO into Anais Nin. I'm tired of the quotes.

 

Become a celebrity and people will read whatever you publish in droves. Market problem solved.

And what legal issues could you possibly have to worry about? Did your actions result in the death of some girl or something?