Anais Nin - erotica - 1940s (published posthumously in 1977) - p. 76, 79    

Written as erotica and published posthumously as collection of short stories, Delta of Venus includes vivid sexual vignettes that many literary critics believe to transcend the level of pornography. Anais Nin used cultural and scientific work to inspire her writing, such as the Kama Sutra and the sexological studies of Krafft-Ebing.

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