Eros Unbound by Anais Nin

Title: Eros Unbound
Author: Anais Nin
Publisher: Penguin books
ISBN: 9780141032924
Genre: Erotica, Literary Fiction, Short Stories
Pages: 106
Source: Personal Copy
Rating: 5/5

Eros Unbound by Anais Nin.

Thank God for writers like Anais Nin, whose books have been around way before the “new-age” so-called erotic writers cropped up. Anais Nin’s erotica writing is not just something else but it still continues to enthrall and titillate readers’ world over.

“Eros Unbound” is just a sneak peek into her writing. There is a large body of work, which I would urge everyone to explore if you really want to know what sensuous writing can do to you. At the same time, Nin’s writing is closely linked to the facets of love and spirituality (not the one attributed to religion in any way), which is what makes it even more believable.

The book consists of eight stories and each one but of course has to have a generous measure of sex, moans and pleasure as its core. From a naïve model who slowly discovers her sexuality to an erotic moonlight encounter on a beach, Anais’s writing is stark, naked and for all to see, just like the person she was.

What I think will surprise most first-timers to her writing is that she was most certainly way ahead of her times. Even now, at least in a country like India, we are not encouraged to speak of our innermost desires, whereas not only did she speak of them and write about them, but also lived a free and most satisfying life.

People who I interact with (the gay men that is) from a sexual standpoint; seem to think I am all about sex and horny most of the time. I take that as a compliment. The way I look at it is that I am living a life that is not tinged with hypocrisy and I know what I want – in and outside of the four-poster, so that’s that.

“Eros Unbound” is a great starting point if you haven’t read anything by Nin and I assure you that you will be hooked to her writing.