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As many people have pointed out, this hasn't aged very well - the amount of underage characters and questionable consent is quite disturbing for a volume of erotic short stories, even for the standards of the 50s - but even that to one side, the writing just isn't very stimulating in any sense. Most of these encounters are extremely male dominated, one-sided and uncomfortable.
Maybe this is her weakest work? Maybe it was only ever written with private patrkns in mind, never intended to be published? I definitely expected more from Anaïs Nin.
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