Delta of Venus Little Birds Author:Anais Nin At the time we were all writing erotica at a dollar a page (1941), I realized that for centuries we had had only one model for this literary genre--the writing of men. I was already conscious of a difference between the masculine and feminine treatment of sexual experience. I knew that there was a great disparity between Henry Miller's explici... more »tness and my ambiguities--between his humorous, Rabelaisian view of sex and my poetic descriptions of sexual relationships in the unpublished portions of the diary. As I wrote in volume Three of the Diary, I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate.« less