iOS app Android app More  Lisa Guest   Women Are Honestly
Writing About Sex: It's About Time  Posted: 04/27/2012 9:19 pm
In 1991, a friend introduced me to Anaïs Nin's second husband.
Rupert Pole employed me for five years to work with Nin's
manuscripts for A Journal of Love. The friend who made the
introduction was also a writer. He told me then when I was just
31, "Don't wait until you are 60 and dying of cancer. Your
audience is already out there." I'm now 52. All these years I've
wanted to write about sex, and did so in my diaries and
journals, which I shared only with a few friends. In the last
few years, I've also shared them online -- in an e-book with a
pseudonym. As a self-confessed trunk writer, I wrote and hid
most manuscripts, even from myself.  In the '70s, Anaïs Nin and
Erica Jong had a conversation. Jong was the fresh upstart who
wrote about the "zipless fuck" in 1973 and sold 26 million
copies of her book, Fear of Flying. Anaïs, slowly dying of
cancer while having the writing success she had