“I realised that I did not want only to imagine, as a normal person might be satisfied with doing. They had roused within me a wild desire to be like them, to be them, to find the pleasure that they had found – a dark forbidden pleasure – and to act with the same beautiful voracity, the same unbounded passion as they had acted, showing neither shame nor fear nor uncertainty, only the most primal of desires.” DesireCourageEmpowermentSensualityFearlessness Book:The Erotic Notebooks Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I felt desire too; desire to be as they had been; wild and exotic and commanding and willing to worship and be worshipped.” DesirePassionSexEmpowermentSensualityWildnessCommanding Book:The Erotic Notebooks Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“To be made love to by someone who did not think me beautiful was not part of any fantasy I had ever had.” DesireSexRelationshipsEmpowermentFemale BeautyBody Positivity Book:The Erotic Notebooks Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“Often, in my experience, the impression of beauty is created by a single aspect of a woman and from that aspect beauty appears to spread outward through every part of them, rendering them beautiful in their entirety. Sometimes such beauty comes from a smile. Sometimes from a lovely pair of eyes. Sometimes from an attitude, or form of movement, or a sentiment of goodness or happiness which reveals itself in a single expression. Sometimes it is the curve of a body from which beauty spreads, sometimes a tone of skin, or a river of glossy hair that catches the light and seems to shine like silk. Yet were that aspect to be removed and not replaced by something else, so too would the beauty it had brought to light disappear. Less often, beauty comes from several sources in the same person, all working together to increase the impression of overall beauty. If one of these aspects were to disappear, unlike a man, the woman would remain beautiful, though changed.” BeautifulBeautyEmpowermentBeautiful PeopleFemale BeautyBody PositivityBody PositiveNon Physical Book:The Erotic Notebooks Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I was not innocent, and I had tired of the pretence of being so, though it had amused me for a time.” EmpowermentInnocencePretendingPretenceFalse Innocence Book:The Erotic Notebooks Source: The Erotic Notebooks