From Delta of Venus, Artists and Models, by Anais Nin 1940
A DELTA OF VENUS 42
" 'You won't make love to me?'
" 'I promise.'
"She took her shirt off first and showed a young boy's
torso. She had no breasts, just the nipples, marked as they
would be on a young boy. Then she slipped down her slacks.
She was wearing a Woman's panties, flesh colored, with lace. She
had a woman's legs and thighs. They were beautifully curved,
full. She was wearing women's stockings and garters. I said, 'Let
me take the garters off. I love garters.' She handed me her leg
very elegantly with the movement of a ballet dancer. I slowly
rolled down the garter. I held a dainty foot in my hand. I looked
up at her legs, which were perfect. I rolled down the stocking
and saw beautiful, smooth, woman's skin. Her feet were dainty
and carefully pedicured. Her nails were covered with red lac-
quer. I was more and more intrigued. I caressed her leg. She
said, 'You promised you would not make love to me.'
"I stood up. Then she slipped down her panties. And I saw
below the delicate curled pubic hair, shaped like a woman's, that
she carried a small atrophied penis, like a dhild's. She let me look
at her - or at him, as I felt I now should say.
" 'Why do you call yourself by a woman's name, Mafouka?
You are really like a young boy except for the shape of your legs
and arms.'
"Then Mafouka laughed, this time a woman's laugh, very
light and pleasant. She said, 'Come and see.' She lay back on the
couch, opened her legs and showed me a perfect vulva mouth,
rosy and tender, behind the penis.
" 'Mafoukal'
"My desire was aroused. The strangest desire. The feeling
of wanting to take both a man and woman in one person. She
saw the stirring of it in me and sat up. I tried to win her by a
caress, but she eluded me.
" 'Don't you like men?' I asked her. 'Haven't you ever had a
man?'
" 'I'm a virgin. I don't like men. I feel a desire for women
only, but I can't take them as a man could. My penis is like a
child's - I cannot have an erection.'
"'I desire women, but I do suffer, because I cannot take
them like a man, and also because when they have taken me like
Lesbians, I still feel some dissatisfaction. But I am not attracted
to men. I fell in love with Matilda, the model. But I could not
keep her. She found a real Lesbian for herself, one that she feels
she can satisfy. This penis of mine always gives her the feeling
that I am not a real Lesbian. And she knows she has no power
over me, even though I was attracted to her. So you see, the two
girls have formed another link together. I stand between them,
perpetually dissatisfied. Also, I do not like the companionship of
women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their
mysteties and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character
of men better.'
"'Poor Mafouka.' "
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