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Catherine Millet · 2001
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Sexual abundance, narrated with clinical precision, becomes a form of self-dissolution and paradoxical self-discovery rather than fulfillment.
desire
within the continuum of the world of sex, I move like a cell within its tissue… I put myself in his hands, abandoning my free will.
SCM-001until I was about 35, I had not imagined that my own pleasure could be the aim of a sexual encounter. That I hadn't understood.
SCM-019embodiment
the lower half of my body totally mobilised — my face almost lifeless… It could be the face of a dead woman except for my gaze.
SCM-004when I chance across a reflection in a window or mirror, I don't look the way I think I am at that moment: my gaze is vague, looking inwards.
SCM-010self-and-identity
an orgasm of the purest quality could be achieved without perpetually having to return to that source, the thrill of the 'first time.' I very often wept.
SCM-018when you write a book in the first person the latter becomes the third person. The more I describe…
SCM-005Illuminates
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