Politics of Love

Love, sex and desire . . . how do we experience them? How do we relate them to the opposite sex? In 24 short chapters Alina Reyes writes in a range of styles: she can be erotic, poetic, humorous and candid. She describes her fantasies and her relationship with her own body. Alina Reyes also examines the social pressures, which lead to the premature deaths of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, and which contribute to widespread attitudes of machismo and/or shame. A serious examination of the nature of desire and how it fits in with the strictures of society.

Alina Reyes, one of the first female authors of erotica, has written several novels including the bestseller The Butcher (1988), which sold 500,000 copies in her native France.

Alina Reyes was born in 1956 near Bordeaux, in France, where she lives. She is the author of an erotic novel that brought her world wide fame, The Butcher, which was translated into 25 languages. She has also published When You Love it is Time to Leave (1993), Behind the Door (1994), and The Womens' Body (1999), My Sweet Life (2001) and her latest non fiction book is Politics of Love. Grove will publish her erotic novel, Satisfaction, in August 2004.