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'Erotica is a way for women to move from being objects of desire to reclaiming their bodies'
Updated On: 13 February, 2011 11:17 AM IST | | Dhamini Ratnam
Forget candyfloss love, and heave no more passionate sighs. Erotica is way cooler, says Roselyn D'Mello, editor of India's first anthology of erotica by women writers
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Forget candyfloss love, and heave no more passionate sighs. Erotica is way cooler, says Roselyn D'Mello, editor of India's first anthology of erotica by women writers
If you come across a 25 year-old taking time off to write a book titled, Handbook for my Lover, with chapters called, A dictionary of past lovers, A charter of demands, The M Word (where M stands for masturbation) and Map and places to visit (on the body), you could either put it down to prolonged adolescence, or stand back and think, So this is how it all changed!'
Rosalyn D'mello evokes the second reaction.
The high-spirited, Delhi-loving Mumbaiite, who writes an erotic blog, is now editing one of India's first anthologies of erotica written by women. Tentatively titled, Venus Flytrap, it will be published by Zubaan early next year and will feature the works of nearly 32 authors.
"Erotica," she says, "is not so much about writing about sex, as it is a way of looking at the world. For instance, someone may think of a lake as a water body, or they can see it as being wet, fecund and fertile," she says.
It is this worldview -- poised in contrast to a candyfloss notion of romantic love and its dramatic passionate counterpart -- that seems to be taking over popular urban consciousness.u00a0u00a0u00a0
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| Rosalyn D'Mello is editing an anthology of erotica by women writers that will be out soon |
Rosalyn D'mello evokes the second reaction.
The high-spirited, Delhi-loving Mumbaiite, who writes an erotic blog, is now editing one of India's first anthologies of erotica written by women. Tentatively titled, Venus Flytrap, it will be published by Zubaan early next year and will feature the works of nearly 32 authors.
"Erotica," she says, "is not so much about writing about sex, as it is a way of looking at the world. For instance, someone may think of a lake as a water body, or they can see it as being wet, fecund and fertile," she says.
It is this worldview -- poised in contrast to a candyfloss notion of romantic love and its dramatic passionate counterpart -- that seems to be taking over popular urban consciousness.u00a0u00a0u00a0
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