Contact Admin. Subscribe to News Subscribe to Comments. In order to shed light on the actual truth about who Nin was, I am offering some insight and corrections below. She was utterly smitten. Read the diary Henry and June. Yet today her aphorisms are frequently quoted online by a growing legion of fans who are rediscovering her. Erotica Sky Blue Press, , which is clearly no longer in the dungeon.
An Unprofessional Study was written before she knew Miller, her first extramarital lover. Funny, no mention of that. As for Rank, the seduction was mutual. I defy anyone to quote and cite such a passage by anyone who was present then.
Read the diary Mirages. It was in the early s when Nin, then in her late 20s, met the impoverished, foul-mouthed and bullying author. After that first sexual encounter in the garden, she recorded how in trysts he would treat her like a prostitute, asking her to whip him or crawl on her hands and knees.
And Miller was a not a sadist. Read the diary Incest. Second, Pole was the one taking money from Nin. Read the diary Trapeze. And Nin did consider divorce, but her economic status would have been decimated if she left Guiler.
This was not known until after , when the unexpurgated diaries began coming out. Nin carefully recorded her affairs, even the most insignificant, and nowhere does she write about having sex with mechanics. She was sure it was Miller. While these corrections will most likely not reach the many readers of the Brinkwire article, or those it will in turn spawn, at least there is a written rebuttal here. Nin scholarship, for at least the last three decades, has been compromised with misstatements, inaccuracies, puritanical poison pens, all of which add up to slut-shaming.
