Anne Desclos

Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, and is best known for her erotic novel Histoire d’O (The Story of O),

Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age. After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial secretary for one of its imprints where she began using the pen name of Dominique Aury.

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Christian Scheuß

Christian Scheuß (* 14. January 1966 in Bottrop) is a German author and journalist.[1] After school and a first apprenticeship as technician for consumer electronics he changed to journalism. His education as journalist started 1991 at the local radio station Radio Emscher-Lippe in Northrhine-Westphalia. Between 1995 and 2003 he was chief editor of the gay […]

Victoria Aihar

Victoria Aihar (Montevideo, 19 April 1978), is a Uruguayan web designer, programmer and author. She studied at Crandon Institute, and also studied English, French and Arabic. She graduated as a Web designer in 2001, and she is currently working as a programmer and a writer. She got married in 2000. She published her erotic novels […]

Salpe

Salpe was an ancient Greek midwife cited by Pliny the Elder, and a writer of a work called the Paignia mentioned in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae. It is not certain whether the Salpe mentioned by Pliny and the Salpe mentioned by Athenaeus were different people. Pliny cites Salpe six times in his Natural History.[1] She is described […]

Molly Parkin

Molly Parkin (born Molly Noyle Thomas, 1932), is a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most famous for her work on Nova, newspapers and television in the 1960s.[1] Parkin was born in 1932, the second of two daughters, in Pontycymer in the Garw Valley, Glamorgan, Wales. She and her family moved to London to […]

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. […]

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