Sex & The Book / Lust and unbridled eros in Alina Reyes' "labyrinth of doors"

Aline Nardone, real name of Alina Reyes, was born in Bruges in 1956, into a family of political activists with a bohemian charm, lovers of music, literature and art. She herself, even before finishing high school, abandons her studies inspired by a journey made in Greece and Tunisia, and decides to leave with her boyfriend to explore the world, living off gimmicks and jobs of all kinds. He will only enroll in university in 1983, after having two children, majoring in journalism and modern literature. His literary debut was due to pure chance: after reading the announcement of a competition for erotic stories in a magazine, he wrote the future best-seller in just one week. The butcher, which will be so successful that it will be translated all over the world. An eclectic and talented woman, even after the publication she never stopped traveling: she lived in Montréal, in Paris, as a hermit in the Pyrenees, devoting herself, in addition to writing, to the study of languages ​​and sacred texts - lately even to painting.

I opened my eyes in surprise. Nothing could be seen yet, but a sweet musky smell filled my nostrils. What was hardening on my cheek was another member. And the balls of tender meat that brushed my nose and whose scent intoxicated me were a couple of testicles. The first cock kept hitting me in the groin, which was at the height of excitement. When the second slipped all the way down my throat, I thought I had never been so happy. It came and went between my lips in the way it would have stormed any other orifice, without leaving me any initiative whatsoever. No one now cared to carry on the game of fantasies or sleeping beauty.

In 1994, Alina publishes Behind the doors, a novel with an experimental structure that offers the reader a real adventure in the kingdom of Eros and invites him to take an active part in it. The subtitle on the cover reads: An adventure of which you are the heroes, but if you try to turn and flip the volume, something different appears: An adventure of which you are the heroines. This is because the book can be read both from one direction and from the other, depending on whether the reader is a man or a woman, allowing him to identify himself with the two protagonists. But that's not all: man and woman, through the entrance of a small fictional circus, find themselves catapulted into a dark labyrinth full of doors and each door corresponds to a chapter. The reader will be given the opportunity to choose from time to time the door to be opened wide, in order to create a very personal journey through the secrets of sex.

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In fact, what is hidden behind the doors? An unexpected erotic encounter, the embodiment of a perversion, the manifestation of every most unspeakable desire. The passage shown here is taken from the third chapter of the reversed book, that is the third door of the journey to the female. Once the protagonist enters, she finds herself in a square room shrouded in dim light, with a spacious bed in the center and nothing else. She feels tired, undresses and decides to rest. At one point, she senses the presence of a man in the bed next to her pressing his erection against her buttocks. The man begins to touch her slowly, evidently convinced that she is still sleeping. The woman, excited by the situation, decides to indulge him and let him do it. As the man penetrates her, he notices the presence of another stranger in bed with them. At that point it is no longer possible to pretend to sleep, all three put aside their games and indulge in pleasure.After the intercourse, the woman asks both of them to stay inside her and in the meantime she falls asleep again thinking that when she wakes up she will have to choose, and with her the reader, between giving herself back to the two in the light of the sun (and in this case, you are invited to open door number 4) or continue the exploration (door number 9) ...

Reyes's book is a fun, as well as pleasant, invitation to explore your own fantasies without fear, to follow your desires and dream them together with the protagonist on this journey into the labyrinth of Eros. To guide you must always and only be the desire to play, an extremely fundamental ingredient to be able to abandon yourself to the pleasures of sex, whether you are accompanied by someone or even alone with yourself.

by Giuliana Altamura

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