Sylvie Jones's Sex Diary

At last - an erotic diary that's open to all

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Everyone loves to read other people's diaries. Alright, not the sort that are kept hidden under lock and key or inadvertently left lying around, but the published variety, and those which give a brilliant flash of insight into someone's otherwise private world. But this isn't just anyone's private world - it's Sylvie Jones' private world. Unlike the fictional, more famous and (until now at least) widely-read Jones diary, Sylvie records the most intimate details of her own and other people's sex lives in both words and pictures, for she is an accomplished author as well as being one of the least inhibited and most talented artists we know. It is with great pride that Erotic Review Books has created a book that is dedicated entirely to her work. Here is erotic art and illustration at its best.

Not just a life class - a live sex life class!

Let her take you, for instance, on a visit to a 'live sex' life class. Sylvie took me there one warm summer afternoon. I'm a fairly shockproof sort of person, but what I experienced left me weak at the knees. To see a couple (and on occasion, a threesome) make torrid love together a few inches away from where you sit - literally in front of your nose - was an entirely new and thrilling sexual experience for me. And to see Sylvie working away, with her deliciously innocent looks, her dedicated concentration, and her mildly insouciant approach to the whole thing made me proud of my sex: we girls, too, can show sang froid in the face of extreme erotic provocation!

Look over this artist's shoulder and be amazed by what she paints

The last fifty pages or so of Sylvie Jones' Sex Diary are in the form of a sketchbook devoted to these intimate 'live sex' observations: some suggest no more than the mood of the individuals and the rhythms of their passion, while others delineate a far more detailed picture. I find all of them beautiful and erotic in some way.

Sylvie's rich and juicy smorgasbord of erotic delights

I don't want to spoil any surprises for you, but there's a host of other drawings and paintings too - the book is alive with rich and vibrant colour - some are provocative, with a nod to contemporary hard-core pornography, some are sophisticated, saucy satires on famous paintings by famous artists and some are just illustrative of Sylvie's carefree, slightly bohemian life, recorded in the most delightfully louche style and with the deftest of touches. So let me summarise what else you will find inside this extraordinary book:

• A fabulous range of sexual activity from searingly explicit to charmingly erotic. From Sylvie's raunchy cover art for the Erotic Review (the originals much collected by its readers) and other illustrative commissions to works that have never been published before
• More than 200 pictures, including reproductions of her delightful Seven Deadly Sins in Paris edition of prints - long since sold out and only now published in this book
• Many of the designs for that very naughty pack of playing cards - A Wicked Pack (already published by ER Books)
• A selection of Sylvie's illustrations for The Scarlet Library's Séduction - a taste of forbidden sex in a French chateau