VISUAL TEXTS

Created by Lucia Thomas

This past summer, my great aunt died. She was a collector of many things (bordering on hoarder) and a fiercely private woman. She had no husband, no kids. So my family was tasked with the great feat of cleaning out her home. As I’m working away in her bedroom, organizing nightgowns and jewelry, I find a book tucked in the back of her dresser: The Sensuous Woman, by “J.”

I invite you to take a closer look here.

I immediately take this book home, and it now sits proudly on my desk here with me at college. As ridiculous as this book is, equal parts outdated advice and coy humor, I can’t help but love it. It’s a relic of a particular kind of womanhood, one my aunt inhabited in her own strange way. I see it, and I think of my aunt: the quiet, eccentric, unexpected epitome of the sensuous woman.

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