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Peter van Straaten Delight
Amsterdam; De Harmonie; 2006; 112 pp. paperback; new.
First edition.
Peter van Straaten turned seventy last year, a birthday that was celebrated extensively with, among other things, the film Een gelukkige hand, the book Alles en iedereen induizend-en-ééntekeningen and an exhibition. In October, an exhibition of his erotic drawings will follow in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and subsequently in the Musée de l'Éroticisme in Paris.
Twenty years ago, Aanstoot and Nastoot were published with great success, collections of 'indecent' and 'even more indecent' drawings. Lust contains only new erotic drawings. Van Straaten calls these drawings 'fairy tales for adults', absurd scenes in which love is made in public, on the platform, in a park, during a reception, in a café, on the pier and on the billiard table. Van Straaten emphasized several times that the drawings come from his imagination, porn magazines are unknown to him: 'You should see it as an outlet for a shy man. The truth is that I have never seduced a woman in my entire life. I don't even dare to speak to them.'