Voluptuario

Booksellers keep erotica - both literary and graphic - under lock and key. Not because of taboos, but because true erotica is rare. To be an erotic writer or painter requires a rare combination of originality and skill without which the millions of works focusing on sex fall into the readily available category of pornography. Such collaboration as Brian Nissen and Carlos Fuentes undertake here is a rarity. Certain fundamental affinities made it possible. Nissen is an exuberant draftsman, whose line springs with tremendous verve into the service of humor. Erotic drawings, he says, must have a…