It is an erotic burlesque that was originally published anonymously in Paris in 1953.
The plot follows an unnamed narrator who enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence when he crosses the street to the castle of Gamehuche.
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
Henry Miller's "Sexus" is part of the "Pink Crucifixion" trilogy, in which, with less intensity than in his most famous works published in the 1930s in Paris, his rebellion against the arrogant and hypocritical America is sublimated.