Marlène Schiappa on her erotic books: "We speak about it behind my back"

INTERVIEW

Alongside her life as an activist, Secretary of State in charge of equality between men and women and today Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa is also an author.

She has published 28 books under her name, novels or essays.

And other books under the pseudonym of Marie Minelli, of a "completely uninhibited naughty fantasy" according to Isabelle Morizet in 

, Sunday on Europe 1. She confided to consider undergoing " a form of sexism "in relation to his books in the political sphere, because" we talk about it behind his back "even though one of his male colleagues in the government wrote a Harlequin novel, but we don't tell him nothing.

"We talk about it behind my back"

"I know that a lot of things have been said in the press", began Marlène Schiappa, in relation to the nine books that can be found under the pseudo Marie Minelli.

"I did not write them all. There are some that I wrote under other pseudonyms and that the press did not find. There are some under the name of Marie Minelli that I sometimes co-wrote with others which are in fact collective works. And some that I absolutely wrote under the name of Marie Minelli and that I assume perfectly ", she added, citing in particular a book entitled 

( tips for "getting it right for the first time") and a more recent,

 in which she "questions" the issue of "female enjoyment", books she wrote while she was at government.

However, assures Marlène Schiappa, nobody in the ministries and in the National Assembly speaks to him "directly", but "one speaks about it behind his back". 

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"The difference in treatment illustrates a form of sexism"

"There is a form of sexism, because I have a colleague in the government of whom it is common knowledge that he wrote a Harlequin novel (collections of so-called" rose water "novels and erotic romances Editor's note ). I will not name this colleague, but in any case him, we never valve him with that and we do not talk to him about it ", notes the minister.

We find that a bit normal: it's naughty but it's okay, he's a man.

He has the right.

And I find that the difference in treatment, and the way in which people are shocked when they learn that I have been able to participate in this type of literature, also illustrates a form of sexism, "said Marlène Schiappa.

"We women also have the right to assert our sexuality. A man who boasts of his conquests is a Don Juan, he is a cador, it's great. If a woman arrives by doing That, forgive me, but she will be called a bitch, "lamented Marlène Schiappa.

"And I think it is important to change the way society looks at the relationship between women and sexuality. You can be a mother, you can have political responsibilities and nevertheless find that the field of female sexuality must also to be explored, ”she concluded.