Suffering has taken on a new look for French sex author, Catherine Millet, who became famous when her 2001 book "The Sexual Life of Catherine M.",  sold over a million copies in 11 different languages, telling about her rather early sexual awakening. Written in an extremely graphic manner of her sexual escapades, many hailed her book as nothing more than "stylized" pornography while others patted her on the back as a feminist hero. Either way, she moved on with her new book, "Jour de Souffrance" or "Day of Suffering" which will be released next week in France.

With this second book also about sex, the author has instead chosen to write of her straying husband which threw her into a "paranoid psychological "hell",  forcing her to fall into the trap of jealousy and emotional vulnerability--regardless of the sexual empowerment she had boasted of in her first book. Not only an author, Millet is also the editor of Art Press, considered a rather high-brow Parisian cultural journal that she launched in 1972.

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