Nin considered the characters in her erotica to be extreme caricatures and never intended the work to be published, but changed her mind in the early 1970s and allowed them to be published as Delta of Venus and Little Birds.
Nin consideraba os personaxes dos seus escritos eróticos como caricaturas extremas e no pretendía publicalos, pero cambiou de opinión a principios da década de 1970 e permitiu que se publicasen a modo de compilacións en Delta of Venus e Little Birds.