The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by the art critic Catherine Millet was published in the author's native French in 2001 (as La vie sexuelle de Catheine M.) An English translation by Adriana Hunter was published in 2002.

It was reviewed by Edmund White as "the most explicit book about sex ever written by a woman.

The book quickly introduces the theme, with group sex taking place from the fourth page.

A good quarter of the time, it works as pornography (and I use the term in a descriptive sense, not a judgmental one); the rest of the time it’s a rumination on the nature of desire and pleasure and the experience of living a life that is specifically arranged to let desire and pleasure have their way with you.

Millet writes that she has been in an open marriage with one man since the 1970s, who understands her love of sex with multiple partners.