'Sex without pain is like food without taste'

 

The Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

Alas without him the word sadism would never have come into being, that alone is to thankful for not to mention his prodical output of erotica. His libertine existance was not to the taste of the French and he was imprisioned for abusing prostitutes and employees, however he endured another stint in jail after Napolean ordered the anonomous auther of Justine to be imprisioned and he was subsequently arrested at his publishers and later died of a suspected venereal infection.

 

Selected Works:

120 Days of Sodom (1785- not published until 1904)

Justine (1791)

Philosphy in the Bedroom (1795)

Juliette (1798)

 

 

'I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power'

 

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)

From whom we draw the word masochism, his partly biographical novel Venus in Furs sets the tone for an eternity of fem-dom scenes as he willingly submits to a fur clad female. In stark contrast to Sade these two writers offer an interesting comparision in the sexual attitudes of two men.

 

Selected Works:

Venus in Furs (1870)