Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental love...r differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexual sadism actualizes male identity. Women are tortured, whipped, and chained; women are bound and gagged, branded and burned, ...cut with knives and wires; women are pissed on and shit on; red-hot needles are driven into breasts, bones are broken, rectums are torn, mouths are ravaged, cunts are savagely bludgeoned by penis after penis, dildo after dildo--and all of this to establish in the male a viable sense of his own worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Must we burn Sade?" asks Mme de Beauvoir. Now that you mention it, why not? The world is littered with literature. And Sade teach...es us little about human nature which we couldn't gather from a few minutes of honest introspection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M is... the use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadism is the necessary outcome of the belief that one sex is passive and suffers sex at the hands of another. If we are to escape... any of the hideous effects of this mythology, effects which include war and capital punishment, we must regain the power of the cunt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his s...trength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, ...that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that is, severed f...rom personhood, from relationships, from love. It should not be surprising that it has become attached to Nazi symbolism in recent years. Never before was the relation of masters and slaves so consciously aestheticized. Sade had to make up his theater of punishment and delight from scratch, improvising the decor and costumes and blasphemous rites. Now there is a master scenario available to everyone. The color is black, the material is leather, the seduction is beauty, the justification is honesty, the aim is ecstasy, the fantasy is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »