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Sadomasochism and pain
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Content: "The Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814) has always attracted controversy. Condemned by some as a monster and hailed by others as an apostle of sexual freedom, Sade spent three decades of his life in jail - his manuscripts were burned and his books banned. "When, as a young man in postwar Paris, Octavio Paz first encountered the writings of the Marquis de Sade, his reaction was one of 'astonishment and horror, curiosity and disgust, admiration and recognition. "In an early poem and two subsequent essays written over a span of five decades, Paz pierces through the narrow image of Sade as pornographer and examines his work in the context of the paradox of human freedom and civilized man. He insists that Sade is worth readin, that the danger lies not in his books but in the passsions of his readers." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Octavio Paz Lozano (31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied. I am not only thinking of the so-called aberrations, vices and other errant practices that are part of erotic life. Even in its simplest, most everyday expressions - the satisfaction of desire: brutal, immediate and without consequences - eroticism, cannot be reduced to pure animal sexuality. Between them is a difference that may perhaps be called essential. Eroticism and sexuality are independent kingdoms belonging to the same vital universe. Kingdoms without borders, or with hazy borders, always changing, in constant communication and interpenetration, never entirely fixed. The same act may be erotic or sexual, according to whether it is performed by an animal or a person. Sexuality is general; eroticism, singular. Although the roots of eroticism are animal, vital in the richest sense of the word, animal sexuality does not exhaust its content. Eroticism is sexual desire and something more, and that something is what makes up its essence. That something feeds on sexuality; it is nature. And yet, at the same time, it is unnatural." opening paragraph, "Metaphors" Secondhand booksellers |
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