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The Library's buildings remain fully open but some services are limited, including access to collection items. We're This coming to an end, this expulsion is an un-selfing. For all of the pleasure, it too is alienating.

Torr tells of how the writer’s 1978 polemic The Sadeian Woman allowed her to reconcile the different aspects of her life: her position of subjugation in the office, her desire to be a performer recognised for her skills, and her nightly transformation into the object of male sexual desire. As Torr states: The Sadeian woman, then, subverts only her own socially conditioned role in the world of God, the King and the Law. She does not subvert her society, except incidentally, as a storm trooper of the individual consciousness." Women, feminists or otherwise, will no doubt disagree about the merits of this proposition. Andrea Dworkin labelled "The Sadeian Woman" a "pseudofeminist literary essay", arguing that "the power of the pornographer is the power of the rapist."

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In De Sade’s 1791 novel Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu (“Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue”), Justine, the titular character, is repeatedly subjected to violent rapes and humiliations. Her sister, Juliette, the heroine of the accompanying book Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice (“Juliette, or The Prosperities of Vice”), portrays the obverse of this tale of suffering femininity. The flipside of the outlaw status of the libertine is that the pleasure he gets is bound up with criminality. In fact, the pleasure is greater, precisely because the sexual act is criminal: She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.” Sayings & Quotes from Other Works His business would be the total demystification of the flesh and the subsequent revelation, through the infinite modulations of the sexual act, of the real relations of man and his kind.

This book was roundly and vehemently criticized by high-ranking feminists when it was published. They could see no way that their plight could possibly be illuminated in the works of any man, let alone a man possessed of a perverse and dehumanizing sexuality. The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat.” The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be a sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. in the character of Justine Sade contrived to isolate the dilemma of an emergent type of woman. Justine, daughter of a banker, becomes the prototype of two centuries of women who find the world was not, as they had been promised, made for them and who do not have, because they have not been given, the existential tools to remake the world for themselves. These self-consciously blameless ones suffer and suffer until it becomes second nature; Justine marks the start of a kind of self-regarding female masochism, a woman with no place in the world, no status, the core of whose resistance has been eaten away by self-pity.He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.” The mythologisation of the sex act universalizes it (and vice versa). "At the first touch or sigh he, she, is subsumed immediately into a universal." It is no longer a real, particularized, palpable, tactile experience. It becomes a "fantasy love-play of the archetypes": Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!” Pleasure, like flesh or the body, is more complicated than porn portrays it. It too is part of this "infinitely complex organization, my self."

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