At the time this tale of the man and his quest for physical abuse by fair ones was written, it was considered literary, not perverted or pornographic[...]

First published in 1870, the author of Venus in Furs defined and unwittingly gave his own name to that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic. What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the whip? Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret;[...]

In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and m[...]

Dette er en roman om å gjøre seg til slave av sin elskede. Hovedpersonen Serverin von Kusiemski er i utgangspunktet en drømmer og dilettant som i en rus av følelser og lidenskap inngår en slavekontrakt med den vakre, frisinnede enken Wanda von Dunajew. Boka er basert på erfaringer i forfattere[...]

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836?95) var en uppburen författare på sin tid: hans romaner var storsäljare och översattes till många språk. Allting ändrades i det ögonblicket då psykiatern Krafft-Ebing använde Masochs namn för att döpa en av de sexuella perversionerna, liksom han också anv[...]