/lit/ - Literature

>>10028500
>>10029020

You've missed the point with Sade entirely. The degenerate bullshit you read online is drawn from the collective cultural concept of what those acts entail and represent, which were founded principally in Sade's work. The proprietors and clients in the back end of Paris would know of these goings on but the scope of human sexual experience was not exactly being studied by the masses.

It's not about his prose. His prose is trash. It is repetitive, because he wrote it with a skeleton structure in a jail cell and his writing wasn't great to begin with. It's about the gift of compendium. Sadism as a semantic concept and psychological factor is defined by his work, followed my Von Sacher-Masoch's. Their combined work was the most comprehensive collection of power exchange ideas ever presented, and the forms in which a person can engage another.

Additionally, your concept of degenerate has no bearing in the real world, because you don't know what that fucking word means or are deliberately butchering its use. "Anyone who likes something I don't like is an abomination."

Now go fuck your hand.