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Word: adultress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, and so have most of the rest of De Sade's works, which describe in relentless detail murder, torture, coprophagy, and sex orgies that are a triumph of human engineering. "Here I am," boasts a De Sade heroine during an epic orgy, "at one stroke incestuous, adultress, sodomite; and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today!" If De Sade's books were only pornography, they would long ago have been forgotten. But the pornographic passages are ostensibly meant to demonstrate De Sade's passionately held conviction that man is at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Drained the Dregs of Man | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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