Word: masochism
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...Which is steamier: Penthouse or Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s “Venus in Furs?”MBK: Penthouse. It’s not steamy to me...but “Venus in Furs” is not a steamy novel at all. Von Sacher-Masoch has a particular brand of eroticism that is particularly cold and disembodied. His eroticism is more like an ice cube than steam. 7. FM: Complete this sentence: Sex at Harvard...MK: (Laughs) That’s one sentence that is left incomplete. 8. FM: Word on the street is that...
...Austrian noble Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-95) publishes “Venus im Pelz” (Venus in Furs), a semi-autobiographical work about a man who convinces a woman to make him her slave. The beautiful woman, the Venus in furs of the title, becomes cruel and abusive while trying to sexually please. The Romantic era work caused an outrage in Sacher-Masoch’s home city of Lemburg and has been subject to frequent bans ever since...
...rich history. In the 19th century, psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing famously applied a French literary term--le sadisme, which described the sexually violent writing style of the Marquis de Sade--to mental patients who exhibited an "association of lust and cruelty." Less famously, Krafft-Ebing named masochism after the bawdy novels of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose most famous work, Venus in Furs (1870), describes the willing enslavement of a dreamy man by a beautiful widow...
Vice versa! After all, Sacher-Masoch must be read in a fake-fur coat and black leather thongs...
...movie create a portrait of the shaman as showman -- demanding everything of himself and his sidemen so he can give everything onstage. The autobiography shows him honing his lyrics, teasing the word "motoring" into "motorvating" for Maybellene, finding inspiration for a verse of Brown Eyed Handsome Man from Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, fretting that while in prison he cannot gain access to a map that would help him chart Po' Boy's itinerary in Promised Land. And once he got it right, he always wanted it to be the same kind of right. In Taylor Hackford...