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...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...
...German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis, which coins the terms “sadism” and “masochism” and describes sexual disorders in which acts of cruelty and bodily punishment become sexually pleasurable. At this time, the two “sexual anomalies” are understood as distinct: sadism involves finding sexual pleasure in inflicting pain on another person; masochism involves ceding control of a sexual situation to another person...
BUSINESS ACTIVITY For Germany's TWD Group, a midsize textile manufacturer, the euro has been "all positive," says CEO Yorck von Schmeling. Many European business executives agree. Executive vice chairman Benjamin Cohen of the French hotel company Accor says the absence of exchange-rate risk makes investing in places like Italy and Spain easier: "The element of chance has disappeared." Trade activity has also increased: two studies by the Inter-American Development Bank show that countries joining the euro saw a boost...
...have a full-page ad for Playboy [in our spring issue],” H Bomb editor-in-chief Katharina P. Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06 writes in an e-mail. “They recently asked for permission to print an image from the magazine with a mention of H Bomb for their ‘Year in Sex’ for the January issue...
Fast forward several years. An older Joan (Sasha G. Weiss ’05) is making hats and playfully responding to the advances of her coworker Todd (Alan D. Zackheim ’06). The disturbingly blank-faced mannequins they use (Michael R. Von Korff ’07 and Katherine J. Thompson ’05) belie their innocent dialogue. Again, the simple contentment of the scene is shattered when we discover through their unconcerned dialogue that the hats are being used for the parade of battered, terrified prisoners whose bodies are burned...