THE SADEIAN WOMAN

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Let’s assume that she is referring to sexually explicit literature. It extends to both erotica and erotic violence. By the time I had finished your book, I was really transformed – not exactly a Juliette, but I knew how to sell my body & at the same time how to maintain a sense of my own subjective reality within each strange place I would travel to. Pornography and the feminist movement I have been composing letters to you in my head since I first read your book The Sadeian Woman 2 years ago but now I really have to do it as I leave for England in a week & I was hoping to maybe have the opportunity to meet you. [sic]

urn:oclc:493608311 Republisher_date 20120305024526 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120303011558 Scanner scribe12.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be a sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. The Sadeian woman, then, subverts only her own socially conditioned role in the world of God, the King and the Law. She does not subvert her society, except incidentally, as a storm trooper of the individual consciousness."The moral pornographer would be an artist who uses pornographic material as part of the acceptance of the logic of a world of absolute sexual licence for all the genders, and projects a model of the way such a world might work. Pleasure, like flesh or the body, is more complicated than porn portrays it. It too is part of this "infinitely complex organization, my self." The focus of this work is literary pornography. It’s not really concerned with visual or graphic erotica. It’s about words. The issue is with what can be conveyed by words and imagination alone. Orgasm has possessed the libertine; during the irreducible timelessness of the moment of orgasm, the hole in the world through which we fall, he has been as a god, but this state is as fearful as it is pleasurable and, besides, is lost as soon as it is attained. Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses.” Nights at the Circus

His business would be the total demystification of the flesh and the subsequent revelation, through the infinite modulations of the sexual act, of the real relations of man and his kind. She uses sex as an instrument of terror…she lobs her sex at men and women as if it were a hand grenade." I don’t recall any point at which she says that Sade is an unreserved moral pornographer, in the sense that the whole of his work has this moral purpose. Instead, she says: Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

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Pornography must always have the false simplicity of fable; the abstraction of the flesh involves the mystification of the flesh…it reduces the actors in the drama to instruments of pure function, so the pursuit of pleasure becomes in itself a metaphysical quest."

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.” Sayings & Quotes from Other Works Each of the next three chapters is dedicated to one of Sade’s books: "Justine", "Juliette" and "Philosophy in the Bourdoir". It starts with a "libidinous fantasy" and it transforms it into text. It turns flesh into words. These words, for men, become "mental masturbatory objects". The flipside of the outlaw status of the libertine is that the pleasure he gets is bound up with criminality. In fact, the pleasure is greater, precisely because the sexual act is criminal:Sade’s heroines, those who become libertines, accept damnation…exile from human life, as a necessary fact of life…So Sade creates a museum of woman-monsters." And maybe he was all that. People are complicated. But the reason why Justine (the "Madonna" character who got punished, tortured and killed for her virtue) and Juliette (the "Whore" character who got her cake, ate it, killed her children and got rich lol) are the way they are isn't because of some deep beliefs Sade held. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”