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Cleland, Sacher-Masoch, Wilde, Tolstoy, Sade (Grapevine anthology) · 2024
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Desire is never innocent — power, shame, and transgression are eroticism's inseparable companions across five centuries of canonical writing.
erotic-as-power
I can no longer live without you, oh wonderful woman… I feel deep down in my heart that I am your slave.
BES00-RC-530You are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
BES00-RC-536desire
A rigid tension of the nerves took place… a subtle fire coursed through my veins instead of blood.
BESD-RC-409I even felt his scented breath upon my lips… the pain I felt was sweet.
BESD-RC-345shame
I cursed this narrow-minded society of ours, that only thrives upon hypocrisy. I cursed our blighting religion, that lays its veto upon all the pleasures of the senses.
BESD-RC-394I shuddered with horror and disgust. Even the sight of that book blanched my cheek!
BESD-RC-361Illuminates
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