Posts tagged BDSM Icons

Reading Time: 9 minutes Masochism is the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from one’s own pain or humiliation, and its named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1839-95) the Austrian writer who described it so well in his novels. “Venus in Furs” is probably his best known work, a romantic tale which has at its heart a sado/masochistic relationship. From this work the term ‘masochism’ was coined, and Leopold received the ultimate accolade of having a whole perversion named after him.

Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The Story of O’, written by Pauline Reage (a pen-name), is a milestone of modern SM literature and a true BDSM icon. Graham Greene described it as ‘A rare thing, a pornographic book well written and without a trace of obscenity’. The novel (originally published in French as Histoire d’O) tells the story of a young Parisian fashion photographer referred to only as O and her introduction to the world of sado-masochism at the hands of her lover Rene, the enigmatic ‘Sir Stephen’.

Reading Time: 2 minutes BDSM Icon – The Marquis de Sade The fun-loving dude who gave his name to the word ‘Sadist’ which is, as we all know, a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, …

Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the 1950’s she started out as just another cute body hustling a living at the seedy end of the ‘adult entertainment’ industry but by the middle of that decade she was probably the most famous pin-up in the USA and also notorious for her fetish images. Then, at the height of her fame, she suddenly vanished!