Marquis de Sade

French author

Robert Shaneyfelt
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“Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.” — -Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade, by name of Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade, (born June 2, 1740, Paris, France — died December 2, 1814, Charenton, near Paris), French nobleman whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. His best-known work is the novel Justine (1791). Nov 28, 2023

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Not only was he a French nobleman, but also a revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, He had numerous accusations of sex crimes.

Sade is best comprehended for his erotic works, which combined philosophic discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with a focus on violence, suffering, anal sex (which he calls sodomy), child rape, crime, and blasphemy against Christianity.

The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name about the works of fiction he wrote, which portrayed numerous acts of sexual cruelty.

While Sade investigated a wide range of sexual variations through his writings, his known behavior only includes “the beating of a housemaid and an orgy with several…

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Robert Shaneyfelt
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I received my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Trine University. “To write about life first, you must live it.” - Ernest Hemingway