1814 Marquis De Sade |
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Marquis De Sade was a French writer whose subject matter included violent pornography and philosophy. The latter may be said to be Epicurean in its foundations – a philosophy that posits pure pleasure as its highest virtue. He spent his life in and out of prison, in total passing 29 years behind prison walls. He was never convicted but arrested for various wrongdoings, including the poisoning of prostitutes, sodomy and moderatism. He received the deaths sentence a number of times but was never executed. Throughout his years in prison, he wrote furiously, developing a philosophy known as Sadism whose principles state that all laws and ethics designed to protect the weak go against nature for, in nature, the strong win and the weak lose. Thus, all laws and ethics are unnatural and, as such, false. Arguably, his most graphic work is ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’, written in 1785. During the last four years of his life, he had an affair with a female employee of his who was aged thirteen at the start of their relationship. He is quoted as saying, “sex without pain is like food without taste.’ For more information from Channel 4 on the Marquis de Sade click here
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