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Donatien Alphonse François, '''Marquis de Sade''' (1740-1814) was an infamous French [[aristocrat]] and [[author]]. The mental disorder known as [[Sadism]], whose sufferers derive pleasure from the pain of others, is named after him.
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Donatien Alphonse François, '''Marquis de Sade''' (1740-1814) was an infamous French [[aristocrat]] and [[author]] of heavily [[philosophical]] [[pornography]], as well as more traditional [[essays]] on [[philosophy]]. [[Sadism]], a [[paraphilia]] in which pleasure is derived from inflicting pain or seeing pain being inflicted on another, is named after him.
  
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His books featured [[murder]], [[torture]], [[blasphemy]] and grotesquely perverse sex scenes; they remain banned in many countries to the present day.
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His books featured [[murder]], [[torture]], [[blasphemy]] and grotesque, [[violent]], and [[ritualistic]] sex.  His more major works remain banned in many countries to the present day.
  
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His most notorious book, The [[120 Days of Sodom]] was written by de Sade while he was imprisoned in the [[Bastille]]. The last years of his life were spent in an [[insane asylum]], though this may have been to avoid his mother-in-law, who, scandalised by his behaviour, had obtained a royal order for his arrest and indefinite detention; this has been dramatised in the play [[Marat/Sade]].
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Perhaps his most notorious book, [[The 120 Days of Sodom]] was written by the Marquis whilst imprisoned in the [[Bastille]], where he witnessed daily executions from his window during the [[Reign of Terror]]. The last years of his life were spent in an [[insane]] [[asylum]], though the reasons for this vary depending on the source.  His years in the asylum have been dramatised in the critically-acclaimed play (and later [[film]]) [[Marat/Sade]].
  
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His works are obscene to a degree that was unparalleled in modern literature until the relaxation of obscenity laws which occurred during the [[sexual revolution]] of the 1950s and 1960s.  
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His work was largely banned in the USA until the relaxation of obscenity laws in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Books by Pauline Reage and [[Anne Rice]] reintroduced sado-masochistic pornography to the literary world with the cachet that smut can be well-written, literate and acceptable for sale in ordinary bookstores.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 15:45, March 6, 2008

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) was an infamous French aristocrat and author of heavily philosophical pornography, as well as more traditional essays on philosophy. Sadism, a paraphilia in which pleasure is derived from inflicting pain or seeing pain being inflicted on another, is named after him.

His books featured murder, torture, blasphemy and grotesque, violent, and ritualistic sex. His more major works remain banned in many countries to the present day.

Perhaps his most notorious book, The 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis whilst imprisoned in the Bastille, where he witnessed daily executions from his window during the Reign of Terror. The last years of his life were spent in an insane asylum, though the reasons for this vary depending on the source. His years in the asylum have been dramatised in the critically-acclaimed play (and later film) Marat/Sade.

His work was largely banned in the USA until the relaxation of obscenity laws in the 1950s and 1960s.

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