Thursday, May 14, 2009 ' 8:14 PM
Just now i happened to chance upon an old novel on the net while i was trying to find out what "S & M" stands for by wiki.
Just for curiosity's sake.
It stands for SadoMasochism.
I wouldn't elaborate much about what it is, but about that old novel, it is a story about SadoMasochism, written in 1870.
Title of it is "Venus in Furs".
Wow. 139 years ago.
There's an ebook of it, and currently i am reading it.
I suggest you don't go to check "Venus in Furs" out in wiki because on that page there are 2 artworks relating to the title being displayed, which are showing a breast each, if you feel offended just by it.
So,
According to this super long summary by wiki :
The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Supersensual Man.
This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he requests to be treated as her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or relate to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so.
Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Severin and Wanda travel to Florence. Along the way, Severin takes the generic Russian servant's name of "Gregor" and the role of Wanda's servant. In Florence, Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him.
The relationship arrives at a crisis point when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit, a Byronic hero known as Alexis Papadopolis. At the end of the book, Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, ceases to desire to submit, stating that men should dominate women until the time when women are equal to men in education and rights.
Oh my goodness. I only finish reading the first 4 or 5 chapters of it, and i start to feel a little bit disturbed by how the man desires to be tortured by a woman he loves.
But i don't want to stop reading it. :)
And oh my goodness i still have a lot of homework to do by tomorrow. =.=
Sleep with the trauma that kept you sleepless
