(Class and Kink) (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Privelege (Was Re: Maoist cleanup . . . .)

[Chuck]

andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> The Marquis de Sade and (Ritter) von Sacher-Masoch
> (the namesake of masochism) were both aristos. Point
> of interest: Marianne Faithfull is a descendant of
> Sacher-Masoch. But Sade's sadism has nothing to do
> with modern BDSM, leaving out the voluntary element
> and escalating to real cruelty, and Sacher-Masoch
> (Venus in Furs) goes over the top (though voluntarily)
> with pain and humiliation. He quits, though, in Venus
> in Furs. There are both aristo and haute-bourgeois
> elements mixed up in the Story of O, though O herself
> is a worker/artist -- a fashion photographer. Aristo
> fantasies are important to a lot of people do are
> interested in this material, see Anne Rice's Beauty
> books (much inferior IMHO). One the other hand the
> Bondage/S&M Queen of America, Bettie Page, is
> resolutely middle/working class.

The list should gift you a few Taschen books for that post.

Chuck