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 OliviaB rated 35 months ago -
Dominique Aury
photographed in Paris
a few months before
she died at the age of 90.
Born 1907, died 30 April 1998
This is a long and fascinating piece
about the quiet academic Frenchwoman
who wrote the pornographic classic "The Story of O".
From the page: &quo...
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- OliviaB rated 35 months ago
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Dominique Aury
photographed in Paris
a few months before
she died at the age of 90.
Born 1907, died 30 April 1998
This is a long and fascinating piece
about the quiet academic Frenchwoman
who wrote the pornographic classic "The Story of O".
From the page: "But beyond its merits as a literary work, its merits or limits as pornography, there lies the paradox that this incendiary book was written by a woman who wore little make-up and no jewellery, who dressed with quiet elegance, who lived out a polite, bluestocking existence in a small flat with her parents and son. Beneath this unlikely exterior raged terrible passions.
In the end, the most instructive aspect of the book is that it demonstrates the demoniac nature of sexuality in any or all of us. This quiet, learned woman understood the power of sex. She knew that desire can ignite compulsions to commit sudden, arbitrary violence and induce a yearning for voluptuous, annihilating death. "
Another site on this, filled with fascinating history and ideas.
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