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In general, the depiction of [[sadism and masochism]] in fiction tends to be portrayed from the viewpoint of masochistic fantasy. ''Note: the lists in this article are sorted in chronological order.''
  
In general, the depiction of [[sadism and masochism]] in fiction tends to be portrayed from the viewpoint of masochistic fantasy. ''Note: the lists in this article are sorted in chronological order.''
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The role of '''Sadism and masochism in fiction''' has attracted serious scholarly attention.  John Kucich has noted the importance of masochism in late-nineteenth century British colonial fiction (see [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8294.html Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class] by John Kucich, Princeton University Press, 2006).  This article provides a list of appearances of Sadism and masochism in not just literature, but various works of fiction in multiple forms of media. [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-114924480.html An esthetics of masochism? The author wonders if the curators of an Austrian exhibition on masochism in art erred in taking an overly literal approach to their subject] From ''Art in America'' (4/1/2004) by Barry Schwabsky.  [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/22/steele.html Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film] by Lecturer Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. [http://www.amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_gourmet/2006/06/sadism_masochis.html Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television].
  
 
== Novels ==  
 
== Novels ==  
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Titles are sorted in chronological order.
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* ''Fanny Hill'' by John Cleland - Includes a detailed description of a mutual [[flagellation]] scene between Fanny and an English client.
  
The [[Marquis de Sade]]'s works, including ''Justine'' (1791) and ''Juliette'' (1797) are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint. However, many readers have seen in de Sade more than mere S/M, but also a philosophy of freedom and coercion.  
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*''The 120 Days of Sodom'', ''Justine'' (1791) and ''[[Juliette]]'' (1797) by [[Marquis de Sade]] - Are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint.
  
[[Leopold von Sacher-Masoch]]'s novel ''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1870) is essentially one long masochistic fantasy, where the male principal character encourages his mistress to mistreat him.
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*''Anti-Justine'' (1793) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif A response to de Sade's works, using a very similar style to describe a directly opposite political point of view.
  
The ''[[Story of O]]'' (1954) is another classic masochistic novel, this time written by a woman whose pseudonym was [[Pauline Réage]]. In this novel, the female principal character is kept in a chateau and mistreated by a group of men. It was translated into English by a very gifted translator.  
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*''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1870) by [[Leopold von Sacher-Masoch]] - Is essentially one long masochistic fantasy, where the male principal character encourages his mistress to mistreat him. Many of Sacher-Masoch's other works include themes of sadomasochism and female dominance.  
  
''L'Image'' (1956) is another classic sadomasochistic novel, written by another French woman, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, under the pseudonym Jean de Berg. It was made into a 1975 film, ''The Image'', also known as ''The Punishment of Anne''.
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* ''The Torture Garden'' (1899) by Octave Mirbeau - Has been interpreted as an allegorical examination of western society and human condition.
  
In 1993, Vanessa Duriès wrote ''The Ties that Bind (Le Lien)''.
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* ''Les Onze mille verges'' (''The eleven thousand rods'') by Guillaume Apollinaire - written around 1906-1907 (the publication is neither signed nor dated).
  
Outsider artist Malcolm McKesson published his novel, ''Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage,'' in 1997. It tells the story of a Harvard undergraduate dominated by his mistress and forced to dress in women's clothing.
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* ''Histoire de l'oeil'' (''Story of the Eye'') (1928) by [[Georges Bataille]] - A short novel.
  
The writer [[Anne Rice]] has produced a number of examples of well-written sado-masochistic fiction, including ''Exit to Eden'' and ''Belinda'' as well as a D/s retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale, ''[[The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty]]'' and its sequels, ''Beauty's Punishment'' and ''Beauty's Release''.
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*The ''[[Story of O]]'' (1954) by [[Pauline Reage]] - Another classic masochistic novel, this time written by a woman. In this novel, the female principal character is kept in a chateau and mistreated by a group of men, one of them her official lover. Later, she resumes her normal life while secretly becoming the property of one specific man, a friend of her lover's.
  
As of 2005, sado-masochistic themes have become common in much of mainstream erotic fiction, so much so as to be almost a cliché.
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*''L'Image'' (1956) by [[Catherine Robbe-Grillet]], (under the pseudonym Jean de Berg) another French woman. It was made into a 1975 film, ''The Image'', also known as ''The Punishment of Anne''.
  
More literary sado-masochistic fiction includes the works of authors such as
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* ''Gordon'' (1966) by Edith Templeton
* Laura Antoniou, including the ''Marketplace'' series of novels and stories
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* [[Pat Califia]]'s works including ''Macho Sluts''
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The novel ''Kushiel's Dart'' by Jacqueline Carey and its sequels belong both to the fantasy fiction and the BDSM fiction genres.
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*''Je... Ils...'' (1969) by Arthur Adamov, with stories like ''Fin Août''. The author's stories revolve around [[masochism]], which he regarded as "immunisation against death", but does not aim at erotic arousal.
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*Horror novelist Clive Barker's ''The Hellbound Heart'' (1986), offers an extreme, gruesome study of sadomasochism, illustrated rather graphically by the brutal rituals of its infamous demonic antagonists.
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*''Die Klavierspielerin'' (Reinbeck, 1983) or ''The Piano Teacher'' by Elfriede Jelinek.
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*''The Ties that Bind (Le Lien)'' (1993) by [[Vanessa Duriès]]
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*''Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage'', (1997) by Malcolm McKesson (a member of the Outsider art movement) - It tells the story of a Harvard undergraduate dominated by his mistress and [[forced feminisation|forced to dress]] in women's clothing.
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*''Marketplace'' series of novels by [[Laura Antoniou]]
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*''[[Macho Sluts]]'' by [[Patrick Califia|Pat Califia]]
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*''Kushiel's Dart'' by Jacqueline Carey - belongs in the fantasy fiction and BDSM fiction genres, along with its subsequent sequels.
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*Writer [[Anne Rice]] has produced a number of examples of sado-masochistic fiction, including ''[[Exit to Eden]]'' and ''Belinda'' as well as ''[[The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty]]'' and its sequels, ''Beauty's Punishment'' and ''Beauty's Release''. The Sleeping Beauty books were written under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure.
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* The '''Fifty Shades Trilogy''' by E. L. James (2011): '''Fifty Shades of Grey''', '''Fifty Shades Darker''' and '''Fifty Shades Freed'''.
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==Specialist publishers of S/M fiction==
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* [[Nexus Books]]
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* [[Black Lace (books)|Black Lace]]
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* [[Silver Moon Books]]
  
 
== Mainstream films ==
 
== Mainstream films ==
  
Consensual BDSM is not generally depicted accurately or sympathetically in mainstream films, to say the least.  However, film-makers often find some way to incorporate [[BDSM imagery]] into many films.  The following films feature BDSM as a major plot point, not just as an exploitative add-on.
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Consensual BDSM is not generally depicted accurately or sympathetically in mainstream films, to say the least; however, film-makers often find some way to incorporate BDSM imagery into many films.  The following films feature BDSM as a major plot point, not just as an exploitative add-on. See link [http://www.jahsonic.com/SMCinema.html Sadism and masochism in mainstream film].
  
 
Sado-masochism is featured as a central plot element in the following mainstream drama films:
 
Sado-masochism is featured as a central plot element in the following mainstream drama films:
  
Art movies:
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'''Art movies:'''
* ''The Whip and The Body'' (''La Frusta e il Corpo'') (1965)  (starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi)
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* ''The Whip and the Body'' (''La Frusta e il Corpo'') (1965)  (starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi)
 
* ''Belle de jour'' (1967) (starring Catherine Deneuve)
 
* ''Belle de jour'' (1967) (starring Catherine Deneuve)
* ''The Libertine'', (''La Matriarca'') (1969)
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* ''The Libertine'' (1969), (''La Matriarca'') (1969)
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* ''Daughters of Darkness'', (''Le Rouge aux Lèvres'') (1971) directed by Harry Kümel starring Delphine Seyrig
 
* ''The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'', (''Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'') (1972) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder  
 
* ''The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'', (''Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant'') (1972) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder  
* ''The Night Porter'', (''Il Portiere di notte'') (1974) (starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling)
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* ''[[The Night Porter]]'', (''Il Portiere di notte'') (1974) (starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling)
 
* ''Story of O'', (''Histoire d'O'') (1975)
 
* ''Story of O'', (''Histoire d'O'') (1975)
 
* ''The Image'', (''The Punishment of Anne'') (1975)
 
* ''The Image'', (''The Punishment of Anne'') (1975)
* ''Maîtresse'', (1976) starring Gerard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier
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* ''Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom'', (''Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'') (1975) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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* ''[[Maitresse (film)|Maîtresse]]'', (1976) starring Gérard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier
 
* ''A Woman in Flames'', (''Die Flambierte Frau'') (1983)
 
* ''A Woman in Flames'', (''Die Flambierte Frau'') (1983)
 
* ''Crimes of Passion'', (1984)
 
* ''Crimes of Passion'', (1984)
 
* ''Seduction: The Cruel Woman'', (''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'') (1985)
 
* ''Seduction: The Cruel Woman'', (''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'') (1985)
* ''Blue Velvet'' (1986)
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* ''Blue Velvet'' (1986) (starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern)
* ''Nine and a Half Weeks'', (1986) (starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke)
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* ''Weeks'', (1986) (starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke)
 
* ''Tokyo Decadence'', (''Topazu'') (1991)
 
* ''Tokyo Decadence'', (''Topazu'') (1991)
* ''Bitter Moon'' (1992) (starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Peter Coyote)
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* ''Bitter Moon'' (1992) (starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote)
 
* ''Spanking Love'' (1994)
 
* ''Spanking Love'' (1994)
* ''Venus in Furs'' (1994)
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* ''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1994)
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* ''Conspirators of Pleasure'' (1996) directed by Jan Švankmajer
 
* ''The Bondage Master'' (1996) (Japanese indie film directed by Keisuke Konishi)
 
* ''The Bondage Master'' (1996) (Japanese indie film directed by Keisuke Konishi)
 
* ''Of Freaks and Men'', (''Pro urodov i lyudej'') (1998)
 
* ''Of Freaks and Men'', (''Pro urodov i lyudej'') (1998)
 
* ''Lies'', (''Gojitmal'') (1999)
 
* ''Lies'', (''Gojitmal'') (1999)
* ''Moonlight Whispers'', (''Sasayaki'') (1999)
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* ''Moonlight Whispers'', (''Sasayaki'') (1999)<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E2DC173AF931A15752C1A9669C8B63 FILM REVIEW; Masochists Always Hurt The Ones They Love] By A. O. SCOTT (November 22, 2000)</ref>
* ''Romance'', (''Romance X'') (1999)
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* ''Romance'' (1999)'', (''Romance X'') (1999)
* ''Quills'', (2000) (Historically inaccurate biopic on the Marquis de Sade)
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* ''[[Quills]]'', (2000) (starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix)
 
* ''The Piano Teacher'', (''La Pianiste'') (2001) (starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel)
 
* ''The Piano Teacher'', (''La Pianiste'') (2001) (starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel)
* ''Secretary'' (2002) (starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader)
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* ''Secretary'' (2002) (starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal)
* ''Bettie Page: Dark Angel'' (2004)
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* ''Bettie Page: Dark Angel'' (see [[Bettie Page]] (2004)
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* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24/7_The_Passion_of_Life ''The Passion of Life''] (2005)
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* ''A Year Without Love'' (''Un año sin amor'') (2005) (directed by Anahi Berneri)
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* ''Hounded'' (''Verfolgt'') (2007) (directed by Angelina Maccarone)
  
Comedy:
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'''Comedy:'''
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* ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' (1960), ''Little Shop of Horrors (musical version, 1986) (starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin and Bill Murray)
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* ''The Choirboys'' (1977)
 
* ''Personal Services'' (1987) (starring Julie Walters)
 
* ''Personal Services'' (1987) (starring Julie Walters)
* ''Exit to Eden'' (1994)
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* ''Exit to Eden'' (basd on a novel by [[Anne Rice]]) (1994)
* ''Preaching to the Perverted'' (1997) (starring Guinevere Turner)
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* ''[[Preaching to the Perverted]]'' (1997) (starring Guinevere Turner)
  
Thrillers:
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'''Thrillers:'''
* ''Tightrope'' (1984) (starring Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold)
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* ''Videodrome'' (1983)
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* ''Tightrope'' (1984) (starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold)
 
* ''Basic Instinct'' (1992) (starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone)
 
* ''Basic Instinct'' (1992) (starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone)
 
* ''Body of Evidence'' (1993) (starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe)
 
* ''Body of Evidence'' (1993) (starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe)
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* ''8mm'' (1999) (starring Nicolas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix)
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* ''[The Cell'' (2000) (directed by Tarsem Singh)
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* ''Ichi the Killer'' (2001) (directed by Takashi Miike)
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== Television ==
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*The Fox Broadcasting Company series ''The Inside'' episode "Old Wounds" dealt exclusively with S&M, and was criticised by the Parents Television Council as a result.<ref>[http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2005/0627worst.asp Parents Television Council Presents: Worst TV Show of the Week] - ''The Inside'' on Fox By Caroline Schulenburg</ref>
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*The television series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' has featured sado-masochistic themes in the plots of a number of episodes, most notably in the special episode "Lady Heather's Box".<ref>[http://www.csiguide.com/episode.asp?csi=74 "Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke), a dominatrix"]</ref> <!-- Is this notable? -->
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*Season 4 of HBO series ''Six Feet Under]] features a character (Joe) who wants to adopt a submissive sexual role in his relationship with Brenda Chenowith.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}
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*A ''Family Guy'' gag depicts main characters Lois and Peter Griffin suiting up for a sadomasochistic [[session]] while having a mundane conversation about unrelated matters from the plot of that episode.  Toys have been made of this scene.<ref>[http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_051105a.htm Family Guy 'Nighttime' Peter and Lois]</ref>  In the audio commentary for that episode it is noted that such a practice seemed normal to them.
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*Season 2 of the Fox Broadcasting Company medical drama ''House'', a patient is deeply involved in a BDSM relationship.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}<!-- Is this notable? -->
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* Rex Van de Kamp of ''Desperate Housewives'' was unveiled as a lover of S&M, much to the disgust of his wife, Bree.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146707,00.html "Cherry says other deleted "Housewives" content that could grace a DVD include an S&M sequence featuring Sharon Lawrence and Steven Culp, who plays Bree Van De Kamp's husband, Rex"]</ref><!-- Is this notable? -->
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== Drama ==
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* Thomas Shadwell's play ''The Virtuoso'' (1676) includes an old libertine named Snarl who entreats a prostitute, Mrs Figgup, to bring out the [[birch]] rods. It is unclear if he is to [[flogging|flog]] her or be flogged.
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*In Thomas Otway's play ''Venice Preserved'' (1682), Act III, Scene i, an old senator, Antonio, visits the house of Aquilina, a Greek courtesan. Antonio pretends to be a bull, then a frog, begging her to spit on him, and then a dog, biting her legs. She whips him, then throws him out and tells her footmen to keep him out.
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* Jean Genet's play ''The Maids'' (1947) concerns two maids who play out dominant and submissive roles.
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* Genet's play ''The Balcony'' (1959) is set in a brothel where clients and staff perform various fetishized roles while a revolution brews outside.
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*The play ''Oh! Calcutta!'' includes at least two segments with sadomasochistic themes. One of them, set in a fantasy of an English girls public school, invites the audience to vote on which of four "girls" is beaten at the end.
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==Poetry==
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* Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote poetry on erotic flagellation.
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
 
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/sadom_lit.html An article on gay and lesbian sadomasochistic fiction]
 
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/sadom_lit.html An article on gay and lesbian sadomasochistic fiction]
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* [http://www.bibliocuriosa.com/index.php?title=Accueil Biblio Curiosa, a bibliography of erotic and s&m literature] in English and French
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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* [[Literature]]
 
* [[Literature]]
  
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[[Category:Literature]]
 
[[Category:Literature]]
 
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[[Category:Films]]

Latest revision as of 16:04, 4 September 2013

In general, the depiction of sadism and masochism in fiction tends to be portrayed from the viewpoint of masochistic fantasy. Note: the lists in this article are sorted in chronological order.

The role of Sadism and masochism in fiction has attracted serious scholarly attention. John Kucich has noted the importance of masochism in late-nineteenth century British colonial fiction (see Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class by John Kucich, Princeton University Press, 2006). This article provides a list of appearances of Sadism and masochism in not just literature, but various works of fiction in multiple forms of media. An esthetics of masochism? The author wonders if the curators of an Austrian exhibition on masochism in art erred in taking an overly literal approach to their subject From Art in America (4/1/2004) by Barry Schwabsky. Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film by Lecturer Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television.

Contents

[edit] Novels

Titles are sorted in chronological order.

  • Fanny Hill by John Cleland - Includes a detailed description of a mutual flagellation scene between Fanny and an English client.
  • The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine (1791) and Juliette (1797) by Marquis de Sade - Are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint.
  • Anti-Justine (1793) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif A response to de Sade's works, using a very similar style to describe a directly opposite political point of view.
  • Venus in Furs (1870) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Is essentially one long masochistic fantasy, where the male principal character encourages his mistress to mistreat him. Many of Sacher-Masoch's other works include themes of sadomasochism and female dominance.
  • The Torture Garden (1899) by Octave Mirbeau - Has been interpreted as an allegorical examination of western society and human condition.
  • Les Onze mille verges (The eleven thousand rods) by Guillaume Apollinaire - written around 1906-1907 (the publication is neither signed nor dated).
  • Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye) (1928) by Georges Bataille - A short novel.
  • The Story of O (1954) by Pauline Reage - Another classic masochistic novel, this time written by a woman. In this novel, the female principal character is kept in a chateau and mistreated by a group of men, one of them her official lover. Later, she resumes her normal life while secretly becoming the property of one specific man, a friend of her lover's.
  • L'Image (1956) by Catherine Robbe-Grillet, (under the pseudonym Jean de Berg) another French woman. It was made into a 1975 film, The Image, also known as The Punishment of Anne.
  • Gordon (1966) by Edith Templeton
  • Je... Ils... (1969) by Arthur Adamov, with stories like Fin Août. The author's stories revolve around masochism, which he regarded as "immunisation against death", but does not aim at erotic arousal.
  • Horror novelist Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart (1986), offers an extreme, gruesome study of sadomasochism, illustrated rather graphically by the brutal rituals of its infamous demonic antagonists.
  • Die Klavierspielerin (Reinbeck, 1983) or The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.
  • Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage, (1997) by Malcolm McKesson (a member of the Outsider art movement) - It tells the story of a Harvard undergraduate dominated by his mistress and forced to dress in women's clothing.
  • Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey - belongs in the fantasy fiction and BDSM fiction genres, along with its subsequent sequels.
  • Writer Anne Rice has produced a number of examples of sado-masochistic fiction, including Exit to Eden and Belinda as well as The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and its sequels, Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release. The Sleeping Beauty books were written under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure.
  • The Fifty Shades Trilogy by E. L. James (2011): Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

[edit] Specialist publishers of S/M fiction

[edit] Mainstream films

Consensual BDSM is not generally depicted accurately or sympathetically in mainstream films, to say the least; however, film-makers often find some way to incorporate BDSM imagery into many films. The following films feature BDSM as a major plot point, not just as an exploitative add-on. See link Sadism and masochism in mainstream film.

Sado-masochism is featured as a central plot element in the following mainstream drama films:

Art movies:

  • The Whip and the Body (La Frusta e il Corpo) (1965) (starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi)
  • Belle de jour (1967) (starring Catherine Deneuve)
  • The Libertine (1969), (La Matriarca) (1969)
  • Daughters of Darkness, (Le Rouge aux Lèvres) (1971) directed by Harry Kümel starring Delphine Seyrig
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) (1972) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Night Porter, (Il Portiere di notte) (1974) (starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling)
  • Story of O, (Histoire d'O) (1975)
  • The Image, (The Punishment of Anne) (1975)
  • Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) (1975) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Maîtresse, (1976) starring Gérard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier
  • A Woman in Flames, (Die Flambierte Frau) (1983)
  • Crimes of Passion, (1984)
  • Seduction: The Cruel Woman, (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) (1985)
  • Blue Velvet (1986) (starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern)
  • 9½ Weeks, (1986) (starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke)
  • Tokyo Decadence, (Topazu) (1991)
  • Bitter Moon (1992) (starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote)
  • Spanking Love (1994)
  • Venus in Furs (1994)
  • Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) directed by Jan Švankmajer
  • The Bondage Master (1996) (Japanese indie film directed by Keisuke Konishi)
  • Of Freaks and Men, (Pro urodov i lyudej) (1998)
  • Lies, (Gojitmal) (1999)
  • Moonlight Whispers, (Sasayaki) (1999)<ref>FILM REVIEW; Masochists Always Hurt The Ones They Love By A. O. SCOTT (November 22, 2000)</ref>
  • Romance (1999), (Romance X) (1999)
  • Quills, (2000) (starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix)
  • The Piano Teacher, (La Pianiste) (2001) (starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel)
  • Secretary (2002) (starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal)
  • Bettie Page: Dark Angel (see Bettie Page (2004)
  • The Passion of Life (2005)
  • A Year Without Love (Un año sin amor) (2005) (directed by Anahi Berneri)
  • Hounded (Verfolgt) (2007) (directed by Angelina Maccarone)

Comedy:

  • The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Little Shop of Horrors (musical version, 1986) (starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin and Bill Murray)
  • The Choirboys (1977)
  • Personal Services (1987) (starring Julie Walters)
  • Exit to Eden (basd on a novel by Anne Rice) (1994)
  • Preaching to the Perverted (1997) (starring Guinevere Turner)

Thrillers:

  • Videodrome (1983)
  • Tightrope (1984) (starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold)
  • Basic Instinct (1992) (starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone)
  • Body of Evidence (1993) (starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe)
  • 8mm (1999) (starring Nicolas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix)
  • [The Cell (2000) (directed by Tarsem Singh)
  • Ichi the Killer (2001) (directed by Takashi Miike)

[edit] Television

[edit] Drama

  • Thomas Shadwell's play The Virtuoso (1676) includes an old libertine named Snarl who entreats a prostitute, Mrs Figgup, to bring out the birch rods. It is unclear if he is to flog her or be flogged.
  • In Thomas Otway's play Venice Preserved (1682), Act III, Scene i, an old senator, Antonio, visits the house of Aquilina, a Greek courtesan. Antonio pretends to be a bull, then a frog, begging her to spit on him, and then a dog, biting her legs. She whips him, then throws him out and tells her footmen to keep him out.
  • Jean Genet's play The Maids (1947) concerns two maids who play out dominant and submissive roles.
  • Genet's play The Balcony (1959) is set in a brothel where clients and staff perform various fetishized roles while a revolution brews outside.
  • The play Oh! Calcutta! includes at least two segments with sadomasochistic themes. One of them, set in a fantasy of an English girls public school, invites the audience to vote on which of four "girls" is beaten at the end.

[edit] Poetry

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote poetry on erotic flagellation.

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