Much better than Fifty Shades - The Story of O
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Much better than Fifty Shades - The Story of O
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which includes works from previous centuries.
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The story of O is developed and actually has a great plot. It is erotica with a much more intense BDSM story line.
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O is superior-but there is an issue we should discuss. Wayne Booth asked a long time ago what do we do with a work that employs great artistry to valorize an evil idea-the Holocaust for example. As I recall O ends with the heroine consenting to her death. Do we in our reading leave aside our normal ethical sense? Can we and should we? O comes out of a milieu fascinated by the idea of transgression and as I recall in that milieu there was a lot of sympathy for fascism. "Eroticism"-
but arousal for whom? Does the work express female sexual desire or, even though written by a woman, a male fantasy of that desire.?
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Why, in heaven's name, would a reader plough through them 5 times? I shall look and see if this one is better, but there is modern erotica out there that's well written. Try looking on Goodreads, under an appropriate group.
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On the other hand, the Story of O is a classic piece of erotica published in the 1950s, the authorship of which remains something of a mystery. Pauline Reage is the pen name of Dominique Aury, itself the pen name of Anne Declos, a French author and journalist. She wrote The Story of O as challenge after her lover claimed that a woman could not write and erotic novel.
There is not a lot of plot - it is a series of degrading sexual experiences involving bondage, whippings and brandings, a total subservience to the men in O's life.
However, the constrained language certainly ensures that this is genuinely erotic and not just titillating.
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