Originally posted by Curtis
And there you have why von Sacher-Masoch is associated with masochism. Sacher-Masoch wrote stories with himself as a male sub to female Dommes. Whether these stories were actually autobiographical or not, they were intended to be read as such.

They were biographical in spirit. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was an interesting and very literate man who wrote a number of stories and novels. He was also a decorated war hero. But he is best remembered, of course, for his famous "Venus in Furs."

Curious that this should come up just now. Sacher-Masoch was a contemporary of the fictional characters in the Jade Pavilion, and appears very briefly in the installment I'm working on right now as a past interviewee of Dr Kauffman, (a young Viennese doctor transplanted to the far east) who is interested in the workings of the mind, obsessions, and so on.


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