Sadism and masochism in fiction

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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.

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.<ref>Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class by John Kucich (Princeton University Press, 2006)</ref> 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.<ref>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</ref><ref>Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film by Lecturer Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge</ref><ref>Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television</ref>

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.<ref name="Wood-deSade">Template:Harv "The term sadism derives from the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), a French nobleman imprisoned for his libertinism and for writing fantastic novels such as Justine and Juliette (both 1797) that equated sexual pleasure with the inflicting of pain, humiliation, and cruelty."</ref>

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 Réage - 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.<ref name="Wood-StoryO">Template:Harv "Pauline Reage's The Story of O (1954) made a great impact on lesbian erotic writing..."</ref>

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 revolves around Masochism, which he regarded as "immunisation against death", but does not aim 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. See Cenobite (Hellraiser).

Die Klavierspielerin (Reinbeck, 1983) or The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek.

The Ties that Bind (Le Lien) (1993) by Vanessa Duriès

Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage, 1997 by Malcolm McKesson (An Outsider artist) - It tells the story of a Harvard undergraduate dominated by his mistress and forced to dress in women's clothing.

Marketplace series of novels by Laura Antoniou

Macho Sluts by Pat Califia<ref name="Wood-Califia">Template:Harv</ref>

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.

Specialist publishers of S/M fiction

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.<ref>Sadism and masochism in mainstream film</ref>

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, (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, (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 (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), 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 (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)
8 mm (1999) (starring Nicolas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix)
The Cell (2000) (directed by Tarsem Singh)
Ichi the Killer (2001) (directed by Takashi Miike)

Television

Template:Importance-sect

The FOX series The Inside episode "Old Wounds" dealt exclusively with S&M, and was criticized by the Parents Television Council as a result.<ref>Parents Television Council Presents: Worst TV Show of the Week - The Inside on Fox By Caroline Schulenburg</ref>
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>"Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke), a dominatrix"</ref>
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.^Fact?
A Family Guy gag depicts main characters Lois and Peter 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>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.
Season 2 of the FOX medical drama House, a patient is deeply involved in a BDSM relationship.^Fact?
Rex Van de Kamp of Desperate Housewives was unveiled as a lover of S&M, much to the disgust of his wife, Bree.<ref>"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>

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.

Poetry

Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote poetry on erotic flagellation.

References

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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.''
+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.<ref>[http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8294.html Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class] by John Kucich (Princeton University Press, 2006)</ref>  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.<ref>[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</ref><ref>[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</ref><ref>[http://www.amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_gourmet/2006/06/sadism_masochis.html Sadism, Masochism, Food and Television]</ref>
 == Novels ==
-*''Fanny Hill'' by John Cleland - Includes a detailed description of a mutual [[flagellation]] scene between Fanny and an English client.
+Titles are sorted in chronological order.
+*[[Fanny Hill|''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 ''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', ''[[The Misfortunes of Virtue|Justine]]'' (1791) and ''[[L'Histoire de Juliette|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.
+*''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', ''[[The Misfortunes of Virtue|Justine]]'' (1791) and ''[[L'Histoire de Juliette|Juliette]]'' (1797) by [[Marquis de Sade]] - Are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint.<ref name="Wood-deSade">{{Harv|Wood|1995|p=1, "Derivations and Definitions".}} "The term [[sadism]] derives from the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), a French nobleman imprisoned for his libertinism and for writing fantastic novels such as ''Justine'' and ''Juliette'' (both 1797) that equated sexual pleasure with the inflicting of pain, humiliation, and cruelty."</ref>
 *''[[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.
-*[[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.
+*''[[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.
+*[[The Torture Garden (novel)|''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).
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 *''[[Histoire de l'oeil]]'' (''Story of the Eye'') (1928) by [[Georges Bataille]] - A short novel.
-*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.
+*The ''[[Story of O]]'' (1954) by [[Pauline Réage]] - 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.<ref name="Wood-StoryO">{{Harv|Wood|1995|p=2, "Sadomasochistic Literature in Earlier Cultures".}} "Pauline Reage's ''The Story of O'' (1954) made a great impact on lesbian erotic writing..."</ref>
-*''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''.
+*''[[The Image (novel)|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 (film)|The Image]]'', also known as ''[[The Image (film)|The Punishment of Anne]]''.
 *''[[Gordon (novel)|Gordon]]'' (1966) by [[Edith Templeton]]
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 *''Je... Ils...'' (1969) by [[Arthur Adamov]] _ With stories like ''Fin Août''. The author revolves around [[Masochism]], which he regarded as "immunisation against death", but does not aim 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 it's infamous demonic antagonists. See [[Cenobite (Hellraiser)]].
+*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. See [[Cenobite (Hellraiser)]].
 *''[[Die Klavierspielerin]]'' (Reinbeck, 1983) or ''[[The Piano Teacher]]'' by Elfriede Jelinek.
-*In 1993, Vanessa Duriès wrote ''The Ties that Bind (Le Lien)''.
+*''[[Le lien|The Ties that Bind (Le Lien)]]'' (1993) by [[Vanessa Duriès]]
-*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.
+*''Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage'', [[1997]] by [[Malcolm McKesson]] (An [[Outsider art]]ist) - It tells the story of a [[Harvard]] undergraduate dominated by his mistress and forced to dress in women's clothing.
 *''Marketplace'' series of novels by [[Laura Antoniou]]
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 *''[[Kushiel's Dart]]'' by [[Jacqueline Carey]] - Belongs in the [[fantasy fiction]] and BDSM fiction genres, along with its subsequent sequels.
-*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''.
+*Writer [[Anne Rice]] has produced a number of examples of sado-masochistic fiction, including ''[[Exit to Eden]]'' and ''[[Belinda (Anne Rice novel)|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.
-As of 2005, sado-masochistic themes have become common in much of mainstream erotic fiction, so much so as to be almost a cliché.
+==Specialist publishers of S/M fiction==
+* [[Nexus Books]]
-More literary sado-masochistic fiction includes the works of authors such as
+* [[Black Lace (books)|Black Lace]]
-* Laura Antoniou, including the ''Marketplace'' series of novels and stories
+* [[Silver Moon Books]]
-* [[Pat Califia]]'s works including ''Macho Sluts''
-The novel ''Kushiel's Dart'' by Jacqueline Carey and its sequels belong both to the fantasy fiction and the BDSM fiction genres.
 == 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.
+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.<ref>[http://www.jahsonic.com/SMCinema.html Sadism and masochism in mainstream film]</ref>
 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'') (1963) directed by Mario Bava and starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi
+* ''[[The Whip and the Body]]'' (''La Frusta e il Corpo'') (1965)  (starring [[Christopher Lee]] and [[Daliah Lavi]])
-* ''Belle de jour'' (1967) directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Catherine Deneuve
+* ''[[Belle de jour]]'' (1967) (starring [[Catherine Deneuve]])
-* ''The Libertine'', (''La Matriarca'') (1969)
+* ''[[The Libertine (1969 film)|The Libertine]]'', (''La Matriarca'') (1969)
-* ''Last Tango in Paris'' (1972) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider
+* ''[[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) directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling
+* ''[[The Night Porter]]'', (''Il Portiere di notte'') (1974) (starring [[Dirk Bogarde]] and [[Charlotte Rampling]])
-* ''The Story of O'' (''Histoire d'O'') (1975) directed by Just Jaecken and starring Corinne Clery
+* ''[[Story of O]]'', (''Histoire d'O'') (1975)
-* ''The Image'', (''The Punishment of Anne'') (1975) directed by Radley Metzger
+* ''[[The Image (film)|The Image]]'', (''The Punishment of Anne'') (1975)
-* ''Maîtresse'', (1976) directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Gerard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier
+* ''[[Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma|Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', (''Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'') (1975) directed by [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]
-* ''A Woman in Flames'', (''Die Flambierte Frau'') (1983)
+* ''[[Maîtresse]]'', (1976) starring [[Gérard Depardieu]] and [[Bulle Ogier]]
-* ''Crimes of Passion'', (1984) directed by Ken Russell and starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins
+* ''[[A Woman in Flames (film)|A Woman in Flames]]'', (''Die Flambierte Frau'') (1983)
-* ''Seduction: The Cruel Woman'', (''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'') (1985)
+* ''[[Crimes of Passion]]'', (1984)
-* ''Nine and a Half Weeks'' (1986) directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke
+* ''[[Seduction: The Cruel Woman]]'', (''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'') (1985)
-* ''Tokyo Decadence'', (''Topazu'') (1991) directed by Ryū Murakami
+* ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' (1986) (starring [[Kyle MacLachlan]], [[Isabella Rossellini]], [[Dennis Hopper]] and [[Laura Dern]])
-* ''Bitter Moon'' (1992) directed by Roman Polanski and starring Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas
+* ''[[9½ Weeks]]'', (1986) (starring [[Kim Basinger]] and [[Mickey Rourke]])
-* ''Spanking Love'' (1994)
+* ''[[Tokyo Decadence]]'', (''Topazu'') (1991)
-* ''Venus in Furs'' (1994)
+* ''[[Bitter Moon]]'' (1992) (starring [[Hugh Grant]], [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[Emmanuelle Seigner]], and [[Peter Coyote]])
-* ''The Bondage Master'' (1996) (Japanese indie film directed by Keisuke Konishi)
+* ''[[Spanking Love]]'' (1994)
-* ''Of Freaks and Men'', (''Pro urodov i lyudej'') (1998)
+* ''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1994)
-* ''Lies'', (''Gojitmal'') (1999)
+* ''[[Conspirators of Pleasure]]'' (1996) directed by [[Jan Švankmajer]]
-* ''Moonlight Whispers'' (''Sasayaki'') (1999)
+* ''[[The Bondage Master]]'' (1996) (Japanese indie film directed by Keisuke Konishi)
-* ''Romance'', (''Romance X'') (1999) directed by Catherine Breillat
+* ''[[Of Freaks and Men]]'', (''Pro urodov i lyudej'') (1998)
-* ''Quills'', (2000) directed by Philip Kaufman (historically inaccurate biopic on the Marquis de Sade)
+* ''Lies'', (''[[Gojitmal]]'') (1999)
-* ''The Piano Teacher'' (''La Pianiste'') (2001) directed by Michael Haneke and starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel
+* ''[[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>
-* ''Secretary'' (2002) directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader
+* ''[[Romance (1999 film)|Romance]]'', (''Romance X'') (1999)
-* ''Bettie Page: Dark Angel'' (2004)
+* ''[[Quills]]'', (2000) (starring [[Geoffrey Rush]], [[Kate Winslet]] and [[Joaquin Phoenix]])
-*''The Passion of Life'' (2005)
+* ''[[The Piano Teacher]]'', (''La Pianiste'') (2001) (starring [[Isabelle Huppert]] and [[Benoit Magimel]])
-*''A Year Without Love (Un año sin amor)'' (2005) (directed by Anahi Berneri)
+* ''[[Secretary (movie)|Secretary]]'' (2002) (starring [[James Spader]] and [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]])
-*''Hounded (Verfolgt)'' (2007) (directed by Angelina Maccarone)
+* ''[[Bettie Page: Dark Angel]]'' (2004)
+* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24/7_The_Passion_of_Life ''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 Choirboys'' (1977)
+* ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (1960), [[Little Shop of Horrors (film)|musical version]] (1986) (starring [[Rick Moranis]], [[Ellen Greene]], [[Vincent Gardenia]], [[Steve Martin]], and [[Bill Murray]])
-* ''Personal Services'' (1987) directed by Terry Jones and starring Julie Walters
+* ''[[The Choirboys (film)|The Choirboys]]'' (1977)
-* ''Exit to Eden'' (1994) starring Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Ackroyd
+* ''[[Personal Services]]'' (1987) (starring [[Julie Walters]])
-* ''Preaching to the Perverted'' (1997) starring Guinevere Turner
+* ''[[Exit to Eden]]'' (1994)
+* ''[[Preaching to the Perverted]]'' (1997) (starring [[Guinevere Turner]])
 Thrillers:
-* ''Tightrope'' (1984) starring Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold
+* ''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983)
-* ''Basic Instinct'' (1992) starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
+* ''[[Tightrope (film)|Tightrope]]'' (1984) (starring [[Clint Eastwood]] and [[Geneviève Bujold]])
-* ''Body of Evidence'' (1993) starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe
+* ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' (1992) (starring [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Sharon Stone]])
+* ''[[Body of Evidence (film)|Body of Evidence]]'' (1993) (starring [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] and [[Willem Dafoe]])
+* ''[[8mm (film)|8 mm]]'' (1999) (starring [[Nicolas Cage]] and [[Joaquin Phoenix]])
+* ''[[The Cell]]'' (2000) (directed by [[Tarsem Singh]])
+* ''[[Ichi the Killer]]'' (2001) (directed by [[Takashi Miike]])
+== Television ==
+{{Importance-sect}}<!-- Not all passing depictions on television are important enough to list. Case is not made for most of these. -->
+*The [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] series ''[[The Inside]]'' episode "[[Old Wounds (The Inside episode)|Old Wounds]]" dealt exclusively with S&M, and was criticized 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>
+*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? -->
+*Season 4 of [[HBO]] series ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]'' features a character (Joe) who wants to adopt a submissive sexual role in his relationship with [[Brenda Chenowith|Brenda]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}}
+*A ''[[Family Guy]]'' gag depicts main characters [[Lois Griffin|Lois]] and [[Peter Griffin|Peter]] 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.
+*Season 2 of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] medical drama ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', a patient is deeply involved in a BDSM relationship.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}<!-- Is this notable? -->
+* 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? -->
+== Drama ==
+*[[Thomas Shadwell]]'s play ''[[The Virtuoso (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.
-Non-consensual BDSM:
+*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.
-Films which feature ''non-consensual'' BDSM themes as a central element in the plot are usually based on a kidnapping/abduction scenario in which the captive eventually develops a kind of Stockholm Syndrome and begins complying with the demands/wishes of the captor either out of fear or guilt and identification.  Examples of this type of criminal, non-consensual BDSM appear in the following films:
+==Poetry==
+*[[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] wrote poetry on erotic flagellation.
-* ''The Collector'' (1965) directed by William Wyler and starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar
+==References==
-* ''Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom'' (''Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'') (1975) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
+===Footnotes===
-* ''Blue Velvet'' (1986) directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper
+{{reflist|2}}
-* ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (''¡Átame!'') (1990) directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril
-== External links ==
+===Bibliography===
+{{Citation
+ | last = Wood
+ | first = Robert
+ | author-link =
+ | last2 =
+ | first2 =
+ | author2-link =
+ | publication-date =
+ | date =
+ | year = 1995
+ | title = Sadomasochistic Literature
+ | series = glbtq.com
+ | publication-place =
+ | place =
+ | publisher = New England Publishing Associates
+ | url = http://www.glbtq.com/literature/sadom_lit.html
+ | accessdate = 2007-12-14
+}}
+=== External links ===
 * [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/sadom_lit.html An article on gay and lesbian sadomasochistic fiction]
+* [http://www.bibliocuriosa.com/index.php?title=Accueil Biblio Curiosa, a bibliography of erotic and s&m literature] in English and French
 ==See Also==

Sadism and masochism in fiction

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