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I'd like to know: did You ever had some masochistic feelings and
experiences, or did You just stand on one side of the whip?
Mon cher Lecteur,
have you read my books? Have you perused my letters? I suppose you
haven't or you wouldn't have asked me such a nonsensical question.
Nevertheless, i shall assume that you have read me (oh how flattered I
am, my dear sir!) and are posing this intriguing question just to have
the pleasure of reading my intelligent answer.
As you may easily guess, my dear reader, in my unfortunate but glorious
times the term "switch" was not in use at all, but I surmise that by
that term you mean to describe the bipolar tendency toward pain, also
known with the medical term of "algolagnia", i.e., a person who enjoys
both giving and receiving pain. In that sense I am such a person, for,
as it is clearly stated in the testimonies rendered by those
impertinent sluts from Marseilles (who dared bring charges against me
for a trivial little orgy I indulged in along with my most trusted
valet), the blows I received by his and their hands far outnumbered
those I applied to their lovely buttocks. It is a matter of mere
physiology: not all creatures on earth are so constituted, but my
physical organisation (and not mine alone) is such that nerves receive
a most particularly pleasurable stimulation by the electrical shock of
pain.
If, on the contrary, by "switch" you mean "sado-masochistic", as it is
improperly now termed, well no, by no means!! I will never tire myself
of stressing I do not take any pleasure in being humiliated, in being
treated like an object, nor do I take any pleasure whatsoever in
treating others in such a vulgar and unbecoming manner. Demeaning any
creature is base and tasteless and I have never, in my entire life,
indulged in such pleasures (if you so judge them).
I hope that I have satisfied your curiosity, my dear reader, and I will
conclude this letter with a quote from another I wrote to my wife at
the beginning of my imprisonment:
"I am a victim but I am not a dupe; whereas it may be enjoyable at
times to play the former, it is never, for me, to be the latter."
I remain your truthful servant,
D.A.F. de Sade
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