LaRascasse
I dream, therefore I am
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In one surviving letter, a customer hearing about the Berkley Horse proffered Theresa Berkley this pricing for her services: ""a pound sterling for the first blood drawn, two pounds sterling if the blood runs down to my heels, three pounds sterling if my heels are bathed in blood, four pounds sterling if the blood reaches the floor, and five pounds sterling if you succeed in making me lose consciousness."[3]
And yet...
The Berkley Horse one of the first documented BDSM devices, which made it's owner rich, was not for the faint of heart.
Ouch.
Preaching to the choir, Lovecraft68 -
I'm a wuss. Anything more than a simple tie-down or OTK scares the bejesus out of me. Scared to give up control, and as a pretty big guy, fearful of hurting my plaything.
I have to ask - is the 68 at the end of your name a reference to the old 69 joke - You blow me, I'll owe you one?
Hell many attribute DeSade as the founding father of BDSM and a lot of things in 120 days of Sodom would be frowned upon today.
That's putting it very very mildly. DeSade and Massoc may have been the roots of the words sadism and masochism, but they were essentially nuts who took their respective kink to the extreme.
Hell, even a work like The Story of O is more extreme than most would like.
To me Desade was just trying to shock the shit out of people, pushing any limit her could think of. It's been a long time since I read it, but I believe they were even eating feces at one point.
Its amazing that for how old it is, it still stands as one of the sickest things you can read.
It was some sick shit. I downloaded it on a whim and read it, and skipped a couple of meals after that. Just like an encyclopedia of what deranged fantasies a guy can dream up.
BTW his other works aren't as bad. I liked Justine, Juliet and Philosophy in the Bedroom. If you are willing to overlook the small matter of underage (which wasn't so much of an issue in Medieval France) they're not bad.