Certainly not a book for the faint of heart...
There is no doubt where the term "sadist" originates.
The story of a group of 4 wealthy men who enlist the aid of prostitutes to capture children for bizarre acts of sexual debauchery and torture.
Written by Sade in in the space of thirty-seven days in 1785 while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. This highly controversial book was both condemned as "vile pornography" and praised as having "scientific importance to doctors, jurists, and anthropologists." upon its first publishing in the twentieth century. Without question, the most shocking book I have ever read. ( )