A review by lucylureadsalot
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

god fucking DAMN 

men used to be real yearning little freaks and look at what we have now!! 

i'm literally obsessed. this was insane, steamy, lascivious. nothing graphic happened and yet this was sexier than maybe anything i've ever read, or seen on screen in a long while (literally only 'secretary' comes to mind as comparably steamy). WHEW. 

also a really fascinating look into the inner chambers of the dynamics between men and women in the 19th century in a way that's obviously and often censored, with a strangely incredibly modern feminist take at the end?

anyway this was freaky as hell and i loved every second. also, the appendix of the book is the author's actual contracts he made with women becoming their sex slaves? yeah and who else can end their erotica with PROOF.