Die 120 Tage von Sodom. - Die Philosophie im Boudoir oder Die lasterhaften Lehrmeister

Scandalous, some claim. Painfully necessary, say others, when it comes to looking into the abysses of human drives and emotional worlds. The "120 Days" of the "Divine Marquis" polarizes like hardly any other work of world literature. Four honorable men hold 42 women and boys captive in a castle and deliberate on what to do with them. Believing themselves to be unobserved, they succumb to their desires and cravings. As a philosophical provocateur, the Marquis appears in the second volume, in the seven dialogues of his "Philosophy in the Boudoir": In the imaginative sexual excess, the barriers of traditional morality and convention fall, and only through egocentric lust can humanity manage to free itself.