The Well of Loneliness,

The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".^[1]
The Well became the target of a campaign by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express newspaper, who wrote "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel." Although its only sexual reference consists of the words "and that night, they were not divided", a British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women".^[2] In the United States the book survived legal challenges in New York state and in Customs Court.^[3]
Publicity over The Well's legal battles increased the visibility of lesbians in British and American culture.^[4] For decades it was the best-known lesbian novel in English, and often the first source of information about lesbianism that young people could find.^[5] Some readers have valued it, while others have criticized it for Stephen's expressions of self-hatred and seen it as inspiring shame.^[6] Its role in promoting images of lesbians as "mannish" or cross-dressed women has also been controversial. Some critics now argue that Stephen should be seen as transsexual.^[7]
Although few critics rate The Well highly as a work of literature, its treatment of sexuality and gender continues to inspire study and debate

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a notable series of case studies of the varieties of human sexual behaviour. The book remains well known for making mainstream the terms sadism (from Marquis de Sade whose fictional writings often include brutal sexual practices) and masochism (from writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,^[2] whose partly autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman). He was also the first to use the terms homosexual and heterosexual. Baron von Krafft-Ebing was born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was educated in Heidelberg and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg.
After graduating in medicine and completing his specialization in psychiatry, Krafft-Ebing worked in several asylums. He soon grew disappointed with their workings and decided to pursue a more academic vocation. He subsequently became a professor at Strasbourg, Graz, and Vienna, and a forensic expert at the Austro-Hungarian capital. He popularized psychiatry, giving public lectures on the subject and theatrical demonstrations of the power of hypnotism.

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Marquis De Sades Downfall.

By Douglas B. Lynott

Sacrilege!

"I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"¹
The nattily-dressed young nobleman escorted the comely French prostitute to a rented room on the second floor of a nondescript maison on the outskirts of Paris. The Marquis de Sade had been frequenting such houses during his trip to the capital, a trip he had ostensibly taken for business reasons. The true nature of his business, however, was the pursuit of pleasure, the kind that the nobility of France had enjoyed for generations without repercussion or recrimination. The newly wed Marquis had been staging garden-variety orgies at several maisons he had rented in and around Paris during October of 1763. However, he had a more singular encounter in mind for himself and the young prostitute, Mlle. Jeanne Testard.
Upon entering the room, the Marquis bolted the door behind them and immediately demanded to know if Mlle. Testard had religious convictions, if she was a faithful adherent to the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic faith. When she responded affirmatively, the Marquis proceeded to harangue her with the most vile and degrading insults. To Testard's horror he also began to engage in the most provocative and blasphemous acts, including masturbating into a chalice, referring to the Lord as "motherfucker" and inserting two communion hosts into the terrified young woman before entering her himself, all the while screaming, "If thou art God, avenge thyself!"
Mlle. Testard, who had already gotten much more than she had bargained for with the Marquis, was mortified by his next request, which was for her to heat a cat-o-nine-tails in the fire until it glowed red, and then to beat him with it. She was then to select the whip of her choosing for him to do the same to her. When she refused to let him beat her, he proceeded to masturbate with a pair of crucifixes, after which he held her at sword-point while forcing her to repeat vulgar, blasphemous impieties.
At 9:00 am the following day, Mlle. Testard's procuress arrived to find her young charge in a most hysterical state. They rushed immediately to the local police commissioner who took the young woman's deposition. Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade was arrested ten days later by Paris Police Inspector Louis Marais, and, for the first of several times in his life, the Marquis was imprisoned for acting on his lewd and debauched convictions.

Marquis De Sade. Quotations.

It is only by way of pain that one arrives at pleasure.good one and one i Firmly believe in,

Flag or whipping u choose.

Flagellation for punishment’s sake has been practiced throughout the world. In ancient Rome, judges would decorate the walls of their courtrooms with various types of scourges in order to strike fear into the hearts of criminals, many of whom would be ordered to endure whippings of such severity that more than just a few of them died from the wounds inflicted upon them; Austrian soldiers who misbehaved were made to run the terrible gauntlet; Russia has the knout; China still has the great bamboo; Turkey governs with the stick; the Siamese have their nightly birches; and, in Africa, there is ‘mumbo jumbo’.

Favs

Thinking again of posting some pictures of what i loves about bdsm the faces the expressions the  actual thrill of the ride , no pun intended so here and in the future ill post some pictures i really enjoy seeing as i suppose there me in a way so enjoy,,

"There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters." ~ Dan Fogelberg, "Icarus Ascending"

Yet again reading other bloggs lol ,came across ole Dan Fogelberg  site not the site i wanted but links to links you  know how it is ,and read about hes awards and he had many ,so was looking forCifford T Ward ,An old fav of mine well parts of ,the song Gaye was an good classic so looked to find out what happerned to him and yes both Clifford and Dan died young ,the old adage again ,only the good die young a ,the first of prostate cancer the latter of ME with pneumonia ,Sorely missed