Sadism. Noun. The derivation of sexual gratification
from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation on another person. But where does this word come from?
Does it have Germanic origins or rather Arabic? Maybe it's Gallic or better yet Latin?
Well, it's none of that.
It comes from a man whose lifestyle and writings put to shame any Christian Grey,
it comes from The Marquis de Sade. Needless to say, this video promises to become R-rated rather quickly.
So kids make sure your parents aren't around while you're watching.
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis of Sade, was born in Paris on June 2nd, 1740.
Sade was actually a Count, not a Marquis.
But people just sort of went along with it. At a very young age, his father
abandoned him and his mother secluded herself in a convent which meant that he was raised by his servants who indulged his every whim.
Unsurprisingly, he came to be known as a rebellious and spoiled child with an ever-growing temper.
In his own words, he describes, "It seemed like everything had to be yielded to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims."
At ten, he was sent to the college Louis-Le-Grand, the same College Robespierre would later attend.
There, he developed a passion for drama and theater
thanks to the regular shows the priest organized. But he also developed another passion, a devious one. An unruly child,
he was often subjected to violent corporal punishments including flogging, which he would spend the rest of his life obsessing about.
At 14, he joined the army as a sub-lieutenant and participated in the Seven Years War against Prussia. His superior described him as,
"Deranged, but brave." After the war, his father arranged a marriage with the Heiress of Montreuil, a small noble house
that was much wealthier than the Sades. This was very beneficial to the Marquis who enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle.
Together, they would have two sons and a daughter.
His new wife passionately loved him and would remain loyal to him despite the numerous scandals
he went through during their marriage. The first of which occurred in October, 1763,
when Sade was arrested following the denunciation of a prostitute who didn't appreciate his sadistic and
blasphemous games. Now, in the ancien régime, blasphemy was a big deal and any common folk would have been severely punished,
if not executed, but the Marquis was a noble so of course his in-laws came in, paid some people off and liberated him.
At 24, Sade was put on surveillance by the police who noted, "It wouldn't be long before we hear again about the horrors of the Count of Sade."
These horrors would occur just four years later when Sade offered work as a maid to a widowed beggar. When they arrived at his rented
cottage, he attached her to a bed and started whipping her violently.
He then slashed her skin to pour hot wax in the open wounds. All the while, the Marquis
masturbated while threatening to kill her if she stopped screaming. When he was finally done,
he forced her to do blasphemous acts during Easter Sunday before confining her in the room while he visited some prostitutes.
However, his victim escaped through a window and roused the village against him. The resulting scandal forged the Marquis' less-than-desirable
reputation yet his status and connections meant he received nothing more than a slap on the wrists as his in-laws paid off the victim.
In June, 1772,
in Marseille, during a wild orgy
he organized with his manservant and lover, Latour, he offered five prostitutes an aphrodisiac made of Spanish flies.
This made them sick and so Sade was accused of poisoning them as all as sodomy due to his relationship with Latour.
The court of Provence
condemned them to the death penalty but the Maquis and Latour were able to escape to Italy. The locals instead had to content themselves
with hanging and burning effigies to their image. As if that wasn't enough,
the Marquis also brought along his new lover, his wife's sister, who signed with her blood a passionate letter to him.
So yeah, I guess they had the same vibe.
But the love affair won't last long as the Marquis was arrested in Savoy
just five months later. Sade, however,
escaped and hid in Lacoste with his wife, not her sister, who would become his accomplice from now on.
In 1774, the Marquis and his wife held captive six young children for six weeks during which Sade subjected them to numerous sexual abuses.
Following that, the King ordered his arrest but the Marquise escaped once again to Italy dressed as a priest.
A judicial procedure was started against him,
but again,
his in-laws ensured that any proof was destroyed.
When he returned to Lacoste two years later, the Marquis resumed his perversion by hiring young children
which he then sexually abused. This would continue for another year until the father of one of those children frightened Sade with a gun to reclaim
his daughter. Eventually, he fired at the Marquis from point-blank range but missed. Once again a huge scandal broke out, but this time,
he didn't have his family to back him up.
In fact,
his mother-in-law, who was the head of the Montreuil family, was sick of the Marquis and asked the king a lettre de cachet
against him. Later that year,
The Marquis was arrested in Paris and imprisoned in Vincennes. There, he met fellow writer, Mirabeau.
But despite their mutual interest in erotic writing, Sade despised him to the point of physically assaulting him. As you can imagine,
this didn't help reduce his sentence.
In 1784, Vincennes closed and Sade was transferred to the infamous Bastille prison, where he stayed ironically in the Liberty Tower.
It had been almost eight years since Sade was imprisoned and seeing no hope of ever being freed,
he expressed more and more anger, especially against his mother-in-law whom he regularly tortured in his letters.
But that anger led to nothing and bored, with no way of physically expressing his vast but perverse imagination,
he started writing down his wildest fantasies. Finally, on October 22nd, 1785,
he began his magnum opus. Whereas Da Vinci has 'Mona Lisa',
Vivaldi 'Four Seasons', and Michael Bay 'Transformers 2', Sade has '120 Days of Sodom'.
A 400-page book that was written in only 37 days on a 12-meter roll
he had to hide in a cell wall in fear of having it confiscated. On July 2nd, 1789,
the Marquis screamed from his window for help, claiming that the guards of the Bastille had started to slit the prisoner's throats.
This wasn't the truth as the Bastille had fallen into disrepair and was mostly used to get rid of people
you couldn't really kill, but would rather not have in your life much like a certain Marquis we know. Two days after that
he was dragged naked as a worm to the Charenton Asylum near Paris. Just 12 days later, the Bastille was famously stormed,
its seven prisoners freed and then destroyed with, or so Sade believed, his masterpiece.
This devastated him so much that he would later write that he wept tears of blood.
But in fact, the manuscript had been discovered and preserved by a certain Arnoux de Saint-Maximin.
In 1790, the Marquis was freed from the mental asylum after the National Assembly abolished the use of lettre de cachet. His wife divorced him soon after.
Following his release, he renamed himself as Louis Sade and
unsuccessfully attempted to direct some of his plays before using his writing talents to the service of the Revolution.
In 1791, in serious need of money, he successfully published a censored version of 'Justine', a book he had written in la Bastille.
The following year, the fucking Parisians, somehow forgetting Sade's violent past as a sexual offender,
elected him as one of the delegates at the National Convention, where he would regularly make staunch atheist
speeches, mocking, among other things, the belief that the Virgin Mary could give birth without intercourse.
Robespierre, who fervently despised atheists, was annoyed by this and imprisoned him on December 1793. On July 26, 1794,
he was condemned to the guillotine but was saved miraculously by the downfall of Robespierre,
which occurred only two days later. Terrified by this close encounter with death, Sade decided to leave politics behind.
In 1799, the third edition of 'Justine' was published, 'La Nouvelle Justine',
which comprised of ten novels illustrated by one hundred pornographic engravings. The engravings I have shown so far are just some of these.
Napoleon absolutely despised it to the point of imprisoning Sade in 1801 because of it. In his memoirs,
he would describe it as, "...the most disgusting book that the most deprived imagination has ever birthed."
At first, Sade was put in a Parisian prison, but following allegations that he was seducing young prisoners,
he was sent once again to the Charenton asylum. There, in 1810,
he pursued his final act of perversion by starting an affair with a fourteen-year-old girl. An affair that would last until his death in
1814 at the age of 74.
Yes, that's a 56 years gap between the two lovers.
One can only praise his ability to perform at his age without viagra.
After his death, his son burnt every manuscript he could find and his family tried
its best to forget this black mark in their history,
but that didn't work out, especially since in 1904, Iwan Bloch, a German psychiatrist, bought the manuscript of
'120 Days of Sodom' and published it. At this point, you may be wondering, "What could this book include that is so terrible?
I mean, it can't be that bad right?". Well, you know me.
I'm a bit of a daddy, and I never shy from slapping a booty.
But even for someone like me, his writings were a bit too much.
So if you're easily offended or squeamish, I strongly suggest you stop watching the video now. I'm serious.
Still here? Well, if you insist.
'120 Days of Sodom or The school of Libertinage' tells the tale of four Libertines, a Duke, a Judge, a Bishop,
and a Banker who locked themselves away in a castle with a harem of young boys and girls they've abducted,
including their own daughters.
It's worth noting that the castle's description
closely resembled Sade's own castle. The book is split up in four months with each month having a different storyteller hired to
entertain the Libertines as they torture their harem.
However
probably for the greater good,
Sade was unable to finish the book and only the first month is written in full while the other months are merely detailed notes.
The first month,
November, is the month of simple passions called as such because it involves no penetration and depicts stories of men
masturbating on the faces of young girls and indulging themselves in urine and feces consumption.
Throughout the month, the Libertines take part in similar acts with their own victims.
The second month, December, is the month of complex passions and depicts stories of young girls getting raped,
incest, flogging, and blasphemous acts. In this month,
the female children are deflowered vaginally. The third month,
January, is the month of criminal passions and depicts stories of girls as young as three being sodomized, parents
prostituting their daughters, and females
mutilated by having their fingers torn off -Ramsay Bolton - style and red hot spikes poked into them.
Meanwhile,
the Libertines start having anal sex with their victims while gradually treating them harsher and harsher
through regular beatings and whippings.
Finally, the fourth month, February, is the month of murderous passions and depicts children skinned alive, genitals mutilated,
pregnant women disemboweled, and families burned alive while their newborns are killed in front of them. During this month, the Libertines
brutally killed their daughters along with six more children. The murder of one of those children, the 15 years old
Augustine, is described with a nauseating amount of details and involves tortures such as having her flesh pulled off her limbs, her vagina
mutilated and her stomach sliced open to then have her intestines pulled out and burnt.
If that wasn't enough, the Marquis' tone, use of dark humor and the fact that he refers to us as
his friendly reader makes you feel not as an innocent bystander,
but an accomplice to these horrible tortures.
But don't take my word for it and allow me to read a passage from the book.
"A man stretches a pregnant woman out upon a table;
He nails her thereto, first driving a fiery email into each eye, one into her mouth,
another into either breast then he burns her clitoris and nipples with a taper, and slowly saws her (knees)
halfway through,
break her legs, and ends by hammering a red-hot spike, of enormous size,
Into her novel: it undoes both mother and child.
He likes to have her ready to give birth."
If by now you're not totally disgusted
then you can check out the description
for a PDF version of the whole book and if you can't be bothered to read then I recommend the
1981 Italian movie 'Salò', which closely follows
'120 Days of Sodom' but takes place in fascist Italy. The movie was, and is,
very controversial. And at its release, it was pretty much censored, if not outright banned everywhere, including in its country of origin.
Personally, I'm going to go and take a shower now to get rid of the filth that has accumulated on me just for making this video.
Well, this was Barris. I will see you soon. But until then my friends,
Merde!