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Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The 120 Days of Sodom

For 37 days straight, for three hours a night, every single night, sad wrote this impure tale. Sad created an exhaustive, almost tediously descriptive chronicle of every awful sexual act he could think of. There's mutilation, torture, cannibalism, rape, infanticide, and it goes on and on and on. I'm not going to get into the detail of what happens in sod's fictional castle, but it is objectively disgusting and extremely upsetting. Think about how often people talk about how desensitized we are in the 20 first century. As a french philosopher named george bati wrote, quote, nobody, unless he is totally deaf to it, can finish

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