the classic submission story (Story of O - Pauline Reage)

Member Name: syndeedol

Product:	Story of O - Pauline Reage
Date:	10/12/00 (288 review reads)
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Advantages: a classic tale of submission

Disadvantages: you'll want to read others too

why on earth would anyone want to read the story of o in this day and age? Think of the story of o as a classic, I like to compare it to The Hobbit, for example, you may not have read it, but you know it exists.
I can give you a few reasons for reading this book. One of the first is because the story was written by a woman, so it's quite an eye opener. The central character, O,(of course she doesn't have a proper name!) undertakes slave training at a very liberated gentleman's club, suffers torments and has her will broken, and ends up genitally pierced. It doesn't sound funny, and it's not. This is the book, however, that most people involved in the fetish community will know of, even if they havent read it. Why a story about a house where woman are kept in submission to men's desires, barely dressed, and if dressed, dressed in a servile fashion, should appeal to people is something that you should possibly consider making your mind up about. If this was the first book to be well known for this type of thing, then elements of it can be found in several contemporary genres, in film, 9 1/2 weeks, for instance, where a woman is manipulated by a dominant man. It's not blatently peverse, such as any of de sades writings, and I dont think it will ever go out of print. As a fiction it was thought ground breaking in it's day, but it is more to do with the inner details of "O"s mind, if you read it carefully, and the fundamental human attributes of jealousy, possession and self will.

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