Histoire d'O
by Dominique Aury, Guido Crepax · first published 1954
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the best handbook of bdsm - wriiten way before 50 shades and so much better
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…O", skipping the other books. What do you think it means? Were we to arrange our bookshelves, not by title nor by author, but by principle of composition, DEK's 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated and ACD's Histoire d'O would wind up adjacent, for they are both collections of "per verse" chapters.
on “This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002)” ↗I was not expecting to see Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage recommended by McKinsey & Co.
on “McKinsey's 2024 annual book recommendations” ↗> Seeing a woman being gang raped, choked and beaten, "consentually"? That's a new problem. That is not that new either, BDSM has been a thing for decades. "Histoire d'O" for example came out in 1975, the literary work it's based on is even older. And the panic back then about these books is exactly the same kind of bullshit we're seeing today. > The question is how…