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Old 03-19-2011, 11:08 AM
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Sorry Wicker but I'd hate to see 120 Days of Sodom feature in one of our Sticky Top 100s. Please don't think I'm trying to undermine your selection:)

I would lobby against the inclusion of anything by de Sade, and not only because of his paedophile practices or sexually abusive attitude towards women in his private life but because his work is almost exclusively philosophy punctuated with pornography. Actually, some of his work is really just pornography punctuated with philosophy.

Whereas I very much admire much of what he stood for, and where and when he stood for it, I ultimately find him extremely unpalateable. I haven't seen Salo, and it may be presented as horror, but I have read Juliette and it's a contrast between wonderful segments of philosophy/social commentary and disgusting sexual 'sadism'.
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