Venus in Furs

The Once Banned Classic Of Female Domination Of The Male! "Thou supersensual sensual woer/ A woman leads you by the nose." These lines from "Faust," begin this classic, perhaps partly autobiographical, novel about one man's submission to a powerful female personality. Hailed as a literary masterpiece, an important book in the development of a legitimate literature of the erotic, and a work of profound psychological insight, <I>Venus in Furs</I>, or at least its author, gave us the term "masochism." But does the protagonist truly suffer from his emotional and sexual enslavement--or is it, for him, instead, the sublimest of pleasures? Here is a scorching look at how far some men are willing to go for some women!