Among the defined sexual perversions, two emerged from the literary laboratory and bear the names of authors. As is well known, the term sadism refers back to Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814). Leaving aside some excesses in the Lacoste ancestral castle and in Paris, Sade’s sadism basically involved a monumental prison-fantasy. For its part, the term masochism has an A...