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Book: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
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  1. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    To obtain his precious orgasm, the libertine must now hunt it down single-mindedly through seas of blood and excrement.
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  2. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.
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  3. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.
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  4. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Repression is Justine's whole being - repression of sex, of anger and of her own violence; the repressions demanded of Christian virtue, in fact.
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  5. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    One of Sade's singularities is that he offers an absolutely sexualised view of the world, a sexualisation that permeates everything, much as his atheism does and, since he is not a religious man but a political man, he treats the facts of female sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality.
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  6. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of this deprivation is murder. These women murder.
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  7. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Nothing exercises such power over the imagination as the nature of sexual relationships, and the pornographer has it in his power to become a terrorist of the imagination, a sexual guerilla whose purpose is to overturn our most basic notions of these relations, to reinstitute sexuality as a primary mode of being rather than a specialised area of vacation from being and to show that the everyday meetings in the marriage bed are parodies of their own pretensions, that the freest unions may contain the seeds of the worst exploitation."
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  8. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    But there is no mysterious virtue in Justine's suffering. The martyrdom of this Christ-figure is absolutely useless; she is a gratuitous victim. And if there is no virtue in her suffering, then there is none, it turns out, in her virtue itself; it does nobody any good, least of all herself.
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  9. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are minefields.
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  10. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Indeed, pornography is basically propaganda for fucking, an activity, one would have thought, that did not need much advertising in itself, because most people want to do it as soon as they know how.
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  11. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    The excremental enthusiasm of the libertines transforms the ordure in which they roll to a bed of roses.
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  12. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Justine is a good woman in a man's world. She is a good woman according to the rules for women laid down by men and her reward is rape, humiliation and incessant beatings. Her life is that of a woman martyrised by the circumstances of her life as a woman.
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