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Felicien Rops and Female Domination

Felicien Rops (1833-1898), a Belgian symbolist and decadent, created numerous paintings, lithographs and drawings, illustrated Baudelaire, Musset, Mallarme, was famous for his caricatures and also for his erotic metaphors. He was not interested in Femdom in any way, but it is making the pictures showed here even more valuable.

He captured our world as it is - men are being transformed into vulnerable and helpless dolls in hands of beautiful and omnipotent Women, Women who know Their power and are not afraid to use it. With just a little of attention and care, She can turn any man into obedient puppet with no will of his own, shake the money out of his pockets and make him Her slave for the rest of his poor life.

Reader's Diary (Week 29)

The things that seems beautiful, inspiring, and life-affirming to me seems ugly, hateful, and ludicrous to most other people. This may be the most painful part of being a sadomasochist; this experience of radical difference, separation at the root of perception. Our culture insists on sexual uniformity and does not acknowledge any neutral differences - only crimes, sins, diseases, and mistakes.

Most of the psychological literature is bent on demonstrating that alternate sexual practices or lifestyles are in some way sick. This is a consequence of the medicalization of psychology. I'm not very happy that psychology is seen as a medical process. It seems to be far more a philosophical issue.
(Miller, Devon, 1995)

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Reader's Diary (Week 28)

The masochistic person escapes from the unbearable feeling of isolation and separateness by making himself part and parcel of another person who directs him, guides him, protects him; who is his life and his oxygen, as it were... The masochistic relationship can be blended with physical, sexual desire; in this case it is not only a submission in which one's mind participates, but also one's whole body.
(Fromm, 1956)

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Reader's Diary (Week 27)

A lack of social skills proportionate to the penetration of masochism into the personality.
(Rathbone, 2001)