Erotic literature has been around for a long time; way before E.L James's Fifty Shades of Grey, writers have always expressed their sexuality through writing.
This genre has been around forever. Penguin classics has a top ten list of erotic reads.
So one day, when I didn't have anything in particular to read, I picked one randomly and downloaded it. Thanks to the Project Gutenberg web page, I dipped into the kinky world of erotic fetishism, even though there are probably many other things online for those looking. But Venus in Furs is considered a classic.
The image conjured by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch was too sumptuous to resist.
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