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The first stage of this site is complete. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch’s novel of female domination and male submission Venus in Furs has had each chapter converted into a blog entry.

Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch’s novels was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here – fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness – these do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch’s eroticism.

Venus in Furs begins here.

Female Supremacist Marriage begins here.