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* GoneHorriblyRight: Severin wants to shape Wanda into his ideal dominatrix. He succeeds... but in the process she comes to despise him for the simpering submissive he is and walks out.
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* EroticLiterature: A famous example.
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* EroticLiterature: A famous example.example, but {{downplayed|Trope}}. There are no actual sex scenes; the erotic appeal is in the story's premise getting played out.
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''Venus in Furs'' (''Venus im Pelz'') is a book, published in 1870, by Creator/LeopoldVonSacherMasoch that largely led to him lending his name to the term Masochism. It deals with his fantasies of a pale skinned woman wearing furs (hence the name) and dominating him. It was supposed to be part of a larger series of novellas, covering all of human life. Sacher-Masoch never finished the series, and what he did write apart from ''Venus'' is [[AuthorUsurpation pretty much forgotten]].
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''Venus in Furs'' (''Venus im Pelz'') is a book, published in 1870, by Creator/LeopoldVonSacherMasoch that largely led to him lending his name to the term Masochism. It deals with his fantasies of a pale skinned woman wearing furs (hence the name) and dominating him. It was supposed to be part of a larger series of novellas, covering all of human life. Sacher-Masoch [[OrphanedSeries never finished the series, series]], and what he did write apart from ''Venus'' is [[AuthorUsurpation pretty much forgotten]].
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* AmazonChaser: Severin.
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* WhipOfDominance: Obligatory.
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* WhipOfDominance: Obligatory.PlayedWith. The core of Severin and Wanda's S&M is her whipping him. But ''he'' the one that's being dominant and pushed Wanda to do it, and she's not very comfortable with it... at first. Eventually, she does turn into a {{Dominatrix}} of the very {{Sadist}} kind, and her whipping sessions actually start ''really'' hurting Severin, and he starts having second thoughts.
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* WhipItGood: Obligatory.
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* WhipItGood: WhipOfDominance: Obligatory.
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-->"Come over here, Gregor."\\
I approached the beautiful woman. Never did she seem more seductive to me than to-day in spite of all her cruelty and contempt.\\
"One step further," Wanda commanded. "Now kneel down, and kiss my foot."\\
She extended her foot beyond the hem of white satin, and I, the supersensual fool, pressed my lips upon it.
I approached the beautiful woman. Never did she seem more seductive to me than to-day in spite of all her cruelty and contempt.\\
"One step further," Wanda commanded. "Now kneel down, and kiss my foot."\\
She extended her foot beyond the hem of white satin, and I, the supersensual fool, pressed my lips upon it.
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* AtTheOperaTonight: When Wanda learns that Alexis (whom she has only just met) will be attending the Nicolini Theater, she sends Severin to reserve a box. According Severin, she and Alexis ignore the performance and spend the whole evening making eyes at each other:
-->I saw her in her box dressed in blue moire, with a huge ermine cloak about her bare shoulders; he sat opposite. I saw them devour each other with their eyes. For both of them the stage, Goldoni's Pamela, Salvini, Marini, the public, even the entire world, were non-existant to-night.
* AttractiveBentGender: Severin relays an anecdote about Alexis disguising himself as a woman while in Paris and having crowds of desperate male admirers.
-->I saw her in her box dressed in blue moire, with a huge ermine cloak about her bare shoulders; he sat opposite. I saw them devour each other with their eyes. For both of them the stage, Goldoni's Pamela, Salvini, Marini, the public, even the entire world, were non-existant to-night.
* AttractiveBentGender: Severin relays an anecdote about Alexis disguising himself as a woman while in Paris and having crowds of desperate male admirers.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Alexis Papadopolis. Severin even recounts how Alexis dressed as a woman in Paris and had many admirers.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Overlaps with AttractiveBentGender for Alexis Papadopolis. When Severin first encounters Alexis, he's equally distressed by Wanda's infatuation and empathetic to her attraction to the man:
-->I now understand the masculine Eros, and I marvel at Socrates for having remained virtuous in view of an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades Alcibiades]] like this.
-->I now understand the masculine Eros, and I marvel at Socrates for having remained virtuous in view of an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades Alcibiades]] like this.
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** Severin describes that when Alexis Papadopolis disguised himself as a woman in Paris, a singer fell so desperately in love with him that he threatened to kill himself if the "beautiful woman" refused his advances.
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** Severin describes relays that when Alexis Papadopolis disguised himself as a woman in Paris, a singer fell so desperately in love with him that he threatened to kill himself if the "beautiful woman" refused his advances.
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* RecliningVenus: Severin is so struck by the image he sees in the mirror of Wanda (wrapped only in a velvet and sable cloak after a bath) in repose and himself waiting dutifully at her feet that he convinces her to commission a painter for a double portrait. When Wanda has suitably ensnared the painter by sitting for a Madonna they recreate the earlier scene, with Wanda "dressed in nothing but the sable fur" and "stretched out on the velvet cushions as on the former occasion." This is the picture that so interests the narrator in the FrameStory.
-->...she rested on the cushions in her large velvet cloak. The lithe sables nestled desirously against her cold marble-like body. Her left arm on which she supported herself lay like a sleeping swan in the dark fur of the sleeve, while her left hand played carelessly with the whip.
-->...she rested on the cushions in her large velvet cloak. The lithe sables nestled desirously against her cold marble-like body. Her left arm on which she supported herself lay like a sleeping swan in the dark fur of the sleeve, while her left hand played carelessly with the whip.
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* GorgeousGreek: Alexis Papadopolis, with whom Wanda becomes infatuated, is described as incredibly handsome even by the jealous Severin.
-->For he is, indeed, a magnificent specimen of man, No, rather, he is a man whose like I have never yet seen among the living. He is in the Belvedere, graven in marble, with the same slender, yet steely musculature, with the same face and the same waving curls. What makes him particularly beautiful is that he is beardless. If his hips were less narrow, one might take him for a woman in disguise. The curious expression about the mouth, the lion's lip which slightly discloses the teeth beneath, lends a flashing tinge of cruelty to the beautiful face—\\
Apollo flaying Marsyas.\\
He wears high black boots, closely fitting breeches of white leather, short fur coat of black cloth, of the kind worn by Italian cavalry officers, trimmed with astrakhan and many rich loops; on his black locks is a red fez.
-->For he is, indeed, a magnificent specimen of man, No, rather, he is a man whose like I have never yet seen among the living. He is in the Belvedere, graven in marble, with the same slender, yet steely musculature, with the same face and the same waving curls. What makes him particularly beautiful is that he is beardless. If his hips were less narrow, one might take him for a woman in disguise. The curious expression about the mouth, the lion's lip which slightly discloses the teeth beneath, lends a flashing tinge of cruelty to the beautiful face—\\
Apollo flaying Marsyas.\\
He wears high black boots, closely fitting breeches of white leather, short fur coat of black cloth, of the kind worn by Italian cavalry officers, trimmed with astrakhan and many rich loops; on his black locks is a red fez.
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* StopOrIShootMyself: When Wanda begins to take an interest in Alexis, Severin can feel her pulling away from him. He goes to her chambers and desperately pleads for her not to dismiss him. Wanda continues to treat him as a plaything, just as he had requested, and is entirely unimpressed when he takes her dagger and threatens to kill himself if she doesn't return his affections:
-->"Mercy," I implored. "Do not drive me away. No man, no one, will love you as I do."\\
-->"Mercy," I implored. "Do not drive me away. No man, no one, will love you as I do."\\
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* StopOrIShootMyself: StopOrIShootMyself:
** Severin describes that when Alexis Papadopolis disguised himself as a woman in Paris, a singer fell so desperately in love with him that he threatened to kill himself if the "beautiful woman" refused his advances.
--->In Paris he appeared first in woman's dress, and the men assailed him with love-letters. An Italian singer, famous equally for his art and his passionate intensity, even invaded his home, and lying on his knees before him threatened to commit suicide if he wouldn't be his.\\
"I am sorry," he replied, smiling, "I should like to do you the favor, but you will have to carry out your threat, for I am a man."
** When Wanda begins to take an interest in Alexis, Severin can feel her pulling away from him. He goes to her chambers and desperately pleads for her not to dismiss him. Wanda continues to treat him as a plaything, just as he had requested, and is entirely unimpressed when he takes her dagger and threatens to kill himself if she doesn't return his affections:
-->"Mercy," --->"Mercy," I implored. "Do not drive me away. No man, no one, will love you as I do."\\
** Severin describes that when Alexis Papadopolis disguised himself as a woman in Paris, a singer fell so desperately in love with him that he threatened to kill himself if the "beautiful woman" refused his advances.
--->In Paris he appeared first in woman's dress, and the men assailed him with love-letters. An Italian singer, famous equally for his art and his passionate intensity, even invaded his home, and lying on his knees before him threatened to commit suicide if he wouldn't be his.\\
"I am sorry," he replied, smiling, "I should like to do you the favor, but you will have to carry out your threat, for I am a man."
** When Wanda begins to take an interest in Alexis, Severin can feel her pulling away from him. He goes to her chambers and desperately pleads for her not to dismiss him. Wanda continues to treat him as a plaything, just as he had requested, and is entirely unimpressed when he takes her dagger and threatens to kill himself if she doesn't return his affections:
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