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A 1954 erotic novel by Anne Desclos, written under the pseudonym Pauline Réage. By far the most famous and generally considered the best-written piece of BDSM pornography. She wrote it to win back her lover, Jean Paulhan. The novel has become a major source of tropes for later [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} BDSM]], although most of what Desclos describes existed in previous pornography. (The plot itself is closest to Creator/MarquisDeSade's ''Philosophy In The Bedroom''.) Predictably, it was a major target of criticism by the French government, who tried to ban it, and later by (some) feminists, many of whom argued that the book was obviously written by a man. Desclos remained anonymous for four decades, during which time several movie adaptations were made, and someone else even published a sequel under the Pauline Réage pseudonym. She finally came clean in an interview with Magazine/TheNewYorker.

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A 1954 erotic novel by Anne Desclos, written under the pseudonym Pauline Réage. By far the most famous and generally considered the best-written piece of BDSM pornography. She wrote it to win back her lover, Jean Paulhan. The novel has become a major source of tropes for later [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} BDSM]], although most of what Desclos describes existed in previous pornography. (The plot itself is closest to Creator/MarquisDeSade's ''Philosophy In The Bedroom''.''Literature/PhilosophyInTheBedroom''.) Predictably, it was a major target of criticism by the French government, who tried to ban it, and later by (some) feminists, many of whom argued that the book was obviously written by a man. Desclos remained anonymous for four decades, during which time several movie adaptations were made, and someone else even published a sequel under the Pauline Réage pseudonym. She finally came clean in an interview with Magazine/TheNewYorker.

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