The Pleasures of Cruelty: being the sequel to the readings of Justine et Juliette

"Such delicately and modestly brought up girls would revolt at the scenes to which he would introduce and compel them to take part in; that they should be whipped, tortured and debased in every possible manner"

When Sir Charles is suddenly left a widower, his constant depression threatens to forever quell even the most basest of lustful desires. No amount of gambling, fornication, and flagellation, even on his debauched tour of Europe's demimonde, can ignite is dwindling spirits. It is then that Madame Josephine, a procuress of the most deviant, makes a truly licentious suggestion involving a fully equipped BDSM chamber and his three young and nubile wards to act as participants.

What follows is a grand display of all things Sadian as Sir Charles subjects Maud, Alice, and Flora to the kind of humiliation, indignities, and liberties that will eventually set them all on a course to complete orgiastic abandon. Through birch and whip and rod, loving caresses and carnal ruttings, each of our cast will awaken to the inexorable pull of all deeds and devices libertine.

Interspersed with tales of sultans and harems, curates and the sexually naive devout, this Victorian erotic gem, anonymously written in 1886 and originally published by William Lazenby of The Oyster and The Pearl is one of flagellatory fiction's most uncompromising works. True homage is paid to the Marquis De Sade's earlier works as each encounter is laid bare in sumptuously graphic and unexpurgated detail. Not for the faint of heart or weak of constitution.