THE ONCE BANNED CLASSIC OF FEMALE DOMINATION OF THE MALE

"Thou supersensual sensual woer/ A woman leads you by the nose." These lines from "Faust," begin this classic, perhaps partly autobiographical, novel about one man's submission to a powerful female personality.  Hailed as a literary masterpiece, an important book in the development of a legitimate literature of the erotic, and a work of profound psychological insight, Venus in Furs, or at least its author, gave us the term "masochism." But does the protagonist truly suffer from his emotional and sexual enslavement - or is it, for him, instead, the sublimest of pleasures? Here is a scorching look at how far some men are willing to go for some women!