[Lady Marmelade]

Granted the man was brilliant, but then again french people usually are...
That doesn't change the fact that he was completely crazy (and not the good kind of crazy like: "oh babe don't buy me a diamond ring, that's crazy". He was the straight jacket and restraining order kind of crazy...).
He used to kidnap random girls and torture them, beat them and would have kept them unless the police came to their rescue. Ok, so the man wrote a few books that were of course very modern for their time and promotted a different ideal regarding sex...good for him.
I'm pretty sure if Paul Bernardo wrote the same books we'd be having a very different kind of conversation... the only difference between De Sade and Bernardo is the fact that the French police wasn't getting paid to sit on their asses and do nothing...and also the amount of horse tranquilizer used I guess.
Now don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying rough sex... but De Sade really only cared about himself and suffered from what the American Psychiatric Association refers to as sexual sadism... yes it is a mental disorder.