Histoire d'O

Story of O

(non-nude)

SM-fetish (non-nude)
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smoking fetish (speech: French)

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Histoire d'O (English title: Story of O) is an erotic novel published in June of 1954 about sado­maso­chism by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage. Desclos did not reveal herself to be the author until four years before her death, fourty years after its initial publication. Desclos said that she had written the novel as a series of love letters to her lover and employer Jean Paulhan who admired the work of the Marquis de Sade. The book won the Deux-Magots award in 1955.

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Jean Paulhan had made the remark to her that no female was capable of writing an erotic novel. To prove him wrong, Desclos wrote this novel. It proved Paulhan wrong and was an enormous, though controversial, commercial success. The book caused much speculation as to the identity of the author. Many doubted that it was a woman, let alone the demure, intellectual, and almost prudish persona depicted in Dominique Aury.

In addition, the book's graphic content sparked so much controversy that the following March the government authorities brought obscenity charges against the publisher and its mysterious author that were thrown out of court in 1959. However, a publicity ban and a restriction on the book's sale to minors was imposed by the judge.

She did an interview about erotic books in 1975 with author and publisher Régine Deforges, yet at the time her authorship of Histoire d'O was still unknown. Desclos publicly admitted that she was the author of Histoire d'O forty years after the book was published, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine.

She was actively bisexual at times in her life.

the «O» is short for ‘Odile’, some state the name was shortened in order to refer to the word object and or the word orifice.

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