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Suzen - I can understand why you say what you say...but in some way it sounds too simplistic.

There is no doubt in my mind, that any educated and intelligent person, be it male or female, would have no problems reading about sexual escapades between any sort of "creatures", especially if it's in a world-class literature.
It have nothing to with the reader's sexual preferences.

Sade is beyond a simple "gay or straight" formula.

I think it's more like a "slave or a free person" in life -
is a message from De Sade.

And again...as a being - women are more sensual, and sensually malicious, but most are "sleepers"....that means...they never realized their potentials fully, or not even knew it existed, some just keep it down.
Our society does not accept a full personal freedom, as described in the stories of De Sade.
Unfortunately for us, the people, De Sade's ideas and fantasies are for most part unattainable in our modern world, unless maybe in some secluded societies...

*back to women*

I do think women have many secret urges, that they keep to themselves for fear of being discovered and treated wrongly, and being viewed as monsters, or as "witches", as was done in and throughout our history...

Beautiful monstrosities...

It's impossible to know what Sade himself did mean with some of his ideas, since now, he's long gone. Only by knowing him personally, I think, it would be easy to know the truth.

Becouse, in his books - De Sade contridicts himself at times, sometimes, what he writes, - even sounds absurd..

General idea is - finding your personal happiness at any cost...

aka - follow your nature, follow who you are...

If you're a victim - be a victim...

If you are a predator - be a predator.

He leaves the choice up to you...

Being who you are suppossed to be in life - to me - is the greatest happiness of all!

i have no problem being myself, and being true to my nature. finding and understanding my nature was very difficult, especially with all the moral obligations thrust upon us my school, media, parents, ect, but once i found my nature, it was easy to cast aside all the bullshit and just live for myself, by myself, and with myself.

the one rule that i absolutely abide by (actually one of seven i think), is that you shall not violate another persons sanctity without permission.

how does this fit into the philosophy of freedom ensponced by Sade.

woman is the most powerful incarnation of the human species. that is why she has been vilified throughout history. the unfortunate truth is that humans are very easy to brainwash, so the mantra of original sin was created to sublimate female power. i know i risk having rotten tomatoes thrown at me, but quite frankly few women historically have been capable of wielding their full power sensibly, so they were rightfully kept ignorant.

of course there is the same proportion of oblivious males as well, and most of them too have been rendered impotent by being kept equally in the dark. it is my belief that only a very few exceptional individuals, male or female, have what it takes to use their full powers in a sane way. unfortuantely sanity rarely makes headlines, but we certainly have been assaulted with examples of the powerful who have gone astray: hitler, saddam, bush, katherine the great, etc.

so how can an individual come into his or her own power? by being intelligent. how does one "become" intelligent? well, i think we all know the answer to that, and it quite simply isn't something that those who don't have it like to contemplate.

and this is: it is a crap shoot- luck of the draw! it's your gene pool, not some pill you can pop. it is a fact that only a small percentage of the general population has a high IQ, and it doesn't matter how much the "experts" try to re-write the tests, only a very few are possessed of "it."

now, of course i do think that the average person can find ways to become empowered, don't get me wrong, but most people are not inately capable of transcending the status quo. it takes a lot of work to become transcendent, whether one is in the top percentile or not.

as far as what women specifically can do to become more empowered, a good place to start is, well, for those who are really curious, email me and i will be happy to share some further resources with you.

many blessings to all...