Marquês de Sade - A Filosofia Na Alcova

At the behest of a debauched father, Eugenia spends two days in the chambers of Madame de Saint-Ange.

With the help of her hostess' younger brother, the Knight of Mirvel, and Dolmancé - whose lips distil “irreligion, impiety, inhumanity and libertinism” - the virginal young woman is introduced to the “most secret mysteries of Venus”. Capable of disturbing us even today with its excesses of perverse cruelty, A Filosofia Na Alcova (1795) is not only a true political treatise, but also a physiological instruction manual and a genuine compendium of libertinism.