Sadopaideia

<i>Sadopaideia</i>

Sadopaideia

Pornographic novel published in 1907

Sadopaideia: Being the Experiences of Cecil Prendergast Undergraduate of the University of Oxford Shewing How he was Led Through the Pleasant Paths of Masochism to the Supreme joys of Sadism is a pornographic novel published in 1907 by "Ashantee of Edinburgh": probably Charles Carrington in Paris.[1] It was later published in the United States by Grove Press (GP-421). In two volumes, it is the story of a man who experiences both dominance and submission. It was written anonymously but Anthony Storr attributes it to Algernon Charles Swinburne.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Donald Serrell Thomas, Swinburne, the poet in his world, Oxford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-19-520136-1, p.216
  2. [2]
    Patrick J. Kearney, "The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library", J. Landesman, 1981, p.215
  3. [3]
    Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Indiana University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-253-33411-X, p.805


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