The Story of Wait, What?

[fierceawakening]

One thing that rather amazes me is that, despite both my parents being anti-SM, I've heard them both tell me that they read The Story of O in their youths.

This is probably more a function of the times than of anything else. I've heard that back then (wow, I'm making it sound like my parents are antique statuary or something. Ack, I don't mean that

Comments

[lisaquestions]

This is probably why I could finish Exit to Eden and not The Story of O, although I didn't think of it quite in those terms at the time.

[alterisego]

My mother is familiar with the book, as is the mother of a friend of mine in a similar situation. I don't know how old your parents would be, but I think that when O made it to America it was probably quite a phenomenon--perhaps anyone who considered themselves avant-garde (like my mother and my friend's mother certainly would have) would have read it, because it was hip in an intellectual sort of way.

[oneironaut]

I don't know whether she had The Story of O -- and indeed my knowledge of the classic porn landscape is pretty limited -- but my mother had a copy of Delta of Venus, which contains some stuff that is out of the way even for me, like necrophilia. We never discussed that book or any of the reams upon reams of vampire porn she owned, but she came down firmly against S&M on the subject of, I think, the repetitive Laurell K. Hamilton Mary Sue yawnfest A Kiss of Shadows. In context, that's just bloody weird.

[godess_of_night]

i thought it was a good though i had seen the movie first. i tend to have a different way of thinking than most though.