orplid: Thrill of Masochism … Pierre Dumarchey - ‘L'Homme Chien’ - Cover of the 1906 R. Dorn’s editi
orplid: Thrill of Masochism … Pierre Dumarchey - ‘L'Homme Chien’ - Cover of the 1906 R. Dorn’s edition The masochist in its French version is portrayed as a common man, with a high professional profile: a bourgeois businessman, journalist or politician or (more rarely) an aristocrat. This character is not to be identified as a pervers, he could be anyone, his defects are the defects of many bourgeois entrepreneurs, and his physical appearance even lacks the picturesque eccentricities of a Baron de Charlus. -- source link