The psychology of '0'

摘要

When it was first published over50 years ago, Story of O rapidlygained a notorious reputation forits remarkably frank portrayal ofmasochistic sexual fantasies and rituals.Banned throughout the world and writtenunder a pseudonym, the character of Oand her unknown creator becamemythologised in acres of print that weresubsequently devoted to the slim novel.It has been reinterpreted through thedecades according to the zeitgeist,resulting in ritual burnings of book inthe name of feminism in the 1970s to itsrelegation to classic but quaint status intoday's explicit world of dedicated sexchannels and internet pornography.