Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite. ”
Michel Foucault
From : Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
