I figured someone would mention Marquis. There's two things to keep in mind about Marquis.
Society was horrified by him. 120 days of Sodom was considered so perverse he was thrown in prison for it.
Marquis was coming up during the age of enlightenment when a philosophy called "libertinism" was on the upswing. Libertinism is pretty much what we are seeing today, saying that all moral restraints on sexuality should be loosened. Libertinism experienced short popularity among the bourgeois in the 18th century before falling out of popularity and now we are seeing a de-facto version of it.
I figured someone would mention Marquis. There's two things to keep in mind about Marquis.
Society was horrified by him. 120 days of Sodom was considered so perverse he was thrown in prison for it.
Marquis was coming up during the age of enlightenment when a philosophy called "libertinism" was on the upswing. Libertinism is pretty much what we are seeing today, saying that all moral restraints on sexuality should be loosened. Libertinism experienced short popularity among the bourgeois in the 18th century before falling out of popularity and now we are seeing a de-facto version of it.