Eros: The Meaning of My Life

by Edith Cadivec, Hugo Gaspari (Translator)

This book is the true story in her own words of a Viennese schoolteacher in the 1920s imprisoned for six years for indulging her fantasies of corporal punishment with her students. From prison she described the depths of her obsession when she told her lawyer, "Thinking about my whip is the sole consolation I have left."

317 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1932

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I didn't read the whole book but an excerpt from it that was part of the appendix of a book about BDSM. Wow! Her writing stood out from that of the other authors in the excellent quality of the writing and the thorough understanding of the psychology behind this whole area of sexuality.
Thus, it was a real disappointment to learn that Cadivec was not just an erotic writer but an actual sex CRIMINAL who had abused young girls in her care!!!! That is terrible.

Nevertheless, we must look at a work objectively and not just by the character of the writer. She was a bad person but her work is well-written, hot, and sensuous.