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Not the hardcore Sade, but that makes it digestible - good ol' Enlightenment rationalism, atheism and utilitarianism with a libidinous twist. The core story, the basis of what would later become "Justine", is mostly the picaresque tale of how a paragon of virtue is violated at every turn by the amoral denizens of the world, whereas the later stories are Decameronesque philosophical tales of high perversity ultimately settling into stable monogamous patterns. Rather piquant.
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