Status Updates From Philosophy in the Boudoir: ...

“It is dreadfully unjust to demand that men with unequal characters must submit to equal laws—something that fits one person will by no means fit another.”

Hey so when is murder, rape, or pedophilia justified? Maybe de Sade views it as natural law, but it’s simply horrid.

“Fear and ignorance, you will continue, are the two mainstays of any and all religion.”

Okay so he’s arguing to drop prejudice because it holds the French back from true republic…but I know something is about to come that will either go against the very thing he said or overshadow a decent point.

Okay never mind he’s saying gay men are created by nature to replace women to stop reproduction…

Dismantling the homophobic argument that is not natural…might be one of few good things in this miserable and disgusting book.

“Yet doesn’t the slightest glance at nature’s operation verify that destruction is as crucial to nature’s plans as creation? Doesn’t it verify that the two of them are so thoroughly interlinked and interlocked that neither can possibly proceed without the other, that nothing can be born, nothing can be regenerated without destruction?” - Yes, but PEOPLE ARENT SIMPLY FOLLOWING NATURAL LAW ALL THE TIME

“In shot, you were born to get fucked, and the girl who rejects nature’s goal for her doesn’t deserve to see the light of day.”

OH. MY. GOD.

“The female sex never serves nature better than when it prostitutes itself to the male sex.” DOLMANCÉ I DESPISE YOU PLEASE STFU

“All our actions, especially those of perversion, are inspired by nature, and so no action, whatever you may think up, is shameful.” - Dolmancé

So humans have no restraints? No morality? Insane.

Finishing this book is torture in itself

Because women aren’t encouraged to be barbaric, they become miserable and do the worst crime which is reject male advances…right

Just ew

“Formed, as we are, purely by the blood of our fathers, we owe absolutely nothing to our mothers. Besides, they merely submitted to the act, while our fathers instigated it.” - for fucks sake…