"Sade, Marquis De - The 120 Days Of Sodom 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Marquis de Sade)

It was at a superb estate of the Duc, situated in the Bourbonnais,
that these happy matches were made, and I leave to the reader to fancy how
they were consummated and in what orgies; obliged as we are to describe
others, we shall forego the pleasure of picturing these.
Upon their return to Paris, our four friends' association became only
the firmer; and as our next task is to make the reader familiar with them,
before proceeding to individual and more searching developments, a few
details of their lubricious arrangements will serve, it seems to me, to
shed a preliminary light upon the character of these debauchees.
The society had created a common fund, which each of its members took
his turn administering for six months; the sums, allocated for nothing but
expenses in the interests of pleasure, were vast. Their excessive wealth
put the most unusual things within their reach, and the reader ought not be
surprised to hear that two million were annually disbursed to obtain good
cheer and lust's satisfaction.
Four accomplished procuresses to recruit women, and a similar number
of pimps to scout out men, had the sole duty to range both the capital and
the provinces and bring back everything, in the one gender and in the
other, that could best satisfy their sensuality's demands. Four supper
parties were held regularly every week in four different country houses
located at four extremities of Paris. At the first of these gatherings, the
one exclusively given over to the pleasures of sodomy, only men were
present; there would always be at hand sixteen young men, ranging in age
from twenty to thirty, whose immense faculties permitted our four heroes,
in feminine guise, to taste the most agreeable delights. The youths were
selected solely upon the basis of the size of their member, and it almost
became necessary that this superb limb be of such magnificence that it
could never have penetrated any woman; this was an essential clause, and as
naught was spared by way of expense, only very rarely would it fail to be
fulfilled. But simultaneously to sample every pleasure, to these sixteen
husbands was joined the same quantity of boys, much younger, whose purpose
was to assume the office of women. These lads were from twelve to eighteen
years old, and to be chosen for service each had to possess a freshness, a
face, graces, charms, an air, an innocence, a candor which are far beyond
what our brush could possibly paint. No woman was admitted to these
masculine orgies, in the course of which everything of the lewdest invented
in Sodom and Gomorrah was executed.
At the second supper were girls of superior class who, upon these
occasions forced to give up their proud ostentation and the customary
insolence of their bearing, were constrained, in return for their hire, to
abandon themselves to the most irregular caprices, and often even to the
outrages our libertines were pleased to inflict upon them. Twelve of these
girls would appear, and as Paris could not have furnished a fresh supply of
them as often as would have been necessary, these evenings were inters-
persed with others at which were admitted, only in the same number as the
well-bred ladies, women ranging from procuresses up through the class of
officers' wives. There are above four or five thousand in Paris who belong
to one or the other of the two latter classes and whom need or lust obliges
to attend soirees of this kind; one has but to have good agents to find
them, and our libertines, who were splendidly represented, would frequently