Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer best known for his novel 'Venus in Furs', which explored themes of eroticism and masochism.

"You view love and especially women...As something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude."