Have you ever read *120 Days of Sodom*? It's not parody. De Sade was intent on cataloging the full spectrum of sexual perversion, and its natural progression as he understood it from mild perversions to the most extreme. He was ahead of his time ... as in, perverted at the levels of today's Internet. His writing are also designed to encourage the perversions he writes about, by using a conditioned response technique that would not be identified until centuries after his death. How did he do it? He would advocate a position, such as atheism, then immediately describe a graphic sex scene designed to make the reader masturbate and climax. It was a clever, if Satanic, way of selling his perversions. By the way, I should add that the same conditioned response technique used by de Sade is being used right now on the Internet to condition men to become transgender.