Austrian novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novel  Venus in Furs explores the human minds which cannot be taken for granted in extreme situations.  Severin von Kusiemski’s extreme infatuation with Wanda von Dunajew, turned his life into a pathetic one, when he desire fully asked her to treat his as sexual slave. He would never have expected not only Wanda, but her newly found friend Byronic hero Alexis Papadopolis would be so brutal to him when they were united. 

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