SEX AND THE BOOK / BISEXUALITY, PERVERSION AND SADISM: EXTREME LOVE TOLD BY FLORENCE DUGAS - LOVE-E-PSYCHOLOGY

Sex & The Book / Bisexuality, perversion and sadism: extreme love told by Florence Dugas

Florence Dugas was an unsuspected professor of theater history when, in 1996, her first novel was published in France and received with great sensation. Painful Soror, destined to become a small cult of world erotic literature, loved in particular by lovers of BDSM literature (an acronym that identifies a set of relational and sexual practices based on domination and submission). Born in Île-de-France in 1966, Florence studied at the Université Paris-III, where her narrative debut - partly autobiographical - was set. She still teaches theatrical techniques at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie of the Loire-Atlantique. TO Painful Soror the two novels followed to constitute an ideal erotic triptych The Gospel of Eros And Post Scriptum, while several of his short stories have been published by the Éditions Blanche.

And then, at the precise moment when I wonder how to ask her, she bends over his belly and swallows his c completely ..... She does it much better, much greedier than I ever did.Her hair slides over her cheeks hollowed out by movement, while her lips are shaped by that clear object of desire - a doll's little mouth when they flutter over the glans, all wrinkled in welcoming it, open and thin with effort when they swallow it entirely until it is lost. between the dark hairs she rubs her nose on. As always, looking at it, I feel a violent emotion. A kind of erection. After all, doesn't a woman have erections?

Florence, star of "Dolorosa Soror", is an aspiring actress now resigned to the idea of being able to give herself more pleasure than a man could ever do. At least until he meets JP, his theater history professor, an expert in the transversal art of acting. It is thanks to him, in fact, that he experiences the truth of the Freudian theory according to which we have both sexes in us, which means for JP being homosexuals of the opposite sex, exploring gender uncertainty: "My lesbian part loves your breasts, your sex and your lips ", he says, "And instead it is my male part that loves your deviant aspects ". But what does Florence love about JP? The ecstasy of pain and humiliation, the despondency he gives her, the punishment.

She loves him like a little boy in love with an older one. She submits to any game JP's sadism proposes to her, she gets to be penetrated tied and blindfolded by twenty-three men in one day to obey the orders of the lover-director who observes her from behind the scenes, and in this she feels the unspeakable pleasure of the complete self-forgetfulness. One day JP introduces her to Nathalie, a beautiful girl and "almost animal innocence" in her perversion. For man, this is yet another experiment, destined, however, to end up in the blood. The quoted passage describes the beginning of the first of the numerous and increasingly violent sexual relations that the three will find themselves sharing. Florence has a camera in her hand and takes close-up shots of Nathalie and JP's bodies, ordering them what to do. Soon everything gets out of hand and she realizes the extreme pleasure it can bring to making Nathalie go through everything JP does to her.

Florence falls in love with Nathalie. She falls in love with her to the point of confusing her with her body, and then tying her, whipping her, penetrating her becomes the only way she has left to be able to torture herself, even deeper than JP can do. Where then does love end and where does despair begin? Can the two feelings overlap so much that the boundary between pain and pleasure, between life and death, becomes even more blurred? Because if Nathalie goes to meet the second, are we sure that Florence will be able to continue playing her role in the first?

by Giuliana Altamura