Joel Warner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
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There had already been insane rumors during his lifetime, but all of a sudden, this individual began to really assume these larger-than-life reputations.
Yes, and I think that's part, I mean, I'm curious, okay, when you've had your students have to read this, how many have actually been able to get through it?
Not many.
Exactly, right?
So in some ways, I think a lot of his work, especially really horrible things like 120 Days of Sodom, which is just massive.
and really kind of taxing read ends up becoming this kind of cipher, right?
This kind of where it's almost more the reputation or people reading, taking bits and pieces and then interpreting it in a way that serves them.
And that can be that at times I think has been
productive and constructive.
As I said, like during the flourishing of the sexual revolution and really pioneering sex research in Berlin before the rise of the Nazis in the 20s and early 30s, I think some of Saad's work was actually productively used, as I said, to like illustrate, okay, like sexuality really does exist in a variety of forms.
And surrealists, thanks in part to the scroll being kind of trotted out at a lot of their parties in Paris, kind of used it also as inspiration.
It's this idea of the sheer nihilism of it to just help them to rail against and deconstruct all of the kind of societal structures that they were dead set on polishing.
And I think one of the reasons is that in some of his works...
in kind of Justine and Juliet.
The protagonists, if you want to call them that, are women.
And I think especially someone's later writing, these women are just as corrupt and despicable as his male characters.
And yet they also have this...
level of power and autonomy, right?
I mean, in his works, engaging in black mass orgies at the Vatican, but at least they were making the choice to do it.
And in some of his writings, he seems to even be supportive of the concept of abortion, right?
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