Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

Sade took Keller to his private house. He took her to a dark roomin which the windows were boarded and said he was going to gether food. He locked her in the room. Keller had waited for about anhour when Sade came to take her into another room. He told her toundress. She refused. He tore her clothes off, threw her face downonto a couch, tied her arms and legs with ropes. He whipped herbrutally. He took a knife and told her that he would kill her.According to Keller, Sade kept cutting her with a knife and rubbingwax into the wounds. Keller believed she would die and beggedSade not to kill her until she could make her Easter confession.When Sade was finished with her, he took her back to the first roomand ordered her to wash and rub brandy into her wounds. This shedid. He also rubbed into the wounds an ointment that he hadinvented. He was proud of his invention, which he claimed healedwounds quickly. Later, Sade alleged that he had paid Keller to bewhipped so that he could test his ointment. Sade brought Kellerfood. He took her back to the room where he had beaten her andlocked her in. Keller bolted the door from the inside. Sheunblocked some of the locked shutters with a knife, injuring herselfin the process, made a rope of bedding, and climbed out of thewindow and down the wall. Sade’s valet pursued her and offeredher money to return. She pushed him off and ran.Keller was badly hurt and her clothes were ripped. She ran untilshe encountered a village woman, to whom she poured out herstory. Other women joined. They examined her and then took herto an inappropriate official, since the local magistrate was away. Apolice official called in from elsewhere took her statement. Kellerwas examined by a surgeon and was given refuge.Sade’s mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil, settled a large sumof money on Rose Keller to persuade her to withdraw criminalcharges. Despite the settlement, Sade was imprisoned for nearlyeight months, during which time he impregnated his wife again.When he returned to Lacoste, his home with his wife, she left forParis, where, seven months later, Sade’s second son was bom.Sade’s pursuit of other women began on his release. Sade weaved inand out of Renee-Pelagie’s life. In April 1771 a daughter was bom.