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Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that is, severed from personhood, from relationships, from love. It should not be surprising that it has become attached to Nazi symbolism...

Source: Under the Sign of Saturn, Fascinating Fascism (1980; first published 1974).
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.

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