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Provocations from a Libertine Counter-World: Jacob Frank and/or the Marquis de Sade
Trigger Warning This article examines the lives, writings, and legacies of Jacob Frank and the Marquis de Sade, including their engagements with sexual transgression, religious antinomianism, coercive practices, and violence. It discusses explicit themes such as sexual exploitation, ritualized power dynamics, and philosophical justifications of cruelty within historical contexts. The analysis is scholarly, but the material may be disturbing or overwhelming for some r

Richard Mather


No God but the Gold Forged in the Furnace of Flesh: A Poem on Jacob Frank
No God but the Gold Forged in the Furnace of Flesh: A Poem on Jacob Frank Jakub Lejbowicz slithered east Beneath a heretic’s curse. A worm of rot, crowned in Ottoman dust, He wore another man’s face — Berukhiah reborn Jacob Frank, Westerner of Podolia, Messianic pretender. In Salonica, blasphemy transmuted: Sin kissed the breasts Of someone else’s wife. Torah pressed into palpable skin, White fire turned utterly black. Apostates writhed. A tho

Richard Mather


The Voyeur
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT: 18+ ONLY The Voyeur He watched her take a piss, using the camera hidden in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated and came in less than a minute, hundreds of miles away. She pulled up her knickers, straightened her skirt and left the bathroom. The voyeur, the Aufklärer, wiped himself clean and looked around, to make sure he hadn’t been seen. Everything i

Richard Mather


Der Aufklärer (The Enlightener)
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT. 18+ Der Aufklärer (The Enlightener) He watched her take a piss, using the online camera secreted in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated hundreds of miles away and came in less than a minute. Dark thoughts gathered round him like crows, which he batted away. Now he had complete possession of the truth, obscene and pornographic. The motto all truth must

Richard Mather
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