possibly imagine Nature giving us the possibility of committing a crime which could offend her?… The most independent of men and those closest to Nature are savages; with impunity they devote themselves to murder every day.” The Marquis de Sade wrote with honesty. In his books, the politics of pornography is open and obvious. The contemporary pornographers are less open about stating their revolutionary goals, but they are still very obvious. The politics of pornography is simply the politics of