Communal Sexuality: Mutual Pleasure in Sade’s <i>La Philosophie dans le boudoir</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sade’s La Philosophie dans le boudoir (1795) envisions mutual pleasure as the most elusive and transcendent experience available to libertines, achievable only by submitting oneself wholly to the expansive, unpredictable group dynamics of orgy. In this model of intense communal pleasure, I contend, Sade evinces a keen interest in the literature and modes of sensibility—particularly in how the orgy emulates its representations of shared and mutual communities of feeling. By further incorporating the fraught politics of looking and feeling epitomized by this literary tradition, Sade constructs through the orgy a (limited) liberatory sexual politics and a narrative of progressive sexual community, both of which are defined and shaped by the female body in particular, as it is this body that registers the group sentimental response. The male libertine’s obsessive focus on the sentimental female body thus draws him into the collective pleasures of the orgy and reveals, in unexpected ways, a communal—as opposed to complementary or oppositional—politics of pleasure in Sade’s work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".