X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Story of O


Kidnapping of Colleen Stan

Cameron wanted his new slave to be like the woman in the Story of O.

Pierre Bachelet

He also did the score for Story of O, another huge success for him and the French film Un crime au paradis.

Roissy-en-France

Roissy is the location where the action of the two explicit sadomasochistic novels Story of O (Histoire d'O), and its sequel Retour à Roissy by Pauline Réage take place.


Malcolm McKesson

All of these are developed in his magnum opus, Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage, a semi-autobiographical erotic novella that has been compared to such classics as Venus in Furs and Story of O.


see also

Anne Desclos

In 1975, she did a long interview about erotic books with author Régine Deforges, published by Story of O editor Jean-Jacques Pauvert, yet at the time her authorship was still unknown.