Abstract
Habsburg era historian and author Leopold von Sacher Masoch was born in 1836 and grew up in a haut bourgeois middle Europe that was cosmopolitan and multilingual. He is best known for his novel Venus in Furs (1870), which caused his name to be enshrined in sexological history by Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. But the version of masochism presented in the book is more complex and psychosocial than the medicalised compulsion presented to us today. The drivers in the book are more knowing and artificial. However, at the time of publication, Venus in Furs clearly rang bells for many people, many of whom wrote to Sacher Masoch about their similar predilections, and it became a cult hit.
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