Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

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From 'Philosophy in the Bedroom'

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1795

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Controversial

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