EroticismAn influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos. A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer, and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth century thinkers. In this influential study, he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage,