120 days of sodom by Marquis de Sade was completed in 1785. Context on childhood: Marquis had a dysfunctional family, his parents were separated due to his father abandoning his mother and marquis was taken care of by his uncle who had licentious manners. From an early age Marquis was exposed to malicious behavior and was known to grow up to be rebellious. As someone who has always been so intrigued by psychology we see how dysfunctional families and a lack of proper love at an early age can affect the way a kid grows up to be and how highly the chances of that someone will grow up with evil attempts because of lack of a good childhood and a good role model to look up to. Marquis grew up to do horrible things such as rape, murdering and torturing people but went especially in detail about the Women. He would describe them by their appearance which would dehumanize the women. This reminds me of the storyline of “The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez. Richard’s father was abusive towards his mother and due to the conflict at home he left to live with his uncle who was misogynist and taught Richard how to be a creeper and spy on women through their windows. This spiked an interest on becoming a stalker and influenced richard into later having evil sexual desire to rape and torture women. In the book the men are often excusing their horrible actions by saying it’s the way they are made and their nature. The book itself is incredibly disturbing and sickening but from a psychology point of view I find it very interesting and brings up a lot of resemblance with other well known psychopaths. Marquis has a very planned out way of doing the things he does he goes into detail about his victims age, the order they come in and what he does to each of them. Yet again another trait we see in psychopaths. Marquis does all this to fullfil the pleasure of having control over the men and women he rapes and tortures and even though hes able to grasp the fact that what he is doing is horrible he has no empathy and feels no remorse. I believed that the entire book was focused on Marquis’ sexual fantasies. He talked about coprophilia, Urologia, and other sexual obsessions.