While reading the rest of the book I continued to observe what I conceive as horrors but did notice as the days went on the activities become less sexual and more harmful, but still driven by the sex needs of the four friends. This was horrifying in a different part of my brain. If they had to abuse and assault the women and children, then they could have at least stuck to the milder punishments of days one through thirty.
Another thing that I noticed was the decreasing amount of detail in the days. The first 30 days were filled with detail and were labeled by days since they had arrived. The rest of the days are labeled by the date and the 150 passions are just listed, normally in one or two sentences. I found this interesting because in the first part he was incredibly detail oriented, even when I did not want him to be, and it is almost as if he would not have time to finish the book. It was like he was just trying to get all of his thoughts down in a semi-coherent way, and then was going to go back in and fill in the details later. He even eludes to this near the end in some of the written text that is there.
Overall, I found this book an interesting look into the history and psychology of Marquis de Sade and the society around him, but it was absolutely horrifying to me, and I struggle to understand why it was even published in the first place. It is one thing to write a book like this, but another to read through and publish it. Then I have to remind myself that it is a different time period, and the way society treats the subjects in this book is a lot stricter than it was during the time of Marquis de Sade.