Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism by Thomas Moore, 1990, Spring Publication Inc., P.O. Box 222069, Dallas, TX 75222, paperback, 190 pp., $14.50.

One has to wonder what led Thomas Moore — new-age psychotherapist, musical composer, Renaissance scholar, doctor of philosophy in religion — to put himself face-to-face with the Marquis de Sade, […]