Who is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch? How did he manage to become one of the most popular writers of the century and give a name to a whole type of pathology? Only one person knows this best: his wife. Wanda Sacher-Masoch, who had enormous sexual and psychological influence on the writer, tells the story of their family relationship in her autobiographical book without false shame. Her pen, like a whip, mercilessly and frankly exposes the secrets of their intimate life. Additional touches to the image of the “father of one perversion” complement the psychological portrait of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, written by the greatest psychiatrist of the 19th century, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, as well as the autobiographical notes of the writer himself .