Severin, I warn you once more. You warn me in vain. Do with me what you will, just don’t push me completely away from you. Severin, Wanda replied, I am a frivolous young woman; it is dangerous for you to give yourself to me so completely. In the end, you will indeed become my toy; who will protect you from my misuse of your madness? Your noble nature. Power makes one reckless. So be reckless, I shouted, trample me underfoot. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who hailed from Austrian-Hungarian Galicia, first gained recognition with rural stories in the realistic style of Turgenev; his famous erotic novella "Venus in Furs" was written in 1870.