In a world of decadence and obsession, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was the esteemed author whose name would come to mean the dark sexuality based on pain where lovers become willing slaves. Masoch lived in the nineteenth century in the heart of the Austrian empire, where the Empress Elisabeth ("Sisi"), considered the most beautiful woman in Europe with her 16-inch waist and flowing hair, ran away from palace drudgery to live in a pink castle...