Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah () were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain" (from Genesis in the Authorized Version), were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan. The plain was compared to the garden of Eden as
The 120 Days of Sodom "Psychopathia Sexualis". Feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir wrote an essay titled "Must We Burn Sade?", protesting the destruction of "The 120 Days of Sodom" because of the light it sheds on humanity's darkest side when, in 1955, French authorities planned on destroying it and three other major works by Sade. Camille Paglia considers Sade's work a "satirical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in particular, and the Enlightenment concept of man's innate goodness in general. Gilles Deleuze considers "The 120 Days" along with the rest of Sade's corpus in conjunction with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: "The work of Sade and Masoch cannot be