The erotic thriller is a genre that doesn't get the credit or even the notoriety that it deserves. These sexy films and shows bank on their very obvious qualities of steam and tension, which can often make them relentlessly fun and pleasurable to watch. The best of the genre's offerings can be uncommonly psychologically gripping and shrewd as well, often illuminating some universal, perhaps uncomfortable truths about the human condition. Within a period setting, the erotic thriller has the potential to be even more enthralling , exploring sex as a means of upward mobility through long-antiquated societal constructs and norms.

Written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in 1782, and originally published across four volumes, Les Liaisons dangergeuses , a.k.a. Dangerous Liaisons ,

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