News of the World has obtained a five-hour video of Max Mosley, the 67-year-old president of the Formula One racing commission and the son of British arch-fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, engaging in Nazi S&M role playing with five girls, for which he paid the sum of 2,500 pounds.
The details are banal but the connection is interesting: fascism, motor car rallies, sexual humiliation. Time to reread Sontag, who argued that “between sadomasochism and fascism there is a natural link”?