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Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, philosopher, publicist, and art history researcher who was ahead of his time, and his name is still associated with intellectual provocations, scandals, and pornographic aesthetics. The History of Eroticism (1951) is a bold look by the researcher, the prophet of the sexual revolution, at the erotic in human nature, the sacred and the cursed, transgression, violation of prohibitions and their impact on the culture and history of mankind. "In any case, eroticism is extravagance, desire and pleasure, and at the same time desirable and inevitable shame, the awareness of which distinguishes humans from animals, and at the same time is the way to achieve ecstasy, as the author argues in his article "The Paradox of Eroticism". In 1970, the Gallimard publishing house published the complete works of Georges Bataille in 10 volumes with a preface by the historian of sexuality, philosopher Michel Foucault, in which he calls Bataille one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.