In America Stephen Flowers, self appointed Grand Master of the ‘Order of the Triskelion’ goes as far as to suggest that Story of O has concealed within it, “a great philosophical, and virtually mystical, message”, and traces a lineage of secret societies devoted to sex magick dating back to the nineteenth century. At least one secretive Château Roissy ‘society’ maintains its original members inspired the novel. Holding fast like a barnacle to a sailing ship is a continual and widely held assumption and indeed belief, that the most famous underground novel of our time, Story of O, is based upon truth. The mystery writer under the hood is a stooge. 1955 : ‘Story of O’ wins the Prix des Deux Magots,
