Fur flies at the Huntington
The happy couple in Venus in Fur.Playwright David Ives has been adamant that his source material for Venus in Fur, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch's notorious ode to sado-masochism, is not, not, not pornography.Which of course only means one thing:It is pornography.Not that there's anything wrong with that. And to be fair, Ives' leading lady says as much quite bluntly (and quite often). What she misses, th…