Marquis de Sade's Determinism

De Sade was a writer who used pornography to promote his philosophic ideas. He is an early chemical determinist: Man did things because his chemical make up caused him to do it. There was no right or wrong in a moral sense. De Sade carried it to a second step that said because man is made physically stronger than woman he had the inherent right to do whatever he wished to them. This is plain determinism.