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The comic book character Orlando is a blend of several fictional characters with the name Orlando as well as being known during the mid-sixties as O while engaged in sexual games with the descendants of the Silling Castle survivors, according to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.
On The Dresden Dolls' album Yes, Virginia..., the piece "Mrs. O" includes reference to the Story of O.
The band Oneida has a song "Story of O", on their album Rated O.
In Jacqueline Carey's novel Kushiel's Dart, during a grand ball, the main character — a masochist and submissive — dresses as a naked bird, as in the last scene of O.
Tori Amos's song "Glory of the 80s", on her album To Venus and Back, mentions having "The Story Of O in my bucket seat of my wanna-be Mustang".
In the TV series Frasier (season 5 episode 3 "Halloween"), Roz Doyle appears as O at a Halloween party.
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