Where does the name Joy Division come from?
They chose Joy Division, the name coming from a lurid novel of sado-masochism in German concentration camps entitled The House of Dolls. The book also contributed a (somewhat censored) verse for the song “No Love Lost”. The “joy divisions” were those which housed prostitutes and women kept alive for the pleasure of the officers of the camps. The irony, if not the political implication, was obvious.
