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A Treatise On The Use Of Flogging While discussing my post The Sect of the Flagellants The History of Self Flagellation, goodkittyC mentioned the first known treatise discussing the use of flogging for sexual purposes. It was written in 1639. The English translation in 1718 marked a new era of sexual flagellation as a fashionable pastime. Here are three excerpts from A Treatise On The Use Of Flogging In Medicine And Venery by John Henry Meibomius, M.D. But what you could not so readily believe upon my affirmation was, that there are persons who are stimulated to venery by strokes of the rod, and worked into a flame of lust by blows; and that the part which distinguishes us to be men, should be raised by the charm of invigorating lashes. But I will convince you that it is so; and when I have proved by the testimony of no vulgar authors that there are many experiments of the truth of it, I shall add some reasons and arguments why others have conceived it, and why I think it possible and practicable. I shall not make many words of the stinging the parts with young nettles. For Monytius Taventius, in his second book of the 'Organs of Generation,' asserts that if sterility be suspected from the shortness of the penis, that the defect may be amended and the part extended by the use of that discipline; besides, your admired Petronius prescribes the same method to excite a languid inaptness to pleasure. Your father has proved by many examples how much flogging prevails in venereal affairs, which I need not repeat or offend the ears by a second reading, though I knew a person at Venice who could not be solicited to a love encounter any way but by the blows of his mistress's fist, as Cupid is said to have compelled people to follow him by striking them with a wand of hyacinth. We may further observe that not only men are excited to unlawful and unseasonable pleasures by flogging, but women are raised and inflamed by strokes to a more easy conception. I have determined, as your father has, that by flogging of the loins and heating the reins, the matter of the seed is either quickened or increased, and how that should be performed by the circulation of the blood in the reins I have long since shown in my 'Anatomy Reformed;' all which, if it will not satisfy the learned, I have nothing to do but to have recourse with you to the common cause, the heat of the blood, inflamed by flogging the loins to increase the warmth of the reins and provoke a venereal appetite. From hence the supine situation of the body contributes to emissions in sleep, by irritating the heat of the loins; from hence the same parts are provoked to venery by violent friction. ____________________________________________ The entire document is available on the internet from at least two different sources.  |
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