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BDSM
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
What Is Erotic Flagellation?
In 1503 there is a astrology treatise by a man named Pico della Mirandola and this was possibly the first description of voluntary flagellation in a purely secular context. It turns up in plays, it turns up in sort of which might call low-class literature. By the 19th century there were brothels in England that specialized in what they call the English vise but we did seem to have a thing for it.
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