Flagellantism

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Flagellation demonstration at the Folsom Street Fair 2004 (flogging).
Religiously motivated flagellants in the chronicle of Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)

The flagellation (from the Latin flagellum : whip , flail , Scourge) refers to a sexual preference for letting either beat or even hit by a partner. The phenomenon of pleasure pain plays an important role in flagellantism .

term

Flagellation is also called flagellation and those who follow this sexual practice are called flagellants . Here, however, there is a possibility of confusion with the Christian lay movement, which is also called flagellants ("The Geissler").

Flagellantism is a subgroup of the " sadomasochism " part of BDSM . According to an outdated understanding, passive flagellants are masochists . Today, however, “masochism” refers to a medical diagnosis that most members of the BDSM subculture do not fall under. The general and neutral term for passive flagellants, ie the person who is “below”, is “ bottom ” or “ sub ”. Flagellantism is related, but not identical, to spanking and domestic discipline . These terms specifically include those practices in which mostly only the buttocks are hit. they can be associated with parenting games , role-playing games , ageplay or serious marriage arrangements ( domestic discipline ).

In contrast, flagellants do not limit the punishments to the buttocks, but also apply to other parts of the body such as B. back , thighs or the soles of the feet. While a variety of punishing devices are used in spanking (e.g. canes , paddles or just the flat hand), flagellants mostly prefer whips , whips or canes - paddles are only suitable for the buttocks and the flat hand is not considered painful enough . Role and education games are rather rare in flagellantism, mostly the pain and its transformation and perception as pleasure pain is in the foreground.

The whip in literature

Therese philosophe is the first known work that made flagellations the subject of literature. This was followed by the Marquis de Sade with several works in which he addressed flagellation. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, certain sexual preferences were assigned to certain peoples. For the flagellation this was mainly England , so that in the flagellantic literature the main actors are mainly English. Most of the books on the subject actually appeared in England as manifestos of educational flagellantism.

Sociologically , parallels can be drawn with the punishment practices in the British colonies at the height of colonialism , especially since flagellant literature in its "motherland" England was extremely popular in all strata of the population and was also available in large editions in the style of "booklet literature". Johann Heinrich Meibom published a medical appraisal of the flagellation, to which he added a supplement that deals exclusively with the English flagellant literature. Henry Spencer Ashbee published the index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books under the pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi in 1877 , in which he compiled a detailed bibliography of pornographic texts with contents, from which the large one Role of flagellant literature.

The most famous author of flagellant literature is Algernon Swinburne . He drew his fantasies from the experiences he had in Eton in 1849 as a twelve-year-old , where severe punishment ( birchings ) on the flogging block that is still preserved today was part of everyday school life . Much of his literary work and his fascination for the subject revolves around this device and the punishments that he himself experienced there or witnessed when other students were punished with the rod on the bare buttocks . Among other things in the novella Lesbia Brandon ( posthumously 1952) he shifts his chastisement fantasies partly but also into the domestic area. Even James Joyce dedicated several texts of the Flagellation.

The memoirs of a Russian dancer are also among the most popular flagellant works . The three-volume work appeared for the first time around 1900 and was referred to in the "Bildlexikon der Erotik" as the "Vademecum" of flagellantism. To this day, the memoirs have been published in numerous editions, the first part also separately under the title Childhood in the Serfdom of a Boyar . Whether the content is actually based on the recordings of a dancer at the Imperial Theater in Moscow and thus on true events from the 1970s is still a matter of dispute.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . New York 1964. German: A portrait of the artist as a young man . Translated by Klaus Reichert. Frankfurt 1972; ders .: Ulysses translated by Hans Wollschläger. Frankfurt 1975 (there the Circe episode); as well as the letters to Nora in ders .: Selected Letters . Edited by Richard Ellmann. London 1966.
  2. ↑ The Memoirs of a Russian Dancer . Private print, Vienna 1909.
  3. ^ Institute for Sexual Research in Vienna (Ed.): Picture-Lexicon of Erotik . tape 2 . Vienna 1930, p. 324 .

literature

  • Andreas / Antje: Spanking, lust and passion . Marterpfahl Verlag 2001.
  • Niklaus Largier: Praise the whip. A cultural history of arousal . Munich 2001. ISBN 3-406-48093-4
  • Johann Heinrich Meibom: The usefulness of the scourge lashes in the pleasures of marriage, as in the medical practice, and the functions of the loins and kidneys. In: Johann Scheible (ed.): The treasure digger in literary and pictorial rarities, oddities etc., mainly of the German Middle Ages . Stuttgart 1847, Part 4, pp. 292-365.
  • Ernst Schertel: Flagellantism in literature and sculpture . Schmiden near Stuttgart 1957. (Reprint of Schertel Flagellantism as a literary motif , Leipzig 1930)
  • Moral history of caress and punishment , Vienna / Leipzig 1928.
  • Bettina Tegtmeier (ed.): Pain - Punishment - Pleasure. 25 Confessions of Active and Passive Flagellants . Siegburg 1998 (2nd edition)

Publications

  • Free forum for educational issues (1967-)
  • Flag. The picture magazine (1971–1973)
  • The cane. The flagellant magazine. (1988-)

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