Strappado
Strappado ( Italian strappare "tear") is both a torture method and a practice from the field of BDSM .
Torture method
The strappado or pendulum is an easy-to-use method of torture that was particularly widespread in the Middle Ages . The victim's wrists were cuffed behind the back and then pulled up with a rope that ran over a beam, pulley or hook on the ceiling until the victim was hanging by his arms. This torture method is very painful and usually leads to dislocation (dislocation) of the shoulder joint . This practice was used in German concentration camps until 1942 under the name " pile hanging " .
In a variant of the strappado, the victim's wrists were tied behind the body, the victim was pulled up by the wrists, but heavy weights were also attached to the ankles . This can not only damage the shoulder area , but also the legs and hips .
The Malleus Maleficarum ( Hexenhammer , 1486) describes the order in which the various instruments of torture are used to force the person concerned to make a confession. The strappado was used for more serious offenses.
The Estrapade derived from it was a method of execution.
BDSM
A similar technique , also known as strappado, is in use in the field of BDSM . The bottom is tied up in a similar way as in the torture method described, but the arms are only pulled up so far that the desired immobilization and pain effect occurs without causing damage to health. The victim's feet therefore generally remain on the ground. Sometimes a spreader bar is also used to spread the legs. By wearing high heel shoes ( high heels ) of Strappado for the bottom is still uncomfortable.
In connection with BDSM, the strappado is also referred to as "court curtains" .
reception
The death / thrash metal band Slaughter named their 1986 album Strappado after this torture method.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Kaienburg : Sachsenhausen main camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 49.
literature
- Eric J. Trimmer (Ed.): The Visual Dictionary of Sex . A&W Publishers, New York NY 1977, ISBN 0-89479-011-0 .
