Experimental Lecture

Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book published in 1878 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", an imprint of Charles Carrington.[1][2][3][4] The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated.[4][5]

Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent";[4] Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic";[6] Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.[7]

References

  1. ^ Green, Jonathon; Karolides, Nicholas J. (2005). The encyclopedia of censorship. Facts on File library of world history. Infobase Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 0-8160-4464-3.
  2. ^ White, Chris (2003). "(Not) Dying of Shame: Female Sexual Submission in 1890s' Erotica". Critical Survey. 15 (3). doi:10.3167/001115703782153439. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
  3. ^ Weinberg, Thomas S.; Kamel, G. W. Levi (1983). SandM, studies in sadomasochism. New concepts in human sexuality. Prometheus Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-87975-218-1.
  4. ^ a b c Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1877). Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books. London: privately printed. pp. 246–251.
  5. ^ Rosset, Barney; Jordan, Fred, eds. (1984). Evergreen review. Vol. 98. Grove Press. p. 117. ISBN 0-394-62001-1.
  6. ^ Bloch, Iwan (1938). Sexual life in England, past and present. F. Aldor. pp. 360, 450.
  7. ^ Anthony E. Simpson (1987). "Vulnerability and the age of female consent: legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape in eighteenth-century London". In Rousseau, George Sebastian; Porter, Roy (eds.). Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-7190-1961-3.


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