1st Edition

History Of Corporal Punishment

By George Ryley Scott Copyright 2006
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2005. This is a wide-ranging study of flagellation in all its aspects - disciplinary, religious, educational and erotic. It presents a mass of detailed information on the various forms of flogging administered through the ages to thieves, prostitutes, soldiers, sailors, heretics, penitents, slaves, servants, schoolboys and schoolgirls. Scott's aim was to present the complete story of flagellation and its attendant mixture of cruelty, eroticism, superstition, voluptuousness and persecution. All the historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological aspects of the practice are examined, in order to understand the full significance of flagellation as a social phenomenon. The physical, psychological and pathological effects of corporal punishment, including the effects of flagellation on sexual health, are also analysed. The book is divided into four parts - the psychology of flagellation, penal flagellation, religious flagellation and the case for and against corporal punishment - with illustrations and a useful bibliography. Written in 1938, this remains an authoritative work on the subject.

    PART I THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FLAGELLATION I. THE INHERENT CRUELTY OF MANKIND . Man's delight in the persecution of others—Punishing II. THE AMBIVALENCE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN III. BASIC MOTIVES: CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS IV. THE CURATIVE AND MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF PAIN PART II PENAL FLAGELLATION V. WHIPPING OF THIEVES, PROSTITUTES, ETC. VI. WHIPPING OF SLAVES AND SERVANTS VII. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY AND NAVY VIII. FLOGGING CHILDREN IN THE HOME AND SCHOOLPART III RELIGIOUS FLAGELLATION IX. FLAGELLATION IN MONASTERIES AND NUNNERIES X. SELF-FLAGELLATION XI. THE SECI' OF THE FLAGELLANTS XII. THE HOLY INQUISITION AND FLAGELLATION XIII. CONFESSORS AND FLAGELLATION PART IV THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST CORPORAL PUNISHMENT XIV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT XV. PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF WHIPPING ADULTS XVI. PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF JUVENILE BIRCHING XVII. EVILS CONNECTED WITH FLOGGING AND BIRCHING XVIII. PATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT XIX. SUMMING-UP THE POSITION

    Biography

    Born in 1886, George Ryley Scott was a pioneering writer on all aspects of sex, sexuality, discipline and associated practices in different cultures and eras.