In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of ArousalIn Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval relgious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical texts and images, Niklaus Largier explores the emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices. From early modern pornography to the Marquis de Sade and the fantasies of Swinburne and Joyce, the erotic and devotional imagination drew on the whip. |
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Acknowledgments | 11 |
Suffering Transfiguration and the Scourge | 35 |
The Priest the Woman and the Divine Marquis | 221 |
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