Bound to bring back ghastly memories to anyone who attended English public schools before the 1970's, it covers sexual flagellation before Freud; beating at home and school in the 19th and early 20th centuries (with particular emphasis on Eton); judicial, prison, army and navy flogging, flagellant prostitution and fantasy. Illustrated with contemporary cartoons, engravings, woodcuts, advertisements and drawings (some very explicit).
- ISBN10 0715613901
- ISBN13 9780715613900
- Publish Date 21 May 1992 (first published May 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Duckworth Overlook
- Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 396
- Language English