Editing Flagellation (section)

==As a sexual practice==
[[File:Flogging demo folsom 2004.jpg|thumb|Flogging demonstration at the 2004 [[Folsom Street Fair]] in San Francisco]]
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Flagellation is also used as a sexual practice in the context of [[BDSM]]. The intensity of the beating is usually far less than used for punishment.

There are anecdotal reports of people willingly being bound or whipped, as a prelude to or substitute for sex, during the 14th century.<ref>Arne Hoffmann: ''In Leder gebunden. Der Sadomasochismus in der Weltliteratur'', p. 11, Ubooks 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-86608-078-2}} (German)</ref> Flagellation practiced within an erotic setting has been recorded from at least the 1590s evidenced by a [[John Davies (poet, born 1569)|John Davies]] epigram,<ref>Epigram 33: "In Francum"</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bromley|first=James M.|date=1 May 2010|title=Social Relations and Masochistic Sexual Practice in The Nice Valour|journal=Modern Philology|volume=107|issue=4|pages=556–587|doi=10.1086/652428|s2cid=144194164|issn=0026-8232}}</ref> and references to "flogging schools" in [[Thomas Shadwell]]'s ''[[The Virtuoso (play)|The Virtuoso]]'' (1676) and Tim Tell-Troth's ''Knavery of Astrology'' (1680).<ref name=Jones2007>{{Cite web|url=https://bpi1700.org.uk/research/printOfTheMonth/december2007.html|title=British Printed Images to 1700: Print of the month|website=bpi1700.org.uk|accessdate=3 September 2023|archive-date=21 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821122133/https://bpi1700.org.uk/research/printOfTheMonth/december2007.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Nomis, Anne O (2013) "Flogging Schools and Their Cullies" in ''The History & Arts of the Dominatrix'', Mary Egan Publishing and Anna Nomis Ltd, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9927010-0-0}} pp. 80–81</ref> Visual evidence such as mezzotints and print media in the 1600s is also identified revealing scenes of flagellation, such as in the late seventeenth-century English mezzotint "The Cully Flaug'd" from the British Museum collection.<ref name=Jones2007 />

[[John Cleland]]'s novel ''[[Fanny Hill]]'', published in 1749, incorporates a flagellation scene between the character's protagonist Fanny Hill and Mr Barville.<ref>John Cleland: ''Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', Penguin Classics, (1986), {{ISBN|978-0-14-043249-7}} pp. 180 ff</ref> A large number of flagellation publications followed, including ''[[Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline]]'' (c. 1761), promoting the names of ladies offering the service in a lecture room with rods and cat o' nine tails.<ref>''Fashionable Lectures Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline'' (c. 1761) British Library Rare Books collection</ref>