Aphrodisiaque externe
Aphrodisiaque externe ou Traité du fouet et de ses effets sur le physique et l'amour (En: External aphrodisiac or dealt with the whip and its effects on the physical and love) is a medico-philosophical treatise on the erogenous effects of whipping, first published in Paris in 1788. It is attributed to François Amédée Doppet (1753-1799), a physician and writer who later became a general in the French army.
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Meibom and Paullini had previously described and explained an erogenous effect of buttocks whipping on males by heat that goes into the kidneys, or testicles. Doppet continues this view and expands these theories to the female gender: women get aroused by the same process, with the heat ascending into the vagina. He also reports on the use of castigations in prostitution: even at the entry of „locations where lust is for sale“ one could see various means of castigation. „If you ask, like the simple man from the countryside, what for these weapons are meant? she will answer you in a childlike manner that they serve for pleasure.“
Whereas Meibom and Paullini had held positive views of flagellation and its curative as well as erogenous effects, Doppet concentrated on the latter and saw flagellation as a potential danger, as it could lead to sexual stimulation even in cases where the same was not desirable. Doppet advised that children should not be beaten on their buttocks, so as not to awaken their sexual instinct, and that one should not talk about castigating and discipline in the presence of nuns, since „the female sex is more easily excited and so more subject to pollutions.“
Translations
The book appeared in German translation as Das Geißeln und seine Einwirkung auf den Geschlechtstrieb, oder das äußerliche Aphrodisiacum. An English translation was published under the title Castigation and its effect on the sexual instinct.
The book, in French, was reissued in November 2004 under isbn 2-915114-08-0.
François Amédée Doppet
François Amédée Doppet (16 March 1753 – 26 April 1799) was a Savoyard[Note 1] who briefly commanded three French armies during the French Revolutionary Wars without distinction. During the 1770s he enlisted in the French cavalry. Quitting the army after three years, he became a physician after studying medicine at Turin. Later moving to Paris, he became a writer of poems, romances and medical works while also dabbling in aphrodisiacs and mesmerism.
Doppet threw himself wholeheartedly into the French Revolution, was elected to the Legislative Assembly, and became a Jacobin (anti-Royalists). Appointed commander of a volunteer battalion, he took part in the French invasion of Savoy in 1792. Rapidly promoted to general officer in 1793, the government appointed him to command the Army of the Alps in the Siege of Lyon, the army engaged in the Siege of Toulon and the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. In no case did his time in command last long. During the last appointment, he became ill and was replaced, though he was later employed as a division commander. The government used him because he was politically safe but it finally became clear that his military talent was almost non-existent. In 1797 he was elected to the Council of Five Hundred (The lower house of the legislature during the French Revolution) and he died two years later died.
Notes
- ↑ a citizen of Savoy, France
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