Flagellum Salutis
Flagellum Salutis is a book by the German scholar, physician, and writer Kristian Frantz Paullini (also spelled Christian Franz Paullini, 1643-1712), first published in Frankfurt am Main in 1698. In this book Paullini discusses various disorders such as melancholia, paralysis, toothache, sleepwalking, deafness, and nymphomania, and relates cases in which beating or whipping, which is presented almost as a panacea, has been used successfully to cure them.
Flagellum Salutis also features a theory on how flagellation can cause sexual arousal, which is a slightly revised version of the one published before by Johann Heinrich Meibom. Meibom's book theorized that increased blood flow in the kidneys was the cause of the erogenous effects observed. Paullini claims that blood is warmed by whipping, which then excites the sperms in the testicles.
The book is also known as Die Heilung durch Schläge and by its full title Flagellum Salutis, das ist: curieuse Erzählung, Wie mit Schlägen Allerhand schwere, langweilige und fast unheylbare Kranckheiten offt, bald und wohl curiret worden.
See also [ Possible origins of spanking fetishism and the erogenous effects of spanking ]
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Christian Franz Paullini ]
External links
- Flagellum Salutis on Google Books (1847 edition, in German)
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