Spanish horse
The Spanish horse, also known as Spanish donkey, was a torture and corporal punishment device that resembles a sawhorse but has a wedge shaped beam on which the victim, whose hands are tied, is made to straddle. The beam is at a height such that the victim's feet can not touch the floor. The person's entire weight rests on the genital and anal area and sitting on the beam becomes very painful. Additionally, often extra weights were hung at the victim's legs.
To make it worse, the helpless victim was often naked or half-naked and whipped with whips or birches while on the horse. In extremely cruel cases, the beam was equipped with metal spikes, somewhat like a more robust version of a sawblade. Such torture could lead to severe injury, and even to death.
The Spanish horse was also used for military corporal punishment in the 16th to 19th century.
Similar constructions in BDSM
In BDSM, similar constructions (but safer) are the crotch rope and horizontal bars such as shown in the drawing above where the bottom's feet are not completely off the floor, but forced to stand on tip-toes.
Exploitation and fetish films
- Love Camp 7 (1968), prototype for the Nazi exploitation genre, is most likely the earliest film to show a Spanish horse. A crude plywood horse is used to punish a captive woman being held as a sex slave in a Nazi brothel.
- 100 Years of Torture, aka Torture Chronicles: 100 Years (1975) is a Japanese "pinku eiga" (softcore roughie) that examines four different time periods. In a World War II segment, two Japanese women suspected of being traitors straddle the Spanish horse while being brutally beaten with a bamboo pole and given electro-shock torment to their breasts.
- Stalin II and Stalin III (Lupus Pictures) feature the dreaded Spanish horse in a two-part story set in a women's prison in Stalinist Russia, circa 1953. In the latter film, Niki Flynn is the unlucky rider who also suffers a back flogging while on the horse.
- The Warlock's Revenge (also from Lupus) is a medieval fairy tale filmed at a 13th century castle in Europe. They use what appears to be an authentic birching horse of the period (which includes a head and tail).
External links
- Illustration of a woman forced towards a Spanish horse, by an unknown artist (Adult site)
- BDSM photo of M/F spanish horse torture (Adult site)
- Main article: Bondage Furniture
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