Kristian Frantz Paullini

Illustration from the 1847 edition of Flagellum Salutis.

Christian Franz Paullini (also spelled Kristian Frantz Paullini, 1643-1712) was a German physician and theologian.

In 1698, the polymath Paullini published Flagellum Salutis, a treatise on the use of flagellation as a cure for various diseases including melancholia, paralysis, toothache, sleepwalking, deafness, and nymphomania.

Paullini also wrote a theory on how flagellation can cause sexual arousal (having to do with increased blood flow), a slightly revised version of the one published before by Johann Heinrich Meibom. Paullini was thus a theorist on the possible origins of spanking fetishism and the erogenous effects of spanking and a proponent of therapeutic spanking. His influential work is thought to be one of the origins of the erotic flagellation mania of the 18th and 19th century, especially in England (see "The English Vice") and France.

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