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Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book privately printed and published in 1878-1879 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" with a false date of 1836.[1]The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated.[2][3] Pisanus Fraxi (alias of Henry Spencer Ashbee) claims the book is "from the pen of its publisher," which is widely believed to be William Lazenby.[1]
Fraxi describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent";[4] Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic";[5] Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1885). Catena Librorum Tacendorum. Internet Archive. London: Privately printed. p. 246.
- ↑ Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1877). Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books. London: privately printed. pp. 246–251.
- ↑ Rosset, Barney; Jordan, Fred, eds. (1984). Evergreen review. Vol. 98. Grove Press. p. 117. ISBN 0-394-62001-1.
- ↑ Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1885). Catena Librorum Tacendorum. Internet Archive. London: Privately printed. p. 250.
- ↑ Bloch, Iwan (1938). Sexual life in England, past and present. F. Aldor. pp. 360, 450.
- ↑ Anthony E. Simpson (1987). "Vulnerability and the age of female consent: legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape in eighteenth-century London". In Rousseau, George Sebastian; Porter, Roy (eds.). Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-7190-1961-3.
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