Experimental Lecture By Colonel Spanker

Experimental Lecture by Colonel Spanker, on the Exciting and Voluptuous Pleasures to be Derived from Crushing and Humiliating the Spirit of a Beautiful and Modest Young Lady, as Delievered by Him in the Assembly Room of the Society of Aristocratic Flagellants, Mayfair

Experimental Lecture by Colonel Spanker

In the assembly-room of the Society of Aristocratic Flagellants, Mayfair, Colonel Spanker strives to confirm his thesis that the punishment of a refined young lady produces more exquisite pleasures than flogging lower-class women and prostitutes... Experimental Lecture by Colonel Spanker is one of the most notorious nineteenth-century English flagellant novels. Henry Spencer Ashbee's Catena Librorum Tacendorum describes it as 'the most coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent of any we have ever read, [it] stands entirely alone in the English language.' (Fraxi, 1885: 250) This edition of Experimental Lecture also includes the full text of The Yellow Room or, Alice Darvell's Subjection, a late Victorian novella focusing on the delights of birching and the pleasures of cruelty. Following the death of her aunt, beautiful Alice Darvell is sent to live with Sir Edward Bosmere, a stern disciplinarian and devotee of Venus Callipyge, who initiates her into the mysteries of the rod. The Yellow Room was first published in 1891. The name of the author, M. Le Comte du Bouleau, is a pseudonym. Authorship is attributed to an English lawyer, Stanislas Matthew de Rhodes (1857-1932). He is also credited with writing Gynecocracy (1893) and The Petticoat Dominant (1898), which are available from Birchgrove Press.

Experimental Lecture

Colonel Spanker has one simple proposition; that flagellating upper class ladies is immeasurably more pleasurable than committing like acts on those of lower standing and prostitutes. Thus, for the benefit of those members of the Society of Aristocratic Flagellants, our lascivious lecturer decides to put his thesis to the test, the subject of said experiment being one extremely unfortunate Lady Ponsonby. What follows is positively Sadian, as each stroke and spank and poke is told in sumptuously graphic and uncompromising detail. Described by the Victorian bibliographer Henry Spencer Asbhee as 'unblushingly indecent', 'Experimental Lecture' is a must have addition for any collection of the flagellatory erotic. Those faint of heart and delicate of constitution, beware.