''Experimental Lecture'' is an English pornographic book published in 1878 by the

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"Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", an imprint of Charles Carrington. The Colonel and his circle have a house in

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where genteel young ladies are

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, and

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. Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent"; Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic"; Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.

References

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