''The Romance of Chastisement'' is a Victorian

pornographic Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of Human sexual activity, sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults,

collection on the theme of

flagellation Flagellation (Latin , 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc. Typically, flogging has been imposed on ...

by St George Stock (a probable

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, also credited with ''

The Whippingham Papers ''The Whippingham Papers'' is a Victorian work of sado-masochistic pornography by St George Stock (a probable pseudonym, also credited with ''The Romance of Chastisement'') and published by Edward Avery in December 1887. It consists of a collecti ...

'') and published by

John Camden Hotten John Camden Hotten (12 September 1832, Clerkenwell – 14 June 1873, Hampstead) was an English bibliophile and publisher. He is best known for his clandestine publishing of numerous erotic and pornographic titles. Life Hotten was born John Will ...

in 1866. It was reprinted by

William Lazenby William Lazenby (died c. 1888) was an English publisher of pornography active in the 1870s and 1880s. He used the aliases Duncan Cameron and Thomas Judd. His notable publications include magazines '' The Pearl'', which published poems thought to h ...

in 1883 and again by

Charles Carrington Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...

in 1902 as ''The Magnetism of the Rod or the Revelations of Miss Darcy''.

References

Henry Spencer Ashbee Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900)(Walter) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume bibliography of erotic literature published under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi ...

(as Pisanus Fraxi), "Bibliography of Forbidden Books", Volume 1, 1877, p.353 * John Sutherland, "The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction",

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, 1990, , p.307. * Walter M. Kendrick, "The secret museum: pornography in modern culture",

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, 1996, , p.168 * Sharon Marcus, "Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England", ''Princeton paperbacks'',

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, 2007, , p.145 * Joanne Shattock, "The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature:, Volume 4; Volumes 1800-1900",

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, 2000, , p.1905 * Lisa Z. Sigel, ''International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000'' (Rutgers University Press, 2005), , pp.73-74,95-96 British pornography 1866 short story collections BDSM literature Books about flagellation {{1860s-story-collection-stub