#400416 - Erotic Flagellation Part 2 Eros Goldstripe Special
Erotic Flagellation, Part 2
The Hot Ecstasy of Pain
An Eros Goldstripe Special
Eros Goldstripe Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1976
digital replica
The page-3 editorial praises German culture for curating information about the physicality of human existence, including eccentric sexuality. The writer claims that . . .
Berlin was the great entertainment in city of the world, a sado-masochistic Las Vegas where overcrowded cabarets toasted sexual wickedness, wanton sensuality and erotic "discipline." Germany became the center for Europe's "kinks," the pulse beat of the pleasure/pain syndrome for a twentieth century world population swept away financial insecurity and radical social and political changes.
It is no wonder, then, that the German culture would examine and organize the great body of sexual world literature, as it relates to physical cruelty, especially flagellation. The obsessions seem to be particularly anal, centered on the buttocks, the sore spot of human indignity and the traditional, symbolic anatomical area for disciplining and punishing weaker and/or inferior fellow
beings — a pattern of behavior indulged in by many.This work is essentially a pictorial survey of the back end of Eros, mostly from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and it reflects that peculiarly Teutonic obsession, "the fascination of the abomination," as Joseph Conrad once wrote. The paradox of sex is cruelty, love as punishment, Eros (The God of Love and Creativity) as Thanatos (the God of Death and Destruction).
The artistic rendering is by no means all of German origin; some are French, some Italian and some English. The fascination of abomination does not restrict itself to the German-speaking world, even if the German world has become the matrix of such bizarre affinities. The mild-mannered Englishmen would undoubtedly win oodles of gold medals if there were an Olympics for disciplinary erotica. "Caning" is a time-honored practice in English schools and from the literary peeks we've had into Victorian boudoirs, the predilection for punishment carries over into more acceptable sexual passions.
Latins have the dubious distinction of creating the super-masculine sexual male oozing with machismo and unwittingly combining it with a relentless homosexual refrain at the same time. The Orientals have reduced the female to house-keeping objects dressed like porcelain dolls who shuffle about only to service the male. But it remained for the Germans to strip aside the facade of acceptable social/sexual behavior and get to the essence of our sexuality.
The well of Eros is deep and not always pretty. Our Teutonic brothers force us more than any other culture to stare into that well and into the reflection of our own faces.
The 64-page magazine has more than 90 illustrations and photographs, about half from the 20th century. Pictures show women and men holding whipping utensils and posed or bound in anticipation of punishment. Some tableaux present only domination elements.
Accompanying text appears under three headings: Sexual Flagellation, The Sadistic Marquis, and Burning Buttocks. In the first section, the writer dates pleasure/pain practices back to antiquity.
Early generations of mankind practiced sex whipping frequently, without doubt, but never before has it been practiced as openly and as blatantly as it is today. Prostitutes and their customers, husbands and wives, and even young teenage lovers today think little of flagellating each other for erotic pleasure or remuneration. They are no longer greatly inhibited by society's moral censure or their own hang-ups . . . or at least so they think.
Yet the fact is that the sexual behavior of most individuals is still motivated in the obscurity and darkness of compulsion. There are still many among us too beset with conflicts and self-doubts to indulge their sexual appetites when it comes to something like sex spanking, and others who proceed blindly according to impulse and are none the more liberated psychologically for all their sexual licentiousness. Among those who reject, as well as those who accept sexual flagellation as a permissible erotic activity, there are very few who really understand their own motives.
The affinity between pleasure and pain is now universally regarded as being extremely significant. In terms of human physiology it is often the same nerves which carry tactile impulses to the brain, and the thresholds which determine when the stimulation crosses from pleasure to pain vary widely from individual to individual. No less significant is the part of the anatomy toward which the stimulation is directed. A tactile contact which might be unpleasant when applied to a finger, a wrist or an eye may provide the highest kind of sexual excitement if it is an erogenous zone which is so stimulated.
There are many psychologists that have taken this phenomenon into account. Even pioneers in psychology such as Krafft-Ebing, who was one of the first to define what he considered an abnormal association between pain and lust, noticed the close relationship between pain and pleasure. "The one, like the other, is a state of exaltation," he wrote in Psychopathia Sexualis, "an intense excitation of the whole psycho-motor sphere. Thus there arises an impulse to react on the object that induces the stimulus, in every possible way, and with the greatest intensity."
The ebook includes all content of the magazine, including advertisements, in the original page sequence. Most empty margins were cropped out. Pages that had color borders or typography appear as grayscale in the digital iterations.
Brightness, contrast, and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. In the magazine, many photographs are dark. Image editing improves on the legibility of all pictures in the ebook.
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