Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book published in 1878 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", an imprint of Charles Carrington. The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated.
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
- Green, Jonathon; Karolides, Nicholas J. (2005). The encyclopedia of censorship. Facts on File library of world history. Infobase Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 0-8160-4464-3.
- White, Chris (2003). "(Not) Dying of Shame: Female Sexual Submission in 1890s' Erotica". Critical Survey. 15 (3). doi:10.3167/001115703782153439. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
- Weinberg, Thomas S.; Kamel, G. W. Levi (1983). SandM, studies in sadomasochism. New concepts in human sexuality. Prometheus Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-87975-218-1.
- ^ 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.
- 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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