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Sadomasochism and pain
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Content: Part One: Psychological Aspects of Torture, including Meaning and Limitations / Fundamental Principles / Sadism / Masochism / Wholesale or Mass Torture / Effects / Part Two: The History of Torture, including Savage and Primitiuve Races / Ancient Greece and Rome / Progress / Holy Inquisition / Great Britain and Ireland / Persecution of Witches / China, Japan and India / West Indies, Mauritius and United States / War on Torture / Notorious Torturers Part Three: Technique, including Impaling / Burning, Branding, Boiling / Squassation, Rack, Wheel etc / Whipping and Beating / Mutilation, Drawing and Quartering etc / Burying Alive, Hanging Alive etc / Ordeal / Miscellaneous Forms / Self-Inflicted / Modern Methods / Torture of Animals Part Four: The Case Against Torture, including the Futility of Torture / Evils / Psychopathological Elements / Abolition Bibliography Background / Biography: There are references to several books by George Ryley Scott online, including Phallic Worship and A History of Prostitution. We have not been able to trace any biographical details. Reviews: Other titles on this theme: A History of the Rod, Rev Wm Cooper, London, n.d. [19th century] History of Flagellation Among Different Nations, anonymous, London, 1888 Chastisement Across The Ages, Gervas d'Olbert, London, 1967 Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"It must be admitted that the meaning of torture is not easy to define. Invariably is one likely to formulate a definition which is either too wide or too narrow in its scope. Realizing to the full that a serious error in either direction is bound to detract from the value of any study of torture, I feel it to be essential that I should, at the outset, define with some exactitude what, so far as this book is concerned, the word torture implies. It is important, for instance, to realize clearly that there is no rigid line of demarcation between torture and punishment. Any distinction is dependent largely upon the reaction of the individual victim to physical and mental suffering. It is necessary to consider in what circumstances the one implies the other. It has always been customary for society and the State, from the beginning of civilization to the present day, to attempt the justification of torture by placing it within the category of punishments, and, further, in this way to deny that any form of torture is used at all. Largely because of this almost universal practice, in which the term punishment is employed as a euphemism for torture, it has never been thoroughly and adequately realized to what extent torture has been employed in past ages, and, additionally, to what extent it is employed to-day." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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