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Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife". [21] In the UK, the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty" was similarly removed in 1891.
Ashbee lists: [1] [3] Heinrich Meibom, De Flagorum Usu in re Medica et Venera (A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs, 1638) [4] [5] [6]; Exhibition of Female Flagellants: [7] [8] describing flagellation, mainly of women by women, [9] [10] described in a theatrical, fetishistic style
Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet. Unlike most types of flogging , it is meant more to be painful than to cause actual injury to the victim.
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The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail.It originated as an implement for physical punishment, particularly in the Royal Navy and British Army, and as a judicial punishment in Britain and some other countries.
The authority figure of the prison is usually a cruel woman who herself is a variation of the traditional prison lesbian. [4] Common scenes in women in prison films may include: An innocent girl (or group) being sent to a penitentiary or reform school run by a male or lesbian warden (who may also run an inmate prostitution ring, as in Chained Heat)