The Kiss of the Whip was first published in 1961, shortly after the Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial and two years prior to the Profumo Affair, which would initiate the great sexual revolution of the nineteen-sixties.
Written as an anti-corporal punishment work (as the morals of the time dictated), its real purpose was given away by the fact it was originally offered by a publisher renowned for works of a more risqué nature.
Judicial flogging of both sexes; floggings in the armed forces; wife beating and parental punishments; ‘educational’ flogging in fact and fiction; flagellation in brothels; the whipping of male and female servants; religious flagellation of monks, nuns and novices; whippings caused by superstition and persecution around the world; sadism and masochism; and the physical, sexual and psychological effects of whipping are all covered in precise, and often grisly detail!