Source of this article: "Hamlet", People's Literature Publishing House, 2009 Transferred from: Chinese National History
Spanking of women
Spanking itself is a privilege that reveals the giver's right to read and comment on the body. The power to spank may have been obtained by accident, such as the blow to the buttocks of a newborn baby, such as a scene that the author saw in the local city library when he was in high school, the young librarian, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, slapped the buttocks of a beautiful female colleague, causing a commotion in the quiet loan room, and the person concerned screamed, scolded, and then laughed mercilessly, giving the onlookers a certain shock: how can this be? Although it was just a confident cross-border attack by a merry man in the office, it was just a "tree brand" move of "there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is the king", it can still vaguely show some kind of broader power peep that ultimately points to the body.
The right to spanking stems from a relationship of physical attachment. It's the bottom that hits, and it's the body that warns. Spanking means possession of the body, meaning that the body to which the ass belongs can be disposed of at will. The buttocks are located in the center of the body's secrets, and its importance should be understood in a negative way, that is, the hidden buttocks do not bring glory to the body, while the exposed buttocks bring humiliation to the body, and the buttocks themselves have no dignity, while spanking can make people lose their dignity, not only because of some of the physiological functions of the buttocks, but also because the buttocks are completely unguarded. Even a slap on the cheek would be met with a sharp response from the gaze, but the buttocks would only be covered with a few pitiful marks, in a vain attempt to arouse the pity of the beater.
The system of rights of the lord beating his attendants, his master beating his servants, his husband beating his wife, and his parents beating his children was stable for 2,000 years, until the end of the Middle Ages, when there were many jokes about spanking, and most of the protagonists were upper-class people. For example, it is rumored that at a banquet in 1577, Catherine de Medic ordered the women to undress and stand in a row with their backs to her, and the queen slapped their buttocks one by one. Such spanking jokes either disrupt the relationships between the characters or add obscene overtones, revealing new changes in social structures and physical power relations.
In the early Church, there was what was called "Cornelian", in which a woman who, after confessing to a priest, had to go to a secret room, take off her skirt, kneel on a special cushion, and be whipped with birch by the priest to obtain forgiveness. This method was banned by Pope Adrian I due to the numerous scandals it caused. Although the punishment of Konillen, who whipped a woman's bare buttocks, was expressly forbidden, it was always practiced in private. Because medieval people had a unique concept of physical suffering. Pain is purification, atonement, pain helps to know God, pain causes spiritual ecstasy. For women, the pain of spanking is no more, no less, just right.
打屁股不仅能引起女信徒属灵的狂喜,而且也能让女信徒堕入淫邪的迷乱,这就难怪拉伯雷在《巨人传》中(Chapter 2.XVI)发明了那个著名的绕字游戏:在"做弥撒时疯疯癫的女人"(crazy woman at mass)和"屁股软软的女人"(woman limp at the buttocks)之间,到底有什么不同呢?
If you want to compile a history of spanking pornography, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is perhaps a crucial section. Around 1720, Rousseau lodged at the home of the Swiss village priest Rambertsier. The priest had a younger sister, Mademoiselle Lambercier, who was still in her thirties, and had "motherly affection and motherly authority" towards Rousseau, and the eight-year-old Rousseau was mischievous, and Mademoiselle Rambarcier repeatedly threatened to no avail, resorting to the trick "la punition des enfants", which Le Sing-ben translates as "the way to punish the children", which is precisely the spanking. Although Rousseau's confession was a little shy and embarrassed to say it clearly, it also revealed clues later, which will be explained in detail later.
Rousseau was fond of being spanked by women, and he was not very interested in women's buttocks, and the Confessions record that he saw Mademoiselle Rambertsier's ass, and she fell on the grass, just as Rousseau passed by and saw her whole ass. But Rousseau said: "It only alarmed me, and did not feel anything funny." ”
Unlike the various pornographic jokes about spanking, the introspective character of Rousseau's story provided conclusive evidence for the psychoanalysts of the late 19th century, when spanking was not just a rhetorical association of pornography, but was vouched for by psychological science, and eventually constructed as a mode of erotic imagination.
Spanking, because it is an intimate punishment, is both painful and sweet, insulting and indulgent, and especially because it requires a tedious and lengthy preparation, commanding, lying down, stripping, and sometimes even being equipped with tools (boards or whips), which produces a certain spiritual experience on both the part of the person being punished and the person who is being punished. On the part of the punisher, the initial anger and desire for violence are gradually mixed with a hint of pity in the expectation of venting, to beat, or not to beat, and there is a constant tug of war between pity and the effort to overcome the feeling of pity, and in the case of the punished, the prolongation of time also transforms panic into anticipation (like the shoe that never falls in Hou Baolin's cross talk), and this effort to raise the threshold is also constantly pressurizing the final release.
Freud created his psychoanalytic myth, and childhood memories became the source of all desires, and the memory of spanking was endorsed with erotic value. Since the late nineteenth century, a large number of spring palace paintings involving spanking scenes have been painted, and modern sadomasochistic consciousness has given spanking an unprecedented imagination. Boys, girls, women, and old men, regardless of age or class, all wore their buttocks bare, willing to experience the joy of pain, whips, palms, sticks, boards, and the thrill of the new martial arts game permeated the erotic paradise.
The film industry is even more knowledgeable and grasps it. Outside of porn, there have been spanking scenes in mainstream films, such as Elvis Presley's 14 spanking in "Blue Hawaii" in 1961 and John Wayne spanking actress Elizabeth Murphy in "Donovan's Reef" in 1963. Elizabeth Allen's ass. Probably not addictive enough, John Wayne slapped Maureen O'Hara in the ass again in the same year's Western, "McLintock." A big argument provokes the old cowboy to rage, and he vows to beat his wife well, but O'Hara sees that the situation is not good, and jumps out of the window, and the two chase after each other, and the other flees through the town. O'Hara was in desperation, disregarding his decency, and as he fled, his coat was peeled off, and Wayne grabbed O'Hara in front of everyone, wearing only a petticoat. As soon as he pressed her to his lap, he picked up the small coal shovel and slapped O'Hara on the ass, ambushing his wife in one fell swoop. The film apparently sees spanking as an effective means of submission/flirtation, a feint to turn enemies into friends in the war between the sexes, and role training for men to reassert their authority and women to regain their natural forms. To underscore this, McClintock's daughter in the film, "Becky," played by Stefanie Powers, is also spanked by his lover, a young cowboy played by Wayne's son, Patrick. Spanking movies endured until 2002's Hollywood production of "Secretary", in which the eccentric lawyer and the masochistic female secretary exchanged the same trick, and the prince and Cinderella lived happily ever after.
《Secretary》
The vast entertainment and media industry is bound to continue to carry forward the erotic rhetoric of spanking, with statistics from the Kinsey Institute saying that 18% of women have fantasies about spanking/being spanked. It is foreseeable that this number will grow day by day. Perhaps it can also be said that in the eyes of modern people, who regard love directly as a right to the body, isn't offering naked buttocks the best expression of dedication to love?
Excerpt from "The Lustful Hamlet" If you love you, you will spank you"
Introduction: "Lustful Hamlet" includes more than ten cultural essays such as "Lustful Hamlet", "The Women Who Painted the Spring Palace", "Yellow Jokes and Pamphlets", and "Gigi's Body". The subject matter is alternative and uninhibited, and the text is also solemn and harmonious. The erudite author invites you to travel through the streets of ancient Greece, Rome and Paris at night, reading the whispers of detail from the cancan, the Greek bottle and Cirque du Soleil, the evolution and inheritance of fashion, the different props and the same desire. What God has not said about sex, Xiaobai will tell you about it. "Hamlet" is a collection of the author's articles in Vientiane magazine. It is a study of classical erotic culture in Europe and the United States.
About the Author:
Xiaobai, born in Shanghai, is a freelance journalist, and his literary name has gradually become widely known in the cultural circle and readership in the past five years. His long essays and short columns are unique and self-contained, and have been published in many domestic newspapers and periodicals, such as Vientiane, Book City, Reading, Translation, Oriental Morning Post Shanghai Book Review, Southern Metropolis Daily, Shanghai Weekly, INK, etc. "Lustful Hamlet" is Xiaobai's first personal essay collection.