St. Fechin
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The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After by Ian Gibson.
A sometimes tedious but mostly fascinating look at the fondness english people have for having their bottoms spanked. as far as i can tell there seems to be a vicious circle involved whereby youngsters are beaten at school, get mightily turned on by this and carry on the tradition when they grow up. also, toilet training by stern nannies and governesses during the sadistic-anal phase of childhood seems to be important as does an aggression towards the breasts of the mother which is subverted into guilt and a corresponding desire to have ones buttocks birched as buttocks look a bit like boobs anyway.
I wonder is that the same Ian Gibson who wrote The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí? Lashings (pun intended) of sexual guilt theories in that too as I recall...
Edit: It is, yeah: http://www.uklitag.com/site/images/author_uploads/master_gibson_biblio_2009_sp.pdf