tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475895332419668831.post8798144550127702745..comments2022-12-22T03:42:54.446-08:00Comments on CLERICAL ERRORS --- A VICTORIAN SERIES: The Rev. Sneyd-Kinnersley, played by Robert HardyTom Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06988424863875787910noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475895332419668831.post-55516416820197816002022-01-14T04:51:03.373-08:002022-01-14T04:51:03.373-08:00Thank you for finding my blog and for your comment...Thank you for finding my blog and for your comment. The post of the Rev Sneyd-Kinnersley has received more "hits" (no pun intended) than almost any of those I've done over the past six years.Tom Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06988424863875787910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475895332419668831.post-72418001639415614612021-12-25T07:40:31.497-08:002021-12-25T07:40:31.497-08:00The report by the departmental committee on corpor...The report by the departmental committee on corporal punishment 1938 said after observing many birchings there were no signs of sexual excitement by the victim, or others in the room.Approvedshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373371514210955033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475895332419668831.post-58615766804405257872018-11-14T08:10:33.534-08:002018-11-14T08:10:33.534-08:00Sorry, I just discovered your reply to my blog pos...Sorry, I just discovered your reply to my blog post. Thank you for the thoughtful comment.Tom Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06988424863875787910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4475895332419668831.post-3641820884057314562018-10-17T07:15:01.684-07:002018-10-17T07:15:01.684-07:00The flogging brutality at St George’s school in th...The flogging brutality at St George’s school in the late 19th century was a manifestation of the dying embers of the inferno of corporal punishment that had pervaded English Public School culture throughout the previous 300 years. <br /><br />Flogging with the birch at Eton and similar public schools from the 17th to the mid 19th centuries was a brutal, disgusting and sexually violating punishment. It involved denuding the delinquent boy or young man (they were flogged up to the age of 18 or 19) of his breeches and underwear, making him kneel and bend almost double over a ‘flogging block’, and flogging his naked buttocks with a large birch. The Eton birch was a savage and grotesque instrument, being a 5 feet long thick heavy bundle of brine soaked birch branches and twigs. A severe flogging, which could consist of 5 or 6 dozen strokes, would leave the whole of the victim’s buttocks, from the small of his back to his thighs, including the anal and perineal sphere, a mass of raw, lacerated, mangled and mutilated flesh, covered and streaming with blood. A public school flogging was effectively tantamount to being violently anally raped. <br /><br />It has been documented in historic medical papers, notably of the renowned 18th century physician J H Meibomius, that school floggings caused, or induced, alarming side effects, most commonly erections, and in extreme cases seminal emissions. These were caused by the violent stimulation and irritation of the pudendal nerve branches which innervate the gluteal and anoperineal region, and the surge of blood causing vaso-congestion and inflammation of the whole pelvic floor. If the floggings at St George’s were anything like those at the great public schools, it is not surprising that Fry’s biographers censored his memoirs, especially if they contained any of the lurid details of what flogging with the birch actually entailed, or of the side effects it induced.<br />CP Historiannoreply@blogger.com