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It was at the Renaissance that cases of abnormal sexual pleasure
in flagellation began to be recorded. The earliest distinct
reference to a masochistic flagellant seems to have been made by
Pico della Mirandola, toward the end of the fifteenth century, in
his _Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem_, bk. iii,
ch. xxvii. Coelius Rhodiginus in 1516, again, narrated the case
of a man he knew who liked to be severely whipped, and found this
a stimulant to coitus. Otto Brunfels, in his _Onomasticon_
(1534), art. "Coitus," refers to another case of a man who could
not have intercourse with his wife until he had been whipped.
Then, a century later, in 1643, Meibomius wrote _De Usu Flagrorum
in re Venerea_, the earliest treatise on this subject, narrating
various cases. Numerous old cases of pleasure in flagellation and
urtication were brought together by Schurig in 1720 in his
_Spermatologia_, pp. 253-258.
The earliest definitely described medical case of sadistic
pleasure in the sight of active whipping which I have myself come
across belongs to the year 1672, and occurs in a letter in which
Nesterus seeks the opinion of Garmann.
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