02837cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500920014826400510024030000470029133600260033833700260036433800360039050000310042650801610045752016130061853400510223165300080228265300160229065300170230665300140232365300170233785600590235485600430241399900190245677249UtSlPG20260610134805.0mcr n260607r20251788utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aHQ1 aDoppet, Amédée,d1753-180010aAphrodisiaque externe, ou Traité du fouet et de ses effets sur le physique de l'amour 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-16  aRené Galluvot, from page images generously made available by Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (www.digitale-sammlungen.de)  a"Aphrodisiaque externe, ou Traité du fouet et de ses effets sur le physique de…." by D***** is a medico-philosophical treatise written in the late 18th century. It investigates how flagellation provokes sexual arousal and uses medical, historical, and moral arguments to condemn flogging in convents and schools. The work also explains the physiology behind this effect and closes with a practical discourse on aphrodisiacs intended to restore marital harmony rather than fuel libertinage.

The opening of the treatise presents an anonymous physician who defends publishing a candid inquiry, outlines his plan, and insists on plain language for the sake of public health. He first documents the use of whipping as a sexual stimulant—from antiquity to contemporary brothels—illustrated by anecdotes and authorities, then rejects astrological causes and offers a physiological explanation centered on heating the loins and lumbar nerves. He next denounces religious self-flagellation and clerical abuses as practices that inflame desire rather than suppress it, and urges their abolition, before arguing that flogging children’s buttocks sexualizes them, fosters masturbation, and should be replaced by better discipline. A brief conclusion reiterates the reformist aim and leads into an appended dissertation that outlines three sources of sexual “coldness” (constitutional weakness, exhaustion, and age), prescribes diet, regimen, and topical stimulants while warning against cantharides, and begins a catalogue of purported aphrodisiac substances. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cGeneva: (unknown), 1788  aSex  aParaphilias  aFlagellation  aMasochism  aAphrodisiacs4 uhttps://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb1078122340uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77249  c117969d117969