Experimental Lecture
English pornographic book published in 1878
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Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book privately printed and published in 1878-1879 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" with a false date of 1836.[1]The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated.[2][3] Pisanus Fraxi (alias of Henry Spencer Ashbee) claims the book is "from the pen of its publisher," which is widely believed to be William Lazenby.[1]
Fraxi describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent";[4] Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic";[5] Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.[6]
