It's nice to see a discussion in this thread. So, friends, it's time to animate this topic!
Yes, it's a great resource, thanks for sharing all these classic whip-pics Elephas.
I'm working my way through the thread - inserting the pics into the posts as I go,
it makes it a little easier to view them as a 'slide-show',
but they can still be selected with a single click to open in tabs.
One memory that you've brought out of the dark depths of my mind,
is of a book, a small yellow paperback, that I saw when I was a teenager,
too young to even dare go into the kind of shop that sold such books,
never mind risk taking it home or to school - it was called 'A History of Torture',
and of course there are dozens of books with that title, but this one had
a picture on the cover that made me hot with excitement -
a Roman-time scene with a naked slavegirl kneeling, full frontal,
bondage round her waist and down to her groin, arms pulled back behind, breasts lifted,
a sturdy near-naked negro slave standing beside her, gripping her shoulder with one hand,
holding a scourge in the other, a woman in a chiton watching, hands on hips,
the slavegirl's few clothes scattered on the marble floor...
you see how vividly I remember it!
Does it ring a bell with anyone?