Whipping, submitting
Posted by Abel on 18 Oct 2007 at 07:59 am | Tagged as: Other Stuff
A pupil from Rhode Island shows promise and a keen imagination with his homework. In uploading his assignment to a public file-sharing site, he (one presumes inadvertently) provoked some very nice scene ideas. His topic was European History; his theme the treatment of the poor; his fascinating anecdote as follows:
Regulations for the poorhouse in Suffolk County, England in 1588 demonstrate this corporal punishment. The regulations mandate that each “rogue” should be whipped twelve or 6 times, depending on age and health, merely upon entering the house. These floggings and the subsequent punishments e.g. starvation were performed in order to bring the rogues into “reasonable obedience and submission to the master of the poorhouse”.
I’m picturing a stray young girl, fleeing from her troublesome home, being apprehended by the locals and handed in to the poorhouse. She’d be stripped and washed; the master would appear to inspect her, before taking her into his private quarters to flog her before expecting her reasonable ’submission’.
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Well, that image is going to keep my thoughts well and truly occupied on the way to work this morning! Stripped, washed and inspected? Blimey… *swoon*
littlenic: Oh yes indeed! Abel was born in the right century all right, a freshly showered girl being his little indulgence, it seems to me. Over here, they suggest we shower with a bucket, (to save water if you’re wondering! Was your pervy mind confused? LOL), which really doesn’t work for fantasy or role play so well. And of course, the ‘inspected’ part…well don’t you get the feeling that he probably was rather good at ‘doctors and nurses’ in his younger days….?
Rob: Can’t you just hear young Abel,”trust me I’m a doctor” LOL
Abel: You are such a corrupting influence! I wonder how many of the population are wandering round with erotic fantasies in their heads, thanks to you! Actually I should thank you,it’s amazing the thoughts you are capable of triggering with just a simple phrase or two! Such a diversion during exceedingly dull meetings!
Oops, I see an anachronism here. Stripped? Yes, fine. Washed? I dunno. Wasn’t it only in the 20th century that people started washing more than once a year? I believe it was considered quite dangerous to apply water to the body.
I think they’d just move along to the inspection and flogging.
I’m with Harriet- I feel wholey corrupted!
LOL I rather fancy getting some business cards printed:
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Abel Jenkins
Corrupter
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Hermione - my authenticity fetish only extends so far. LOL I am just picturing a girl deciding not to wash for a fortnight before playing a sixteenth-century scene.