Aberrant sex and deviation
Masturbation: Most popular fantasy
Among masturbating females sixty per cent, according to Kinsey, indulge in heterosexual fantasy. This is hardly surprising since most females are heterosexual; only ten per cent of women had homosexual fantasies while masturbating.
Most famous female sadist
Our woman sadist, unlike de Sade, was a practising person, i.e. she wrote no books but killed
and tortured to
her heart's content. In 1611, aged fifty, the Hungarian noblewoman Erzsebet Bathory was
walled up alive in her
castle in the Minor Carpathians for having killed some six hundred young girls in various
ways. The judge at her
trial appears to have been particularly concerned that she murdered noblewomen as well as
mere servant-girls.
Bathory used a number of ingenious devices. For instance, she put a terrified naked girl in a
narrow iron cage
Prostitution: First publicly administered
Solon, the law-giver, introduced the first publicly administered brothel in the Athens of 550
B.C. The brothel,
soon copied in nearby cities, was run by slaves; and the inmates were also slaves. the lowest
class of Greek
prostitute. From the taxes collected from the licensed brothels (Dicteria), Solon built a temple
to the Goddess
Aphrodite. There is a passage in Athenaeus to show the gratitude of the citizens for Solon's
wisdom in
establishing a brothel which would give an outlet to lustful impulse without endangering the
social order-
Incest: Highest incidence
Incest, evoking a variety of taboo responses, is condemned equally in primitive and advanced
societies.
International incidences have been reported as high as five per million population per year, and
isolated pockets
within a nation have been even higher, i.e. seven per million in the State of Washington. New
Zealand has the
record with a figure of nine per million population per year.
Most bizarre human prostitutes
Every imaginable type of human being has been required for purposes of prostitution. In Italy
a ring of grand-mother prostitutes was uncovered by the police.
Amputees have also been immensely popular. Not so long ago a woman with one leg was operating in the San Francisco area: "she claimed to have more business than she could handle." Hunchbacks and women with one or both breasts amputated have also been immensely popular. Similarly some men apparently desire a woman with a club foot or females with hideous scars.
Flagellation: First organised processions
By the eleventh century the Franciscans were extolling self-flagellation as a penance. And the
Italian Benedictine
St. Pietro Damian organised group flagellation for laymen. Two hundred years later a
procession of fanatical
flagellants - closely linked to the Flagellant sect - set out under the auspices of St. Anthony of
Padua. This austere
saint, theologian and preacher-keen to combat manifest sexuality - was in fact adding to the
sexual ferment. In
1260 unofficial processions of voluntary scourgers, each member heartily whipping the man in
front of him,
Masturbation: Most frequent by social class
One of the curious things about sexual behaviour is that it correlates - in frequency, variety, etc. - with social class.
Kinsey found that masturbation was more common in educated classes than in those groups concerned with unskilled or manual labour. Of all classes the professional groups masturbate most.
Prostitution: Most famous English call-girl
This is almost certainly Christine Keeler, born in 1942, the British call-girl at the centre of the
"Profumo Affair"
scandal of 1963. She left home at 16, met Stephen Ward, and later became involved in a wide
range of sexual
activities in the Ward circle - nude parties, group sex, flagellation, voyeurism, etc. Christine
met John Profumo,
then Secretary of State for War, at Cliveden: he was attracted to her after seeing her
swimming nude in the pool
of Lord Astor. After a security warning Profumo stopped seeing Christine, but later lied about
the affair to the
Prostitution: First established in the English Court
Court brothels existed during the time of Charlemagne and later a well-equipped brothel was
established by
contemporaries of George III. This latter establishment comprised a group of houses near St.
James's Palace, in
a lane called "King's Place": the employed girls were only allowed to walk in the royal parks,
and only the
innermost circle of the court was allowed to frequent the court brothel.
Bestiality: Most famous Oriental type
Chinese lovers - in pre-Mao days - were said to be fond of fowl. Mantegazza has remarked
that "The Chinese are famous for their love affairs with geese ..." This would be remarkable enough: the actual way the Orientals used such a creature for sexual purposes is even more extraordinary. At the moment of ejaculation the man would pull the head off the live animal to get "the pleasurable benefit of the anal sphincter's last spasms in the victim."