Flagellation: Non-Lethal, Mostly

What happens when the punishment for breaking the law is being tied down and beaten until your back is covered in blood?

In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan explore the long and brutal history of flagellation, from ancient civilizations to the modern world.

We’ll look at the weapons used to inflict punishment, including the Roman flagellum, the Russian knout, the sjambok, the cat o nine tails, the British military lash, and some truly unpleasant variations designed to do considerably more than just leave a bruise. We’ll travel through Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, the British Empire, the American slave system, military prisons, naval vessels, and some of the most notorious penal systems in history.

We’ll also look at how flogging was used as punishment, public spectacle, military discipline, religious penance, and psychological control, along with what actually happens to the human body when someone is repeatedly whipped or caned.

And just when you think humanity finally got tired of beating people with sticks, we’ll look at the places where corporal punishment continued well into the modern era and, in some cases, still exists today.

And because this is Torture: A Dark History, Kevin and Dan bring their particularly painful brand of humor to an episode that proves humanity has spent thousands of years coming up with increasingly creative ways to hit someone with a stick.

If you love flagellation, flogging, whipping, caning, the cat o nine tails, the knout, sjamboks, Roman torture, military punishment, slavery, prison history, historical torture, dark history, and the bizarre ways humans have punished each other, you'll need to watch out cause this episode is going to sting.

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