Experimental Lecture

Experimental Lecture is an English pornographic book published in 1878 by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", an imprint of Charles Carrington.^[1][2][3][4] The Colonel and his circle have a house in Park Lane where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated.^[4][5]

Henry Spencer Ashbee describes it as "coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent";^[4] Bloch describes it as "completely sadistic";^[6] Simpson describes it as focussed on anti-female violence.^[7]