Note 57 — III. GENERAL PATHOLOGY.[28] (continued 2)
Charles Gilbert Chaddock translation
Leo Taxil (op. cit., p. 234) relates that in Parisian brothels instruments are kept ready which look like knouts, but which are merely tubes filled with air, such as clowns use in circuses. Sadistic men use them to create for themselves the illusion that they are whipping women.