Dear friends! How many I have not been looking for at least some reliable information about the occurrence in ancient times at least something like BDSM did not find anything.

There is a mention of the fact that, in ancient Greece, the public flogging of Spartan boys was held in front of the altar of Artemis Orthia annually, but if you seriously think about it, it still had a religious meaning as a sacrifice to the goddess and not sexy.

One of the earliest graphic evidence of sadomasochistic sex scenes was found in the Etruscan tomb in Tuscany. Inside the cave of Tomba della Fustigazione (VI century BC. E.) Depicted two men who flog a woman with a stick and hand during love joys. A number of erotic frescoes discovered during the excavations of Pompeii also contain elements of BDSM (flogging a woman’s hand with a woman’s hand, a woman in a commanding posture over a man, and so on. P

However, this information is doubtful since there are no photographs of these graphic drawings anywhere.

BDSM began to consider a special form of sexual behavior only from the end of the 18th century, when the process of medical and legal categorization of sexual relations began in Europe. In the novel "Fanny Hill" by the English writer John Cleland, published in 1749, there is an erotic flagellation scene. Mention of brothels, specializing including flogging, occur since 1769. Somewhat later the works of the Marquis de Sade were published. Essentially, the novels of de Sade were the first literary works of a completely BDSM subject.

At the same time, the works of de Sade had an almost exclusively sadistic orientation (which was the reason for the appearance of the term “sadism” itself). In the 19th century, de Sade's works were “balanced” by the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, in particular, the famous novel Venus in Furs (Eng. Venus in Furs), in which the main character wants his beloved to treat him as a slave . However, despite the consolidation of such concepts as sadism and masochism in the medical literature, the ideas of Sacher-Masoch and, especially, de Sade were very far from the modern BDSM subculture, mainly in the basic principles of complete information, security and voluntariness. Sadism and masochism were considered by them as real life situations, often implying not at all playfulness and submission.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Europe had a big problem with hygiene, in other words, people did not wash at all, even the kings of France and England, it was believed that washing is harmful for medical reasons that after washing the skin pores open and you can get plague through them.

Instead of washing, they tried to change the clothes more often. This was considered dry ablution, they also used perfumes to get rid of the stench of their own body, very often women had many seams of sewing machines and fleas to get rid of them, they turned on small dogs, it was believed that lice and fleas run over the animal For what modern ladies give birth to this misunderstanding on four pencils is not clear.

If one seriously thinks that the statement that the first BDSM embryos were at this time with such unsanitary conditions and the absence of antibiotics, somehow I can not believe, the books were written but writing a book is one thing, but doing it is completely different, because people did not even wash fearing open pores can become infected, and here a whipping that can lead to an open wound, with the absence of antiseptics on a dirty body, can end in tears.

I am already silent about such a thing as a cunnilingus to a woman who does not have time to wash here right away and there will be two in one vomite.

In its present form, BDSM was born at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries and was a development of rather erotic games with elements of domination-submission practiced in European brothels. Further development followed the path of separating BDSM into a separate type of sexual behavior. In particular, literary works of this kind were created. American psychologist Robert Bienwen believed that modern BDSM owes its appearance to three books: European Fetish (1928), American Fetish (1934), and Gay Leather (1950). The appearance of the first graphic works with elements of BDSM refers to the beginning of the XX century. The first photos, entirely devoted to the subject of BDSM, appeared in the 1950s. Their author was a famous American photographer and director Irving Clow, who at that time published a series of photographs in the BDSM style (mostly with the participation of the erotic model Betty Page, known at that time). In addition, Clow made one of the first erotic films on this subject and organized the publication of a comic strip created by the subsequently famous BDSM artists John Willie and Eric Stanton.

Around the same time, Betty Page became one of the most successful models in such areas as fetish and pin-up, rising to almost the same level as a sex symbol, which caused the spread of BDSM in the wake of the sexual revolution that started in the west. The Italian writer and designer Guido Crepax, whose works largely determined the development of the style of the European “comic book for adults” in the second half of the 20th century, used the image of Page in his works. Examples of the rapid spread of BDSM subjects in the photographic art of the second half of the 20th century are the works of such photographers as Helmut Newton (Germany) and Robert Maplthorp (USA). The appearance of movements such as Old Guard leather and Samois ". “Old Guard leather” was a network of closed homosexual clubs created by soldiers of the American army who returned from Europe after the end of the Second World War (during that period homosexuality was widely spread in the American army).

In these clubs, the atmosphere of interlacing cruelty, eroticism, military hierarchy and discipline similar to military was recreated. The organization remained in isolation until the 1970s, after which the subculture "went out into the world" and lost its homosexual orientation. Samois was an organization of the same type, but formed by feminist lesbians. The actions of this organization led to the beginning of the spread of BDSM among lesbians, and in the 1970s Samois, like Old Guard leather, “went out into the world”, but did not lose its lesbian orientation. In their current form, both of these movements are one of the branches of the BDSM subculture. The spread of BDSM accelerated significantly in the 1990s with the advent of the Internet, especially after the introduction of Usenet networks and alt-type newsgroups. sex. bondage, uniting people interested in alternative sexual relationships, and in particular, BDSM. The same network alt. sex. bondage is credited with creating the abbreviation “BDSM” in the early 1990s (the earliest online publication using the abbreviation dates from June 1991).

There is no mention of wide or narrow distribution of BDSM in the Soviet Union. As it is known, there was no sex in the Soviet Union, there was pure immaculate love, and children were found in cabbage.

However, those with sexually sadistic tendencies were then.

One mention is from the criminal case of 1937, the investigators of the NKVD, nicknamed Sonya the golden leg, called the sex maniac. the eggs of her leg came, but in 1937 she was arrested, convicted and shot, though it is fiction or hard to say because different sources cite different dates for her execution.

But the most brutal pervert woman of the Third Reich, Ilse Koch - actually existed working in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where she beat prisoners with a whip. or took a hungry, fierce shepherd dog with her and set her on women or exhausted prisoners, she was delighted with the horror experienced by the prisoners. It is not surprising that behind her eyes they called her "the bitch of Buchenwald." It is also known that she ripped off the skin with tattoos of prisoners they were wearing, she sewed underwear, tattoos from human skin, underwear, gloves, and all sorts of clothes, even the ss themselves were horrified by such cruelty and brought her twice on trial The Third Reich Court was the most humane court in the world and was justified every time until it was arrested again after the war and sentenced to life. September 1, 1951, in Bavaria’s German prison, “Bitch Buchenwald” died of life.

Another Nazi sadist, Erik Manger, practiced castration of men, following the program of A. Hitler on the sterilization of the lower races of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs personally castrated several thousand people, until the end of the war did not live to death in the Polish ghetto.

The first BDSM club in modern Russia was founded in 1992 in Moscow under the name (Wild Rose). Initially, it was a brothel with elements of BDSM at that rate. The cost of the service could reach $ 100 per hour, it was founded by an American couple from New Ork. , Dick and Sylvia Malko. "At the moment both are not alive"

BDSM club, he became only in the early 2000s, however, and now prostitution is flourishing there.

Bdsm became widespread in the mid-2000s with the emergence and spread of the Internet among wide sections of the population.