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Berkley Horse: Theresa Berkley’s 1828 Flogging Bench for Paying Gentlemen

2025年3月9日
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The Berkley Horse is a purpose-built flogging bench, designed in 1828 for — and by — Theresa Berkley, the London flagellation madam who sold birching to paying gentlemen. She called the thing a chevalet. For anyone who tracks the history of commercial BDSM furniture, this is one of the earliest named pieces: not a reused chair or a bedpost, but a machine invented so a client’s body could be opened to the cane, the birch, and a second pair of hands at once.

Ashbee’s print: any angle, a woman underneath, birch on the ass

Henry Spencer Ashbee, the Victorian collector of forbidden books, left the description later writers still lean on. In the spring of 1828, he wrote, a notorious machine was built so Mrs Berkley could flog gentlemen upon it. The frame opened to a considerable extent. That was the point. The body could be brought to any angle a session required — hips up, back stretched, buttocks offered — instead of being limited to whatever a bed or a kneeling bench allowed.

Ashbee also recorded a print from Berkley’s memoirs: a man strapped on the horse quite naked. Directly under the frame, a woman sat in a chair with her bosom, belly, and pubic hair exposed, working his cock with her hand while Berkley birched his posteriors. The picture is the commercial logic of the device: the client immobilized and opened, one woman at his front, Berkley at his ass with the birch.

The designer’s boast, and a client’s blood price list

When the new flogging machine was finished, its designer told Berkley it would bring her into notice and go by her name after her death. Ashbee says the boast landed: the horse made people talk, and the talk brought a great deal of business.

One surviving customer letter, written by a man who had only heard of the Horse, offered Berkley a sliding fee for how far she would take him. A pound sterling for the first blood drawn. Two pounds if the blood ran down to his heels. Three if his heels were bathed in it. Four if the blood reached the floor. Five if she succeeded in making him lose consciousness. It is a Georgian price sheet for measured damage, written by the man who wanted the damage.

Adelphi, Cannon, and the missing plate

Ashbee placed the original horse among the models of the Society of Arts at the Adelphi and said it was presented by Doctor Vance, Berkley’s executor. That society is now the Royal Society of Arts. They took possession of the Horse in 1837. The radical publisher George Cannon promoted a public exhibition of it. Whether the original device was actually preserved there is unclear.

An illustration of the apparatus was printed in the original 1880s edition of Ashbee’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum and then dropped from the 1969 reprint. The plate that would have shown you the angles is the one later editors cut.

Not a wooden horse, and who kept writing about it

The Berkley Horse is erotic furniture, not the wooden-horse torture device that splits a victim’s weight down a sharp ridge. One is a paying gentleman opened for birch and hand-job. The other is a punishment engine. They share a nickname and almost nothing else. Berkley’s chevalet was built for a brothel floor, not a garrison yard.

The later bookshelf is where the Horse survived as a cited object. Ian Gibson’s The English Vice (Duckworth, 1978) puts Berkley in the long English story of beating, sex, and shame. John K. Noyes, in The Mastery of Submission (Cornell, 1997), treats the invention as part of how masochism got named. Anil Aggrawal’s forensic survey of unusual sexual practices gives the bench a page. Guillaume Apollinaire, Iwan Bloch on Sade, Ernest Borneman’s sexuality encyclopedia, and Mike Pentelow and Marsha Rowe’s Characters of Fitzrovia all keep a pointer to the same 1828 machine. The designer was right about one thing. The name stuck. The question the RSA still cannot quite answer is whether any of the original timber did.

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