Romanesque Flogging With a Horsehair Whip
We might easily wish for more resolution and detail in this image, which comes from the December 1969 issue of Continental Film Review, and presumably before that from the promotional materials for Gian Luigi Polidoro’s 1969 movie Satyricon (frequently distributed as The Degenerates to distinguish it from the competing and better-known Satyricon movie by Fellini). Context for this debauched orgy scene is limited, but that flogger looks to me as if it’s made of horse hair, or perhaps some sort of fine cordage:
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