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"The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patient receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache disappears, although it will take a certain time for the buttocks to heal, of course." -- Dr. Sergei Speransky, as quoted in the newspaper Izvestia according to an article in Pravda about "whipping therapy" for treatment of addiction and depression. (Um, and possibly also heart attacks?) Dr. Sepransky was also quoted as saying, "People might probably think of me as a masochist. But I can assure you that I am not a classic masochist at all."

(Recommended prescription: "30 sessions of 60 whips on the buttocks in every procedure." Can I bill friends' insurance companies for providing this service, or would I have to have "MD" after my name to get away with that? Also, I'm betting that MOTAS is more significant than MOTOS ... )

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Heh. No mention of whether thud or sting is more appropriate. How authoritative can the study be? :-D

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Think we can get a grant from NSF or NIH to answer that question? Just because the work would be enjoyable doesn't mean that it's not also important...

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Poor control group, not getting any at all. :( Talk about suffering for science.

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I volunteer to administer therapy. I can use the extra practice and exercise, and it would be good to know the important details, such as this one.

NIH, I think. Then NSF. Then perhaps we should amend to study to include g-force effects, and go to NASA...

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I'm a therapist in an addictions clinic. I brought the article from Pravda in for discussion at our staff meeting this week.

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:laugh:

The article from a British site on the same thing mentions caning. Which makes a small amount more sense, as I'd be surprised if they had anybody around that accurate with a whip.

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That's because it's mistranslated. As I suspected from what I know of Russians, the original suggests switching, not whipping.

And the quote is much prettier in the original: "The effect was astounding. The world shone in bright colors, scars on the heart dissolved, although the buttocks were covered with abstract designs."

( http://www.inauka.ru/curioz/article53205.html )

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So one does switching with a belt? (graphic from the link you sent)

Yeah, I figured there might be some mistranslation in the volunteer translated Pravda article, graphic of coiled whip notwithstanding.

I like the quote :)

So how is switching different from caning?

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