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It is now 66 years since Leslie Weatherhead, as Methodist minister of London’s City Temple, stressed the psychological risks of such public events. “The point”, he wrote, “that publicly-administered corporal punishment is a deterrent to onlookers is of negligible value compared with the risks run of inducing sadism or masochism.”
FRANK R MCMANUS
Locksley House 97 Longfield Road Todmorden West Yorkshire
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