Flagellation is flogging, flagellation or flagellation also called, with different whips or a cane. Under Flagellation (lat flagellare. Whips, beat) is the sexual arousal by corporal punishment. To torment and humiliate the partner, The flagellants it excited at the Flagellation, to torment and humiliate the partner. Flagellation is thus a typical practice of sadism, masochism and of sadomasochism.