female flagellants

Is/was flagellation something practiced by both genders or is it purely a guy thing?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010112.html
(link fixed by moderator - if you want an URL to “automagically” turn into a link, make sure you have a space before and after the text of the URL)

[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 01-14-2001 at 10:57 AM]

Ah, the joys of cruising the back roads of the Internet. Putting “female flagellant” into Google brings up mainly kinky sex websites. “Female flagellant medieval” brings up http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/artarch/Danish/location/MK28.html with its reference to a female flagellant figure in a medieval Danish wall painting.

And we’re back at kinky sex again. :rolleyes:

Try “men women flagellants medieval”. Ah.
http://www.xenos.org/essays/waldo1f.htm

So it looks like, yes, sometimes it was both men and women.

Could not have found that information without your help Duck. Sorry about the url… I’ll go flagellate myself now.