Theresa Berkeley

The 19th century British dominatrix Mrs Theresa Berkeley ran a brothel in Soho specialising in flagellation. She is notable as the inventor of the Berkeley Horse, a piece of BDSM apparatus.

External links

• http://www.anastassja.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=112
• see also The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus, ISBN 0393302369