Oh but we are civilised. We procrastinate and are scared of legal precedents due to our litigious legal system but we get there.

The erection idea is pursued as a sex game apparently. Michael Hutchence (?) being a high profile victim of letting it go too far. Floggings too good for 'em according to the gaffer in my local.

Whilst ever we neither torture nor kill our prisoners, we are civilised. It may be relative but we are not as low as The USA, China, North Korea etc.