Saturday, January 1, 2011

Two Dozen Lashes: Discussion of New Video

Happy New Year!  We hope that 2011 proves to be prosperous for everyone!

As promised, we finally uploaded our third flogging video to YouTube.  It’s titled Soldier’s Punishment: Flogging.  As I mentioned in the Dec 29 post, we chose a traditional (at least what you see in the movies as “traditional”) military punishment of two dozen lashes.  This is our first video using The Quirt. 

As soon as the final stroke of the sentence had been laid to my back, I wished we had agreed to do more.  But because we were filming, it was too late to ask for extra lashes.  The stripes on my back could still be seen two days later, but sadly, the delicious pain of the welts wore off within an hour—thus proving the need for harsher punishment next time.

So, now that we have our tribute to Hollywood out of the way, there will be no floggings of less than 50 lashes! I am very proud of the work we are doing.  I want these videos to be aesthetically pleasing to people with a passive interest (i.e. just like to watch) as well as instructive and as topics for discussion among those that man up for the experience.  I think we are achieving that and getting better with each video.  This one is the first using a green screen and new editing software I gave myself for Christmas—and I learned a lot from the exercise.

You can see the power of the blows on the slow motion capture which follows the full flogging.  I captured only lashes 9-20 in slow motion because of the amount of time that feature adds to the total length of the clip (not to mention the upload time).  We hope you enjoy the new video—and please feel free to make comments and critiques about it here and on the WhippingDudes YouTube! Channel.  We want to get better over time, so constructive criticism is always welcome!

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Censored!

The first video we uploaded to YouTube, “Shirtless Muscle Dude Gets Whipped” was pulled for “violations of community standards”, just like we feared would happen (as noted in the Dec 20 post of this blog).  It was a very popular video and received a recorded 15,890 views in the 88 days it was available before being deleted on Dec 29.  It is probably just a matter of time before the other one gets censored too, but we will move forward with our plans to upload out next video, which is titled “Soldier’s Punishment: Flogging” on Saturday, Jan 1.

Since we know of the censorship issue, and have discussed it here before, I hope you will spread the word about this blog to friends that also enjoy watching and participating in the extreme challenge (or “sport”) of flogging so that we can build a community here—and share knowledge of where quality videos can be found (while they’re available).

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

New WhippingDudes Video Almost Ready

Our third video was filmed this past weekend!  We will upload it to YouTube on Saturday, January 1 and will post the URL on this blog as soon as it is available.  We are very excited to share this with you.  We bought some new editing software (that’s why it’s taking so long to edit—we have to learn the new system).  We be looking for feedback and constructive criticism, so let us know what you think of it.

We chose to make it a traditional (at least what you see in the movies as “traditional”) military punishment of two dozen lashes.  By viewer requests, we used the quirt to inflict them.  We hope you’ll enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.  Keep your eye on this blog for the URL on Saturday!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Men Under The Lash

There were many comments made on our blog posts over the holiday weekend.  Our new friend, Mike, posted on virtually every post we have made so far.  Thanks, Mike!

On the “Corporal Punishment Alternative to Jail?” post, Mike writes, “…its got to be voluntary and, sexist pig that I am, men only.  I am not so sure that it is sexist to insist that only men take the lash.  I think it is more  a function of our society’s customs.   There is something in us that just doesn’t want to watch a woman physically suffer.  As an example, I suggest you watch this theatrical flogging of a woman in this Mary Bryant YouTube clip.   That’s one of the most savage (and probably realistic for the period) floggings I have ever seen in a movie, yet I found it to be disturbing because it was a woman being flogged.  If it had been a man enduring that flogging, I would have bookmarked it and saved it for repeated viewing.

I also think a further reason that we expect to watch only men take whippings is, as Mike points out, our custom that allows men to take off their shirts in public.  It isn’t a scandal when a man strips off his shirt on the street, but the same action would land a woman in jail.  If a man can take off his shirt in public for any number of activities, like swimming, running, working, etc, then we can expect him to expose his back to the whip.

Any beating that is not exclusively on a man’s bare back cannot be called a flogging, nor even, generally, whipping.  If it requires or contains nudity (a shirtless back isn’t nudity), it is sexual BDSM.  There are plenty of forums for that already in existence.  WhippingDudes is not about sex:  Our goal with this blog—and our YouTube channel—is to focus on the manly courage it takes to seek out and endure flogging.  If you enjoy watching men take this traditional form of punishment, or if you’re a man who likes “an awesome masculine ordeal”, you have found a home here!