We are really starting to get the conversation going here on WhippingDudes Flogging Blog! I appreciate everyone’s willingness to open up and share their views on and experiences under the lash. This is a topic that has had me itching for most of my life and I am glad to find others have the same fascination. I am especially grateful to those that express their personal understandings of the touch of the whip to their bare backs. The comments are ranging all over the blog—being made on older posts—so to help you find them, I have added a feature to the left-hand side of the screen (just under the poll) which shows the most recent 15 user comments.
Toughpaul writes about taking the whip stoically, in silence, to prove his personal endurance. I congratulate him on his achievement. For me, as I have stated before, I find that I strip off my shirt for the fear. I crave the lash, but I do fear the pain. Once I have been securely tied and there is nothing I can do to stop the punishment, I always wonder “why am I doing this?” It doesn’t matter to me so much if I cry out, I take it as I take it (of course, the more I am flogged the more lashes I can take without crying out).
The answer to why I do this is twofold:
1. I want to experience the fear and helplessness that military and judicial prisoners felt when they were flogged for their offenses; to know what it is like to be the object of official punishment which cannot—and will not—end until the sentence is complete, no matter how painful. Once I have agreed to it, I’m stuck—which creates the helplessness. In short, the courage to willingly face that which countless men were forced to endure throughout the centuries.
2. To put on a good show. Through my years of watching movies that contained floggings, I have come to desire certain elements in flogging scenes, but I rarely find them. I want to create the perfect flogging scene for me.
1. I want to experience the fear and helplessness that military and judicial prisoners felt when they were flogged for their offenses; to know what it is like to be the object of official punishment which cannot—and will not—end until the sentence is complete, no matter how painful. Once I have agreed to it, I’m stuck—which creates the helplessness. In short, the courage to willingly face that which countless men were forced to endure throughout the centuries.
2. To put on a good show. Through my years of watching movies that contained floggings, I have come to desire certain elements in flogging scenes, but I rarely find them. I want to create the perfect flogging scene for me.
The perfect scene for me will not be the perfect scene for other people. Some want to watch a man stoically take the lash and others want to watch the reactions on his face. Some want to see a man tied to an outdoor post and others want to watch a prisoner writhe against interior prison bars. I like all those ideas: A variety of scenes is needed to create a good collection and I am working on creating that variety (that’s why in my scenes I wear different pants and we use different whips). I also want to watch a variety of men endure the whip, so it can’t just be me up there. I encourage everyone to film their flogging sessions and post them to YouTube—we can bring endurance flogging into the mainstream by force of numbers!
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