Variations on flogging (2)

In installments

Instead of giving all lashes in one beating, divide them in installments. If you are giving three dozen, give them a dozen at a time, with an interval of a quarter, half an hour or even one hour among the dozens.

It adds. Say, you bind your sub in the position, let her wait half an hour, then give the three dozens with half an hour intervals in between, and she will be under anticipation, pain or both for two hours, a long punishment for anybody’s standards.

And what if you don’t tell her how many dozens she will receive? After each one, including the last, let her laying there for another period, with her back or buttocks in fire, wondering is there is yet more in store. The feel of helplessness of being there, ready for the pain, unable to control how many you will receive is very effective for behaviour modification. And she will suffer the anticipation even for the next dozen, the one she will not receive.

Or give them in unequal and ever increasing doses. Say, for instance that you divide the three dozen in 6, 12 and 18 (or in 8, 12 and 16) lashes. No matter how much the last installment hurt, you can be sure the next will be worse.

Or make it two dozen, but give them one last thing before going to sleep and the other first thing in the morning. Going to sleep in pain and knowing the morning will unavoidably bring additional pain will make anybody try not to repeat the experience.

 

Another way of punishing in installments is to separate the beating in equal installments to be given day after day. Tell her that she will be punished before going to bed all nights for one week. As it is dangerous hitting repeatedly over old bruises, the punishment can’t be too severe, but knowing that you will suffer it every day, and waiting the full day for the suffering is the real punishment. (obrigado , Adsdrúbal).

 

Counting

For floggings with a limited number of hits, or for the last (say ten) hits in a large count, you can make your sub count the strokes. This variation is traditional for a caning, but can be used with other punishments.

Counting, on one side, makes the punished have to control her enough for speaking despite the pain. On the other side, distracts the victim, which could suffer more if concentrating in her sensations. Your choice.

 

Counting can be as simple as “one, sir, two sir” to more elaborated formulas, “one, thank you sir” or “one, thank you sir, please give me another”.

A more difficult one is “one, sir, thank you sir, please give another but please sir,  hit harder”. She is not only asking you to hurt her, but also asking for a harsher punishment, which is not easy if the last cut hurt and she knows that you will give the next actually harder

If the bottom is slow in counting, tap a couple of times. If she doesn’t count, give a blow, that doesn’t count for the total. It is traditional also recommencing from the beginning if the punished lost count, so she can get it right the second time and the same if she lost the position.

Giving the rhythm

You could give the rhythm. Especially in a flogging, sometimes a third person gave the rhythm and counted the strokes. As there is no third person in our games, count by yourself.

You cold say “one”, and then “ready”, and then “go”, finally delivering the blow.

After about half a dozen, to get her used to the “number, ready, go, lash” rhythm, you could use a psychological trick for making the punishment harder. Now and then, deliver the lash when or before saying “go”, or hold it back a moment after the usual interval. The unexpected anticipated blow or the eternal seconds expecting the falling of the lash after the “go” will play havoc on your sub’s mind. Then go back to the normal rhythm for several strokes.

 

Publications: 02/24/05