Whip It Good!

From GMSMA News, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1982 for Gay Male S/M Activists GMSMA

It is always more pleasurable to lure willing prey unto your restraints than for the prey to find himself there unprepared, so it should be for the initial steps leading up to a flogging session. The basic scene as conceived and directed by the Top and as experienced and followed by the bottom will be the ritualistic acting out of the S/M power equation or exchange. This formula will usually follow as such: Dominance and submission, plus the administration of erotic pain over the acceptance of erotic pain, equals the level of S/M the Top is trying to achieve.

Whatever format a flogging scene follows will only be limited by the inventiveness of the Top. If it starts out as a first meeting pick-up in a bar, the bottom can be "arrested" and handcuffed on the spot. This will depend on how believable and intimidating the Top wants to appear. Variations on first meetings are practiced every night when living arrangements, mode of transportation, and time restraints are considered. If things start out on a military note with the bottom being ordered to report to the Top's playroom for duty, there will be ample opportunities for intimidation from the minute the bottom is admitted inside. This can proceed with questions about mode of dress, manner of addressing the Top, manner of showing appreciation to the Top for being summoned to the playroom, etc. Whatever the scene is to be: police, military, motorcycle leathermen, or ordinary piggy-raunch, once this is understood by the bottom and the dominance/submission is working it can be enhanced by boot licking, begging for cock, water sports, rough-house, and the first stage of bondage.

It is at this point that the bottom can be ordered to strip completely if he has not done so already. I find it a turn-on to have the bottom strip immediately upon entering the playroom or play area. If the bottom is foolish enough to wear underwear or leave them on after he has been ordered to strip, they can be torn off as a form of humiliation and used as a gag or blindfold.

Wrist and ankle restraints can be secured at this time.

Attaching tit clamps and tight cock and ball restraints to a blindfolded bottom will shift his mind away from the upcoming flogging and make him concentrate on the immediate pain he is feeling. This play can be carried on until the Top decides to move on to something more severe that will further shift the bottom's thoughts from the flogging. Once the bottom has been introduced to another realm and seems to be enjoying the pain, it is time to flog him.

The first stripes are laid across the unsuspecting ass and back. The counting begins. "One Sir! Thank you, Sir!" Free-form stripes can be laid down. The Top will end up with his bottom thanking him for generously leaving an "impression" that he will be able to admire for the next two or three days.