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A whipping at a whipping post.

A woman staked out and whipped.

A whipping (also known as lashing, flogging or flagellation) is a beating or spanking administered with a whip. The term "whipping" is also used more loosely for any spanking or corporal punishment, particularly in a disciplinary context, irrespective of the type of implement used. The term "flagellation", too, can refer to implements other than whips, for example birching and caning.

Whipping can be applied to any part of the body. Most commonly it is applied to the delinquent's back. However, whipping the buttocks is also not uncommon. A true whipping (with a whip) was more often found in a formal judicial or institutional context than in a domestic setting. Whipping was the stereotypical punishment of slaves in the American South before the U.S. Civil War.

Typically, for a whipping the delinquent is restrained because the purpose is to inflict real life pain. Judicial whippings would often be executed at a whipping post by an experienced man skillful with a whip. Whippings were also given with the delinquent locked in the pillory, or at a cart's tail while the cart was being pulled through the town.

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The erotic effect of flagellation — especially the flagellation of the buttocks region — has been known for centuries. It is mentioned, for example, in The School of Women, or The Seven Flirtatious Discussions with Alosia by Nicolas Chorier (1612 - 1692). Multi-tail whips and birches were most popular for this purpose.

In a modern BDSM context, whipping is considered a severe act and many people whose primary focus is on spanking will not engage in whippings. However, there are also mild whips such as soft leather floggers that are not too severe and therefore quite popular in general BDSM. Floggers are popular with women because they don't require significant upper body strength.

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Public whipping at a cart's tail (1656)	Public flogging in Glasgow, Scotland (1822)	F/F whipping on a St. Andrews cross	Supplice du knout ordinaire
A "whipping table for young delinquents" in a British prison (1909).	Cover illustration by Adolphe Willette from "L'Assiette au Beurre", December 20, 1902.