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Whipping
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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.
To administer a whipping, the tail(s) of the whip are lashed onto the body of the person. 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 Antiquity and 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.
Formal whippings, such as those executed by law, usually had a prescribed number of lashes. These were also called stripes.
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[edit] Flagellation
The term flagellation has also some specific meanings and connotations. See flagellant for more on this.
[edit] Erotic whipping
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 rather severe implement that can leave marks and break the skin. 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.
The whipped person is typically naked and is struck on the back, buttocks and/or legs. The impact of the whip's tail(s) is a heated stinging that resonates throughout the body and builds. There is no thud, only stinging strokes.
In the non-BDSM world whippings are typically delivered by a male because a "whiphand" must be strong. In the BDSM world there is no such gender bias: a whip is also the typical implement of a dominatrix. A skillful flagellator practices and has good hand control. The whipped person may sweat profusely and need water once in a while.
[edit] The "Whipping-Tree"
There is a male bonding ritual in which one is "taken down to the Whipping-Tree." This means two rugged adult males go to a remote spot where screaming and sobbing cannot be heard to perform the whipping. Most spankees will ask to be tied to the tree for a whipping. For one man to bring another to a screaming, sobbing state while striking his backside may produce intense emotional release for both and bring the two closer emotionally.
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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. |
[edit] See also
- Whipping boy
- Whooping
- The English Vice
- Der Flagellantismus als literarisches Motiv
- Flagellation on Wikipedia
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