F is for Floggers

F is for Floggers

I love floggers!!  The hilts, the falls, the thud, the sting, and of course the sound they make has it connects with my skin.  The picture above is my favorite set of floggers.  They are made from oil tanned leather that feels and smells magnificent.  The handles or hilts, as they are called, are repurposed brass candle stick holders.  Though they are cut at 1/4inch falls, falls are the dangly leather parts, they are still very thuddy when they land on your skin.  Though depending on the way they are thrown, thrown is the motion of hitting, they can be somewhat stingy.  The tails on the ends are much shorter and serve two purposes. One, they cover up a screw and are decorative, the other is that they can be used as a small flogger for sensory play or to hit smaller areas such as clits, vaginas, tits and nipples and penis's.  Hitting does not always have to be hard and bruising, it can be soft and tantalizing.  

So now that we have the parts of the floggers covered, lets have a short lesson on size and materials.  Floggers can be made out of just about any material, fur, string, leather, yarn, inner tubes for tires, chain, rubber, pretty much anything you can think of that would be fun or sensual to get hit with. The picture below shows a flogger made with a pepper mill handle. Handles can also be made out of any material you can come up with.  

 Now for size.  The length of a flogger only depends on the length of the material you are using.  Being able to throw the length is another story.  The long floggers are so very sexy and exciting but if the person throwing the flogs is not experienced wrapping and other uncomfortable things can happen.  Wrapping is when the falls of the flogger connect with your skin then wrap around the edges and make a whip like crack.  For instance, if the main part of the falls hits your back but the ends go over the side of your back and then whip onto your soft underside.. that smarts!  Of course some people really like that wrapping, it usually leaves marks.  Most prefer accurate hits from the person flogging.  The longer the falls the harder they are to control.  When choosing the total length of your flogger it should be no longer than the length of your arm.  For people new to this unique tool the falls should be around the length of your forearm.  Experienced flogger can handle longer lengths.

Why the different widths of the falls?  Simply because they cause different sensations.  As a general rule the thinner the falls the more sting is felt on impact.  Wider falls make a much more thuddy impact.  Wider falls are usually easier for learning as the falls tend to stay grouped closer together on impact and are easier to control.  

The other thing to consider when looking at floggers is how many falls they have. Depending on the material, floggers made with a lot of falls can be very heavy and harder to control, they can also be exhausting.  

Sometimes people who flog like to show their interests or part of their personality in their choice of floggers.  I tend to introduce irony, whimsy or geekery into the ones I make.   Below are a few of my favorites.   The Saberflogger has working lights and sound!

The dragon flogger has leather falls with a type of dragon skin print and a medallion of a dragon on the end of the hilt.   

More examples of floggers can be seen at www.etsy.com/shop/whippeddreams15XXX