IMPACT PLAY FETISH
Impact play is a general term used to describe the sexual act of someone being struck for their own sexual pleasure or for the joy of their sexual partner. This striking can be undertaken in many different ways and often happens repeatedly, either until a lesson has been learned or until a bruise or a welt begins to show on the body of the person being struck. Due to the discipline element of BDSM, it is considered to be an act under the umbrella of its meanings. Erotic spanking is enjoyed by both the people being spanked and the person providing the hit and is often utilized as a form of punishment and discipline within D/S relationships for the benefit and enjoyment of all involved. However, it is not necessarily an act that occurs only within kinky relationships and is often one of the overpopularized forms of kinky play utilized by vanilla couples.
While impact play may sound violent or dangerous, it is widely understood in person and on impact-play forums like ours that those continuing with the sexual practice must consider the health and well-being of the person impacted. Often, impact play is only undertaken on areas of the body most equipped to deal with the brutal act, such as fleshy, fatty areas such as the ass cheeks. More sensitive areas such as the head, neck, spine, and kidneys are typically avoided for the safety of all those concerned to prevent further health damage. While breasts are often enjoyed with impact play, particularly larger breasts, these can also be considered high-risk areas that should only be undertaken with great care and experience. For breasts, one or two spanks or hits are typically utilized rather than the recurrent and more enthusiastic spanking of the ass cheeks, which often continue to be hit until significant bruising occurs.
Hand spanking continues to be the most common form of impact play, there is no prop to buy, and you can easily control the pain level with each hit. Whipping, for example, is far more challenging to provide a safe and easy hit to the target without hitting the wrong area or damaging and hurting the target beyond what has been agreed by the whip wrapping around it and hurting them in places they shouldn’t be impacted.
WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
Flagellation as a form of punishment has been around for as long as there has been literature and pieces of art and has been a popular form of discipline for as long as humans have been alive. Erotic depictions of flagellation have been around for nearly as long, with the proof being found in illustrations, wall paintings, and literature harking back to the fifth century BC. If you want to know more about the history and origins, try reading What Causes Spanking Fetishes? A Testable Model
MEANS OF SPANKING
Through erotic spanking, two very distinct sensations can be created. A dull thudding feeling can be made by utilizing comprehensive tools, such as paddles or the palm of hands, providing less physical pain and discomfort than the alternative. However, thinner devices such as canes and whips can create a more stingy sensation, which is more likely to develop welts and longer-lasting pain. It is also possible to make or purchase tools that don’t have a single tail (such as a cane or a whip) but have multiple tails, such as floggers and, most popularly, a cat o’ nine tails. To continue enjoying things consensually, the moment a safe word is said, the space should immediately stop, and the submissive should be cared for however they choose. It is up to a dominant to ensure their sub has agreed to which tools they are comfortable using and for submissives to use their safe word if the play ever becomes too intense or uncomfortable.
Erotic spanking is often enjoyed in D/S couples while utilizing roleplaying, often to discipline someone from being naughty or to remind them “who is boss.” In such cases, a female submissive is usually made to wear a spanking skirt. This is a skirt that the submissive wears with an opening around the back that exposes their ass cheeks, making it easy for their dominant to spank them without undressing them. Forms of fetish wear such as these are often utilized for teach/student roleplaying and are typically made of fetish-popular materials such as leather and latex. The male equivalent generally is assless chaps, also usually made of the same material.
It is also possible to buy furniture that helps for more accessible and enjoyable spanking, such as a spanking bench that an individual can either be bent over or restrained to. A sawhorse, the piece most typically used for woodworking, is a popular piece of furniture to be discussed on chat sites utilized by the kink scene due to its rings and padding, which makes for easy spanking. If you need some more ideas on what to get a masochist, you can read our blog: 6 Types of Sex Toys for a Masochist.
While spanking is most commonly known to occur between couples, it is also possible for individuals to self-spank. It may not create the same sensation as someone else spanking you, for your brain dampens the effect when you choose to hit yourself, but some individuals may find it more pleasurable than reverting to not being spanked at all. When couples enjoy their relationship over the internet in chat rooms or on message boards, a dominant can demand their submissive to spank themselves and perhaps film it for proof. Or maybe, even if someone isn’t in a relationship of any kind, vanilla or kinky, they may enjoy being spanked and provide it to themselves.
SPANKING PORN
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