Spanking A-Z Challenge... B is for Bastinado

We all like spanking on the butt. It is, after all, the most common place for a girl (or boy) to be chastised soundly.

But there are other body parts which, if done correctly, can also be whipped/flogged/beaten/spanked... with an equally intense, albeit different, effect.

Breasts, Back, Thighs, Genitals... they all lend themselves well to a bit of a beating, provided you use the right implement/s and know how to do it safely.

And then there are the feet. Flogging of the feet, also known as 'Bastinado' is my word for today's blog post. Why? Good question. Perhaps because it starts with a B. Perhaps because I think it's time our poor, oft-forgotten tootsies are given some love (in the form of carefully applied pain, of course!).
Or, perhaps, just because I don't think it's mentioned enough in the spanking romance genres... at least not in the books I've read. But why?

I've tried it (then again, I've tried almost everything)... and it was interesting. Intense. Like suspension bondage, fire flogging and a million other things I've tried before, it was new, unknown, therefore exciting. Did it push my buttons the same way a good old, honest-to-god-you-are-in-for-it-now-my-girl spanking does? No. But that's okay.

There are squillions of nerve endings in the soles of your feet, and here's the thing, they all run up through the rest of your body. In the same way that massage can reach pressure points in your soles to help with ailments elsewhere, a sharp flick of the cane can send waves of pain spiralling up right through your entire being. Which is absolutely exquisite - if you happen to be a masochist, doing it consensually and the Top knows what he/she is doing.

Just as with flogging, Bastinado was used as a form of torture (probably still is, in places) - and in that way it is horrid. The feet are far more delicate than you'd think, considering we spend so much time resting all our weight on them, and blows which are too hard or in the wrong places can easily break bones and cause all sorts of nasty damage.

But having said that, under the right circumstances, a gentle to moderate whipping of the soles of the feet can be a very pleasurable experience, and I'd like to see just a little more of it in fiction.

What about you? What parts of the body would you like to see spanked or whipped or caned occasionally, other than the butt, of course? Please comment if you like and then hop on over to the other lovely blog participants in this #SpankA-Z challenge. 

~ Tabby x