Flogging

Possibly the most popular activity in the erotic power exchange lexicon, flogging offers sensations ranging from gentle massage through tearing agony. Thirty-year veteran leatherman/educator Joseph Bean explains how to choose a flogger, negotiate a scene, read your partner's mental and physical state, select patterns and strokes to create a palette of sensation, and much more.

What the experts are saying

"[Bean's] basic approach is to describe a scene in a narrative fashion (basically BDSM erotica without the sex), then in the next chapter discuss some of the issues related to what happened in that scene.... You'll learn how to find the right partner, negotiation, safe words, and other BDSM basics. He describes the different types of floggers (even single tailed) and how to use them, and includes information on using blindfolds, restraints, gags, hoods, and dungeon furniture. The section on the different strokes you can use is excellent.... Anyone who has a serious interest in flogging should read this book." - Dr. Susan Block

About the author

Joseph W. Bean is the author of Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player and Leathersex Q & A (Daedalus Press). His work and thoughts can also be found in Leatherfolk, edited by Mark Thompson, Different Loving by Brame et al, SM Classics edited by Susan Wright, and Blue Money by Carolyn See, among others. He and his slave scott appear in the documentary video Safe Sane Consensual SM made by B&D Video, and his widely published art has been collected in the Brush Creek Media book Shadows of Leathersex. He has edited books by Guy Baldwin, Jack Rinella, Mistress Nan and others, and many magazines including Drummer, Mach, International Leatherman, Powerplay, and Tough Customers, the latter being one of the half-dozen magazines he also created. Mr. Bean was born in Humansville, Missouri, in 1947, and has spent the fifty-plus years since everywhere else, but mostly in San Francisco. He lives alone in Hawaii now, collecting laundry and household chores for the slave he will one day have.