Photo 1: Male Back Flogged Raw at Folsom 2004

Photo 2: Viewed Through the Cats Which did the Damage

Jeans_noshirt_and_whipped outdid his usual high endurance level for this session.  Unfortunately, the photos are video frame grabs, so the resolution is not very good.  And no, the action was not video taped. 

He was warmed up with 80 strokes from this rather severe short oil-tanned flogger, followed by 50 with the bootlace cat. Then the real damage began, first with 30 lashes of the short nylon cat, 24 of the prison cat (similar to the short nylon but with a 15.5” handle and 24” tails.).  He was finished off with a dozen with this naval style cat with three blood knots on each tail. 

Although the blood knot, by that name, is still used for securing fishing hooks, the term apparently originated from its use on cats.  Aside from the obvious effect of being struck by hard, dense knots on the tails, knots also act to keep the tails separated so air will pass between them more readily, greatly increasing the speed of the lash and reducing any cushioning effect on the skin by trapped air.  In other words, they have a similar effect to that of holes drilled in a paddle.  

--Flogging by Leatherback
--Photo by Leatherback, September 2004

Visit Jeans_noshirt_and_whipped’s website for additional photos and descriptions:  http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.net/ph/jeans_noshirt_and_whipped/my_photos

See also MB23. There are also photos of this same person among the Male Chests photos, MC03 and videos of two scenes in the Video section, M/m04.