Photos 1-3: Male Back-Various Single-Tails

There is also a short video of the end of this session in the video section of this website with M/m09.

This fellow calls himself Saint Paul because like many Catholic grade school children of our (50’s and 60’s) generation his interest in BDSM was first sparked by images portrayed in religious comics, text books and movies about the martyrdom of the saints.  While not reared Catholic, I also received similar religious comic books in Sunday school.  I horded a stash of them which I used as pornography.  These comics also portrayed a lot of sexy sinners.

Paul saved one of these comics, and attached it to an e-mail to me and wrote about it thus:

St. Paul wrote, in the Bible,

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

 "Five times I was flogged forty stripes.
Thrice was I beaten with rods."

 That stirred up my imagination.

 And Catholic grade schools had a special monthly 

comic book, "Treasure Chest," that was published just

for Catholic grade school kids.  I still have the issue

that depicts St. Paul being flogged...

 ... that's what started it all for me.

Wearing only a loin cloth-- being brutally flogged--

the ultimate whipping experience.

I'd love a flogging Session like that!

I used a various single-tails but the one which produced the most pronounced stripes was a simple two foot carbon fiber rod with about 8 inches of nylon cord, similar to whip cord in size and hardness.  It was really a home-made dressage but more severe than most you would find in the local tack shop.

He was laying almost horizontally on a plank during most of the severe whipping but posed in a standing position for these two pictures.

--Whipping by Leatherback
--Photo by Leatherback May 24, 2008

Photo 4: Male Back After a Whipping with a Roman Scourge

There is also a short video of the end of this session in the video section of this website with M/m09.

This is Saint Paul again, a week later and ratcheting it up a notch.

The Roman scourge typically had a short handle, 8-10 inches perhaps.  The tails were thin thongs of leather or rope, only about a foot long, slightly different in length to prevent tangling and usually three in number.  What made the Roman scourge the scourge among whips was that the ends of the tails were tipped with lead, iron, bronze, stone or bone weights.  Sometimes they were sharp but usually shaped like miniature dumb bells.  Under Roman law it was only used on a person about to be executed.  Of course I didn’t lay it on with the force of a Roman soldier but it doesn’t take much force. 

Paul made this scourge out of bolo ties, leaving on the metal aglets.  If you do not know what a bolo tie is, here’s a picture.

--Scourging by Leatherback
--Photo by Leatherback May 31, 2008