Canes and caning

I would love to hear about everyone's varying caning habits and experiences. For hubby and I the cane is the Queen of implements. A firm caning will frequently trigger my first orgasm so when I'm on the receiving end we usually save the caning until last-- a fitting finale to a series of increasingly intense flogging and strapping. When I'm delivering, I often like to begin by catching my victim as he leaves the shower, giving six strokes with a very light an whippy cane (lots of sting but no real deep impact), saving the very firm canings until later. The formal ritualistic element of caning makes it ideal for presentation before witnesses (we both find such "public" canings incredibly arousing). Though we did build a special padded adjustable caning "stool" we mostly use the traditional approach of having the recipient bend over the back of a chair, though sometimes I will receive a caning while on my hands and knees on the bed-- a challenging position to maintain. We use only rattan canes (hubby makes them so we have a huge number) with the joints filed smooth and finished with many treatments of linseed oil and turpentine followed by an application of wax. Before a formal caning the recipient may be required to wax the canes in preparation. We only cane on the buttocks and we treasure the resultant stripes-- dead level and always absolutely parallel is the objective. And of course the there's the afterglow-- that lovely reminder every time you sit down!

As long as you don't break the skin. I have been caned by my wife and on two occasions she actually broke the cane. I would lay over a bar stool, bare butt to take the lashing. The marks would last about a week. We have not done this for some time.

One of our basic rules for any disciplinary play is "never break the skin" Actually with a rattan cane, I think the only way you would break the skin would be if you were caning hard enough to raise serious welts, and you allowed the strokes to cross. And if a rattan cane does break (and that is very rare) it doesn't do so in a way that will cause injury. I know there are many fierce synthetic canes out there and it might be easier to break the skin with them.