If you have a bottom who loves it sting-y …

Do we have the toy just for you. Here’s a clip from our performance at Bondage Ball San Diego last weekend:

After our performance, we got a bunch of questions about these light-up toys, so I figured I’d write something up and also share a tutorial with moves you can pick up in just a few minutes.

In case you don’t recognize them, what you’re seeing are fiberoptic LED light whips. These are flow toys you see at music festivals, where people dance while they spin and wrap the whip around parts of their body, creating a mesmerizing light show.

One company (also available on Amazon) offers these whips in pairs, with finger loops attached. And when you build them that way …

Oh, come on. Now they’re just finger floggers.

And damn, do these “floggers” sting. When people ask, I always say that they feel like you’re getting stung by a swarm bees with each strike. Or at least, it’s what I imagine getting stung by a swarm of bees must feel like, as I’ve been lucky enough (or unlucky, if you’re a masochist) never to have experienced that in real life.

Anyway, here are some considerations if you’re thinking of adding light whips to your arsenal:

• The plastic fibers are incredibly sting-y on bare skin, but also easily dulled. Pretty much any fabric over the skin is enough to mask like 95% of the sting. Even fishnets are able to dull them substantially.
• The fibers will leave marks that look like an allergic rash, but we’ve never actually drawn blood with them. Having said that, I’m not ruling out that it can happen. It just hasn’t happened for us. And we do use them often and intensely.
• The set linked above is three feet long. That’s a bit long for both of us, so we trim the fibers with scissors. The challenge there is that the fibers light up at the very tip, so they need to be at all different lengths to create a glow from the handle all the way to the very tips of the longest fibers. This makes them pretty tedious to cut!
• The fibers are pretty sturdy, but we have noticed that they occasionally break off in small, inch-or-shorter fragments. As such, over time, you’ll find these whips getting shorter and shorter, until you’ll eventually have to replace the fibers.

And here’s a brief tutorial with some new moves you can pick up in a few minutes. Three things to note here:

• The moves in the video are based on the redirects I’ve previously written about, which allow you to quickly change directions when flogging.
• If you’re still learning to do figure-8s and/or flog upwards, check out the introductory tutorials starting here.
• If you angle the wrap properly, the fiber tips will barely graze you and won’t sting at all. Key word: “if.” Since everyone’s physique is different, it will take some trial and error to figure out how close to bring in your flogger hand during the wrap.

And as always, feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions on the toys or techniques shown here.