Whangee Caning For Blake
I never heard of whangee before Blake posted these photos:
Blake writes:
I’ve recently come into possession of a new cane. Made of whangee, it’s thick, dense, & knotted at intervals along its length. It’s an antique — they’re pretty pricey, and it’s a bit of a trick to find one without a rubber walking stick foot on the bottom.
After giving one naughty boy a sound thrashing with it, I said it was strange using an implement when I didn’t know what it felt like. Well. 12 strokes later, I can confirm it has a serious bite!
It turns out that whangee is a colonial Britishism for bamboo, and derives etymologically from a Chinese word (huáng) that means bamboo. However, cheap splintery bamboo canes have been a plague upon the spanking kink since forever. So I’m assuming there must be nuances of craftsmanship that distinguish a pricy whangee antique cane from your typical randomly-selected-by-pornographers-who-don’t-care unshaped and barely-finished stick of bamboo.
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