Nettles For A Witch

This is from a website that’s way outside the style of what I usually like to post, but as an example of that rara avis, BDSM porn with stinging nettles, I thought it was worth sharing:

punishment with stinging nettles

dungeon pain for a witch

Pictures are from Inquisition World.

Growing And Playing With Stinging Nettles

Whenever I have posted here about being curious about nettle play, people have posted various “why would you want to do that?” type questions. Not having experimented, I didn’t have a good answer — except, of course, that a totally harmless method of imposing pain expands the “arena of possibility” when doing BDSM of any kind.

Not being a woodsy type, I never seemed to find any wild nettles while out and about, so I finally decided to grow some, like potted herbs. I bought some seeds over the internet (this was awhile ago, I just googled “nettle seeds” and went from there) and (after more than one failed attempt) got them to germinate this spring. Then, I raised ’em in a pot by my window. You know, water, sunshine, and benign neglect.

They did OK — but some conditions of soil or moisture or humidity were not right; they grew but did not thrive.

They did, however, get big enough to play with, as Bethie reports here:

Dan very carefully took a nettle sprig and pressed it along the right cheek of my very warm bottom. At first I didn’t feel anything, but then slowly a stinging, hot line began to move across the area where he’d applied the nettle. I could almost feel each little stinging hair burning into my bottom. I moaned and ground my hips into the pillows.

While I had been busy experiencing the first application, Dan had been preparing the next one. He told me to be still and then he slowly began pressing more nettle sprigs across my bottom. As more were added, the earlier areas where he’d applied them were beginning to settle down into a lovely stinging sensation.

I suppose if my bottom hadn’t already been so thoroughly tenderized and aching for more, it might have been different. But my well-spanked greedy bottom was primed for those nettles. The nettles were adding sensation in ways I hadn’t expected.

And that’s just it — the nettles are a new-and-different sensation with a long historical tradition and reputation for enhancing sexual arousal. They seem to have come by that reputation honestly. They were a lot of fun to play with, although (and I say this in the best tradition of wimpy topping) the one time I accidentally brushed them against the back of my hand it hurt like hell and I did not approve. Ladies, you may laugh now; unless you are where I can reach you, in which case that might be a bad idea.

Sadly, about ten days after the play Bethie describes above, there was a horticultural disaster at my house. Have I mentioned that I do not have a green thumb? No, it’s more like a black thumb, with a little cloud of defoliant swirling around it with tiny lightning bolts shooting out.

I did mention that my nettles were not thriving. Then, one day, the little plants started falling over. It started with one; a perfectly healthy little weed about four inches tall. It fell over and dissolved into a pool of slime, in just a few hours. Then another, and another; and then (over about 72 hours) they all did it. I was left with nothing but a pot of dirt with some little puddles of slime in it.

Well, I cursed, and then I mourned my little nettles, and resolved to do better next time. The dead planter, I ignored. About a day later, up from the soil sprang — like a zombie army — a uniform coating of mold about a quarter of an inch thick, grey in color like smoke, but organized into little structures (like the cell walls in a foam of soap bubbles) with black speckling on top. Nasty; I had to call in an air strike, with lots and lots of napalm. Black mold in your house is double-plus-ungood. Had it been practical, I would have took off and nuked from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.

I think they are going to take away my Junior Woodchuck badge and my membership in the Society of People Who Can Get Weeds To Grow.

Lessons for next time, and there will be a next time:

1) Nettle seeds are hard to germinate. If you can find wild nettles, even once, grab some cuttings and work from those.

2) Getting nettle seeds to germinate requires a cycle of cold and moisture to convince the little seeds that it was winter and is now springtime. You can simulate this in your refrigerator. I won’t try to tell you how, because I screwed it up; you can Google that sort of thing, as I did, and hopefully implement better. In my case, I suspect that’s where my soil mold issues got started; by the time I got seedlings, I also had visible mold; which went dormant once I got the seedlings into the sun, but came back later with a vengeance, despite at least one re-potting.

3) I used plain old potting soil. In practice, that soil stayed cold and damp under the best conditions available at my current dwelling. More warmth, more and better sunshine, and maybe some sand admixed to improve soil drainage? I’d even consider using a grow light, but in a lot of places that telltale gleam attracts unwelcome police attention, and I think I’d hate to have that “handcuffed in my underwear in my bedroom at four AM” conversation where I explain that yes, officer, I am growing weeds in my bedroom, but no, these are not the weeds you are looking for, and er, why exactly am I growing them? Uh, somebody told me they make a good soup?

All in all, it was a worthy experiment. Bethie and I both enjoyed playing with my baby nettles, and I look forward to growing bigger and better ones next time.

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Nettles, The Awful Truth

This is from Slaveminxi:

They darnwell sting, and not only at the time but for 24 hours afterwards.

Master decided to use some of the nettles growing in abundance around the farm on my tits at the weekend, it felt like i was being stung with a bazzilion kazzilion little needles all at once.

Even after 24 hours there was a dull reminder that they had been tortured, or was that from the riding crop being used on bound tight tits – hmmm, i wonder!!!??

In more local news, after this post and the discussion in the comments I finally got off my butt and got my nettle seeds germinated; they are sprouting nicely in a pair of pots by my computer. The seedlings are just starting to develop their serrated leaf shape, and the first tiny hairs (the stingy bit) are starting to become visible. Bethie is currently in the “I’m trying to pretend those pots don’t exist” state of denial…

Whipped With Nettles

Although I still haven’t managed to get my hands on any nettles — much to Bethie’s relief — I continue to think that the combination of quite fearsome pain (to judge by various accounts I’ve read) and utter harmlessness make stinging nettles a promising sort of spanking toy. Here’s a comic book panel that features a nettle whipping:

nettle whipping comic panel

Via Urtication.com.

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Slavish And The Nettles

Slavish writes about a spanking evening among the nettles:

Last Thursday evening saw me with my arms outstretched and trying very hard to hold still while Master nettled my nipples. Normally i would have managed quite well but my period was due and my nipples were very sensitive so i was squirming about all over the place.

For each squirm i got whacked on the front and inner thighs, ouchy ouch. Left me with some fantastic bruises.

Ended up with me straddled over a kitchen chair which had a large bunch of nettles lying on the seat. Eventually my legs gave way and i ended up with a very nettled ass and cunt.

Who knew herbalism held such pleasures?

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Nettles And A Spanking

Slavish writes:

After kneeling and kissing his hand in greeting and then putting the kettle on i ran into the bedroom, got naked quickly, rushed into the bathroom, quick wash and then i was ready for my Masters pleasure.

While i was rushing about Master had popped out to get some nettles from a piece of grass at the top of the road!!!

Master drank his brew and we had a cuddle before he stood me in the doorway to the kitchen and tortured my nipples and ass hole with the stinging nettles… ouchy yummy stuff. I didnt half jump when my clit was brushed with the nettles….major ouchy stuff without the yummy!

I was allowed to cum but forgot to count…whoops, so Master put me over his knee and spanked my bare ass hard….mmmmmmm nice ;)

my nipples feel wonderful now…itchy and tingly sore and my ass hole n clit are still burning…and im still a very horny slave ish…groan.

Nettles In Their Panties

La, la, la-la-la lah, see the happy schoolgirls go smurfing down the country road:

naughty schoolgirls hiking to school

Uh-0h, what’s this? Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf, those shameles hussies are piddling on the side of the road, in front of God and everybody! The nerve of those tarts!

naughty school girls caught peeing in public

This can only end in tears. Sure enough, here’s Papa Smurf his own self. You girls are in for it!

shameless hussy schoolgirls caught by the ears and in trouble

And oh, are they ever in for it. Spanking, caning, and tears galore, plus big vivid welts in the grandest Lupus Pictures tradition. (For pictures of the spankings, go here — I don’t want any succulant-but-mortified flesh distracting you from my little pastoral morality play. At least, not yet.)

It’s the after the spanking treatment that catches our eye this time. No, not oral sex you loony! Rather, our miscreants are taken out to the garden and made to pick some nice fresh stinging nettles:

well-whipped school girl forced to pick stinging nettles for her punishment

You know where this is going. Our wayward schoolgirls are made to stuff their panties full of fiery nettles, which they do with great reluctance and much shifting from foot to foot:

punished schoolgirl with stinging nettles stuffed in her panties

And off they are sent, traipsing (properly chastened) back to school.

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