Calico Says: Arnica Is Fail

It’s a frequently-heard item of folk medicine in the Spanking community that arnica concoctions can help spanking bruises heal faster. However, a good herbalist will tell you that arnica is also fairly toxic stuff, making its use for this purpose somewhat controversial.

I am therefore amused to pass on the link to Calico’s arnica experiment. You know Calico; she counts among her accomplishments a ton of BDSM modeling, including a lot for Kink.com.

So what did she do? She marked out four-inch circles on her thighs, got “helpers” to cane the heck out of the marked areas, and then used an arnica cream on just one of the two bruised areas. Then, she watched the healing to determine whether the arnica bruise healed faster than the control. Her conclusion? Nope, nada, nothing, bunko.

The one trouble I see with her experiment is that she used what looks like a homeopathic arnica preparation. I do not propose to comment on The Great Homeopathy Debate here (nor will I allow that debate to take root in my comment section) but I will observe that homeopathic preparations are enormously dilute by design and intention. So testing a homeopathic arnica product in this fashion is not at all the same test as testing a genuine arnica cream that has some significant amount of actual arnica in it. There remains room for more bruised science to be done!

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Flaming Red Whipped Bottom

Seen in the most recent Whipped Women gallery:

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Vintage German Wife Spanking

From a 17th-century woodcut found at ErosBlog, here’s “a man beating his wife for being proud, impious, lazy, and drunk”:

german man spanking his wife

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Caning Kait And Jessie

It looks like Kait Snow and Jessie Cox must have seriously displeased the masters and mistresses of The Upper Floor, because it’s caning time for both of them:

Kait Snow and Jessie Cox caned at The Upper Floor

And looking at Jesse’s face, these were no love taps:

Kait Snow and Jessie Cox discover that it hurts to be caned

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Bathroom Corner Time

From Kinky Delight:

pretty girl Jenya with her nose to the wall

“Nose to the wall until I say different!”

Photo credit: Met-Art.

Bare Feet Or Socks Only

The only way I can parse this photo: she must have gotten spanked for wearing her shoes on the bed.

A Shakespearean Beating

Of course The Bard was a kinky bastard, but I’ll confess I’d forgotten about this tender moment from A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

“I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love—
And yet a place of high respect with me—
Than to be usèd as you use your dog?”