Thanks to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the crop has become rather popular in the bedroom!
Here’s a riding crop from JT’s Stockroom (the link opens in a new window for you). Here are some quirts from TexomaWhips. JT’s Stockroom (now simply called The Stockroom) is one of my favorite providers of inexpensive but high quality bondage equipment. I have no relationship to TexomaWhips, but their photos look great!
A quirt is relatively short. Roughly half is handle, and half is the whip. The handle might be wooden, or might be leather and flexible. A quirt has two or three relatively wide blades. The ones I have seen have all been rawhide.
With a quirt, the whole thing is flexible and floppy. A riding crop, by comparison, is stiff.
The cane, because it is so flexible and whippy, can be difficult to land accurately. (I consider this a feature.) Picture an area the size of a thumbtack. To hit that area — and ONLY that area — with a cane, requires a fair degree of expertise, and not everyone has that.
A riding crop, on the other hand, is stiff. It’s easy to control and use. If you can handle a hairbrush, you can handle a riding crop.
Even though it’s stiff, it is still thin and whippy like a cane. That means you can be careful, and that also means you can create some interesting — ah — effects.
One style is to have only the slapper strike the target. You can do a very rapid slap-slap-slap, perhaps gently and perhaps not.
Because the stiffness of the crop allows you to be accurate, you can take a swipe at the target. Instead of slapping i the breast, you can swipe across the nipple, for a very nice effect. (I also enjoy removing clothespins with the riding crop.)
Like with the cane, you can slap-slap-slap the riding crop anywhere and everywhere.
You can use the crop for full strokes across the bottom, just like with a cane. The effect is fairly similar, especially with a longer crop, and you need to take similar precautions — be careful about wrapping, cutting the skin, striking too high, etc. I personally don’t use the crop that way except for variety’s sake. Whatever I can do with a crop, I can do better with a cane. (That is, whatever I can do with full strokes of a crop, I can do better by using the cane.)
What makes a crop a crop, is the slapper. Different crops will produce different effects. Crops can be very effective, and can be especially effective in those hard-to-reach places.
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