Madame S Bondage Store has latex clothing sex toys and more. Sjambok. A strip of the animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 m) long, tapering from about 1 inch (25 mm) thick at the handle to about 3⁄8 in (10 mm) at the tip. This strip is then rolled until reaching a tapered-cylindrical form. The resulting whip is both flexible and durable. A plastic version was made for the South African Police Service, and effectively used for riot control. The sjambok had a variety of uses, with the most obvious being cattle driving. It was heavily used by the Voortrekkers driving their oxen while migrating from the Cape of Good Hope. Even today, the sjambok is used by herdsmen to drive cattle. They are widely available in South Africa from informal traders to regular stores from a variety of materials, lengths and thicknesses.
In South Africa it is sometimes seen as synonymous with the apartheid era, but its use on people started much earlier. Other types[edit] References[edit] Scourge. Reproduction of a medieval scourge Description[edit] The typical scourge (Latin: flagrum; diminutive: flagellum) has several thongs fastened to a handle; cat o' nine tails: naval thick-rope knotted-end scourge, the army and civil prison versions usually are leather.[1] The priests of Cybele scourged themselves and others. Such stripes were considered sacred. From a Biblical quotation, scorpio "scorpion" is Latin for a Roman flagrum. Hard material was affixed to multiple thongs to give a flesh-tearing "bite". 1 Kings 12:11: "...My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions".
Fifteenth-century woodcut of flagellants scourging themselves Scourging was the first step in the traditional Roman punishment for parricide. Scourging was soon adopted as a sanction in the monastic discipline of the fifth and following centuries. [edit] Semi-literal usages such as "the scourge of God" for Attila the Hun (i.e. See also[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] H. Quirt. A quirt is attached to the end of a set of romal reins The old style horse quirt is still carried by some Western horsemen and this is the style of quirt seen in the early Western cowboy films. The quirt, due to its slow action, is not particularly effective as a riding aid for horses, though at times it has been used as a tool of punishment.
Rather, it is an effective tool to slap or goad cattle from horseback. In the vaquero tradition, a quirt with a long handle, known as a romal, was attached to the end of a closed set of reins. The romal was primarily used as a noisemaker to slap or goad cattle. (The handle made it too slow and of the wrong length for use on the horse.) Novel[edit] "The Quirt" is the title of a 1920 novel by B. Film[edit] Quirt Evans is the name of John Wayne's character in the 1947 film Angel and the Badman.
See also[edit] References[edit] Flagellation. In some circumstances the word "flogging" is used loosely to include any sort of corporal punishment, including birching and caning. However, in British legal terminology, a distinction was drawn (and still is, in one or two colonial territories) between "flogging" (with a cat-o'-nine-tails) and "whipping" (formerly with a whip, but since the early 19th century with a birch). In Britain these were both abolished in 1948. Disciplinary use and torture[edit] Prisoners at a whipping post in a Delaware prison, circa 1907. Antiquity[edit] In Sparta, young men were flogged as a test of their masculinity.
In the Roman Empire, flagellation was often used as a prelude to crucifixion, and in this context is sometimes referred to as scourging. The Romans reserved this treatment for non-citizens, as stated in the lex Porcia and lex Sempronia, dating from 195 and 123 BCE. From Middle Ages to modern times[edit] Whipping was used during the French Revolution. Punishment with a Great Knout. Judaism[edit] Knout. "Punishment with an ordinary knout", an 18th-century print The original[edit] Some claim it was a Tatar invention and was introduced into Russia in the 15th century, perhaps by Grand Duke Ivan III the Great (1462–1505).
Others trace the word to Varangians and derive it from the Swedish knutpiska, a kind of whip with knots. Still others maintain it is of generic Germanic origin, not necessarily Scandinavian, comparing it with the German Knute, Dutch knoet (both meaning knout) and with Old Norse knutr, Anglo-Saxon cnotta and English knot. The Russian knout had different forms. One was a lash of rawhide, 40 cm (16 in) long, attached to a wooden handle, 22 cm (8.7 in) long. "Punishment with a Great Knout" Knouts were used in Russia for flogging as formal corporal punishment of criminals and political offenders. The executioner was usually a criminal who had to pass through a probation and regular training, being let off his own penalties in return for his services. See also[edit] Crop (implement) A 30" (75cm) riding crop, with dollar bill to show scale A crop, sometimes called a riding crop or hunting crop, is a short type of whip without a lash, used in horse riding, part of the family of tools known as horse whips.
A modern crop usually consists of a long shaft of fiberglass or cane or which is covered in leather, fabric, or similar material. The rod of a crop thickens at one end to form a handle, and terminates in a thin, flexible tress such as wound cord or a leather tongue, known as a keeper. The thin end is intended to make contact with the horse, whilst the keeper prevents the horse's skin from being marked. The handle may have a loop of leather to help secure the grip or a 'mushroom' on the end to prevent it from slipping through the rider's hand.
The length of a crop is designed to allow enough leverage for it to be accelerated rapidly with a controlled flick of the wrist without causing the rider balancing problems. The difference between a crop and a whip. Cat o' nine tails. A leather cat o' nine tails pictured with a U.S. dollar bill for size comparison.
A U.S. dollar bill is about 6 inches (about 15 cm) long, so the total length would be about 30 inches (75 cm). The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment, notably in the Royal Navy and Army of the United Kingdom, and also as a judicial punishment in Britain and some other countries. Etymology[edit] The term first appears in 1695[1], although the design is much older. It was probably so called in reference to its "claws", which inflict parallel wounds.
Description[edit] The cat is made up of nine knotted thongs of cotton cord, about 2 1⁄2 feet or 76 cm long, designed to lacerate the skin and cause intense pain. It traditionally has nine thongs as a result of the manner in which rope is plaited. Variations[edit] Historical punishments[edit] Naval types and use[edit] [edit] Napoleonic wars period[edit] In H.M.S. Welcome to MEO - Welcome to your Phantasies. Welcome to Mr. S Leather - When You're Ready for the Good Stuff!
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