And Now! Disappointing Sadists Everywhere!
Just forewarning any new readers, and old readers who have forgotten, that M and I are BDSM toy snobs and pretty heavy into S&M. Any BDSM toy reviews we do are written from that perspective.
I was so excited when I put in the order for the Black and Blue Strap Whip by Spartacus from Eden Fantasys. It’s been forever since we’ve been able to purchase a new flogger.
We love, Love, LOVE flogging toys. Like, so much so that I didn’t even bat an eyelash, years ago, when M found a $300.00 kangaroo flogger that was absolutely gorgeous and decided to buy that instead of paying our car insurance.
Not that our car insurance was $300.00. Just that we wouldn’t be able to pay it if we ordered the kangaroo flogger because we’d be out of money for two weeks or so.
I read the Strap Whip’s description and wrinkled my nose a little at the length. Twenty inches, tip to tails. Just barely longer than our handmade suede flogger. Probably just as light. But that shiny, stiff leather looks like it could do some damage. It looks like it could be a nice edition to our toy box.
So I squeed all over the place and couldn’t wait for it to show up.
My enthusiasm dissipated when I opened the box.
The packaging for this toy, in a word, sucks. It’s just a thin, folded, plastic sleeve about half the length of the whip. The whip was folded in half inside, which left a rather disappointing crease in the falls. I’ve hung it on the wall and smashed it between books and flat surfaces with the hopes of removing the crease, but I’m not holding my breath.
It smells absolutely fabulous. Like my softball glove when I was a teenager, or the tack of the horses at the ranch I volunteered for. If I could bottle that smell, I’d wear it all day. If I was going to buy a product on smell alone, this would be it. Read more…
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