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Spanking and Bruises

Here is my version of a guide to spanking and bruising.

People have mixed emotions when it comes to a bruised butt from receiving a spanking. Some people will take every precaution to avoid any clear indication that they have received a spanking. It may be to hide the marks from their spouse who has no idea of their private spanking life, or from the curious eyes of others in the gym locker room, or maybe just to avoid the embarrassing conversation with the doctor during their next checkup.

For others, they like to see bruised bottom after a hard spanking and wear their marks like a badge of honor. I know there are many of you out there that check your butt a dozen times a day in the mirror, just to see the results of your punishment. It may seem odd to some people, but there are many people out there that find a bruised bottom to be sexy. It is not really that a purple butt is more attractive, but it is a visual reminder of an experience that, at least on some level, was sexy and exciting.

Looking at bruising from a medical point of view, bruises (contusions) occur when small blood vessels under the skin tear or rupture. Blood leaks into tissues under the skin and causes a black-and-blue color that often turns colors, including purplish black, reddish blue, or yellowish green, as the bruise heals. Gravity can affect a bruise and if it grows beyond its original size, it will generally go down. Typically, thinner blood can affect the ease in which someone bruises. If you take a daily anticoagulant or blood thinner, such as aspirin, you may tend to bruise more easily.

Family history, diet, dietary supplements, and gender can all affect how easily you bruise. Women in general have a greater chance of bruising than men. Genetics can play a big part, so if your parents seem to bruise easily, you may also react the same way. Your diet can greatly affect how easily you bruise. The main factors that influence how easily you bruise are vitamin C, K, or B12. In addition folic acid plays a big role. All of these components have a direct effect on how your blood clots and deficiencies in any of these can lead to bruising more easily and the bruises lasting longer. You can help your body maintain proper levels of these by making sure that you eat plenty of whole-grain and enriched breads, cereals, and grain products, vegetables, fruits, milk, cheese, yogurt, meats, poultry, fish, eggs, dried beans and peas, as well as tofu. Just as there are many things you can put in your body that can help avoid bruising, there are also dietary supplements that can increase the likelihood that you will bruise from a spanking. Dietary supplements that may increase bruising include fish oil, vitamin E, garlic, ginger, and ginkgo biloba. Any of these supplements used in conjunction with a blood thinning medication will almost guarantee that you will bruise easily.

The implement used for spanking can also greatly influence whether marks will remain when it is all over. My experience is that not everyone is affected the same way by each implement. Obviously, a blunt force sort of implement like a wooden paddle or a hairbrush has great potential to bruise the bottom, even from a single swat. Thinner implements such as small diameter canes have the potential to really compress deep into the skin and produce parallel bruises, affecting the areas above and below the point of impact. Implements that are long and flexible tend to produce increased bruising at the very tip of the implement. As the implement is swung, due to the flexibility, the end of the implement travels at a much greater speed than the part closest to the hand. You can generally count on the bruises to be more severe on the butt cheek farthest from the spanker. Repeated blows to a single area of the bottom will obviously increase the chances of that area being bruised.

So, what do you do if you have a particularly severe spanking that leaves you with unwanted pain and bruises? For the pain, you use the standard RICE method, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Just as with any typical injury, these things combined can greatly reduce the inflammation to the area. I have seen pretty good results with a few topical remedies including arnica gel and witch hazel. These can be applied directly to the bruise and I have personally witnessed pretty amazing results with arnica. If you are a smoker, reducing your smoking for a few days can speed up the healing process. Smoking has a direct effect on blood supply which is a big requirement for tissue repair.

Posted by Michael Masterson on 03/14 at 10:46 AM