Eight measured strokes

Impact & Spanking Positions

Impact play is the consensual, controlled striking of the body’s padded, muscular areas — classically the lower buttocks and the backs of the thighs — with the open hand or an implement such as a paddle, flogger, riding crop or cane. Position is what makes it safe and satisfying: these eight arrangements present the target areas steadily, keep the spine, kidneys and joints entirely out of the line of play, and give both partners an agreed frame for warm-up, rhythm, checking in and stopping.