Originally posted by e.e. norcod However, in my opinion, inflicting bodily injury (bruises that last several weeks), is not part of bdsm. Let's keep that reserved for our fiction. [/B]
I respectfully disagree. Your limits are not my limits. While a severe instrument, I think canes are on the mild end of things when compared to a knife, scalpel, or singletail.

I have contracts and long negotiations with Dommes just so that they know exactly how far they can go. In such an environment, I think there can be room for anything. I've cut, been cut, bitten through skin, been bitten, and even been stung by a scorpion during one scene. Each was something I agreed to beforehand for reasons contained in my own desires. As such, I think bdsm is the perfect, if perhaps not the only, environment where things of a damaging nature can occur and not cause psychological torment... at least not psychological torment that isn't intended (please pardon the x2 negative).

As for better chastisements, I think that's best left between the Dominant and their submissive. What is effective for one pair or group may not be for another. This post is case in point.