[QUOTE=Jones, Nikka]In answer to your first question, after a severe caning or whipping F. usually covers my buttocks with a thin towel upon which he holds a plastic bag with about three ice-cube trayfulls of ice for about twenty minutes, a process he repeats about an hour later when possible. This does not completely eliminate bruising and welting but makes the swelling less painful. Also any cream with vitamine E will help the healing process.QUOTE]

Hi Nikka, hi all..........

Just to add my fourpennyworth on the subject of healing, I agree with Nikka completely (curtseying to her superiority on this topic!), but I also use a TheraFlex hot/cold gel bag which I put in the ice box of the fridge if I know I am liable to be on the receiving end of a caning. The gel bag stays very cold for a time and helps bring down the swelling - oh I use a thin bit of linen between my butt and the bag.

Bruising I normally treat with herbal Arnica cream which seems the best stuff I have found to dispel bruising. Both the cold pad and the arnica help after a caning and probably reduce the time that my backside remains painful. But.....................

Hope this helps.

Love, Jane