My late wife loved to see marks the day after, the only reason she minded being fat was that she was too well padded to bruise easily.

I love to see where I've been, my favourite toys all leave pretty red stripes, but I'd rather not leave long term bruises and welts: as Miner says, it limits what you can do the next day.

Before I had any hands-on experience of beatings, I realised that the line in "Story of O," where her Doms agree that they should keep her whip-marked all the time, was fantasy: in a month or two her back would be like leather, and where's the fun in that?