Originally posted on Yahoo 360 on Sunday April 6, 2008 - 03:26pm (CDT)
(picture chosen especially for Pip)
I will start with the usual disclaimer that nothing is quite universal so you may find different answers other places, but these guidelines tend to be a good place to start.
The difference between a cat and a flogger lies in the number of tails, or falls.
Generally speaking, if a whip has few enough tails that you can count them by looking, then it's a cat. However, if there are so many tails you would have to separate them with your fingers to count, then it's a flogger.
Another general guideline is that a cat has somewhere between two and twelve tails. Yep, that's right. While the most famous is the old cat-o'-nine, a cat need not have nine tails, many have 8 or 6 or even 5.
Cats also usually have woven or braided tails, but they need not to be counted as cats.
Between twelve and twenty we run into some ambiguity, but usually a whip with tweleve to twenty tails, or falls is considered a "double cat", though if the tails are unbraided or are not unique in some other way, it may be considered a flogger.
A whip with twenty to forty falls is considered a flogger. Usually flogger falls are unbraided, but not necessarily so. Floggers made of rope, sometimes with knotted ends, tend to be popular as a warm up or cool down toy. And as all rope is made up of braided fibers, if you make a flogger out of rope you end up with braided or twisted falls.
A flogger with forty or more tails (I've seen up to eighty tails on some) are called mops. These whips tend to be very heavy and are not used much, though.
So, just to recap:
2-12 tails: Cat
12-20 tails: Double Cat or small Flogger, depending on tail construction.
20-40 falls: Flogger
40+ falls: Mop
And that, boys and girls, is your dose of kinky technical sophistication for the week.
Now, this week's trivia question:
How did the original cat-o'-nine come about? What was it made of and why did it have 9 tails?
Ms. Betty
I will start with the usual disclaimer that nothing is quite universal so you may find different answers other places, but these guidelines tend to be a good place to start.
The difference between a cat and a flogger lies in the number of tails, or falls.
Generally speaking, if a whip has few enough tails that you can count them by looking, then it's a cat. However, if there are so many tails you would have to separate them with your fingers to count, then it's a flogger.
Another general guideline is that a cat has somewhere between two and twelve tails. Yep, that's right. While the most famous is the old cat-o'-nine, a cat need not have nine tails, many have 8 or 6 or even 5.
Cats also usually have woven or braided tails, but they need not to be counted as cats.
Between twelve and twenty we run into some ambiguity, but usually a whip with tweleve to twenty tails, or falls is considered a "double cat", though if the tails are unbraided or are not unique in some other way, it may be considered a flogger.
A whip with twenty to forty falls is considered a flogger. Usually flogger falls are unbraided, but not necessarily so. Floggers made of rope, sometimes with knotted ends, tend to be popular as a warm up or cool down toy. And as all rope is made up of braided fibers, if you make a flogger out of rope you end up with braided or twisted falls.
A flogger with forty or more tails (I've seen up to eighty tails on some) are called mops. These whips tend to be very heavy and are not used much, though.
So, just to recap:
2-12 tails: Cat
12-20 tails: Double Cat or small Flogger, depending on tail construction.
20-40 falls: Flogger
40+ falls: Mop
And that, boys and girls, is your dose of kinky technical sophistication for the week.
Now, this week's trivia question:
How did the original cat-o'-nine come about? What was it made of and why did it have 9 tails?
Ms. Betty
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