Quote Originally Posted by sm8591 View Post
Either i'm made of steel or the risk is rather limited and perhaps different from person to person. It is true that hits on bones make darker bruises and are more painful but i consider such hits as unavoidable if one exposes his/her body to whipping. So far i never got awareness of any damage, but the reaction and strong warning made me a bit uncomfortable. Trying to hit specific area's isn't easy and it is even more difficult to avoid some spots.
Well, getting back to trying to respond to the question "Are there risks with whipping?" the short answer is "Yes, there are" and I listed those that I am aware of.

I know that a person can become "hardened" to a whipping, i.e. be able to accept more and/or harder strokes, and it is almost certain that your have indeed become hardened yourself therefore more able to tolerate a whipping than when you first started. I also remember reading that people with more body fat tend to have more resilience, and it looks like your are built that way!

When you say "the risk is rather limited" that implies being able to quantify that risk - I would doubt (but may be wrong) that there is any definitive information such as "you are taking X percent risk of damage when whipped on this part of the body". I interpret risk warnings more to mean "for the average person the risk is unacceptably high", which is of course just an opinion as the definition of "unacceptably" may vary widely from person to person.

But as we also know, just because someone has managed to cross a busy road numerous times without actually getting hit by car doesn't eliminate the possibility that they will end up in hospital or the mortuary next time they try it!

Now you have received the strong warnings, you are evidently more "risk aware" than you were - in my own opinion that doesn't mean you need stop what you enjoy doing. The trouble with those videos (where the pictures came from) is the possibility of someone looking at them and thinking "wow that looks fun" and unless they are surrounded with warnings like "don't do this unless you really know what you are doing" someone could end up unnecessarily hurt.

Hoping this helps
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