My 5 Best Riding Crops for Erotic Spanking and BDSM

In case you didn’t know, a riding crop is an “implement” or whip which is primarily designed for whipping horses during horse-riding races to make them go faster or encourage them to do things. However, they’re also very popular in BDSM as impact tools, finding a second niche as BDSM spanking tools for beginners and advanced spankers alike!

Most modern riding crops consist of a fiberglass shaft which is firm yet flexible and covered in leather or a similar material. The handle is usually thicker than the main shaft, making it easier to hold, and the whipping end has a tress, leather tongue, cord, or a similar piece of material called a “keeper” or a “popper” which is the part that hits the horse/human. In this guide I want to introduce you to riding crops, explain why impact play is so popular, and give you my recommendations for the 5 best riding crops for BDSM that I’ve found online. Let’s go!

Using Riding Crops for Impact Play

Impact play refers to any kind of sexual or BDSM-related activity where one person hits another person consensually for the purposes of sexual pleasure. Impact play is often experienced in addition to sensation play, where a dominant partner may tease a submissive partner by exposing them to certain sensations with erotic BDSM tools.

For example, a “Cat of Nine Tails” whip can be stroked across the skin seductively, perhaps even tickling the sub before suddenly being cracked across their butt or another safe spanking area. When it comes to riding crops, the dom often strokes the crop across the sub’s bottom, teasing them as they anticipate a spanking from the riding crop.

With impact play, it’s important to set boundaries and safewords, especially if you’re going to be spanking pretty hard. Many subs use the “green, yellow, red” safe word code to indicate how painful the impact is becoming. For example, “green” would mean “that feels great, keep going”; “yellow” would mean “that’s good but I’m approaching my pain limit”; and “red” would mean “stop immediately”.

Why are BDSM Crops so Damn Erotic?

I mean, why is lingerie erotic? Why is sweat erotic? Why is being blindfolded erotic? We could talk all day about complex biology and the wiring of the biggest erogenous zone – the brain – but it’s kind of difficult to explain an innate human interest in something, erotic or not. Nonetheless, after my little spiel there, I’ll try to give you the common reasons that spanking is so erotic and popular in the BDSM world.

Masochism

Some people simply derive sexual pleasure from pain. They might like vanilla sexy spanking or they might like serious impact play with BDSM crops, paddles, whips, and chains. Masochists find pain and/or humiliation sexually arousing, although everyone has their limits.

Punishment/ Submissiveness

Many sexy spanking fans enjoy impact play because it makes them feel like they’ve been naughty and they’re being punished by their dom. Similarly, being spanked symbolizes one partner being submissive and the other being dominant, and that power-play relationship is a turn-on in itself for many. OTK spanking (over the knee spanking) is commonly accompanied with verbal cues like “you’ve been a bad boy/girl” which indicate a power dynamic between the spanker and spankee.

Roleplay

A lot of roleplays revolve around the idea of being spanked or “punished” for one’s actions. For example, schoolboy/schoolgirl and teacher roleplays often involve spanking, as well as parent and child roleplays (i.e. a “daddy” spanking his “son” for misbehaving).

Anticipation

If they’re blindfolded, facing away, or enjoying some OTK spanking, then the spankee won’t be able to see the spanker. This creates excitement and anticipation as the bottom nervously awaits the next impact. This excitement is heightened if the dom teases the sub by gently rubbing or stroking their ass with the riding crop/flogger between spanks.

The Best Riding Crops for BDSM

There’s actually a fair amount of variation in BDSM riding crops, so here I’ve taken 5 of my favorite crop whips to share with you!

Wrapping up Riding Crops

Hopefully you enjoyed this foray into the world of riding crop BDSM tools! Remember to be careful, get consent, and use safe words and/or safe signals depending on whether the sub is gagged or not. Also, if someone gives you a riding crop as a present, remember not to look a gift horse in the mouth. There. I did a horse pun. I had to do one somewhere.Have fun!