Pervertable

Pervertable (frequently misspelt "pervertible") is a term originally coined by David Stein to describe ordinary non-sexual objects, especially everyday household objects, that can be used sexually, particularly in BDSM play such as spanking.

Some objects become so commonly 'perverted' that manufacturers produce and market models designed for this 'luxury' market. As their products are often modified (safer, sexier, easier to handle, more painful, etc.) the objects cease to be true pervertables.

Rationale in BDSM

As humiliation is sometimes a part of BDSM, the choice of the object may be intentionally humiliating in itself, as the victim is thus associated with a very young child (e.g. diapers), with a lowlife, or with a non-person, such as an animal (e.g. a fly swatter) or even filth (e.g. a toilet brush).

The same subjective effect can also be obtained by 'perverting' the submissive's body as an object, e.g. as furniture to sit or rest the dominant's feet or rear on, storing objects in his/her underwear or orifices (mainly oral and anal) or even parking a bike between his/her buttocks. (See Fornophilia) Such methods are not uncommon in hazing either.

Common Pervertables

Spanking implements

Not counting instruments normally designed for utilitarian hits, such as fly whisks, some of which originally were used for discipline (e.g. swagger stick) nor objects called club, stick, rod, whip etcetera; these include :

• bamboo skewers
• belts
• books
• brooms (as stick or also as a birch if made of branches)
• brushes, especially bath brush, hairbrush and curry combs (both sides may be used if the hairs or spikes are firm to hard)
• carpet beater or rug duster
• chalk board pointers, rulers and yardsticks
• clothes pins
• fireplace pokers
• flails
• hockey sticks
• newspaper, magazine etc. (rolled up)
• oars
• plant materials such as ginger, nettles or certain vines
• ropes, cords and cables (for whipping; also for tying)
• shaving strops
• shoes, boots, golf shoes and other cleats and footware (the Plimsoll shoe is a classic)
• table tennis paddles, cricket bat and various sports rackets
• Suribachi - Japanese food prep tool
• towels (especially wet, to increase the weight)
• spoon, spatula, whisk, ladle and other cooking utensils such as a cutting board

Almost any object can be used, baring those too frail or cumbersome. Often the choice is guided by convenience (e.g. availability) or fitting into role play, such as objects associated with various professions or fetishism.

Other teasing and pain infliction

• Ball lock
• banjo picks
• candles (see wax play)
• cooking oils and shortenings (for massaging)
• edibles, such as whipped cream, peppers, fruits and vegetables, etc.
• feathers or feather dusters (for tickling; the second also as stick)
• ginger (see figging}
• gloves and oven mitts
• handkerchiefs as blindfolds or gags
• ice cubes
• knives
• lighters, matches, etc.
• medical equipment
• mentholated rubs
• nails, pins and needles
• rasps
• Saran wrap
• Snake bite kits (to provide suction)
• Sweat scrapers
• various tools
• vibrating devices, even as remote as a washing machine
• especially large, solid objects are also used passively:
  • to tie the victim onto, e.g. a vaulting horse or vault buck, a sawhorse etc. as an improvised punishment horse, a barrel etc. to be bent over
  • for the victim to lie upon, as chair, table, bdd, etc.
• rubber bands and other constructive items

Ultimate pervertable

• Christmas tree netting machine - enough said!
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References and external links

• Ecstagony- Dictionary of flogging instruments

List of Spanking Implements
Flat spanking implements bath brush (wooden or plastic) belt bimmy cooking spatula (wooden or plastic) dough scraper (rubber or silicone) flyswatter hairbrush (wooden or plastic) leather paddle Newspaper paddle (wooden paddle) ping-pong paddle ruler (wooden or plastic) slapper/flapper slipper / Plimsoll strap / Strop tawse wooden spoon Stick-like spanking implements blackboard pointer cane (rattan, bamboo etc.) crop ferula stick switch yardstick Other spanking implements baccalà (clipfish) birch carpet beater Quirt rope's end scourge stinging nettles Whipping implements include bullwhip cat o' nine tails chicotte (an African whip) flail flogger horsehair whip human hair whip klopfpeitsche loopy johnny martinet quirt rebenque (South American gaucho whip) rubber hose single-tail whip sjambok (South African whip)
Some spanking implements produce more "sting" while others produce more "thud". See "sting and thud" for more on this distinction.

A Personal Note from Robin

Pervertables are not restricted to "spanking devices"! At a recent trip to my local Walgreens, I came across an expensive method for creating an inexpensive Funnel gag using "Snap Capp"!

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