Fig­ging, The art of Gin­ger root play as used in Play or pun­ish­ment is BDSM and slave train­ing is dis­cussed in the fol­low­ing article.

The Art of Gin­ger Root Play

by Mas­ter Michael aka Propane7@aol.com

When I first wrote an arti­cle on fig­ging some years ago, I received, not sur­pris­ingly, a heap of e-mail from lifestylers who had never heard of this. They were most appre­cia­tive to have received the

infor­ma­tion though, and many were anx­ious to try the tech­nique. I thought that with a new crop (no pun intended) of Doms and sub­bies enter­ing our com­mu­nity, I would rewrite the arti­cle. If you’re already famil­iar with fig­ging, you may skip to the next infor­ma­tive arti­cle on the list. If fig­ging sounds like an old Scot­tish sport, you’d bet­ter stick around and read on.

Fig­ging, anal play (or tor­ture) using gin­ger root, seems to be an art that is increas­ingly ignored. Maybe it’s because there isn’t enough infor­ma­tion passed on about it or per­haps with the advent of fancy salves, chem­i­cals and potions that can mimic gin­ger, lifestylers don’t want to take the time needed to pre­pare for this activ­ity. Either rea­son pre­cludes a plea­sur­able and mem­o­rable expe­ri­ence. While there is still con­tro­versy as to the ori­gins and rea­sons to fig­ging, it is fairly well agreed upon that it dates back to the Vic­to­rian era. Men­tions of fig­ging can be found in some Vic­to­rian lit­er­a­ture. Back in those days, the Vic­to­ri­ans were a fairly bawdy, per­verted, kinky bunch behind closed doors (ya gotta love them). Can­ing, a very pop­u­lar form of pun­ish­ment, espe­cially for the female mis­cre­ant, was ele­vated to an art form itself. There is evi­dence that fig­ging actu­ally had its begin­nings when gin­ger was used in a can­ing victim’s anus to pre­vent her from clench­ing her but­tocks dur­ing pun­ish­ment. While I’ll expand on this later, clench­ing one’s butt while it hosts gin­ger causes an intense burn­ing sen­sa­tion. Now why the Vic­to­ri­ans didn’t want to see the vic­tim clench her rear is beyond me. I mean, that is one of the best parts and fur­ther­more oh, yeah, fig­ging. Sorry about that. Some­how, the prac­tice was picked up as a tech­nique unto itself in the lifestyle. I have prac­ticed fig­ging for many years and have turned many subs onto it. While it is a fairly easy tech­nique to mas­ter, some care is nec­es­sary and proper prepa­ra­tion is required. So, let’s delve into the world of gin­ger (or Gilli­gan and Mary Ann). Gin­ger, in its nat­ural state, is sold as a “hand”. For you non-gourmets, it’s called a hand because it some­what resem­bles one. The pro­tu­ber­ances from the hand are called, yes Martha, fin­gers. Unfor­tu­nately, many super­mar­kets now pre­cut the hand into fin­gers and pack­age them as a con­ve­nience. What’s the mat­ter with them! Don’t they real­ize they are mak­ing it dif­fi­cult for us Doms to tor­ture our sub­bies butts??!! I mean really sorry again. Stay away from the pre­cut stuff unless you’ve had enough expe­ri­ence to safely play with small fin­gers. Celeste, no wise cracks here!! Find a place that sells a hand. If the super­mar­ket doesn’t have any, visit any ori­en­tal gro­cery store.

Buy the largest hand you can find and scurry it home. Keep the entire hand in a cool dry place until you are ready to use it. The sooner you use it, how­ever, the bet­ter the effect unless you age it prop­erly which I’ll get to later. When play time rolls around, I usu­ally like to have my sub bound, face down on the bed over a pil­low. No blind­fold here. I make it a point of allow­ing her to watch and hear me pre­pare the gin­ger. The antic­i­pa­tion is spec­tac­u­lar espe­cially if she’s never expe­ri­enced it before. The gyra­tions gen­er­ated from the antic­i­pa­tion alone are well worth the expe­ri­ence. Now you are ready to cut a fin­ger of gin­ger from the hand. Unless the fin­gers are very long, do not cut the fin­ger off at the joint of the hand. Remove the fin­ger by cut­ting down into the palm of the hand so that you get a long, uni­form width fin­ger. I like to use a fin­ger no smaller than 4 inches. Longer is bet­ter. Take a par­ing knife or veg­etable peeler and remove the brown skin. Make sure all the skin is off as well as insur­ing that all the bumps and knots are cut off and smoothed as well. Try not to remove too much meat under­neath, as you want to retain as full a fin­ger as pos­si­ble. Take your time and don’t rush this step. As you work, rinse it under cold water peri­od­i­cally to help wash away pieces of skin. Gin­ger is fibrous and some­times takes a lit­tle time to pre­pare prop­erly. If you’re into ori­en­tal cook­ing, you’ll love the del­i­cate gin­ger aroma that is released as you do this step. The smell is a great stim­u­lus for the sub as well. It her­alds things to cum (yes, pun intended). After you have the skinned root all smooth and nice, you now have to per­form the tricky bit. With the par­ing knife, about two-thirds of the way down the root, care­fully carve a con­cav­ity around the fin­ger. This will act as a reten­tion device. Sim­i­lar to a butt plug where the sphinc­ter locks around the tapered por­tion of the plug, the con­cav­ity will do the same thing. Make the ring no more than a half inch wide. Remem­ber; do not taper the fin­ger all the way down to the end. You want full cir­cum­fer­ence of the fin­ger two-thirds of the way down, a half-inch reten­tion ring and then full cir­cum­fer­ence con­tin­u­ing down to the end of the fin­ger. Do not carve out too much how­ever, as this will weaken the fin­ger and increase the pos­si­bil­ity of break­ing it while in the sub. You don’t need a very deep ring for retention.

After you have care­fully com­pleted this step, rinse the fin­ger off and dip it in cold water. Make sure the tip of the fin­ger is suf­fi­ciently rounded. You can always touch this area up with a knife or peeler. Now it’s ready to insert. Unlike your own fin­ger, you do not use lube with a gin­ger fin­ger. Lubri­cant acts as a sealant and pre­vents the gin­ger mois­ture from doing its thing. Instead, use the cold water to keep the fin­ger wet. Slowly insert the fin­ger into the sub’s anus. DON’T RUSH HERE. TAKE YOUR TIME. Wet gin­ger is slick enough to slide in with care. When the anus finally opens and accepts the gin­ger, slide it in up the ring and let the sub close around it. The beauty of gin­ger is that it takes a lit­tle while for the effect to take place. Once it begins, it builds steadily. While you are wait­ing for the fun to begin, go wash off your hands. You don’t want to touch your eyes or your sub’s eyes by acci­dent with gin­ger on your hands. Now sit down in a comfy chair and enjoy the show. Most sub­mis­sives will become rather vocal as the gin­ger works its magic.

Depend­ing on the for­ti­tude of the sub, the potency of the gin­ger and how much of a mind­fuck you pro­logue with, the reac­tions will vary. A few subs have reported that the gin­ger doesn’t do any more than, let’s say, Ben Gay, how­ever, they are far and few between. Most subs report that the effects were far greater than they imag­ined. Dif­fer­ent strokes for dif­fer­ent folks. To increase the effect, pinch your sub’s but­tocks together and hold them for a minute or two. This causes a big boost in burn­ing sen­sa­tion and if done every so often, keeps your sub awake. The effects of the gin­ger will last approx­i­mately twenty min­utes or so, after which, the effects dimin­ish rapidly. The nice thing about gin­ger is no mat­ter how intense the effect on the sub, you won’t hurt her/him and it is short-lived. Once the sen­sa­tion ceases, remove the gin­ger and go about your other ses­sion busi­ness. Gin­ger also has a prop­erty that puts it far ahead of any gin­ger wannabe sub­stance. The juice of the root has the abil­ity to cause incred­i­ble horni­ness. I have had subs begin to sob, beg­ging to have some­thing inserted into their pussies and to have orgasm. The reac­tion is ten­fold if the gin­ger juice comes in con­tact with the clit. Cut a small slice of gin­ger, mak­ing sure it has one flat side. Place this side directly onto the clit and hold it there. Depend­ing on anatomy, some women will be able to retain the slice on their clit with­out assis­tance. Apply gin­ger to the clit while the gin­ger butt plug is in place and watch the fun. I have expe­ri­enced some of the most stun­ning results with sub­bies using this tech­nique. I don’t have a per­fect sci­en­tific expla­na­tion as to why gin­ger causes such an aphro­disiac effect but suf­fice to say it works.

Being an equal oppor­tu­nity lifestyler, I don’t want to for­get the male sub and his Domme. Gin­ger is dyna­mite for CBT. Cut a juli­enne slice of peeled gin­ger. It should be approx­i­mately 1/8–1/4 inch wide by at least 1 inch long. Make sure it is smooth and that the edges are rounded. Use the par­ing knife “gin­gerly” for this task. Make sure your sub is tied down face up. Dip the gin­ger in water and slowly insert it into the ure­thra of the cock. Make sure you leave enough stick­ing out to be able to remove it eas­ily. The effect of gin­ger in a cock is almost imme­di­ate and the sub will react quite vig­or­ously. The burn­ing is incred­i­bly intense. If it become too much for your sub, remove the gin­ger and give him a minute’s rest. When the gin­ger is removed, the burn­ing sen­sa­tion drops dra­mat­i­cally. You can place it back down the cock to resume the fun. Even­tu­ally, the sen­sa­tion will wear off but not until the sub is spent.

Now for a lit­tle tech­nique that will “tur­bocharge” your gin­ger. Using your gin­ger soon after you buy it will assure potency. Stor­ing gin­ger, unpro­tected, for long peri­ods of time will rob it of its “zip”. How­ever, if you have any gin­ger fin­gers left after play­time, place it in a sealed, plas­tic bag and place it in the veg­gie bin in the refrig­er­a­tor. Now, like the aging of fine wine, for­get about it for a while. After a few days, check the gin­ger. If things are going well, the inside of the bag should have mois­ture on it. If a lit­tle mold has formed on the gin­ger, it’s time for play. If not, put it back in the bin for another day or two and check it daily until mold forms. The mold is harm­less and does not pen­e­trate the tough, fibrous skin of the root. Peel and pre­pare the gin­ger as before and play as usual. But look out! The juice of the gin­ger has increased dra­mat­i­cally in potency. If you think you had a good time when the gin­ger was new, wait till you play now! Any unused gin­ger should be dis­carded at this point.

Two words of cau­tion. First, if your sub is aller­gic to gin­ger (I haven’t run into one yet), don’t play with it. You can ignite an aller­gic skin reac­tion. Not good. Sec­ond, if by some chance the gin­ger breaks off in your sub’s butt and you can’t retrieve it, don’t bother with emer­gency rooms. They will only cause you a has­sle. Instead, just throw your sub into the wok with some chicken and enjoy.