EL James has just gone too far! Has she lost the fucking plot??? Like, who thinks that up? You're in the kitchen, making a stir fry, and light bulb!! C'mere, honey! Why is the gingerroot peeled?
Figging - Learn About BDSM and This Botanical Butt Plug
BDSM: Theory and Practice of Figging - Franklin Veaux's Journal — LiveJournal
Most people talk about figging in relation to the Victorian form of at-home punishment for wives. However, it was thought to have started much earlier…. It was the Ancient Greeks that first used this as punishment for female slaves. Later, it was taken up by the Roman Empire.
An Intro to Figging—The Kink Where You Put Ginger in Your Butt
Figging is a form of sensation play that was once a form of animal cruelty but has since been adopted as a human kink. The wonders of sex never cease. Though ginger is the most common foodstuff for figging, you can use anything that gets you, well, hot. Great question! Today, people do it because they like to, well, feel the burn.
Previous Entry Next Entry. It's a practice with historical roots; allegedly, this technique was developed during Victorian times as a way to discipline wayward women. In any event, it's great fun for people who enjoy moderate to fairly intense sensation play, and it's quite unlike anything else I've discovered. At its simplest, figging is the practice of peeling and carving a piece of ginger root into a butt plug and inserting it in the anus. The ginger oils gradually create a warming, then a mildly burning sensation, that becomes much more intense if the recipient squeezes down around the root.