scootah

How hard is it to not be condescending to the lunatics screaming theories at you?

North of 125 Billion dollars and people think you'd invent a pandemic and a vaccine to get the information of people who already carry smartphones everywhere? Just... Why? All your responses seem so much more measured and polite than I'd be able to manage.

Hi Dr Karl!

I'm a Brisbane based pervert and a fetish performer and I sometimes do skill shares why I try and explain the technique and reasoning for the way that I hit people as part of BDSM play and performances.

When I explain stuff, I try and explain the physics as much as I can. But I'm an IT guy who's got an incomplete bachelor of business, and who recently returned to uni to study health care. Most of what I know about physics is from year 10 science classes, Mythbusters, and self education on the internet.

When I talk about the physics of spanking people, or hitting them with whips, paddles, canes or what have you, I generally talk about Newton's second law (F=MA), Newtons or FPS as a measure of impact, and how mechanical efficiency impacts the amount of energy that's being transferred, and how quickly it's transferring. I also talk about surface area of the impact and how that changes the way the energy transfer might feel.

Then I talk about leverage, and the leverage and acceleration as a whip 'wraps' around something, and about things like energy transfer medium and compression (about how energy is used in compressing air trapped at the point of impact, or how water isn't compressible under the circumstances at hand, and a wet hand will transfer energy differently than a hand cupping and catching air at the point of impact).

When I talk about these things, I'm not talking to scientists, I'm just talking to whatever collection of people interested in BDSM happen to want to learn a bit more about hitting people for consensual adult entertainment. I'm mostly just trying to explain to people what they should consider before the act, so they can predict how things are going to work out with less trial and error.

Are there any other obvious areas that you can think of that I should talk about? I also talk about a bunch of things like physiology and where to hit people to get predictable results, technique for how to hit without causing injury or unwanted excessive pain, and to the best of my knowledge - how the biochemistry of being hit with things and having it feel good works, and the implications of manipulating personal biochemistry to get a good feeling out of it. I've been able to talk to lots of medical professionals about those areas over the years and they've been able to give me a pretty comprehensive list of things to research or work on understanding, but talking about the applied physics of the activity with engineers or physicists has always been a bit problematic - so I'm never sure if I've thought of all the important things to research.

Thanks in advance! Scootah

Do you have any thoughts on gender equality when bottoming and groups like Hitchin Bitches that work to see more gender diversity for rope tops?

Do you condition your own rope? What's your conditioning process? Do you start with raw jute or pre conditioned?

Do you prefer asa nawa style loose twist braid or tight twist braid style tossa?