A cautionary tale indeed!

All I can say is cocoa butter and more cocoa butter lol. As ever written in your inimitable style flops, a great article :)

Rhino Bottom looks a very scary sight indeed! Haha! Many thanks Flopsy for your delightfully humorous warning. Now we spankees have been forewarned we have a very real reason to rightfully demand that our spankers lather our posteriors in lotion after each spanking! Oh it's a tough life!!! ;-D

It's not my rear either! :D
S

Sorry. Without more proof I don't accept the denials! Show us some evidence that it is not your rears!

My name is Catharsis and I am a rhino bottom.

It has been 79 days since my last spanking.

My bottom looks and feels normal (that is, well-toned athletic bubble-butt) most of the time.

However, when I have been spanked for a minute or more, my butt becomes a hard surface. It reddens as normal, it hurts as normal, but if you tap it with your fingernail in this state, it clicks!

I believe this condition comes from frequent severe spankings... skin is damaged, then heals, then is damaged again, and eventually heals in a slightly more disorderly form, which is harder.

The condition of Lichen Simplex Chronicus, or LSC, is similar. Frequent scratching of an area of skin causes an eruption, which itches, which causes more scratching. Over time, the skin becomes thickened and darkened, with its lines more pronounced ("lichenization").

At times I have gone over two years without being spanked, but within a minute of solid spanking, the hardness returns.

I will be happy to present my assets, both unspanked ("before") and spanked ("after"), as a demonstration to anyone whe writes their request for a demo upon a $100 bill and sends it to me.

LOL I would never plan on getting that close, Flopsy.

B.

OK. So what's the cure or - more importantly- how does one prevent it from happening? Inquiring minds want to know. LOL.

Thanks for the laughter, I would think one must get spanked very regularly and very hard to attain such a bottom. There are those of us who loved getting spanked but now we will have to be very careful in making sure we do not get afflicted. Cute and very funny.

I too have 'rhino bottom' and it is exactly as catharsis describes. It is not perennial. When unspanked my bottom looks and feels no different than any other. It is only after a hard spanking that a leathery feel develops. Now, in my case there is no clicking. The tissue is still pliable.....just leathery. The ironic part....as catharsis mentioned.....is that the condition does nothing to reduce the intended effects of a spanking. We rhinos kick, wriggle, and oooch & ouch our way through a spanking just like non-rhinos......it's just that after a while the flesh swells and feels tough to the touch.

Once you have it, I tend to doubt much can be done to get rid of the condition, but for those of you who don't have it and don't want to get it the solution is simple: avoid hard spankings with solid implements. It seems that you can spank someone ruthlessly with a slapper or tawse....or even a hand.... and rhino bottom won't develop as it would if you used a wood or synthetic paddle. The common ground among rhinos is a long history of long, hard paddlings.

I am rereading several areas of the LSF, this is tremendous, a light funny story by one of the best writers, thanks.

I hope I do not encounter one except of safari!

Is this more likely to occur with implements that penetrate deeply, like a cane or heavy paddle?

Apparently, I have this condition, though I was unaware that it had a name. I guess I should tell my wife to use the strap instead of the hairbrush

Despite the fact that I take aspirin daily, I don't bruise - well, my butt doesn't bruise. I thought this was general until I fell over a chair in the dark and pranged my inner thigh - I had a big black and yellow bruise for a fortnight and stopped the aspirin until it went away.

It might be true, some of my friends practice Karate and their hands are tough and they can break bricks so when spanking long enough it might toughen. Just wondering if I am spanked long enough whether my bottom will be tough enough to break brick. LOL.

Glad I tried 'lucky dip', or I might have missed this wonderfully amusing submission. I'd say this makes a good case for tender after-care. Once all is forgiven, of course.

I read somewhere that models who have been at it often and for a long while, such as Leia Ann Woods and Samantha Johnson (to name just a couple) use lots of aloe, moisture lotions or something called arnica by the 55 gal. drum to repair the damage left to their bottoms after hard sessions with strap and cane.

Wood in the form of paddles would cause this affliction but leather straps or floggers would probably leave the bottom in its natural state. One of the most effective and painful implements is a rubber soled plimsoll which wouldn't have this affect. The cane - well I'm not so sure.

Thanks for some useful comments. I have avoided it but know of one person who has got it and he gets withdrawal symptoms if he goes two days without a beating. It seems sensible to use the wooden paddle in moderation from what people are saying,

There was a model an NuWest known for her ability to take anything. Well I knew her after she retired and her butt, in her fifties, would just start bleeding with no impact at all. Spanking her was out of the question, much to her disappointment. I also knew a very attractive young lady with a nice bubble butt that got it at least weekly (probably more) with a hard hairbrush. After about ten years of this her once beautiful bubble butt looked like saggy cottage cheese, if that makes sense. I have seen, in British videos, older male subs where the skin just sort of hangs off of their ass. I think the answer to this is use more stingy leather, fewer wooden paddles and such, and no bloody canings. GIve some time between spankings Bruises mean you have destroyed capillaries, and probably larger vessels, and all that has to repair. After a point in no longer can. That is flesh you are beating on.

All very sound and true comments above.
My arse cheeks do go leathery very quickly these days when being strapped or caned. They didn't when I first "came out" and I have the photos to prove it, but I don't seem to bruise much these days unless she hits my thighs. Maybe my enforced (ie not by choice) sabbatical will do the trick.