Have you ever heard of an acupressure mat?

An acupressure mat is a mat with a load of little spiky circles on it. But it’s a perfect badpad as well. A badpad is basically a flat device you put under a spankee’s bottom to either tenderize it beforehand or make it hurt worse afterward. As someone who owns and occasionally uses an acupressure mat, I can confirm that it hurts. It feels good after a while, but I imagine it wouldn’t be much fun on a spanked bottom.

There are other ways to make badpads — one is to buy a chair mat and cut out a piece of it for people to sit on. But I would go with the acupressure mat because it’s actually made for human use. You could also use a rough welcome mat that you might buy at Walmart, but my acupressure mat only cost me $20 and it rolls up in a way that welcome mats don’t. And there are other ways to use these types of devices — especially when it comes to kneeling.

Also, my acupressure mat came with a pillow — half a cylinder with the spiky circles on it. I haven’t yet used it by having a bottom straddle it and put her weight down on it, but I’ve always wondered what it would do. (I mean, I know what it would do, but I don’t know how bottoms would react to it.)

Oh, and one more thing — it actually feels quite good to lie down on an acupressure mat. So you don’t have to tell people it’s for BDSM; you can tell them it’s for your health.