"The Whipping Post" by Delta (delta@bc.sympatico.ca). During the early predawn hours a woman's friend binds her naked to the whipping post in the center of town. It is the town in which she grew up but where she no longer lives, and she has harbored fantasies about being exposed to and beaten by the citizens. {It sounds to me like one of those recurring nightmares.} To her horror - and pleasure - she is recognized by some of the people who take advantage of the opportunity to beat her naked body while she has several public orgasms.

I generally dislike stories of beatings and public humiliation, because I find them to be incomprehensible and annoying. I found this one to be incompressible - but just properly so; I kept thinking that this didn't quite make sense, but at the same time it did make sense in a strange way. Likewise, I found it to be annoying - but mostly because I knew I was enjoying something I didn't want to be enjoying. In a way, this is like a Deirdre story with more of the details.