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Today while going from place A to place B, I suddenly wondered whether there were vegan dominatrices? There must be, I decided, but that do they use in place of the canonical leather whip?

There is a “Vegan Dominatrix” Twitter, but the content is not very specific, and it has been idle since 2016. There is also a “Vegan Dominatrix” blog, I think unrelated to the Twitter. It updated only once, in 2009, but at least the single the post is pertinent to my inquiry.

Etsy user Kinkybutcute sells a line of vegan flogging devices made of bundles of waxed, knotted hemp or cotton cords.

This 2010 bulletin board thread asks for advice purchasing dominatrix supplies for costuming purposes rather than real use, and asks specifically about whips. There are some suggestions.

More than one site contained a link to Veganerotica.com, which went defunct around 2012. An archived version of their main page says:

VeganErotica.com manufactures hand-crafted vegan bondage gear, whips, belts, harnesses, and other vegan leather (a.k.a. "pleather") items.

Their site has a category for “hitting toys” but as far as I can tell, no whips. “Pleather” is a marketing name for a type of artificial leather. I am not sure if it would make a usable whip.