Last year I joined (XXX) fraternity at --------- College. Hell Week is supposed to be against the rules, but that's bull_s_h_i_t_, everybody knows all the frats still do it. XXX is a tough frat, a lot of jocks, ROTC, criminal justice majors, it's not for pussies. The toughest part of Hell Week was the initiation whipping on the last night. My ass was raw for a week, but I took it like a man and I can't wait til the next rush, when it's my turn to be doing the whipping.
Initiation night all the pledges were told to be at the house at midnight. There were six of us. The members were all wearing Hell Night uniforms, black workshirts and black pants. We were told to strip naked and go down to the basement.
The basement was made sound proof with a lot of house insulation painted black. The only light was a bare light bulb in the middle of the room, right over the Lady of Pain. That's a thing like a big X made of wood, bent in the middle so the four arms of the X are bolted to the floor and the center is raised about three feet high, with a round naugehide thing in the middle like a diner stool.
All the members stood around the sides of the room. We pledges were told to go to the front of the room and face the wall. Then one of the members called for Joey, the guy next to me. He went.
We could hear him being told that the only acceptable answer to thee questions he would be asked was yes. If he gave any other answer he was to put on his clothes, leave and never return.
DO YOU WISH TO JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD OF XXX?
YES.
ARE YOU READY TO PAY THE PRICE OF BROTHERHOOD?
YES.
HERE IS THE PRICE OF BROTHERHOOD. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
YES.
LAY DOWN ON THE LADY OF PAIN.
YES.
The sound of creaking when Joey laid down on that thing, then the sound of tape ripping off the roll while they taped his arms and legs down to the arms of the X. Then a big whoosh and Smack! ONE. Smack! TWO. Smack! THREE. By EIGHT, Joey was making grunts but hadn't yelled yet. Smack! NINE. Smack! TEN. He yelled when the guy said ELEVEN. And he kept on yelling with every smack. That was the worst part for us, even worse than the whipping, to face the wall and hear that going on behind us. By THIRTY Joey was crying and screaming. Smack! THIRTY ONE. Smack! THIRTY TWO. When they got up to FORTY he was crying and screaming so bad it sounded like he was choking. Finally Smack! FIFTY. The sound of the tape coming off. REJOIN THE PLEDGES. Joey came back and stood next to me he was crying out loud like a baby, I thought he was being a pussy about it but that was because I wasn't whipped yet.
They called TIM.
When he said THIS IS THE PRICE OF BROTHERHOOD. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? he showed me the whip, not really a whip like in the movies but a long thing like a school pointer only made of leather, real snappy.
I laid down on the Lady and they taped my arms and legs down. I heard the same whoosh and then the whip hit my ass. _f_u_c_k_, it felt like my ass exploded! It got worse and worse with every Smack! I gritted my teeth, I wasn't going to puss out. But I guess the whole point was to make me puss out, because the whips got harder and louder. By TWENTY I couldn't take it anymore, I yelled. My ass was in serious pain, every smack of that whip felt like somebody broke a wasp nest over my ass. I made it further than the other guys, though, I started to cry around THIRTY EIGHT. Nobody is tough enough to get their ass whipped like that and not cry or yell. You don't know how that hurts, it hurts like the worst thing you can think of, like being on fire or burned with frying oil! I understand it now, it makes you strong, it makes you a real man. When you gone through that much pain you know nothing else can ever hurt that much again, you aren't afraid of any pain.
I took my fifty, so did the other pledges. When I finally got back to my place I went in the bathroom and dropped my jeans and looked at my ass in the mirror. It was all red, almost purple, and I had whip stripes all over it already turning black and blue. There was blood in a couple places. It hurt. But I took it. And next time Ill be doing the whipping.