I have a set of these that I use for Florentine flogging. I used these to learn Florentine with, so I believe they are good for beginner to advanced floggers. The insertable glass handles are beautiful and offer entirely different uses for these toys. The synthetic materials are easier to clean, but function much like similar leather floggers.

When they arrived, they both had a fishy sort of smell to the flails. I wrapped them with fabric softener sheets and left them like that for a few days to get rid of the smell and it never returned. Most people can't tell that the flails are synthetic and I like that I can clean them. The flails are also very narrow, making them very stingy rather than thuddy. The handles are beautiful and insertable glass.

They are very good for Florentine in smaller spaces. When at play parties, I often will put the handles in my pockets and let the flails hang and swing from my hips. The handles are on the thin side, but that does make them more versatile for parties. I have also used the glass handles as massage tools.

You can't easily sterilize these because of the flails, but you can use most any cleaner on the glass. If you kept the flails out, you could probably boil the handles. I wipe the flails with cleaning wipes regularly and it doesn't seem to have dried them out, or done any damage. I have found that the flails stay much nicer if they are wrapped in something for storage. I have a scarf I roll both floggers up in and then I fold them in half to fit in my bag. This keeps the flails nice and neat. In comparison to most floggers, these are easy to clean and to store.

The packaging was nice looking, but not very good to reuse.

These are great for play parties and if heavily used, they leave some beautiful, speckled marks. They can be used lightly for sensation play, or swung hard for a stingy flogging, but are not very good for those looking for thuddy floggers. The handles can be used for more of a thuddy impact play, massage, or penetration.