From a BDSM graphic novel called Death In The Harem, from Dofantasy.com.

Anyway, as Behind Kink described the scene:

“Figging,” for those of you new to the practice, is the act of placing a shaved ginger root into a person’s anus to induce a tingling or light burning sensation. Recently on an EverythingButt.com shoot, Maitresse Madeline figged one of Kink.com’s newest models, Mason. But the procedure went awry when the “fig” in question disappeared, vacuumed into Mason’s butthole as if her ass were a hungry little mouth. Mason recounts her anal misadventures here, a tale as cautionary as it is entertaining. Don’t try this at home, kids!

If you follow the Behind Kink link, there’s a video of this incident that includes a lot of graphic closeup figging shots; it’s free and it’s well worth your time. I’m also flattered to say that Kink.com included some of the Figging.com artwork (which we comissioned from Patty a few years back) in their video explanation of what figging is:

Here’s the best and clearest screen grab I could get, that shows the ginger fig they used. Note the fairly minimalist base:

Seriously, you can do better than that yourself, and you should! The base of a good ginger fig should be a lot wider than the inserted part. Start with big ginger and you won’t have a problem with this.

Now here’s Mason, describing the experience in her own words, as transcribed from the video:

“It was a regular everyday shoot, going to work for Kink, for Everything Butt. I was really excited because it was actually my first girl/girl scene that I was gonna shoot. So, the whole premise of the shoot was just basically your everyday girl-dominatrix and I was being the sub. And, Lochai wanted to include a ginger root, or… it’s called figging, and it’s the act of putting a shaved fig [of ginger] into the ass. It creates a burning sensation around the sphincter, and like a cooling sensation at the same time, so I guess that’s the draw towards it. So my dom sticks the fig up my ass, and at first we’re having a lot of trouble having the fig root stay in my ass, it keeps like, slipping out, or for whatever reason, just not staying in. Anyway, I go to turn around, and I guess readjust or something, and all of a sudden, like, my asshole just [she makes a slurping noise] up the fig root. And I sort of realized what has just happened, and I’m like, I just did this, I ate the fig root, my ass just ate the fig root! So we stopped the shoot for a second, to try and figure out what we were going to do about this. So, they’re all reaching in trying to get it out, filming at some parts just because I think it was humorous.

It’s clear in the video that everybody remained in good spirits; they were taking it seriously as a problem, but even Mason was laughing pretty hard about it:

So, they’re getting out the pliers, we tried everything. I think we tried enemas, I think we reached up ever niche, we could no longer feel it, we had no idea where it had gone! The next thing you know, Worker’s Comp is called, and I’m being taken to St. Francis Hospital, where I got to go through Porn Shoot #2 of the day, with ingesting fluids for them to scan my body, and all the nurses coming to stick their fingers up my ass, and yeah, it was awesome!

I got to do a lot of publicity that day for Kink as far as what exactly goes on around here. Well, long story short, I don’t know where the fig root is today. The doctor said it was organic quality, and that it just might break down, and that it will come out, but I don’t really know. It’s a mystery. It’s possibly somewhere in my body, or, hopefully, it’s come out by now.

Although I think someone at Kink.com may have made a fairly elementary mistake in figging best practices, I am nonetheless impressed by the way they kept their cool on the set, kept things lighthearted, yet treated the situation properly as a safety issue and got Mason the medical care that proper prudence demanded (even if, to be honest, it seems to have turned out that there was nothing much medical professionals could do that Kink.com’s own ass professionals had not already done.)

Sir finally walks in, and places in front of my face a butt plug made of ginger. It smells amazing.

Really, they could make it into a fragrance and it would be all the rage.

“Are you focused?” Of course not, I want to say, but I know better.

“I’m focused on the scent Sir. May I ask what is that?”

“It’s called Ginger and it won’t be the smell that you’ll be focused on for very long. Tonight is the first of your Friday Ass-Fucking Nights. I want you to be very focused on your asshole throughout this entire discipline session. Do you understand Heather?”

“Yes Sir. I am to be totally focused on my asshole until you instruct otherwise.”

“Good. To aid you in that endeavor, I’ve made you this present. You’ll have it in for 25 minutes, after which I will lube you up and take your ass. For the position you will hold I want your ass up as high as possible and I want you to bend so that your nipples just touch the bed spread. Face forward and staring at the headboard. But first spread your cheeks for me darlin.”

Immediate compliance is generally the best bet and has never served me poorly before. So I lean forward, rest my chest on the bed turning my face to him and grab a good amount of each cheek and pull taught. Not so tight that movement is painful, but enough so that I’m fully visible and accessible to Sir. With a little bit of spit, sir eases the veggie-plug into me.

“Get into position! You will be clenching your butt for me for 60 seconds at a time, followed by 30 seconds of rest. I have the stop watch and will let you know when to switch. You’ll have one warning if I feel you aren’t clenching hard enough. After that, there will be additional repercussions. Is that understood?”

“Yes Sir. Um, sir, it’s starting to get a little warm and tingly?”

“Perfect, that means it’s working. Begin clenching now.”

The first 60 seconds just had a slight increase in that pleasurable warmth. This really isn’t bad at all. I wonder why Sir would think I wouldn’t clench appropriately? The second 60 seconds showed that the we hadn’t reached the plateau yet, and it might still get more intense! By the fifth clench, there was no doubt in my mind — this fucking hurt! My ass was on fire. If I could play with my clit a little, it would completely distract me and I’d be able to handle it no problem. But that was Sir’s intent- to make me aware of nothing but my poor asshole!

Somewhere around my fifteenth minute of clenching Sir gave me my first warning. But how could I keep clenching? My butt was tired and every time I clenched it just made the ginger burn that much more intensely! The next minute, he said calmly, “You’ve earned an infraction.”

So today was the day I finally did it! I inserted a whole big piece of ginger! It’s wonderful! Hehe…

My boyfriend is out of town and I was eager to experiment! I’ve already gotten off like 4 or 5 times thinking about it!

I cut up the ginger excitedly! The smell is intoxicating! I love it!

I put on cute little loose booty shorts and nothing else and mentally prepared! I was looking forward to that familiar and intense burning pleasure again, like a drug.

I pulled my shorts to the side and rubbed the ginger around my nervous pink asshole to ease the process, and then slid it in.

Nothing at first.. just cold, mild discomfort. So I did what any girl would do in that situation. I clenched my little butt a couple times really fast, just to see… but that did it.. which brings us to this very moment..

The burning exhileration I craved is intense and deliciously painful…I love it!

Spanking And Figging gallery (3rd row, last pic, clicking here may also work)

My friend returned from Frolicon bruised and exhausted but overflowing with NRE. Eager to live vicariously through her adventures, I asked for all the pertinent details. She told me any number of intriguing stories but the one that captured my attention the most had to do with the meeting of ginger and her pretty bottom.

Yes, she tried figging for the first time, and now that I’ve heard her enraptured praises of the practice, I feel that it is my absolute duty to try it as well.

When trying figging on a subbie with very sensitive skin LIKE MINE – a pair of cuffs and a strong dom is needed to keep them down, and a gag is preferable to stop the neighbours phoning the police!!

But the after affects were amazing – after the intense burning came the overwhelming desire to come, making the dialogue extremely interesting in between the screams – it went something like this -

YOU BASTARD SIR I HATE YOU, get this out my arse NOW, I wanna come Sir, PLEASE LET ME COME! (repeat all 10 times at least, interspersed with loud screams)