Mistress Maria, egged on by her handsome beau and male representatives of the Gynarchy Church and State, can't wait to add her own stripes to the slave's back courtesy of her whip. Indeed, the only male in the scene desperately hoping that her female whip will not be unfurled is the slave himself, who is desperately trying to curry favour with his mistress by kissing her outstretched foot. But it's four against one, so the strong likelihood is that her brown leather whip will indeed soon be cracking through the air and down onto the pitiful slave's back!