A whip is a single tail instrument, so that one of the first differences, however there are a few that are more. Whips can be very, very dangerous if not used properly, whips can break bones. The crack is actually a small sonic boom, a whip travels at nine hundred miles an hour when it does this. If someone is not skilled in whip usage they can seriously injure a person.

Floggers tend to have several falls, even the heaviest thuddy floggers could never do the kind of damage a whip can, no matter how big and strong a dom is, it's not what a whip can do, it can certainly break skin, and hurt like hell but whips can break bones.

I like both, but I've been trained to use a whip, the issue with whips is they require a lot of space, even a small whip needs a lot of head room, or side room if your swinging side ways. I am 6'4" and you need to swing your whole arm, mine is about three feet, add a six foot whip to that and I need nine feet of space to swing, it's not always something you have to work with. Floggers rarely if never require that kind of space, so as a toy I use all the time, I much prefer floggers. less