I have never been bound while receiving flogging and only one of my four bottoms is regularly bound and he’s bound for most activities, not just flogging. Personally, I have trouble being comfortably bound while maintaining a good position to be flogged in, because of physical limitations on my part and being bound isn’t really my thing. Impact play is something very therapeutic for me, especially because I have chronic pain. I can be submissive to someone topping me but it’s rare, there is often no D/s in me receiving flogging.