I would take the whipping over even one week in prison. I would utterly hate being in prison. I hate being forced to live with others. I despise the type of people who generally wind up in prison, especially burglars and drunks. Being a handsome young man, I would probably be coerced into homosexual sex with another inmate; the only way to prevent it would probably be to stab or beat someone to death, which would add additional years to my sentence. The food would be horrible; I would constantly miss the outside world; I would be unable to make love, swim, jet-ski or use the internet. Someone would have to take care of my cat, which would disrupt their routine. Fuck prison. Why would anyone possibly choose prison?
The lashing. I’d even wear a hair shirt.
Ever seen an episode of Locked Up Abroad?
Bring out that whip and I will gladly bend over, compared to the horror stories those people went through in sometimes less than 10 years!
I’ve been caned- not in Singapore, but I doubt the procedure changes significantly from place-to-place- and can attest to the fact that it hurts like bloody hell at the time, but the aftermath isn’t the Huge Hairy Deal everyone was making it out to be when the Fay case was in the spotlight.
I’d take the whipping, unless it was a very nice prison, in which case it might be nice to have someone else taking care of me for 10 years. 
So, was this voluntary or involuntary?
As long as there was no permanent damage done, I would take the whipping over anything down to about 90 days.
I didn’t realize one choice was having people lick me.
I choose that.
Which time? 
:eek:
A lashing in a flash. There is no temporary pain that would compete with years of confinement.
This might be relevant, depending on why the OP asked the question:
I had two friends when I was younger who chose 6 months in jail over 5 years probation, because they didn’t want to be drug tested for 5 years :rolleyes:.
I would go with the lashing. One cannot guarantee that they won’t get the lash while in the prison.
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Definitely the lashing, and since that seems like such a no-brainer for most people, I too think it is interesting to note how short the imprisonment would have to be before it would be preferable to the lashing. For that question, I definitely have different answers for before I was a mother and now that I’m a mother. My baby’s only 11 months old. To not see him (or rather, have me gone and him have no idea where I went) is such a sad thought that I think I would take the lashing instead of a very short time in prison. Maybe even a month. Crazy. Before I was a mother, I think prison would have to be a good six months before I’d take the lashing.
If the OP doesn’t mind, I’d like to try a related one.
What if, by some magical means (or some new discovery/implant) they could, instead of the sentence, make you suffer pain(/sickness/<insert horrible feeling>) for a given duration instead. For example, give you pain roughly equal to a very bad headache/minor migraine nonstop for the 10 years, no medicine will make it subside (but of course, it would help any pain you got on TOP of it). Feel free to elaborate on other scenarios, like what balance you would accept. (Almost crippling pain for 5 years? A never ending paper cut on every finger for 20?)
And why wouldn’t the OP mind? In fact, everybody, let’s talk about dolphins.
In China Mieville’s novel The Scar, a character has to make this exact choice. She chooses the lash. It sounds very painful and humiliating. She becomes very ill for quite a while, and is permanently, severely scarred by it. However, I imagine 10 years in prison would scar one in other ways. Not I choice I hope ever to have to make, but I would choose the lash and hope that I would pass out or be able to go into a dissociative state or something to cope with it.
So now you’re up to about 18 years?
The lashing.
I’d take the lashing instead of 10 months. I don’t do cages well.
Everyday spent in prison would be a whole day you’d feel like a sucker. I’d take the lash.