Grand Prize for Worst aftercare ever. Aftercare is a critical phase of a scene, after a scene one or both partner may feel terribly exposed vulnerable, shook up, emotional touchy-feely. There is no general-purpose approach to aftercare guaranteed to be effective. Different scenes, different tops, different bottoms will require different levels of aftercare and what may be just right in one instance may be ineffective, even harmful, in others. Even the same two people engaging in the same activities will find their aftercare needs vary from one scene to the next.
Good aftercare can rescue a weak, poor or broken scene, and make it worthwhile.
A scene has resulted in tears, screams or emotional release. It is highly subjective. Different personalities, tools, techniques, intensities will produce different requirements for post scene closure. One or the other players may have a partner or date waiting for them. Because it is often more intimate than the scene itself, one or both players may not feel comfortable hugging and caressing a partner they feel happy to take a flogging from.