Manswers

This short video tries to explain why so many people enjoy spanking and offers some interesting statistics as well.

Trouble is that I enjoy scenes that involve corporal punishment on the hands or legs as well as just the bottom so I don't think they've fully answered the question.

Websites

Long time no blog - I must try harder!
To get things back on track I've just added two text based websites to my links because I still enjoy a good traditional spanking story. Laura's Spanking Corner is a long established site that I've known about for years and features a few stories I wrote a long time ago. I've also put in a link to one called CP at School - might have also been around for a long time but I hadn't come across it and (aside from some irritating typos) there some good classic school based stories with a little more leaning to potentially credible real-life events than many of the more far-fetched fantasies out there.

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This wonderful image (taken in Dublin Zoo) was found on a new blog site - very new as yet but I've noted the address in case more material of this calibre appears....

Venn diagrams and coincidence

Okay, this is going to sound weird (what's new) but bear with me. For some reason I found myself thinking about Venn Diagrams this morning - remember them from school maths? You draw circles where the area represents the size of a population and some parts of the circles overlap because some entities belong to more than one population. So if you draw a large circle representing how many people support Manchester United and another one representing how many people live in Manchester, there will be an overlap (quite a small one...) representing those Manchester United supporters who actually live in Manchester. You get the idea.

Well, I've no idea why this thought process came about but I was thinking about a Venn Diagram showing a circle representing spankos and another representing nudists and thinking that those who fell into the overlap (pun intended) area could have quite a difficult time. Now, anyone who isn't a spanko will just think I'm nuts, but I'm sure fellow spankos have these bizarre thoughts all the time (please, reassure me that it's not just me!).

Anyway, what was weird was this afternoon I came across a new website I hadn't looked at before and came across this picture of two people who clearly fit into that overlap category of my diagram...

Nothing like being stuck in one place...

...for twelve hours with nothing to do for starting a bit of creativity. I used to write a lot of spanking stories and as per usual I still have about eight or nine unfinished (or unstarted ideas). One I had an idea but just couldn't see how to make it work, another I was close to finishing but couldn't come up with an ending, another needed a twist to make it different to any others I've written or read. By the end of a very boring (otherwise) 12 hours they're all back on track. One question - do people still read spanking fiction? If so what's the most convenient form to publish? PDF files perhaps? Not sure how the security works with them - I know how to strip out personal details from Microsoft Word files but it's not a good distribution format but I'm not sure what might be buried in a PDF - anyone help?

Incidentally it's a good distraction from on-going health concerns.

Pain

I may not be a sub - I am definitely a top - but I can also switch a bit, and so I can get a rush of adrenalin and endorphins from pain in a play setting like many people. However, there's pain and then there's pain. Since my last blog I've been in a pretty nasty accident. I'm not hospitalised but I had a nice man come and stick a needle in my bum to reduce pain and redness which I might ordinarily have found amusing. Bit of a humour bypass at present. I've been given some of the heaviest duty painkillers they allow you to go around with but they're not working. I can't sleep, lie down, sit up, walk.... you get the picture. Right now I'm feeling sorry for myself and apprehensive - I may have to go in for some scans to check for internal injuries and I'm probably a bit scared what they might find. Pain isn't always much fun.

It gets worse

With my current mood of depression about the growing anti-sex approach of the British authorities by trying to criminalise ordinary consenting adults, I somehow missed the events happening at Westgate School until just now. As well as redefining prostitution and sex they seem to just want to drive everything completely underground when only the extreme, the illegal, and the most abusive, coercive and exploitative practices will survive and those just wanting harmless consensual fun will be denied or driven elsewhere. I'm fortunate to have the chance to often visit more liberal parts of the world if I want to explore such behaviour but it's a dreadfully retrograde state of affairs in the UK right now.

It's also depressing that parts of the CP community want to join in the legal bashing of individuals by using the courts to obtain IP addresses of users of a large file sharing website in order to try to track down and bring legal action and public humiliation on individuals who have allegedly downloaded illegal copies of some of their products. That many of the products concerned are being sold at contemporary prices but are of anything but contemporary quality might explain the reluctance of people to pay the originators but one also suspects they don't make it easy for people to pay (no, you can't have my credit card details and provide automatic re billing until I say stop - not sure what I do if you don't...). Until the providers sort out their pricing, distribution, and so on they don't get much sympathy from many.