February's offering, I think, was advertising a film or early video. Because it wasn't part of a photo-story I could just my imagination loose on it and it wasn't hard to do. The girl just happened to look like a girl called Jackie who I'd become very friendly with at school. However it never really became a full-blown boyfriend/girlfriend relationship because she had some important exams coming up and her father decided she wasn't applying herself enough to study at school. As a result he sent her two evenings a week to a private tutor which left too little time for us to see much of each other. The idea that a private tutor might employ methods like this to a lazy teenage girl to get her to concentrate more on her studies and that Jackie might have found herself in this position certainly got my imagination working overtime.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Favourite for February
Having launched the short series of my personal favourites last month I have come across a number more that have always pressed some buttons for me and I think I'll aim to post one every month for a little while to come.
February's offering, I think, was advertising a film or early video. Because it wasn't part of a photo-story I could just my imagination loose on it and it wasn't hard to do. The girl just happened to look like a girl called Jackie who I'd become very friendly with at school. However it never really became a full-blown boyfriend/girlfriend relationship because she had some important exams coming up and her father decided she wasn't applying herself enough to study at school. As a result he sent her two evenings a week to a private tutor which left too little time for us to see much of each other. The idea that a private tutor might employ methods like this to a lazy teenage girl to get her to concentrate more on her studies and that Jackie might have found herself in this position certainly got my imagination working overtime.
February's offering, I think, was advertising a film or early video. Because it wasn't part of a photo-story I could just my imagination loose on it and it wasn't hard to do. The girl just happened to look like a girl called Jackie who I'd become very friendly with at school. However it never really became a full-blown boyfriend/girlfriend relationship because she had some important exams coming up and her father decided she wasn't applying herself enough to study at school. As a result he sent her two evenings a week to a private tutor which left too little time for us to see much of each other. The idea that a private tutor might employ methods like this to a lazy teenage girl to get her to concentrate more on her studies and that Jackie might have found herself in this position certainly got my imagination working overtime.
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When our 18 year old failed to achieve the required Grades in her 'A' Level exam to get a place in University. We naturally gave her a good row .She tearfully apologised and asked us to allow her to try again.
We felt that her new resolve needed support and on recommendation ,approached a female tutor who had a no none sense approach! We gave permission for her to use the cane although she hoped it would not be necessary !But it was and when my wife picked her up after the third lesson we learnt that she had recieved 4 strokes for shoddy work. We were pleased as it sent a clear messageto our daughter! Her work improved no end after but was caned several times during that year reducing her to tears on a couple of occassions, before doing well in the 'A 'levels exams!That was 12 years ago! BD
When spankings were normal for daughters in yore.
Janus editors said in 1979 - naughty daughters should be given a "sensible panties down caning at home". And so the phrase "parents who care, cane", gotten into the lexicon.
Spare the rod spoil the child - why, yes, lovely photo, James. Another contender for the front cover of my memoirs. Authentic & visceral. This was normal discipline for me & my sister when we were bad: cane to bare botty. For sure, in 1960s Georgia, no other punishments for daughters existed at home (Ok, James, straps were more common than canes) and so bare, red botties were a fact of life: integral to Southern culture, social mores, Christian church advocacy & suburban life.
Oh my! Moreover, it was also a fundamental aspect of African American girls to have a strict, CP-based upbringing - this is an understudied, less written aspect of the spanking literature review, James. This subject needs more analysis. My many African American sisters at work, at church, at my gym, tennis club & in the community have discussed CP with me over decades; & they gotten such wonderful evidence & stories to tell. CP was normal. Y'all gotten whooped !! The wokerati conspire against us to change facts.
Photo shows the great, late Alan Bell: owner & founder of Roue. I discovered Janus & Roue as a University student in Atlanta in the late 1970s. It was compelling & mesmerizing, already. Nearly all my girlfriends at University had gotten spanked. It was normal! And so we naturally exchanged spanking anecdotes & experiences. Why yes, British & European daughters also gotten their bare backsides smacked, caned or slippered by their moms n pops, 1960s & 70s (& even 80s). That was normal too. Sadly CP then ascended. So the sound of the classic, black plimsoll on a girl's bare buttocks dwindled across the UK.
Roue & Janus provided me with a fact-based, authentic framework of corporal punishment (especially for daughters being raised) which translated my own 1960s/70s' childhood canings into a perfect, immediate entity. I do not like spanking fantasy, James, because in Georgia & south Carolina et al, spanking is simply a visceral reality!!
I am 62 now, & when I was a naughty child, this photo shows the result. I met my redoubtable, furious (if kind!) God-fearing mom in the living room & gotten scolded with my hands on my head. Then my 1950s dress was lifted & my 1950s cotton, white knickers pulled down to my knees. I bent mover the sofa for 12 strokes of the rod on my bare buttocks. I screamed like hell with the sting. My panties gotten pulled back up. My dress smartened down. Then sent to my rom. I had gotten suitably chastised "in front of God" Oh my! The cane on sensitive bare buttocks is the perfect punishment in my book: safe, stingy & harmless in the "tough love" Southern tradition. No wokerati required, James.
The most awesome, thing James, was to see my lovely lil' sister have her squishy-white botty bared & smacked with the cane. Her alabaster- white botty went scarlet! With her loud wailing. It was just normal. It was just good parenting as instructed by the church. And I found it fascinating & I vividly recall those images & memories every day.
My gorgeous, lil' sister (now also in her 60s ha-ha! Oh my!) & I are so very close, "thick as thieves". She sure is less obsessed with her childhood spankings than I am, but she is still very keen to talk about them. That sure is a "Southern thang," James!!! Just like bourbon, country music, craft beer, cheerleading, baseball & church, already!
Iconic photo. That was just normal life! As indeed it should be. And as indeed it was for my own two young, traditionally raised daughters (yes, cane to their bare bottoms when they were bad, from yours truly), who are now long left home, in their mid-thirties & staunchly pro-spanking.
Good wishes & thanks, James.
Brenda xx
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