Sometimes I despair...

Everyone should read this typically erudite and forthright article by Pandora Blake and wonder what the UK is coming to.  Not allowing the freedom to share spanking video material from a UK site is just the latest step in ineffective and wrong minded censorship.
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Favourite for December

December is a great time for warming chilly bottoms!

And isn't "the slipper" a great way to go about it.  It's odd that in relation to it's use in corporal punishment, especially at school, it seems to have always been referred to as "the slipper" as in "getting the slipper" or "getting a slippering", when in fact the implement used was almost invariably a plimsoll / gym shoe / sand shoe or whatever it was called in your locality.  I absolutely love it as a punishment tool for so many reasons.

For one thing, and perhaps an obvious one, is that when properly applied it hurts like hell.  It always sounds - perhaps especially because of the "slipper" connotation - as if it will be very mild compared to the cane but the reality can be extremely painful.  I once saw a boy aged about twelve or thirteen who had already been caned by the deputy headmaster once in the privacy of his office (and went on to merit about three further canings before he was expelled) who was given two very hard strokes with a plimsoll over the seat of his trousers bending over in front of the class who immediately burst into tears, thus losing a lot of "cred" with everyone else.

Because it was perceived as less severe than the cane (and it was, but just not as big a difference as people perhaps imagined) a number of schools that used to cane boys across their backsides would apply the slipper to girls - as the fashion for short skirts prevailed they would often have had less protection and may not have been getting off half as lightly as people thought.  It also makes a very loud noise which is quite intimidating in itself - especially if you were waiting your turn to get a similar treatment.  The instrument itself would not appear quite so blatantly to be a punishment tool - it would be perfectly normal to have such items lying around in the classroom or in the school generally without everyone immediately assuming that they were there to punish youthful miscreants.    It also has the big advantage over the cane that if you're actually feeling really annoyed with the person to be punished, you can let rip and hit them just about as hard as you possibly could without any real risk of causing long term injury beyond a few days of bruising.

That seems to be pretty well what is going on here - the teacher is venting all of her frustration through the plimsoll on the young lady's panty-clad bottom and the loud cracks as it lands time after time will be echoing around the largely empty gym hall.  You have to suspect that she will be very careful about not swearing in school in the future as she wriggles uncomfortably on hard wooden seats in the remaining classes that day.

Advantages of drawings over photos (5) - last in series

I sometimes find with drawings there's much more left to your imagination than with a photo.  Here a boy and girl have been caught misbehaving at school and sent to the headmistress.  After the ritual telling off the girl has been told to face the wall while the boy is given a humiliating and painful six strokes of the cane across his bare bottom.  Secretly the girl is sneaking a look and clearly enjoying the opportunity see her distressed boyfriend getting a red striped bottom.  As a girl she's safe from being caned herself and at worst might get a detention.

But what is actually going to happen?  Perhaps noticing that the girl has been turning to look, the headmistress will be so annoyed that she will decide to ignore normal practice and the girl will be bent over next with her skirt up and panties down.

Love Our Lurkers Day (s)

I'm not sure of the reasoning for us celebrating Love Our Lurkers day over two days this year but I guess it's a longer opportunity for some of those who normally view our blogs without commenting to add their voices..  Actually, recently a few seem to have been doing that anyway.  Even if you won't post to join us in this annual event you can rest assured that we appreciate the page views anyway.

Advantages of drawings over photos (4)

Even if a drawing is not especially sophisticated it can be really good at capturing a lot of things happening at the same time, and often more so than a photo achieves.  In this example the four characters all express different feelings even 'though it is quite a primitive style of art.

Working from right to left the girl who has just left the office clutching her throbbing bottom is red faced and tearful and has no thoughts for anything or anyone else but her own current misery.  The headmaster is stern and unmoved and keen to get on with things and deal with the other miscreants so he can get back to more important tasks.  The girl being summoned into the office for her paddling is trying to look defiant but you can also see the fear in her eyes and the positioning of her feet gives away her real trepidation at what she's about to get.  The remaining girl on the left of the image is not coping at all well - even though it's not yet her turn to be paddled she knows it's coming and is clearly distraught - perhaps she's never been here before but she's just heard the heavy pops as the first girl got a sizzling six swats and she's terrified by the knowledge that, inexorably, her turn will come, and she knows from common gossip that a paddling from the headmaster is an extremely painful experience.

Advantages of drawings over photos (3)

I talked on the previous "drawings" post about being able to have more spectators - of course there's no need to stop at a class full - it can be the whole school or even a theatre full of spectators adding to the ahame of the victim.

Advantages of drawings over photos (2)

The school I attended between the age of about 8 and about 11 years of age used to use corporal punishment a lot.  The thing that I find annoying - with hindsight - was that it was very trivial.  I didn't realise this at the time and went out of my way to ensure I never got it, but a regular series of miscreants would get hauled to the front of the class and whacked time and time again and although it was probably a real laugh to them because they knew from previous experience that it wasn't really done in a way that would hurt much, the rest of us were cowed into meek compliance through our ignorance.

However, I would say that I - and I think most of my fellow pupils - did quite enjoy the spectacle when someone was getting whacked with a stick, ruler, slipper or just the hand.  When people are shooting spanking scenes it would get rather cumbersome and expensive to employ models to just be in the class watching with interest as one of their colleagues is dealt with but of course drawings don't suffer such limitations.

This drawing came from Janus magazine and was provided to illustrate a story where a teacher decided to punish one of the older girls by humiliating her - she took the girl into a class of much younger pupils, put her over her knee and spanked her bare bottom.  It was very much the case that the girl would have elected a more severe punishment delivered in privacy rather than this humiliation in front of the younger girls, but clearly they were very much enjoying the spectacle.  I'm not sure we would ever have jostled for a view quite this obviously but I can certainly empathise with the excitement showing in the faces of the audience.

Favourite for November

It's great when you're the centre of attention disrupting class and making all you friends laugh.

However, it's really not so great when all your friends have left for home but you've been kept back after class by a very pissed of teacher.  There's just you and her and that cane that she's holding.  You know you'll be going home, late, and with a striped and very sore bottom.

Advantages of drawings over photos (1)

Sadly it's probably impractical, but wouldn't you just want to...

Favourite for October

One of the sad things about CP photos and videos is that as we get used to ever better quality and resolution of both, so we may disregard some of the older material that doesn't quite reach today's standards.  But, even if this is a bit grainy, and the colour isn't as good as we would get today, there's no doubt that this picture is likely to raise the pulse rate for quite a few readers.

Scotland says NO

So the referendum on Scotland seeking independence from the UK is decisively over with the Scottish electorate deciding against independence.  Now the rest of the UK is musing on why they allocate £1600 more spending for every head of population in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK.  What has Scotland ever given us?

Well, aside from haggis (no, thank you very much!), porridge, bagpipes and a rather dubious aquatic monster that may or more likely does not inhabit a certain loch, (none of which, it seems to me, worth us spending any money to encourage or preserve) we have to look a bit further.

There are, I suggest, three good answers.

Firstly Scotch whisky is unquestionably a great contribution to the world.

Secondly, there is the tartan kilt - although it is rather more pleasing to the eye when shown like this rather than on some hairy ginger Scotsman. 

Finally, perhaps the greatest contribution of all is the Lochgelly tawse - makes the package worth every penny!

Favourite for September

Okay, so I'm posting this just a few hours early but August has been a truly shitty month and the sooner it's gone the better.  So here's a classic shot to welcome September.

It's perhaps slightly unusual that this naughty schoolgirl has been made to keep her blazer on while she touches her toes in preparation for her well deserved chastisement but it probably adds to her discomfort.  Her posture is exemplary and being made to wait in that position must be very uncomfortable although knowing that when it ends it will be with her backside truly alight with pain perhaps lessens her desire to be able to stand up.  Lovely legs and bottom, pristine white knickers that her mother clearly made sure she was wearing when she knew what her daughter faced at school today, and the uncertainty about exactly what might be about to happen.  As well as the cane on the blackboard there are some formidable looking straps over by the wall.  It makes matters worse that she's been made to report to school at such a ridiculously early hour of the day for her punishment knowing that she'll be spending the rest of day sitting uncomfortably on hard wooden seats and wishing like crazy she hadn't sworn at her form teacher yesterday.  At least it should be over before her fellow classmates start to arrive.  She's hoping and praying that it won't be that cane.

The Kilahara Library of Spanking Fiction

The eagle eyed may spot that I have added the Library of Spanking Fiction to the Non-Commercial Websites on the right of the screen - in truth it should have been there a long time ago because it's a brilliant resource for free spanking fiction.  However it came about because one of their subscribers recently contacted them because they were trying to track down a story called The Cane Ratings that I wrote many years ago.  Having successfully found it the site operators tried to contact me and were rather surprised when I replied.  As a result they have just published a short series that I wrote called The New Society plus nine standalone stories.  I have been amazed by the instant feedback - although not quite as surprised as I was that someone was looking for a specific title of mine from so long ago in the first place!  I think most of these were written in the late 1990's.

A couple of these I had lost with a hard drive crash some years ago but I also have some other work from the era and more recent that I will be sending them in due course.  I haven't been writing much lately but I tended to try and write stories that were a little bit different - in two of the ones they already loaded (Forewarned and A Knock on the Door) nobody actually gets a punishment!  If you like spanking stories and hadn't come across this side of me, you might want to take a look.

Made me laugh!

Favourite for August

When young people go away to university the freedom and opportunity is exhilarating.  Most manage to reign their social life in just enough to get through but plenty don't.  It seems that a significant number of female students get a bit carried away with their new freedoms until they suddenly find that missed assignment deadlines or some careless plagiarism might be about to cut their academic career rather short, along with the social life that goes with it.

Is it therefore beyond the realms of possibility that when they're suddenly faced with a rather nasty reality check, some of them might be prepared to face a rather humiliating and painful experience behind closed doors rather than have to face telling their parents that they've had to leave university?  Okay, so the professor might be a bit of a perve, but this way, nobody else needs to ever know and they can carry on enjoying university life...

Girl spanked 300 times

Click here for the original source for this recent news story

The Star/Asia News Network

Thursday, Mar 13, 2014

A 15-YEAR-OLD Taiwanese girl who joined a "Spank Club" via Facebook was spanked some 300 times by a man, reported China Press.

After joining last July, the girl was contacted by a 31-year-old man, who claimed to be an important member of the club.

It was reported that the girl, who had claimed that she was 16 - the age of consent in Taiwan - agreed to meet the man at his house on July 21.

At the house, the girl stripped off her pants and underwear before draping herself over the man in a chair. He then spanked her until her bottom was bruised and swollen.

However, she was found out after her father noticed that she was sitting in an awkward manner in school and questioned her about it.

When she told him about the incident, he took her to the hospital for a check-up and threatened to sue the man.

The matter was later settled out of court because the girl had admitted to lying about her age. The Taipei public prosecutor's office had said that it did not have any evidence to charge the man.

Favourite for July

Denise had been in the headmistress' office once before for bad behaviour.  That time Miss Creasy had given her a very thorough telling off and she'd left the office with her eyes beginning to water.  This time she had felt better prepared.  Missing homework twice in the same week she'd been told to report to Miss Creasy at morning break so she had mentally prepared herself for another telling off and thought she would cope better.  However she'd been completely thrown the moment she walked in to see two canes and a paddle laid out on the desktop.  Before she could take in what that meant, Miss Creasy had ordered her to stand to attention and put her hands on her head.  Again, Denise could feel her eyes watering as the strict telling off began, but her eyes couldn't be distracted from the three punishment implements laid out on the desk.  She had to assume that they were there because the headmistress was pondering which one to use on Denise's bottom - something she had never experienced before because it was reserved for only really naughty girls, but which folk-lore around the school suggested was a rather dreadful experience best avoided.  She couldn't help wishing she'd chosen to wear trousers or a longer skirt and a rather more substantial pair of knickers.

The Slap

If you haven't seen this video yet, you really must.  Extraordinary!

Time to celebrate...

Favourite for.... the World Cup!

As the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, have England done enough?  Have they been practising those crucial penalties like the Belgians have?  Have they finally discovered how to make the best use of the "wives and girlfriends" (known in the UK media as WAGS)?

I do hope so!

Is it just me...?

...or do other spankos find themselves wandering around B&Q or Homebase or whatever DIY superstore, not with any DIY activity in mind, but looking at things and thinking "I wonder if that could be used as an implement...?"

Favourite for June

As the amazingly summer weather arrives to herald the start of June, everyone seems to be thinking about getting into the great outdoors..  And what interesting possibilities that brings.

I rather suspect that PhotoShop had something to do with this image but I prefer to suspend disbelief and hope it's for real.  In which case you have to wonder what this naughty young lass has done to deserve her public humiliation on top of a clearly effective spanking on her bare bottom.

Some may conclude from the lack of posts last month that I was on holiday or working away, or simply nothing interesting occurred to me regarding the world of CP - nothing could be further from the truth but I  need to go through things in my own mind more before sharing anything about it here.

Favourite for May

This is the calm after the storm of producing all the furniture postings!

Don't you just get the attitude?!   A couple of sharp smacks across her backside to try to get the message across but from the expression on her face it hasn't really done the trick and the only thing for it now is to take her inside and give her...

Furniture (Part 7)

I kept a few back from earlier sections for this final miscellany.

Let me be the very first to say that this actual scene is too brutal for my tastes but it's a great example of "accidental furniture" or inspired improvisation  Having the young lady bent across the fork of a forklift truck enables her to be positioned perfectly. She may only be loosely tied but the risk of falling is likely to go a long way to preventing her trying to move too much.  I love outdoor scenes and although I assume that the builders yard offered a pretty high level of privacy but there would probably still be some fear of someone walking out of one of the buildings and seeing what was going on.  Alternatively perhaps, when he feels the whipping has gone on long enough (err, a little while ago I would suggest...) her tormenter could get in the forklift, driver it over to the boundary wall and the start to raise her up so that she might be about to find herself on public display.

I'm sorry I could only find an old back and white image here but it's wonderful bit of improvisation.  Take one glass topped coffee table, remove the glass panel and put one hefty rod across the frame, and voila, the subject is perfectly positioned and pretty well jammed in place - an excellent position to administer a sound caning.  The beauty of this is that the table can quickly be returned to normal use and visitors would never guess the other use this couple have found for it.  Pretty uncomfortable for the subject but I would expect that the greater discomfort she is soon to experience in her posterior should be more than adequate as a distraction.  Here we have a genuine example of a crossover between "accidental furniture" and "intentioned furniture."

No question here but this is intentioned and although done in the style of a judicial device, and perhaps based on some original like that, this has clearly been born from the BDSM community by the very talented people at Infernal Restraints. Once again we have a lovely outdoor setting.  Once in place the girl is totally helpless and totally unable to see what is happening behind her.  She could simply be kept waiting for ages but at some point the chances are that someone, and she may never know who, is going to come up behind her and give a very thorough thrashing.  Then maybe she'll be left alone again not sure whether she's being watched, starting to feel chilly as the day gets later and rain threatens....

On a couple of previous occasions I've written about the fact that, while I'm primarily interested in being able to spank, strap, paddle or cane (consensually) a naughty girl, there is a small part of me that is interested in reversing the role.  There is one scenario I think about a lot - based on a time in my distant schooldays when I should undoubtedly should have been taken to the headmaster's office and caned (and it was still an option then) but in fact nothing happened,  I've also wondered sometimes what it would have been like to be birched - I'm not old enough for that to have ever been a real possibility but I did shoplift once while I was at school and again got away with it, but have a fantasy where I was caught and sentenced to the birch.  This final piece of furniture is clearly from the judicial part of the spectrum.  It's heavy and very hard and there are no concessions at all to giving the subject any degree of comfort or  scope to move. It's not hard to imagine a young offender being led into the room, stripped and then put across this device and have their wrists clamped firmly into place.  The sheer helplessness they must have felt at such times would have been enormous.

I hope readers have enjoyed this foray into a somewhat overlooked subject and may have even been inspired to try something different.

Furniture (Part 6)

Of course, not all spanking furniture is designed for use on adult web sites with a BDSM tendency.  Some have been produced for the real thing so for this penultimate foray into deliberately designed spanking furniture, we have some examples from the world of judicial punishments.

Many of these are now to be found in museums and always make a visit to any new museum a potentially exciting discovery.  The first one is a fairly through example with the ankles clapped at one end land the head and hands put through the holes at the far end and a sturdy leather strap to secure the target area tightly to the hard unyielding wood. Just simply being stripped and fastened into this rather cruel device would be likely to reduce the subject to a blubbering mess. 

This version does't go to the same lengths to secure the subject with just two holes, presumably for the arms to go through and then I would expect they would be tied together or handcuffed. There are straps to secure the ankles and clearly this was to be used for conducting birchings as we have such an implement left lying on the table for use next time. 

This looks like a big heavy device with lots of straps to secure the subject bent over the end of the table - again this is probably typical of furniture for carrying out a birching. 

Then we have two trestles that could be used to secure someone prior to a caning or whipping  At first glance they looks like they might be designed to hold something like a blackboard but the straps for securing the subject tell a different story in these examples from the CORPUN website. 

Of course the internet also has some example of judicial punishments actually being carried out.  The first example from Pakistan shows the subject tied to a trestle very like those above and fully clothed for a public caning.

Much more brutal is this example of a caning being conducted inside a Malaysian prison where the target area is bare and it is not surprising that the relatively flimsy trestle is being supported by soldiers because the cane frequently breaks the skin on such occasions and the subject is likely to be in a sever state of distress. 

If museums leave whipping furniture lying around they can't really be too surprised if visitors sometimes feel compelled to see how it would have been used.  In this case the subject has allowed her wrists to be tethered but although there is rope for securing her ankle as well that doesn't seem to have been used here and would probably not be all that necessary.  Incidentally I haven't seen any other pictures from this event so I don't know if they simply posed like this for the photo or whether she really did get that hefty rod across her rather shapely bottom. 

To be honest I think I've cheated a bit here because I think this is more likely to be from a BDSM site than begin a genuine judicial device  but it would''t surprise me if it was based on an original design from judicial use.  It's a wonderfully heavy looking piece of furniture and I especially like the very cruel metal hasps for the ankles and wrists.  The subject would be very completely immobilised and uncomfortable.

There's just one more part to this survey to go when we look at some more unusual items.

Furniture (Part 5)

Continuing with furniture designed specifically for use in administering corporal punishment - mainly on BDSM style sites - we have some slightly more unusual examples.

This is a fascinating design from Lupus Pictures forcing the subjects to remain in what is popularly called the diaper position.  It is highly exposing and humiliating as well as being very uncomfortable. It looks as if they're being made to endure that discomfort lying on the hard wooden base with their legs spread high in the air for a long period.  Their bottoms are also totally vulnerable, especially the lower more sensitive parts plus, if a very flexible instrument like a strap of flogger is to be used then it's quite likely to strike them in their bottom crack or on their pussy.  All in all, it's hard to imagine a more shaming and vulnerable device and even 'though they can see exactly what is about to happen they aren't going to be able to move at all. 

A lot of BDSM involves the subject begin tied and suspended and often the methods used actually impede the application of a punishment to her bottom - not in this case provided again by HerFirstPunishment.  Although she's likely to swing around a bit, she can't really control the movement to gain any advantage and it probably just means the whip is going to strike some very vulnerable places.  She can then also be left there for some time after the whipping is ended. 

Another popular theme for BDSM furniture is to have the subject seated on top of an edge to spread her legs - often the top edge is quite sharp to make them really uncomfortable, but many of those actually impede anyone trying to whack the subject's bottom.  This device from SpankingServer has the girl also tipped forward and solidly secured leaving her bottom totally accessible and vulnerable.  The padding would allow her to be kept waiting for some time contemplating the fate about to befall her.

Two views this time of a devilish device created by Infernal restraints.  The girl is totally immobile and the harshness of the rigid wood will hold her securely and painfully unable to move at all.  Interestingly, once she is locked in place someone else could enter the room and administer her beating without her being able to see her tormenter at all.  In fact, the punisher would also be unable to see her face so could potentially be thrashing someone he actually knows without realising it. Finally, if someone decides to engage in a little bastinado the girl will be perfectly placed for that as well as a more conventional thrashed bottom. 

Rather unusual materials used this time in this cunning piece of furniture from DeviceBondage.  It appears to be largely based on something akin to scaffolding joints offering a great deal of customisation to make it fit the girl tightly and in just the right places.  This is then enhanced by her head being in a box with a hinged lid so that - as in the previous case - she could be locked into place and then the lid closed so that she and her punisher could not see each other's faces.  I imagine it would be terrifying to be locked in, the lid closed and then hear receding footsteps and just wait, and wait, and...  eventually hear a creaking floorboard and know that it's about to begin - you are tightly tethered and powerless and extremely vulnerable. 

If you want your subject in a traditional touch-toes position but know they're no good at keeping still, this simple device from Hogtied could be just the answer.  Simplicity is the key although it doesn't do anything to stop the subject bending her knees except for the threat of extra strokes of that cane if they do. 

This very heavy looking piece of furniture also looks to hold the subject very securely and allow very little movement. It is clearly designed to be used in a variety of ways but this particular use looks very uncomfortable and present the bottom very nicely for something like a cane. 

And last for this part of the report is another heavyweight piece of furniture - this time from Hogtied.  The subject is held both securely and uncomfortably and can't turn her head to see who is about to do what to her nicely presented bottom.

Furniture (Part 4)

Now we move to the deliberately designed spanking furniture and I realise that this takes us more towards the BDSM end of the scale, and indeed many of the most interesting designs come very much from that world, and it may not be to the taste of everyone frequenting this blog.

We start in the world of the awfully nice people at Spanking Server/Pain4Fem with their take on a whipping bench - you will see that the bench is nicely padded for the comfort of the subject or so that nothing distract from the pain in the subject's bottom as it is caned.  Amy Hunter looks as beautiful as ever and the cane marks nicely illustrate that the bench presents the whole area of the subjects bottom to be dealt with.  it is interesting to note that there are wrist restraints but no ankle restraints' however with the front end of the bench sloping downwards, once secured by the wrists, the subject would be very effectively immobilised and powerless. 

A rather different piece of kit from Caned4Cash but again it's been thoughtfully padded.  Hand grips are provide and there is a nice little platform for the feet but securing the subject is largely unnecessary as, once they're in place, they will not find it easy to move very much at all.  The slight raising of the subject's bottom will probably mean that a high proportion of cane strokes will land on the lower half of the buttocks and to the tops of the thighs. 

Another nicely padded piece of furniture being used by Dallas on this occasion.  It's a much smaller piece of furniture than the previous two examples which could only be used in a proper dungeon setting or a film studio - this is much more suited to use in an ordinary domestic setting (although not exactly subtle enough to leave on permanent display in the living room).  There's a lot of thought gone into the design - it's lighter weight than the two previous examples but the feet are on the furniture rather than the floor so the subject can't push forwards.  The holes cut for the feet enable the subject legs to be right up tight to the wood and by securing the subjects thighs tightly to the wood, the capacity to move the bottom is almost non-existent.  It's also a relatively narrow top enabling the subject to bend right over it leaving the bottom, as colourfully demonstrated, ideally placed for, what has evidently been on this occasion, a jolly sound paddling. 

This is an altogether simpler piece of furniture with no padding evident to give any comfort.  Although the feet are now on the floor, by placing them to the outside edges of the wood, it will be possible but not easy for the subject to push the frame forward.  Secured at the knees and wrists there is ultimately no opportunity for escape but I think if she was kept waiting for a long time, this one would be very uncomfortable. This is perhaps moving slightly towards an attempt to portray more of a quasi judicial scene where the previous examples are clearly aimed at BDSM play.

This is an interesting take on a simple whipping table.  It would be extremely comfortable to be kept waiting like this kneeling on the hard wooden table with ankles, knees and wrists all tethered and - rather - obviously - the head in a position that the subject could not move from in any hurry.  All of the examples so far limit the subjects opportunity to see when the next stroke is coming but this one could do that most effectively.   The bottom is nicely presented for the punishment but it is also going to be very exposing and humiliating. 

By way of contrast, this couldn't be much more minimalist with the only "furniture" being the ceiling bean to which the subject is attached by her wrists.  She will be able to move a lot, including twisting around to see what her punisher is doing, but ultimately she's going nowhere.  This would probably be most typically used in a whipping scene where the tail of the whip might wrap around her body anyway - this appears to be a very simple version of such a device - in some cases there is rather more strapping around the wrist and the height of the tethering point can be adjusted so that the subject's feet could be lifted off the ground completely. 

This is about as simple as specifically intentioned furniture can get with a rather basic whipping bench from the HerFirstPunishment stable.  The wrist and ankles are rather crudely tied in place to prevent the subject escaping rather than to significantly limit their movement - by comparison to the first three examples it shows furniture that is designed to convey more of a judicial punishment than a BDSM scene. The effect is not unlike having the subject laid face down on the bed although it's a little lower allowing a longer swing of the switch before it whips across her bottom and it won't even allow the very limited yielding that a bed would offer..  There is no concession to comfort or dignity and the subject looks likely to be there for some considerable time incurring the wrath of the other women from the village if the supply of switches being inspected at the back is anything to go by.  You would expect that this allows very accurate placement of the strokes so that by the time she is eventually released there won't be any part of her bottom and upper legs that is unmarked. It is very much about making the girl feel powerless and humiliated - if every woman in the village takes their turn at thrashing her, she won't be able to do anything about it until they decide it's finished.

The final example, for now, is from MOOD and like the previous example, the starkness of the bench is designed to convey that this is a judicial scene rather than BDSM play.  It's a big and heavy piece of furniture and with her wrists and ankles secured by coarse rope the subject just has to take whatever punishment she has been sentenced to.

However, there are some there more ingenious examples of designed punishment furniture to come...

Furniture (Part 3)

Now we come to what I previously termed "accidental furniture" - it was never designed or purchased with a view to it being an aid for administering corporal punishment but since it's there...

First off we have a fairly simple use of a bed simply for leaning on, courtesy of SpankingTeenBrandi,  It means the bottom is nicely presented and probably helps the subject to stay in place but it still leaves the onus on them to do so.  It may slightly limit forward movement at the point of impact but the reality is that it's really just slightly more comfortable than grabbing your ankles.

Probably the most common use of a bed is for the subject to simply lie face down on it, perhaps with their buttocks slightly raised by some well placed pillows.  That again doesn't really impede movement very much but it does put a very effective stop to forward movement meaning that pretty well the full force of each stroke will be felt.  In this rather more unusual and innovative use by Girls Boarding School the girl is over the end of the bed with elbows to the floor.  Again it fully stops the forward motion of the target area and it would be quite difficult for the subject to move very quickly to try to escape from the punishment altogether.  It's comfortable enough for her to be made to stay in that position for some time - either before or after the caning (or both) - and the bottom is beautifully presented for the person delivering the caning to be able to very accurately place the strokes to maximum effect across the full depth of her buttocks including the tender area at the top of her thighs.

Moving on to the most traditional way of using a chair, this scene comes from Spanked At Home, although it's probably more reminiscent of the way that canings were often delivered in the headmaster's office.  Once again the chair provides little structural support but probably makes it easier for the subject to stay in place and avoid additional punishment than would the case in the touch toes position.

In this example we see the use of chairs in the way described by Targetrear, in comment on the first post in this series, as the Eton position.  At first glance of this image from Spanking Digital, the level of restraint seems minimal but the reality is that the arms of the chairs mean the subject is rather more trapped than it appears.  Again with a cushioned seat to kneel on, the subject could be made to wait in position for some time contemplating what was about to happen, and of course the bottom is quite nicely presented although rather less vulnerable to low strokes than the GBS example over the end of the bed. 

Chairs aren't all about comfort - I'm quite sure that this position would have been most uncomfortable and there is a high risk of the subject falling - that in itself adds a lot to the punishment with the uncomfortable top of the chair back cutting in, and the subject having to really concentrate to avoid falling from this precarious perch.  My concerned would be that this may distract slightly from the main business of delivering a sore bottom and accurate delivery may be difficult as the subject is unlikely to be keeping very still. 

Settees and sofas present some versatile opportunities generally supporting the buttocks and allowing the subject to wait in relative comfort.  By making the subjects reach for the far edge of the seat cushion it also means that their head is quite low and they're unlikely to be able to see as a stroke of the paddle, cane or strap is about to be delivered.  Altogether a nice image from SpankingScenes on this occasion suggesting a fairly ritualised and drawn out punishment. 

By contrast, in this scene which I suspect comes from part of the Xerotics empire, there is something altogether more rushed about the scene - it does look as if the girl has almost been thrown over the end of the sofa but again, because her head is quite low, it can be used to make it difficult for her to anticipate the coming strokes. 

Lastly for today, this use of a table by SpankingOnline, gives an absolutely classic position for a formal school caning.  Made to look straight ahead the subject won't see the cane coming down although she may hear it, but she's going nowhere anyway.  The table edge stops her pushing her bottom forward and she's clearly been instructed to grip the edges of the table in a classic pose to help her to keep in place while she endures what is clearly going to be a very painful scene.