Relative Values

Yesterday's Sunday Times in the UK included the following advertisement for their own special publication...

I was briefly quite excited - I should have known better!  Two males talked about their father giving them spankings where they had to pretend they had hurt but they were too timid for them to have really felt them.  The only female to admit to having been spanked was Lisa Marie Presley and that was no revelation and was rather lacking in detail.  Shame because there was rather a good one the other week when the TV cook Mary Berry and her daughter Annabel talked about Mary's use of a butter pat to administer discipline.

Strange phenomenon

Isn't it strange - we've got used to better and better quality of colour images and videos - I often think it's quite sad that some of the material from ten years ago is not to the standards we expect today despite the selfless participation of all concerned.

And yet, sometimes you come across a black and white image that is anything but high quality, and yet just because it's lacking the best standards, it makes you think for a moment that just maybe this was someone managing to grab a quick image of the real thing.

  

Prince Harry

It's kind of hard to imagine what Prince Harry sees in his current girlfriend Cressida Bonas (nicknamed Bon Arse).

On second thoughts, maybe not that difficult.

Before the internet

It's hard to remember how hard it was to explore a fascination with the spanking fetish in the days before the Internet.  There's no doubt I was fascinated for years at a time when I had to search really hard to find anything to stimulate my interest - perhaps part of the reason why I took to writing my own spanking fiction.  I was aware that their were magazines like Janus, Martinet, Spank and Sting (from reading The English Vice by Ian Gibson from cover to cover in my local reference library) but assumed that it was only in places like Soho that they would be found and I wasn't likely during my teenage years to have unfettered access to such places.

When I started applying to universities and getting invited for interviews two things happened very quickly.  Firstly I noticed that many businessmen travelling on trains seemed to have porno mags in their briefcases.  Then, one day in the autumn of 1977 or early 1978, I travelled for an interview at one of the universities in Manchester.  As I walked out of the station I passed a newsstand and my eyes were drawn to the top of a copy of Janus at the back of the stand.  For the rest of my visit I kept thinking about it and remember very little else about the university visit.   On the assumption that I knew nobody in Manchester and would probably not be going back there any time soon I revisited the newsstand on my return to the station and bought the magazine.

 And here it is - well, to be honest, here is another copy that I purchased later for nostalgic reasons.  At some point in the following years I had a purge of my growing collection of spanking magazines and this one was lost in the process.  To be honest the content was a bit disappointing and not really to my taste.  The stories were okay but the drawings were uninspiring and the dated costumes fro many of the models were not to my liking.   However, years later, I found a copy in the Janus shop in Soho and decided (even 'though it was marked up to six times to original cover price) to re-purchase as it was a piece of my personal history.  I also realised that there were often shops selling this type of material close to railway stations, presumably to satisfy the needs of travelling businessmen.

I have the magazine still although I haven't revised my view of the images.  In fact, looking through it recently, there was really only one poor quality black and white image that I rather like.

Favourite for January

Here's a fascinating scene to get the new year off to a glowing start.

There's no shortage of images and videos on the web showing "fun" spankings, often at birthday parties or other social gatherings.  Usually the spankee has happily gone along with the whole thing putting up only token resistance, even 'though they sometimes discover it has a more painful outcome than they were expecting.

This has some of the hallmarks of a fun spanking given the ages of those involved but it's clearly not taking place in a small social setting but in a very public place.  That makes it all the more unusual for the girl getting the spanking on her bare bottom, despite it happening where anyone passing by will see.  In fact it appears from the reflection in her sunglasses that a little group of people including the photographer have gathered to enjoy the spectacle.  She clearly seems very unhappy about it although it may be that the smarting bottom is currently of greater concern to her than her state of undress.  The other young lady present doesn't appear to be trying to rescue her friend - perhaps because she's not wanting to get the same treatment.  It's also interesting that someone has taken the trouble to disguise the face of the guy dealing out her spanking but has not spared the young lady's blushes and prospect of identification to others who come across the image.