We talk a lot about the different instruments that can be
used in corporal punishment and most aficionados of the subject have their own
favourite – the hand, the cane, the slipper, the belt, paddle, the birch… We talk a lot about costume - skirt up, pants
down, naked, tight jeans, uniformed…
We seem to talk very little about the furniture but I think
it’s equally a topic worth attention.
On one level you could have four very simple categories:-
- · No furniture at all
- · “Human” furniture
- · “Accidental” furniture
- · “Intentioned” furniture
In the first case the subject receiving the punishment is usually just standing or bending unsupported. The second case might include putting them over your knee, under your
arm, or the more unusual practice of horsing as formerly used sometimes in
public schools and the like where a third persons back becomes the
“furniture.” The last two categories
would be the more traditional notion of furniture distinguished between what
I’ve termed “accidental” as in objects that just happen to be there (bending
over a desk or chair, lying face down on a bed etc.) or “intentioned” when it’s
something designed or purposed for the task.
Many of the final category come from those operating more at the BDSM
end of the spectrum or judicial punishments but not all. There are
also some borderline examples – for example if someone is misbehaving during a
PE class and is made to bend across a vaulting horse to be punished it might
appear the be in the “accidental” category but if the headmaster has decided to
put a vaulting horse in his office it would appear to be rather more
“intentioned.”
I’m really interested in a different basis for
categorising, which is by intention and consequence of use, and I’ll talk about
that in my next post tomorrow.
5 comments:
I've always thought the touching toes position (no furniture) which was used a lot at my secondary school put an extra strain on the recipient. It meant that one had to keep those fingers down on the toes in spite of having someone whack your backside with a cane. Furniture at least gives you some support.
Old Tom
This is why I find the subject so fascinating. Having to try to stay in such a position does - as you say - make it much harder than if you're bent across a desk and given an identical punishment delivered with identical force. It could well add to the punishment by forcing the subject to try to comply.
However, I guess what we can never really know is whether the person delivering the punishment might adjust for that, perhaps unconsciously, and hit just slightly less hard to the one touching their toes because if they keep stumbling forward but the punisher is only allowed to give a certain number, it might be less effective.
Wait until you see tomorrow's instalment (although I'm struggling to find one image that I wanted to use... Grrr!)
Looking forward to it James.
OT
For a hand-spanking, there can't be anything better than over the knee. But for the 'school' scenario over the desk is probably the most appropriate. That, or what I think is known as the 'Eton' position: two chairs place back-to-back, the miscreant kneeling on one, bending over the 'backs' and grasping the cushion of the chair in front.
Targetarear.
PS: like 'anonymous' above, I cant wait for the next instalment. (Or should that be 'stroke'?)
Super post, James, as always. Thank you !
Why I so love the first photo - very authentic. Those nasty 1940s/50s-style, hard-soled (often ribbed), lightweight & unbearably stingy plimsolls were so perfect for giving a naughty daughter a well-smacked bottom, with knickers down on the bare (obviously goes without saying). The intense, rasping sting was most appropriate & salutary & common for loving but stern, domestic discipline in domestic households in the UK, prior to PC nonsense. Fathers & mothers could turn to those spartan slippers when a pair of panties had to come down for some tickle-tail due to a daughter's misbehaviour, lies, brattitude or tantrums. Sore botty guaranteed, James. I so approve (as a mom myself.)
As a Southern belle from Atlanta, Georgia (now age 61) the botty-smacker in our house, for me & sister, under our 1950s-style, strict, religious upbringing was not the plimsoll. And moreover it was not the typical, leather Southern strap or belt either. It was the cane - a luxury, well-crafted, whippy-thin, uber-flexible, piece of rattan cane that was absolute Hell on our fairest-sensitive & all-too--young bare buttocks. It sure was strictly "spare the rod" spoil the child", already!! It sure whipped me into shape over many years.
The paddle (photo 3) was also very common in America, naturally. And in our church-suburban neighbourhood. In fact James, the belt, the paddle & the hairbrush were all equally popular among normal, strict parents. I never gotten spanked with the belt or paddle as a child, myself. But I sure gotten the wooden spoon & hairbrush over mom's knee in the early years, with my alabaster-white botty completely bare, framed by my 1950s dazzling white, cotton panties & my cute 1950s canary yellow dress.
My mother never liked the paddle or belt as a "rod of correction" for her daughters. She herself gotten to fear & feel the smack of the cane across her bare backside as a child in the 1930s & 1940s from my grandparents. And so it was a "like mother, like daughter" situation for me & sis in the early 1960s, we soon graduated from the spoon to the dreaded rattan cane!! Oh my!
I never like the paddle, myself. It's big thud-like smacks were unusual & almost bruise-inducing. Moreover, as a lil' girl I gotten used to the ferocious sting of the cane on my bare botty (sadly!!), when I was naughty. It felt correct as part of good, loving, strict parenting. Even though it sure was a traumatic Hell (albeit harmless) at the time of chastisement!!!
I was God-blessed with my own two wonderful daughters in the 1980s. A rubber-spatula on bare bottoms over my knee (photo 2) was salutary in the early years & then, consulting with my mother (who did childcare for her granddaughters, when I was at work) , we then gotten the same quality, flexible switch-cane for my girls, as I had suffered myself back in the day. Like their mom, they gotten it firmly on the bare bum, knickers down, every time - very effective over many years, James. No wishy-washy, snowflake nonsense!! The panties never misbehaved, in my book. Most parents I know think the same already, at lest in Georgia, if not elsewhere, James. And like my sister & myself, my girls bent over the sofa arm with shorts & panties around knees for a whuppin' with the stick from yours truly (like photo 3)
Great montage, thank you kindly, James.
Regards,
Brenda xx
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