Guide to this blog

The Blogroll is now in three parts. The main part is arranged according to the date the blog was last updated with the most recent first. Many blogs use the BDSMLR platform which does not include date information; they are in a separate Blogroll arranged alphabetically but I check from time to time and remove any that have been permanently closed. The final part is a list of interesting Twitter feeds - again in alphabetical order.

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Interesting technique

I don't claim to have much original material on my blog but I normally do make a rule of not reposting stuff that has recently appeared somewhere else - in fact it's something that irritates me when others do that because i start thinking I must have already looked at the blog in question recently and don't bother scrolling down any further and might miss stuff.  Anyway I'm going to make an exception and repost something which I only came across earlier this week.
In many ways it's a standard CP-fetish schoolgirl scene.  It's not even very good.  The three characters appear to have been photoshopped on to a different background, the implement looks too thick to be used in this way, the one girl has been made to remove her shoes (which irritates me in school scenes - surely nobody was ever made to remove their shoes in order to be caned?), the marks on her bottom look faked...  I could go on.

The thing that fascinates me though is the fact that the faces of all three participants have been pixelated to disguise them.  Somehow, that trick makes the whole thing just a little bit more like "I wonder if this was for real?"  No it isn't, for all the reasons given previously, but somehow the disguise does make you wonder, if only for a millisecond.

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Favourite for March

I'm not the greatest fan of period costumes - I prefer something contemporary.  However, reality is that there was a time when young ladies who found work as servants could probably expect to be dealt with severely if they committed a major transgression.

If the master of the house was made aware that one of the young wenches below stairs had been caught stealing, it would probably have been seen by everyone including the girl herself, as an act of charity if, instead of hauling her off to the constabulary, he thrashed her bare buttocks with a sturdy leather belt and sent her to bed without anything to eat.