Realisation

There are just so many video clips out there where innocents who have never felt the reality of what a pain the backside was really all about, make the mistake of thinking it's all just a laugh and then discover that actually, spankings do hurt. I love this short slip - apparently adopted as an advert by those running the museum - when two girlfriends discover the old whipping table and a conveniently provided birch.

 

I suppose this might be the wrong time to point out to the surprised recipient that it was very rare for sentences of birching to just be a single stroke and that between three and nine strokes was more usual, and that for most of the time that punishment was available to UK courts it would have been administered to the bare buttocks. Now shall we just do it again, but make it more real this time...?

Favourite for September

 

I'm not really a fan of animated GIF files. Because they are, essentially, a series of separate images, those producing them have to be very conscious of managing file size so they tend to keep the dimensions small, low resolution and use fewer individual scenes so the motion is often jerky. It's also pretty rare for them to get the start and end images close enough so that it does look continuous. This isn't a very large image (480x292 pixels) but the resolution's not bad. Of course, if you study this for a while, you can spot the join but it's pretty well done.

It does look like a credible scene of a mother losing it with her teenage daughter. While the denim shorts might initially provide a fair degree of protection, the mother seems very determined and I expect that after the first twenty or so smacks, the daughter would be feeling the heat building in her seat.