Beware the internet

There are three types of spanko in this world.

Some have very high visibility public profiles - I'm thinking Sarah Gregory, Clare Fonda, Ariel Anderssen, Pandora Blake, Jillian Keegan and so forth. They are so open about their active interest that pretty well most people who know them will also be fully aware of their proclivities. They are not the slightest bit concerned by the thought that someone who comes across them outside of the realms of spanking will probably learn about their spanking interests and activities sooner or later.

At the other extreme are those who guard their identity and interests very carefully and make sure that people they encounter in their day-to-day lives will never learn about their spanking interests. The truth is that many people fall into the third category, to a greater or lesser extent.

The very first time I met someone in real life who I knew was a very active person in the world of spanking and whose face would be recognised by many readers of this blog, I was immediately relaxed and found them incredibly easy to talk to. When I went home I began thinking about how open I'd been. Taking a few keywords from things I'd said I dived into Google. It took me less than a minute for those keywords to throw up some photographs of me with my non-scene name and details of where I worked. I wasn't (and I'm still not) worried - I trust this person completely.

Some people go further and have posted photos of themselves on sites only likely to be viewed by other people with similar interests such as FetLife or Spanknet. They would argue that there is no reason why people seeing them there would have any reason to 'out' them to the outside world. Some people will even have gone as far as having modelled for spanking-related websites and still feel confident that those without an interest in spanking and CP would never see them. They may also have their face pictured on vanilla sites, and the problem lies therein.

There is a very clever search engine out there called Facecheck ID. It uses facial recognition to scan the internet for people it thinks might match an image you provide. There are lots of reasons why this could be useful. For example, if you get friendly with someone and have some concerns about their past you could search and might find images of the same person linked to some criminal activity or other nefarious enterprise. Or, when someone ‘meets’ a person through a dating site and that person is on the other side of the world, it could help them to uncover that the person they are communicating with has been sending them another person’s images to create a fake identity.

I have played around with the search engine – right now you only get five free searches and you need to be patient as you’re usually in a long queue, but it’s very interesting. I put in a photo of myself that is not on the internet and searched. It did find two actual images of me from sites which it indicated were highly probable matches (it ranks all of those it suggests}. It also found several more that were not me but which it was less sure about – several were of a very high-profile actor, but I can assure you that it isn’t flattering to look like him! I then tried putting in the face of a spanko model, partly because I was curious if they had worked for any sites I hadn’t seen before. The first model I tried, I did find several matches from well-known sites and then a few others it was less sure about who I was confident were not the same person. The second model I tried, the search engine also identified with high probability a few matches from the sort of sites I was expecting but then there was one, a bit less confident match, that looked very much to me like the person in question. Curious, I followed the link and was able to confirm it was the same person and the site was completely unrelated to their spanking activity.

The problem is that someone interested in a person’s vanilla world might use Facecheck ID to see if they can find more sites featuring their vanilla activity, could suddenly see images of the person in their non-vanilla work.

You do need to be careful out there!

Caned in front of the school

When I published my Favourite for April last week I promised to talk about how the Spanked In Uniform website handled a caning in school assembly.

It came in the second part of their video St Catherine's School For Girls - Punishment PE. Of course, we don't see the "whole school" watching but we do see the headmaster and the always lovely Kami Robinson on a platform at the front of a large hall. The headmaster makes some announcements to the school while Kami is standing facing a corner wearing a top, white knickers and knee socks with her hands on her head. The headmaster announces her crime and summons her to the stage to be caned. With her back to the "audience" she has to touch her toes and gets six strokes across her knickers. Then she is told to lower her knickers to her knees to let the whole school see her bottom. As she does so there is some canned laughter from the assembly. He also threatens two girls at the front that they could be joining Kami on the stage if they don't behave. The two apparently continue to attract his attention as the caning continues and he tells them to report to his office straight after assembly. After Kami's caning, she is told to turn to face the assembly before pulling up her knickers and leaving the stage.

It's not perfect but it is a very good stab at a caning in front of the school. It captures really well how embarrassing it would be for a pupil to be caned in front of the whole school and particularly because of the laughter it would have been really humiliating. Having to turn to face the whole school at the end of the punishment would have really been upsetting for anyone.

Canings in front of the whole school did really happen, albeit very rarely and never on the bare bottom. Shame that they couldn't find a similar solution for Caned Every Day.

Favourite for April

This still is taken from a slightly odd video from the Miss Marchmont stable. It has the title Caned Every Day and to understand what is happening (or meant to happen) you really need to go back to an earlier video with the same cast and studio called That'll Teach 'Em.

In That'll Teach 'Em the story, set in 1953, has three sixth-form girls who have been caught shoplifting. To avoid bad publicity for the school, the headmistress (Miss Brown of Strictly Miss Brown fame) has persuaded the shopkeeper to let her deal with them. They have to write a letter of apology to the shopkeeper and explain how they've been punished before they go through a series of bare-bottom punishments.

Once they've made a start on their letters, the first girl whom she calls Elaine is ordered to stand up and the headmistress removes her sash and gymslip; Elaine is then told to loosen her tie and then the headteacher removes the tie, unbuttons her blouse and orders its removal.  Elaine is now wearing just her vest, knickers, socks and shoes. The head then takes down her knickers before making an entry in the School Corporal Punishment Book. Elaine is then ordered over the headmistress's lap and given a lengthy hand spanking - I reckon she gets over two hundred pretty solid smacks before being told to stand up. She is then sent to stand against the wall giving the other two girls a good view of her bright red bottom knowing that theirs will soon be looking like that.

Then Melanie (aka Nicky Montford) is called forward and goes through the same drawn-out process. If anything, I think the headmistress smacks Melanie rather harder than Elaine but then Nicky had a reputation for being able to take it. Finally, Elaine is ordered back to her seat with her bare bottom directly on the wooden chair and Melanie takes her place facing the wall. Christine is taken forward and the headmistress makes a point of saying she didn't expect this sort of behaviour from her, implying that the other two are more frequently in trouble. She is put through a similar routine of disrobing, punishment book and spanking. Then she swaps places with Melanie and Elaine is ordered back out to the front.

So it's back over the lap of the headmistress and this time she gets about fifty with the back of a wooden hairbrush across her bottom. As you might expect, this gets even more reaction than the earlier hand spanking, Christine is allowed to retake her seat and Elaine is ordered to stand. If she's expecting any respite she's in for a shock as the headmistress gives her about twenty-five hard smacks across the backs of her thighs. She is then told to sit. The other girls now know just what to expect and the headmistress delivers.

Each girl is called out in turn to the front of the class to receive six with a wooden ruler across the palm of each hand. They are then informed that the final part of the punishment is that each of them will receive twelve strokes of the cane across their bottom.

This time they are ordered to line up and come forward, one at a time, to bend with hands on their knees and receive that caning. Elaine is first, again, and demonstrates a complete inability to stay in position. After each stroke, she's standing up and putting her hands to her bottom. I am frankly amazed that she isn't given extra for this. If I had been delivering the caning I might have warned her once but after that, she would be getting extra penalty strokes. The headmistress shows remarkable tolerance and lets her take her place back in the line after six strokes. By now she has some clear red lines across her already red bottom but perhaps rather less pronounced than I might expect from a full-on bare-bottom caning. The other two girls are called forward and they also get six although they do a much better job of staying in position although Christine does put her hands to her bottom after the second stroke but remains bent over.

Then Elaine is called forward once more. First, she is instructed to remove her vest and then to bend over again, but this time touching her toes. She probably takes the second dose of six slightly better than the first but I would still have been awarding penalties for moving. Christine does again put her hands to her bottom a couple of times. Still, she does much better than Elaine and, as we might expect, Melanie, of course, provides an exemplary standard of keeping in position although she can't avoid a few cries of discomfort and looks really contrite when she takes her place back in the line.

The punishment is just about over but before they are dismissed they are warned that any repeat of this behaviour they will not only be caned in her office but also caned every day in assembly in front of the whole school. She then collects their letters of apology and leaves so the girls can get dressed and return to their dormitory.

This leads us to the second film - Caned Every Day featuring my Favourite of the Month image. So you can pretty well guess that they have done something wrong again and are to be caned every day for a week. The headmistress is in her room and we hear a knock at the door. The first to come in is Christine. She is in full school uniform and is told to bend over. She puts her hands somewhere close to her ankles. As the headmistress folds her skirt back she tells the unfortunate girl that this will be the second time she will have been caned this week and that she is to be caned every day this week. She then pulls the girl's knickers down and we get to see her bottom. There are some lines from a previous caning but much fainter than you might expect if she'd been given a proper caning the day before. She gets twelve strokes again - in one go this time - before she is told to pull her knickers up and straighten herself out. She is then dismissed and told to send the next girl.

Next to enter the room is Melanie who is told to bend over. While the headmistress folds back her skirt and pulls down her knickers, the girl is reminded that she also is going to be caned every day this week. She has adopted a complete hands-on-toes pose and takes the full twelve strokes without moving her hands once, She is then told to stand, pull up her knickers straighten herself out and then leave and send in the next girl.

The next girl, of course, is Elaine. She is told to bend over and just puts her hands on her knees and the headmistress turns back her dress and pulls down her knickers before reminding the girl that she is also going to receive the cane every day this week. Every single cane stroke has Elaine standing up and rubbing her bottom. The headmistress seems to show great tolerance although after six strokes she asks Elaine to think about how sore her bottom will be by the end of the week. She does seem to use a bit more force with the last few strokes and Elaine's bottom is much more marked by the time she is told to pull up her knickers and sort out her clothing.

She is told to get back to her class and she leaves. And that's it. End of film.

So what happened to the rest? And what happened to the threat to cane them in front of the school?  The second video runs for less than ten minutes compared to nearly an hour for the first. Maybe they couldn't think how to avoid it being too repetitive but it would surely have been possible. We also miss an opening scene where their offence is discussed and the penalty stated. Maybe the offence is a little less serious this time but we'll never know. Obviously filming a scene where they were caned in front of their school assembly would be difficult. Maybe that comment was just an ad-lib in the first video.

But a caning in front of the school is not impossible - another studio, Spanked In Uniform, performs such an event which I'll talk about next week.

I do feel that Caned Every Day could have been so much better. We could have seen them being told off for behaviour that was bad but less serious than the last time. It could however be bad enough to warrant a caning every day for a week. Day one could have been on the seat of the girl's skirts, day two on their knickers, day three on their bare bottoms and day four fully nude. Lastly, on day five they could have had a go at staging a caning in front of the school or at least in front of their class.

Regular readers of my blog will know that I long for more school scenes where they're not punished bare bottom but I have to accept I'm in a minority. As for those taking part in this scene, Miss Brown and Nicky Montford are well known. I'm pretty sure I've seen the girl playing Christine in other spanko scenes - could do with a better wig but otherwise quite credible. The girl playing Elaine, I'm not sure I have seen her anywhere else but I do like her. Her inability to keep still irritates me and needs to be addressed but she looks good. The whole notion of punishing pupils with a whole week of canings was fresh and original. I've never heard of it in real life, but who knows? Shame they didn't carry it through.