Credit crunchies

People probably think I've fallen off the planet but in fact I've just been very busy. Not too busy to keep an eye on the web though and I keep finding (and adding to the list on the right) more and more spank-related blogs. Is it a sign of these times that people are apparently spanking and being spanked all the more?

F/m ???

I wrote just under 18 months ago in this blog about switching and saying that I’m not really into it. Only now I’m not so sure. I still think giving an attractive girl a good (consensual) walloping is probably my number one mission in life, but I’m increasingly interested in having a girl return the favour. The problem is that on the one hand, if they didn’t do it hard, I’d feel cheated and disappointed so I’m less inclined to explore this with a real amateur or a switch. However, when I see some of the ladies who specialise in doling it out I have a feeling that what I’d want to do to get the proper experience is to just put myself in their hands with no safewords to fall back on, and I suspect that I just might find I’d taken on a bit more than I could handle...

The three ladies pictured here are good examples, although Cassie Hunter is probably still the one I feel strangely drawn to.

Educational stuff on the internet

You can thank The Slovak Spectator for this one:-

Go nuts and whip their butts: Making an Easter whip - Foreign Affairs

14 Apr 2003 Kristína Havasová Culture

WHEN I was still in school, my male schoolmates and the males of my family would knock on the door of my apartment early in the morning on Easter Monday carrying buckets of water (vedrá s vodou) and wicker whips (prútené korbáče).

Because I knew what was going to happen, I immediately went to hide while my mother opened the door. The boys splashed and whipped my mum while chanting the first line of the famous Slovak Easter saying, "Šibi-ryby, mastné ryby, kus koláča od korbáča (Whips-fishes, greasy fishes, piece of cake from the whip" - it doesn't make sense in Slovak either!). Then they would start to look for me.

It would never take them too long to find me, because like most girls who live in apartment blocks, my favourite place to hide was the one room that you could lock - the bathroom. After several minutes of persuading me that they would not pour any water on me, I would believe them and open the door. I need hardly add that they did not keep their word.

As soon as I unlocked the door they would pull me out and whip me far more than my mother had been whipped. Then I would end up in the bath, soaking wet.

After I changed my clothes and dried off, the kúpači (literally, men who bathe women) would spray perfume on my mother and me so that we would smell nice the whole year round. Then we would give them gifts. For my uncle it would be some kind of strong alcohol; for my friends and cousins a chocolate egg, or some money.

For those who have never experienced this custom, the whipping might seem like a violent act against women. But for us girls, when we were in school, the act of being whipped brought with it a bit of prestige, because it was generally accepted that the more a girl was whipped, the more attractive she was.

In the past, some women chose to get back at the men by whipping them on the Tuesday after Easter, but this custom is dying out.

Keeping all that in mind, if you are in Slovakia at Easter time, it might be useful for you to know how to braid a whip (korbáč, or šibák in slang).

On Easter Sunday or a few days earlier, groups of boys and men set off on their search for the young, green willow branches that grow near streams and rivers. They cut several switches of about one meter long. Then they adjust their lengths accordingly - a little boy's whip is usually 15 to 30 centimetres long, while that of a young man is around 80 centimetres.

There are several methods for braiding an Easter whip, but most people use either the angular or round way. The angular way is the most popular, and is also considered the least complicated.
photo: Source: Praktická žena magazine

The process

You need eight switches (prúty) of the same size for making the whip's body and one of any size for making the whip's handle.

1. Take the eight switches and bind them at one end with a string or cord (see a and b above). Then split the ninth switch in half to wrap it around the other switches to create a handle (this can also be done as the very last thing, after you have braided the whip).

2. Divide the eight switches into four and four and start braiding: Take the switch at the far left and bring it from above to the right, placing it in the middle - between the four switches on the right. Then take the switch back from below to the right side of the left group.

3. Repeat the same but from the right side: Take the switch at the far right and bring it from above into the middle of the left group, placing it back to the left side of the right group from below.
Then repeat 2 and 3 until a single braided cord is formed.

In some regions the tradition is that after a boy whips a girl she ties a ribbon around the top of his whip. The number of ribbons on the whip then shows how successful the boy was with his whip.
If you have problems with the violent aspects of this tradition, there is another way to become a whip star: You can try to break this year's Slovak record of braiding a 40-metre whip.

(Foreign Affairs is a regular column devoted to helping expats and foreigners navigate the thrills and spills of life in Slovakia.)

Making it easy

Having to struggle to get a long skirt raised over the female buttocks for a less encumbered spanking was never easy while they were lying across the lap so three cheers for miniskirts. Denim jeans created a similar problem - get a girl across your lap, deliver a few good smacks to the denim clad derriere and then decide you're just not getting your point across and then there's the struggle to get the jeans down.

Not any more perhaps - thanks heavens for low rise jeans and thongs where the job's already more than half way done...

Olympics

I'm just so getting into the coverage of the Beijing Olympics already - the beach volleyball looks especially hopeful...

Any challengers for the title?

Britain's most valuable bum

A Lancashire grandfather has his buttocks insured for £1 million. Graham Butterfield is the official bed bouncer for Silentnight in Barnoldswick, reports the Daily Mirror. He said: "It may sound silly but my bottom is not like the normal bottom. I have increased sensitivity around the buttock area and can feel the difference in the materials used in beds. I am very proud to be the owner of a £1million backside. I want to make it clear that my bottom's super-powers are quite natural. I have no need of a special care regime."

Graham's duties at Silentnight in Barnoldswick, Lancs, involve bouncing on beds and giving feedback on softness, textures and fillings. His reports help decide which beds go on the market. He said: "It makes it all worthwhile being the butt of people's jokes - they are only jealous of my job."
Steven Simpson, manager at Silentnight, said: "The policy is worth every penny."

The Max Mosley case

Initially I was reluctant to comment on this because of the distress it was causing for MM and his family and also for four of the girls involved. However, with the court case having more or less run it's course there are many fascinating issues that - without wanting to rake it all over again - bear scrutiny.

• The girls and MM himself all appear to have done a fantastic job in court of giving people who were probably of the view that those who partake in such activities must be all be deviants and nutcases reason to think again. They put forward clear and strong arguments why there was nothing wrong with S&M activity between consenting adults. The reports suggest they are sensible, intelligent and highly articulate and probably nothing like most people would expect.
• Given that MM says he's been involved in such activities for a long time, it's a credit to most people in the community that he's never been publicly outed until now - it should give confidence to many - like myself - who've been too apprehensive about privacy issues to get involved.
• I may be wrong but - while the News of the World reported the working names of at least two of the girls involved - I don't think I've seen the name of the one who had the secret camera and filmed the event for the paper. She was/is presumably active in the scene and I for one would like others to have the opportunity to protect their reputation by knowing to avoid her.
• When I first read that MM had paid £2500 for the afternoon with the five I guess I thought some along the lines of "lucky bastard being able to afford to pay that" - on more reasoned reflection I think it seems pretty reasonable. Now maybe I wouldn't be able too indulge as often as he did and I probably couldn't afford five girls at a time, but a couple of girls a couple of times a year seems very fair...
• One of the points of dispute is the terminology used to describe the girls - unsurprisingly (because it suits their case) the papers were using words like hookers and vice girls. The problem with that is that words like hooker and prostitute were originally used to define women who had sexual intercourse in return for payment. Then, as people discovered there was more to sex than just intercourse and we could be sexually pleasured without intercourse, there has been a tendency to use the term for anyone who receives payment for anything at all that is related to sex... - except it isn't. If I go to a newsagent and buy a copy of GQ magazine I may be buying it for the sexual arousal from some of the pictures or articles - that doesn't make the girl who took the money from me in the shop into a prostitute. The more useful definition of prostitute might be to talk about those who receive payment for either indulging in sexual intercourse or a close simulation (masturbation, oral sex, anal sex and so on) but not the wider blanket term of just anything that might involve sexual arousal. I don't regard the girls in this case as engaging in prostitution.
• During the case - probably because they were having some problem providing evidence of the Nazi them they originally claimed as the public-interest justification for the privacy intrusion - the News of the World resorted to suggesting that the "public interest" angle could be down to the possibility that it isn't legal to carry out such acts even with consent. The old "Spanner" case from 1990 has been mentioned where a group of gay men were convicted of assault for consensual S&M activity. To quote from a website devoted to the Spanner case:-

In law, you cannot, as a rule, consent to an assault. There are exceptions. For example, you can consent to a medical practitioner touching and possibly injuring your body; you can consent to an opponent hitting or injuring you in sports such as rugby or boxing; you can consent to tattoos or piercings if they are for ornamental purposes. You can also use consent as a defence against a charge of what is called Common Assault. This is an assault which causes no significant injury.

• Although there was apparently a small amount of blood drawn here, surely nobody could see this as being an assault causing significant injury? Any why is it okay to consent to someone trying to cause you brain damage in a boxing ring?

The future of spanking (2)

A few reactions to my previous comment on the future of spankings -some direct and some here. I guess part of my thinking is that undoubtedly I was affected by being at school in an era when corporal punishment still happened but what works for me in videos, photo-fantasies etc. is already very much towards the modern end of things. I don't get much reaction usually to historical pieces, maids outfits, and even (shock, horror!) to stockings and suspenders. I emphasise usually because it can sometimes work for me - for example a story with a modern girl dressing in stockings and suspenders while "on the pull" being brought to book by an angry father/boyfriend/husband. I do like adults role-playing schoolgirl scenarios but the more contemporary the dress the better and ideally I like it where either the author has imagined a time in the near future when corporal punishment has been re-established in schools and the home, or perhaps where a girl accepts an unofficial punishment rather than face the consequences of the properly prescribed outcome. Also, while on the odd occasion I've stumbled across something on the web that appears non-consensual, it's just sickened me, I don't much want to see the girl laughing it off - you know, corporal punishment. The clue's in the name! It's supposed to be a punishment, and even in a role play, the subject should be nervous, ashamed or at least - by the end of it - reduced to a few tears.

The future of spanking (1)

Lying on a beach in the sun, i spent a lot of time thinking about spanking. Something to do with all the scantily clad young nubiles wandering around perhaps...
One of my thoughts was about how things might change in the future for us spankos. After all, if you search through spanking material on the Internet right now it falls into a few particular categories.
There are British schoolgirl scenarios, American schoolgirl scenarios, father daughter OTK spankings, old fashioned master/maid spankings, fun spankings such as birthdays, sorority spankings and paddlings, boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife spankings, plus the odd judicial birching or whipping and... well, actually, I think I've just accounted for more than 90% of what we all seem to enjoy. But they're all based on role playing scenarios we have either heard of happening, imagined could have happened, or occasionally witnessed or been part of, and then embellishing on them. But now corporal punishment is largely banned in schools except in some parts of the USA and some African counties perhaps, and judicial CP is also only found in a very small number of countries, a boyfriend spanking his girlfriend for misbehaviour is liable to need a new girlfriend and a husband spanking his wife is likely to need a solicitor. As for the employer/employee scenarios (traditionally, master/maid) then the HR department will probably get you even quicker than the lawyers. Even fathers and mothers have to face the fact that spanking their spoiled brat of a daughter is rather frowned on, even if she does deserve to be up-ended and given a much needed attitude adjustment by way of her rear end.
So what will feed our imaginations in the future?

Holiday from technology

Well I've just about rebuilt a working computer and recovered as much as I'm ever going to recover. To be honest I'd accumulated a load of rubbish and although I didn't need to be quite as ruthless as this, there was a load I should have trashed before now. So far as things I've written and lost, as I said in the previous post the 5 part saga "The New Society" I'd like to have and I'm still searching for "A cure for gambling". Anyway, I'm off for a week's holiday now with no computer and no Internet...