Favourite for January

First of all, let me wish all readers a very Happy New Year - especially the likes of Old Tom and Targetarear who go to so much trouble to provide feedback and comment.

Then on to business!

I love the classical honesty and simplicity of this image.  It does look about as close as it gets to how a schoolgirl might have looked bending over a desk to be caned across her bottom - no ridiculously short miniskirt (although nowadays it would probably be considerably shorter than this as fashion dictates), no stiletto heels, no unrealistic pigtails and no "adjustment" of her attire.  Okay, I like it as much as anyone when we are shown an attractive girl getting it across her panties or her bare bottom, but there is something about this that suggest rather more authenticity.  Obviously it was pretty unusual for girls to get caned across their bottoms (sadly) in the days when corporal punishment was used in British schools, but it wasn't something that never happened and it would most probably have looked something like this on those precious few occasions.  And anyone who thinks that because she has her knickers and a pleated skirt for protection, it's not going to be very effective and painful has clearly never been on the wrong end of a properly delivered caning over their normal attire.

To be honest, until 2014, neither had I, but then I decided that - although my primary interest is to be on the giving side - I needed to know more about what it would feel like before I can seriously contemplate going out there and finding some female interested in consenting to be punished by me.  My first experience then, of being caned across the seat of my trousers was not at school but rather too many years later in 2014.  And it bloody hurt!  My very sincere thanks to the lovely young lady who has been helping me with that exploration.  Now we'll have to see what 2015 brings!

Sometimes I despair...

Everyone should read this typically erudite and forthright article by Pandora Blake and wonder what the UK is coming to.  Not allowing the freedom to share spanking video material from a UK site is just the latest step in ineffective and wrong minded censorship.
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Favourite for December

December is a great time for warming chilly bottoms!

And isn't "the slipper" a great way to go about it.  It's odd that in relation to it's use in corporal punishment, especially at school, it seems to have always been referred to as "the slipper" as in "getting the slipper" or "getting a slippering", when in fact the implement used was almost invariably a plimsoll / gym shoe / sand shoe or whatever it was called in your locality.  I absolutely love it as a punishment tool for so many reasons.

For one thing, and perhaps an obvious one, is that when properly applied it hurts like hell.  It always sounds - perhaps especially because of the "slipper" connotation - as if it will be very mild compared to the cane but the reality can be extremely painful.  I once saw a boy aged about twelve or thirteen who had already been caned by the deputy headmaster once in the privacy of his office (and went on to merit about three further canings before he was expelled) who was given two very hard strokes with a plimsoll over the seat of his trousers bending over in front of the class who immediately burst into tears, thus losing a lot of "cred" with everyone else.

Because it was perceived as less severe than the cane (and it was, but just not as big a difference as people perhaps imagined) a number of schools that used to cane boys across their backsides would apply the slipper to girls - as the fashion for short skirts prevailed they would often have had less protection and may not have been getting off half as lightly as people thought.  It also makes a very loud noise which is quite intimidating in itself - especially if you were waiting your turn to get a similar treatment.  The instrument itself would not appear quite so blatantly to be a punishment tool - it would be perfectly normal to have such items lying around in the classroom or in the school generally without everyone immediately assuming that they were there to punish youthful miscreants.    It also has the big advantage over the cane that if you're actually feeling really annoyed with the person to be punished, you can let rip and hit them just about as hard as you possibly could without any real risk of causing long term injury beyond a few days of bruising.

That seems to be pretty well what is going on here - the teacher is venting all of her frustration through the plimsoll on the young lady's panty-clad bottom and the loud cracks as it lands time after time will be echoing around the largely empty gym hall.  You have to suspect that she will be very careful about not swearing in school in the future as she wriggles uncomfortably on hard wooden seats in the remaining classes that day.

Advantages of drawings over photos (5) - last in series

I sometimes find with drawings there's much more left to your imagination than with a photo.  Here a boy and girl have been caught misbehaving at school and sent to the headmistress.  After the ritual telling off the girl has been told to face the wall while the boy is given a humiliating and painful six strokes of the cane across his bare bottom.  Secretly the girl is sneaking a look and clearly enjoying the opportunity see her distressed boyfriend getting a red striped bottom.  As a girl she's safe from being caned herself and at worst might get a detention.

But what is actually going to happen?  Perhaps noticing that the girl has been turning to look, the headmistress will be so annoyed that she will decide to ignore normal practice and the girl will be bent over next with her skirt up and panties down.

Love Our Lurkers Day (s)

I'm not sure of the reasoning for us celebrating Love Our Lurkers day over two days this year but I guess it's a longer opportunity for some of those who normally view our blogs without commenting to add their voices..  Actually, recently a few seem to have been doing that anyway.  Even if you won't post to join us in this annual event you can rest assured that we appreciate the page views anyway.

Advantages of drawings over photos (4)

Even if a drawing is not especially sophisticated it can be really good at capturing a lot of things happening at the same time, and often more so than a photo achieves.  In this example the four characters all express different feelings even 'though it is quite a primitive style of art.

Working from right to left the girl who has just left the office clutching her throbbing bottom is red faced and tearful and has no thoughts for anything or anyone else but her own current misery.  The headmaster is stern and unmoved and keen to get on with things and deal with the other miscreants so he can get back to more important tasks.  The girl being summoned into the office for her paddling is trying to look defiant but you can also see the fear in her eyes and the positioning of her feet gives away her real trepidation at what she's about to get.  The remaining girl on the left of the image is not coping at all well - even though it's not yet her turn to be paddled she knows it's coming and is clearly distraught - perhaps she's never been here before but she's just heard the heavy pops as the first girl got a sizzling six swats and she's terrified by the knowledge that, inexorably, her turn will come, and she knows from common gossip that a paddling from the headmaster is an extremely painful experience.

Advantages of drawings over photos (3)

I talked on the previous "drawings" post about being able to have more spectators - of course there's no need to stop at a class full - it can be the whole school or even a theatre full of spectators adding to the ahame of the victim.

Advantages of drawings over photos (2)

The school I attended between the age of about 8 and about 11 years of age used to use corporal punishment a lot.  The thing that I find annoying - with hindsight - was that it was very trivial.  I didn't realise this at the time and went out of my way to ensure I never got it, but a regular series of miscreants would get hauled to the front of the class and whacked time and time again and although it was probably a real laugh to them because they knew from previous experience that it wasn't really done in a way that would hurt much, the rest of us were cowed into meek compliance through our ignorance.

However, I would say that I - and I think most of my fellow pupils - did quite enjoy the spectacle when someone was getting whacked with a stick, ruler, slipper or just the hand.  When people are shooting spanking scenes it would get rather cumbersome and expensive to employ models to just be in the class watching with interest as one of their colleagues is dealt with but of course drawings don't suffer such limitations.

This drawing came from Janus magazine and was provided to illustrate a story where a teacher decided to punish one of the older girls by humiliating her - she took the girl into a class of much younger pupils, put her over her knee and spanked her bare bottom.  It was very much the case that the girl would have elected a more severe punishment delivered in privacy rather than this humiliation in front of the younger girls, but clearly they were very much enjoying the spectacle.  I'm not sure we would ever have jostled for a view quite this obviously but I can certainly empathise with the excitement showing in the faces of the audience.

Favourite for November

It's great when you're the centre of attention disrupting class and making all you friends laugh.

However, it's really not so great when all your friends have left for home but you've been kept back after class by a very pissed of teacher.  There's just you and her and that cane that she's holding.  You know you'll be going home, late, and with a striped and very sore bottom.

Advantages of drawings over photos (1)

Sadly it's probably impractical, but wouldn't you just want to...