Favourite for October

I do like a bit of outdoor action and woodlands especially make such a lovely setting.

The boyfriend of this beautiful girl has decided that she should be spending a long time like this - hands tied roughly above her head and her bottom exposed to the light evening breeze. The place appears to be deserted and she appears to be left all alone.  Indeed, she heard him walk away and now she's feeling very abandoned and vulnerable.  She didn't hear him creep so quietly back to a nearby location to keep an eye on her, make sure that no strangers wander past and see her, and enjoy looking at her fabulous bottom and legs and planning what he will do next.

After almost half an hour she's starting to panic and tries struggling with the coarse rope but only succeeds in making the bite deeper into her wrists.  Every so often she imagines she's seen something move or heard an approaching footprint and is terrified of being discovered by people she didn't know - what would they do?  They might be do-gooders who would think she'd been attacked or something and call the police and she could end up getting arrested for public order and the story could be all over the papers.  Or they could be nasty louts who would take advantage of her vulnerability and she could be raped.  Or they might pick up some convenient tree branches and whip her mercilessly and she couldn't do a thing to stop them and her cries would never be heard.  In some ways that was the least worst of the possibilities she was thinking about since it was pretty close to what she and her boyfriend had planned for him to do when he came back for her, but he knew her limits and respected them and she couldn't expect that from others.

After over an hour she starts wondering about when she might need the toilet and as soon as the thought crosses her mind she starts feeling an urge to pee.  Around that time, grinning, and out of her line of sight, he picks a small pebble and flings it as far as he can in front of her.  She freezes in terror - there must be someone there!  She can't make out anyone or any reason for the noise and as the minutes tick by, she tries to calm herself.

He has much more patience than she does.

What if he didn't come back?  What if had an accident or something and she was just left here.  It would be starting to get dark very soon.  She is almost ready to cry.  It has been almost three hours.  She had lost track of time but had never imagined it being anything like as long as this.  In her mind she'd been thinking half an hour tops.

Slowly he stands and stretches to his full height.   He reaches down for a handful of switches he'd prepared after he first left her and starts to walk back towards her.  At first she thinks her imagination is playing tricks again as he stands on a twig that cracks underfoot.  Then before she's ever really registered the first swishing sound the switch cracks hard across her bottom and she squeals at the familiar fiery sting. 

"...more than it hurts you!"

Couldn't resist!

Favourite for September

Faced with this view I wouldn't be able to help myself pausing to just enjoy the scenery before beginning the actual punishment.  And that pause could become very, very long.  I can imagine that as she pulled up the back of her skirt and bent over as instructed, her only thought would be how much her bottom would soon be hurting.  However as the wait grew longer and longer the indignity and disgrace of her position would slowly dawn and I have a feeling that she would be blushing with shame a long time before I actually began to warm her bottom up properly.  Nonetheless, once I began, I would feel obliged to do the job very thoroughly indeed.

Truly, a thing of beauty.

Optimum positions

My favourite for this month featured a young lady getting an OTK spanking but with the twist that she's been hoisted totally off the ground and probably feels especially vulnerable.  I got an almost immediate response from my regular fan/critic Old Tom that there was nothing wrong with a much more conventional and stable OTK position.  I do like a bit of variety sometimes but in general I would have to agree.  The more I've thought about it, the more - in my mind anyway - there's almost invariably one optimum position for any given instrument.  If I'd decided to correct a young lady by using a particular implement, I guess 95% of the time I would expect to use the type of position I've indicated below.  I wonder to what extent others agree with my choices?

HAND SPANKING

Yes, I'd go for a most traditional OTK position, ideally on a good substantial leather sofa almost every time.

HAIRBRUSH

Replacing the hand with a hairbrush, my only adjustment would be to make sure there was better support than for the hand spanking because the hairbrush can hurt a lot and it may be necessary to restrain the subject from trying to wriggle away.

BELT

Using a standard belt or strap (e.g. the type manufactured with the purpose of holding your trousers up) you probably want to get a bit more swing than is realistic with the girl across your lap but you want her bottom to be well supported so she can't move it away from the implement.  I'd consider a number of options here but ideally there should be a bit of a bend so the back of a sofa, the arm of a chair or face down on the bed with a pillow strategically placed to lift her bottom up a bit would be my ideal.

SLIPPER

If we're talking about an actual slipper or flip-flop for example in the domestic environment, then I'd probably take an approach similar to that for the belt above.  However, if you read around credible accounts of life in UK schools in, say, the 1950's and 1960's, "the slipper" was widely used as the name for what was actually a plimsoll/gymshoe.  I'm going to write a longer piece on this instrument soon because it's clear that it was widely used, in particular for less official punishments.  While many different teachers seem to have drawn on the widespread availability of such items in a school and the fact that their presence was less a cause for alert than the sight of cane hanging up, it would hardly be surprising that the most frequent user of such implement would be the PE or games staff. As such, it's absolutely ideal fro the girl to be bent over some convenient piece of sports equipment such as a vaulting horse.

LIGHT TO MODERATE CANINGS

If the girl in question is fortunate enough to be able to adopt the classic "touch your toes" position then it seems eminently suitable for a good swift caning, with legs straight and together  As well as probably being very uncomfortable there is also the risk of falling forward or coming out of position and therefore the threat of extra strokes if that should happen can only add to the girl's misery and enhance the impression of the experience.

HARDER CANINGS

Courtesy of Firm Hand

If you're going to give a really hard or longer caning, or the girl is a bit older and less flexible, I think you have to be realistic and have her bend across a desk or chair although she should still have legs straight and together.  Clearly she might still incur extra penalties, for example by standing up, but there's not much point in setting up a situation where she never has any chance of staying in place long enough for you to complete the punishment.

THE TAWSE (OFTEN REFERRED TO AS 'THE BELT' IN SCHOOLS)

Courtesy of Xerotics

Of course the tawse can be applied across the bottom just as the cane could be applied across the hands, but to me it always seems more sensible to stick to caning the bottom and tawsing the hands.  I know that when the cane was used in UK schools, especially on girls, it was often across the hands but it always seemed a rather risky process.  I made that comment to a friend of mine who happens to provide services as a mistress and she immediately demonstrated to me that she could cane my hands safely and effectively (ouch!).  However, choose the tawse, and I'd expect the girl to hold her hands out in front of her, one on top of the other as pictured here and half way through to change the hands over.

THE PADDLE

Courtesy of RealSpankings

Moving across the pond to the US and the land of the wooden paddle, I don't think it's realistic for the girl to have to bend over with her legs straight and together and not supported by a chair or desk - there's a lot more momentum than with the cane and there's no point in knocking her off her feet with each blow.

THE BIRCH

Courtesy of MOOD Pictures

Moving up to judicial punishment such as the birch, I think it is almost essential that the girl is secured in place.  Properly applied it is going to be intensely painful and it's essential for basic safety as well as being able to complete the punishment that the recipient has minimum scope for movement.

Okay that's a quick roundup of my view of optimum position for each of the more common instruments - anyone have any different views?

Favourite for August

I do like it when an OTK spanking is done in such a way that the girl can get neither feet or hands on the floor - so much more vulnerable and helpless.

Digital Economy Act 2017

The UK government is on the warpath once more with the intention of restricting access to on-line pornography by under 18s.  And, once again, they will fail.  They don't understand technology and in any case they can only restrict material published from the UK or hosted in the UK.  And they clearly haven't heard of VPNs.  For a good academic comment on the new legislation it's well worth reading this article from The Conversation.  

Sun Newspaper Online

This caught my eye (as you might expect!) on the website of The Sun newspaper.

Sadly it's just another story about the mis-selling of PPI...  I strongly suspect they made a conscious decision of how much of the article's headline to show on the front page.

Favourite for July

Someone seems to have hit on a way to make after-school detention more shameful for these girls.

Plus there ia the added issue that anyone who fails to complete the requisite number of lines before the detention is over will be getting the slipper.

Or is it just me?

Do other people experience visiting a garden centre and wandering into the furniture section and thinking "What a waste of good rattan??

Favourite for June

What is there not to like - young girl, gorgeous bum, and obvious apprehension as she tries to see what is in his hands.  I suspect it is likely to be a belt...