Hypothetical dilemma (2)

Last month I posted a hypothetical dilemma for you and thought you might like another one.

The year is 1962. You've just been appointed as headmaster in a traditional British Grammar school that employs the use of corporal punishment "for serious and repeated bad behaviour" and now you're meeting with the Deputy Head to get up to speed on how things run in the school currently. The subject of corporal punishment has just come up. Apparently many of the teachers use a plimsoll to enforce classroom discipline and that is generally just allowed to carry on in a fairly unregulated fashion. However what is really meant by "corporal punishment" is formal caning in the privacy of the office of the headmaster or deputy. Canings are never given in view of other pupils unless two or more are being caned at the same time for the same offence. Canings are typically for smoking, bullying, fighting, theft, petty vandalism and truancy, but there is also a rule that any pupil who gets an after-school detention three times in one term will also be subject to caning.

The deputy head expresses his view that this is sometimes a nuisance - for example, in the final week of the previous term no less than seven pupils clocked up a third detention - because they were all in different classes he had to arrange for each of them to be brought his office to be caned at different times and it had taken a big chunk of his time. His suggestion is that the system should be tweaked and that those earning a caning under the three-detentions rule could be caned during the detention even 'though others would be present. The idea seems to have some merits and it might act as a handy deterrent to those already on a second detention.

You're inclined to give it a go. So your decision is either...

1. When one or more of the pupils are there for a third detention, the person supervising the detention checks all the names at the start of the detention and informs the guilty parties that they are going to be caned at the end of the detention - in theory they would know that anyway, but having any hope dashed would mean them having to sit throughout the detention period knowing what was coming to them shortly and would mean they had no time to recover their composure before going home. One of you would then turn up in the last five minutes or so and cane all of those deserving.
2. One of you arrives at the start of the detention, with the cane. As soon as the register is completed those due to be caned would be called forward and their canings delivered. They would then have to sit through the remainder of the detention in significant discomfort, watched by everyone else, and unable to rub their bottoms as they might wish.

Your decision?

Favourite for December

Winter makes us all think about getting warmed up and I'm pretty sure this young lady is about to experience a warming up that she'll remember but probably not really appreciate. She arrived at the office of the headmistress at exactly the time she was told and was brought inside. She's already had a lengthy lecture about her behaviour and how totally unacceptable it has been. She was just about to learn her fate when the headmistress took a phone call and had to leave "for a few minutes." But not before instructing her to stand facing the wall with her hands on her head and not to move - she could use the time to think over the folly of her poor choices. It would not go unnoticed by the girl that she was made to stand facing the wall exactly where the official school cane was hanging up.

She had never been caned before - never really been in trouble - and was very scared because of the tales that went around the school about Miss Meredith's legendary canings. She might get caned on her hands which she had been warned was excruciating because Miss Meredith made a point of hitting across the fingers - however there was less marking and it lasted a much shorter time. Or she might get caned across the bottom. She was told that Miss Meredith's technique then was to make you stand behind the big leather chair, and then bend over it and place your hands on the seat. Probably no girl in the school would be able to do that without their feet coming off the floor which left you in a very vulnerable position.

Some of the girls wore much shorter skirts than was really allowed and by that stage their panties would probably already be exposed. She had alway worn a very sensible and length-compliant skirt but once Miss Meredith had you in position and you couldn't do anything to stop it, she was reputed to whisk the hem off the skirt over on to your back to give her a perfect target. First time offenders could usually be expected to get four strokes but a couple of the more seasoned girls in her class, hearing what she was being reported for, said it was more than likely she'd get a classic "six of the best" - they may have just been trying to scare her but it had worked. If Miss Meredith did do that, there was general consent that she didn't hold back at all. Caning on the hands risked damaging a fragile bone so she had to be a bit restrained, but bottoms were fair game and she used all the strength of her renowned golf swing to drive the lesson home. Those who had experienced this sort of caning said it hurt more than anything they could have imagined and the marks lasted for a couple of weeks and sometimes longer.

She was, most definitely, feeling very remorseful right now, and was getting ever more panicked as the headmistress didn't seem to be returning anything like as soon as she'd suggested.

LOL day 2021

The time is here -  for the first time Love Our Lurkers day has morphed into LOVE OUR LIFESTYLE. And why not?

The truth is, there are some really lovely people in the spanko community, and it only seems right to recognise the varied contributions that they each make. Some may not be exactly to our personal taste but by and large we rub along well together and truly support each other. And surely that has never mattered more than it does in 2021. And, with a slight backward glance, it's still a great day to post some appreciation to the sites we often browse but rarely comment.

LOL day 2021 is coming - and it's all change!

Hermione has announced the date for this year's LOL day is next week - November 19th. But she's also redesignated the annual event - instead of Love Our Lurkers it's becoming Love Our Lifestyle. I'll let Hermione explain:

Hypothetical dilemma (1)

Okay, so there's widespread agreement now that corporal punishment doesn't really have a place in schools today. However, at the same time, we know that it is still widely practised, especially in the deep south of the USA, and there are plenty of people there who thinks it's a good thing. So this kind of dilemma is perfectly possible today...

You're the Principal of a high school in Mississippi and your school still employs the paddle for serious misbehaviour. One lunchtime, two girls are seen fighting and a teacher has to part them. Although there appears to be a strong case that both were equally responsible for initiating the fracas, they have experienced rather different outcomes. One has blood pouring from her nose, the start of a black eye, and the very real possibility that her nose might actually be broken. The other is largely unscathed. The first girl has been sent off to the medical room while the second girl has, as a temporary measure, been placed in the In-School Suspension Unit so that her whereabouts are know while you are briefed.

A quick check of records show that the second girl has been in trouble for this kind of thing before and it needs to be dealt with accordingly. Experience tells you that one of the parents, probably the mother, of the first girl is going to be on the 'phone soon demanding answers so it's best to be seen to have acted quickly and decisively.

The decision is made - she's going to get six hard swats with the heavy wooden paddle across her behind and then sent home for the rest of the day - this means you can tell the other mother that the girl has been paddled and suspended. You arrange for someone to bring the girl to your office, and that's when you're faced with the dilemma.

As well as fighting, you now need to address what amounts to quite a serious infraction of the school dress code. I think you have two main options.

1. You inform her that, for fighting, she is to receive six swats with the paddle tomorrow morning at the start of the school day, and that she will be receiving further punishment for the dress code violation. That way, she'll have a significant amount of time to think about the paddling that is coming her way and she'll be able to dress properly for the paddling to be carried out. And she'll also have to spend the rest of tomorrow with a very sore bottom sitting in her classes with all of her peers being well aware of what has happened to her.
2. You administer the six swats there and then - it might hurt her rather more than if she had dressed properly but that really is her own fault and might serve to avoid the need for a separate punishment for the dress code violation. Plus you could then make her go back to her class for the rest of the day. Since she doesn't seem to care generally about how much her classmates can see of her bottom, it will be interesting to see how easy it will be to see the way it's been marked.

Okay, so your decision?

Favourite for November

 I do like attention to detail.

A couple of important lessons are about to be learned here. Firstly, that a pair of old style school gym knickers provide next to no protection from a solidly applied cane. And second, that if that cane lands exactly where it's being aimed, it is going to hurt very much and she won't be repeating that behaviour any time soon.

Even more movie bloopers

I do enjoy spotting those occassional slips of camera and set that bedevil our favourite producers of spanking movies. I mean you just can't go and say we'll wait for the red marks to fade and then reshoot the scene just because of some tiny mistake...

And, obviously it's difficult when some of the actors are rearranging the set and the second camera is in the way (just on the left edge). (credit: Lupus Spanking)

And when you have a spankee who is so reluctant to bend over the back of a chair for the next part of her punishment that the spanker has decided to take a seat while he waits, it's perhaps not altogether surprising that when she finally decides to get in place there's a momentary mix-up between the camera guy and the sound guy. (credit: Ravenhill) 

A slightly odd one this - the girl is about to take her trousers down and, presumably, bend across the bed to be spanked, and her would-be spanker has decided to cross to the other side of the room.  I would have thought it would be easier to spank her if you stayed this side and perhaps that's what the second cameraman thought as well as he probably didn't expect to be in shot. (credit: AEG Real Spankings)

Staying in the wonderful world of AEG (I think, overall, they're my favourites which is why I have a lot of examples from them), can you imagine being summoned to the Principal's office to be punished and as you nervously open the door to go in, there's a large lighting rig just inside the doorway to enable your punishment to be filmed? (credit: AEG Real Spankings)

I understand the the second camera is using a fixed position so the cameraman doesn't need to stay with it, but I'm always a bit surprised that they can be so disinterested that they're not even watching the action just when it's getting interesting. (credit: unknown)

A bit nit-picking this one, but I-spy a lighting rig on the right hand edge of this scene... oh, and another crew member lurking in the kitchen at the back. (credit: Spanked-in-uniform)

Finally, when you're not in this scene but are interested enough to keep an eye on things it's probably a good idea to make sure that you're out of shot, especially if, like Kailie, you're so uncaring for your fellow actor's soon to be very sore bottom, that you're just standing there picking your nose. I hope she was suitable punished for that as well. (credit: AEG Real Spankings)

Favourite for October

Belinda Lawson's ample bottom is not unfamiliar with being punished with a wide variety of implements but I have the feeling that this would be quite a memorable one. A wooden backed hairbrush is a fearsome enough implement but this very heavy looking clothes brush should make her regret not being better protected and give him a very good view of her rapidly reddening bottom through the thin tights/pantyhose. Another great scene from Firm Hand Spanking. 

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.