Guide to this blog

The Blogroll is now in two parts. The main part is arranged according to the date the blog was last updated, with the most recent first. The second part is a list of interesting Twitter feeds in alphabetical order. The section covering blogs that use the BDSMLR platform has been removed as it is no longer of any functional use.

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

The Chinese spanking scene (Part 2)

So for the second part of this series I have just one category of images to consider, under the heading of...

LOCATION

Way and above the most common location used for these videos is a hotel bedroom - quite often they are quite large suites rather than just a basic bedroom. This is interesting. Given that we've already established the need for privacy, just how much is accorded by a hotel room? Sound proofing is usually not brilliant for starters (and as we'll see, they often don't hold back) so are they relying on the fact that adjoining rooms are quite often likely to be unoccupied during the daytime?

Whatever, this first group all appear to be making use of a hotel bed. there are all sorts of clues such as the widespread use of plain white/cream bed linen and runners, the telephones on bedside tables, lighting control panels on bedside tables (look at the fifth one), and information cards (see the last one in this little group). There's still room for some variety, bending over the side or end of the bed, lying face down, lying with pillows under the tummy, or a traditional OTK.
There's obviously much more furniture to hand in a hotel room than just the beds, so they use all of it including luggage racks, chairs, stools and tables. The suitcase is a bit of a giveaway in the sixth image.
I'm not sure that the sound of snooker of the TV will be enough to mask the sounds from the belting being heard in neighbouring hotel rooms!
But then there's this most original use of a hotel room. It's something I've noticed when staying in posh hotels around the world - often they're the tallest building around and it's surprisingly common to get a room where the large window is really not overlooked. It can be perfectly safe for them to use the window seat with her bare bottom "on display" with effectively no danger of anyone being able to see them.

And here's another one which looks very risky. It could be a hotel or an apartment block - either way I'm guessing it is quite high up and it's a service stairway or fire escape which isn't going to be used much - most people will just be using the lift. It really isn't too risky to shoot a short scene with the chastised bottom making her way up the stairs because if anyone else comes onto the staircase you'll hear them in plenty of time and those look like elastic waisted tracksuit bottoms that could be pulled up in an instant.
Some appear to probably not be in a hotel room or suite. The furniture doesn't look quite corporate enough in this one so it's more likely an apartment.
I'm guessing this next one is either a private apartment or a more downmarket hotel.
The next one doesn't look like a hotel suite either but it could be some kind of self-catering apartment. They certainly had a number of different rooms available to use.
This looks like it might be a utility room as part of an apartment - a bit of rough!

Monday, 14 February 2022

The Chinese spanking scene (Part 1)

I've been interested for a while in the slowly emerging spanking scene in China. There are any number of spanking clips out there with models of ethnic Chinese extraction - some people would probably make broad (and somewhat misguided) comments about Asian girls having submissive tendencies and also often looking younger than they actually are which may be attractive to some in the sector. What I'm exploring here, 'though, are movies produced and shot in China. In some respects they stand out as very different to the rest of the contemporary market, but there are also some aspects that might surprise us for the similarities.  The rest of the world might tend to think of mainland China as having a rather repressive view of sexual issues but there are clearly enough people in China who have been sneaking through the great firewall of China to get a glimpse of what is going on outside.

This is a pretty big series - in all I'll be using more than 150 images (some may appear in more than one category of discussion) so I've used rather smaller images than I usually feature in order to make it manageable. I'll publish the content in six parts on alternate days although I have arranged the content into 11 sub-titles because some take more space than others. So let's get started with...

BRANDS AND LOGOS

It is a fairly underground scene and as such is subject to frequent and blatant copying and rebranding. There are one or two names I've seen appearing a few times but that I've then seen examples where they appear to have overprinted their logos on top of the original producer. On that basis I have discounted them, and believe that, at the time of writing, there have only been three producers that seem to be of any size (and at least one these now seems to be defunct.

Chinese Spanking has been around for a while - often there is no title screen at the start or end of a clip but their distinctive logo appears at some stage of the clip - often quite small and discreet.
Spank-China is a similar operation. I would hazard a guess that some of their content is submitted by enthusiasts who have shot it themselves. Apart from the brand name, I have not seen any sign of the first two venturing into any us of English language.
Han-duty is the third brand that I recognise. In some of their more recent material there are limited signs of some attempts at English sub-titles. On one clip I've seen they also display the following English language message at the start of the clip.
This is in itself interesting because it highlights one of the most significant distinguishing features of Chinese produced content - we just about never get to see anything of the faces of the participants, which leads nicely into...

PRIVACY

Here we see it's not just the sub girl that needs to keep her face hidden but the male dom who has been heavily pixelated out.
This a rather more unusual, if amusing, means of ensuring the girl can't be identified - as she is applying the strap to her own bottom, it is probably too difficult for her to keep her face hidden (she needs to see what's she's doing!).
Taking no chances, this girl has her face partly buried but they've pixelated it as well to make sure.
More commonly they just go to great lengths to keep their face hidden, shrouded in their hair...
...buried in their arms or a pillow as their punishment progresses...
...and even at the end of the punishment when they're trying to rub away the pain, they are obviously very conscious of the need to not let their face be seen. (BTW, very cute bottom in that last one I thought).

Although there are exceptions, they are much more modest than we observe more widely in the scene today. It's not just their faces we don't see!

MODESTY

The use of thongs or very brief panties is quite common so that they can be punished, effectively on their bare bottom, but with the genital area covered.
Others go for pixelation again...
... or for a very crude and straightforward block.
Sometimes they pull down the panties but only just about far enough to bare the bottom.
And then there are a few who seem to rely on keeping their legs as tightly together as they can, but are perhaps beginning to show off a little bit more. These three examples are about as much as you're ever likely to see at present.

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Favourite for February

I love the timing of this image. It capture perfectly those first few moments after a punishment has concluded and the girl who has been punished is totally wrapped up in her her own misery and discomfort. We can't actually see the marks on her bottom but since she's in Mrs Brown's study (as in strictlymissbrown.com and @StrictlyMiss) it would seem likely that she has just experienced a very formidable caning on her bare bottom which right now is very hot and sore. That pain and indignity is all consuming her thoughts and will gradually transition towards a commitment to never repeat the behaviour that lead to her caning, or, indeed, to undertake any actions that might lead Miss Brown into caning her again in the future.

Monday, 24 January 2022

The "T" Word

It will come as no surprise to my regular blog-viewers that I maintain a folder of images to use in future "Favourite of the month" posts. It provides for a handy filtration tool - often I put something into that folder and then later on, sometimes just as it comes up to the moment that image is due to be posted, I change my mind and decide the image just doesn't quite make the cut. This one is different, in that my initial impression was this might be a candidate, but then I ruled it out of ever making the folder for one massive reason. The tattoo. For me, it just spoils the whole scene. I realise that some people really love tattoos and others would think I'm being too picky. But, hey, it has to be a personal favourite for me and I can't put it in that category for that one simple reason. Just wondering how others feels about this.


  

Friday, 7 January 2022

Hypothetical dilemma (3)

 Okay, so it's time for another hypoethical dilemma for us all to turn our (slightly warped!) minds towards. This one is based on an actual factual event I experienced in my school days so I'll tell you about that first. For the benefit of those who may not be overly familiar with my history, I was at school in the UK during the era when corporal punishment was just about beginning to decline but was far from unusual. Between the ages of eight and eleven I attended an all-boys school where fairly mild corporal punishment was routinely dished out in the classroom environment - things like a single hard swat with a plimsoll or stick across your trousers as you touched your toes at the front of the class.

One day our regular class teacher was unavoidably away, engaged in duties elsewhere - the school managed to arrange for different teachers to cover all of our classes apart from one. At the start of that particular class the senior teacher came in and announced that we were going to have be trusted to behave ourselves for the next forty minutes or so. He set us some work to be doing and reminded us that he'd be teaching in the classroom next door and that he'd better not hear any noise from us. Of course, the situation deteriorated fairly quickly and after about fifteen minutes, there was total chaos - everyone was out of their seat and running around and we clearly misjudged the amount of noise we were making. Suddenly the door opened and the senior teacher was framed in the doorway - the first thing I saw was that he was clutching his trusty plimsoll in his hand and was looking very angry.  We all scuttled back to our seats as if to make believe we had been innocent all along. He waited until everyone was back where they were meant to be and then pronounced "I warned you that I wanted to noise. Well I haven't got enough time to waste beating all of you as I should do." There was a short pause, then he pointed the plimsoll at one particular boy "You happened to be the first I saw when I opened the door so you come out here and touch your toes." I remember breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn't pointed at me, and then I looked around to see the red-faced boy making his way out to the front of the classroom. He was far from a regular offender although I think he had been slippered on maybe one occasion previously but he looked rather upset to be the centre of attention right now. As instructed he bent over with the tips of his fingers on his shoes and his legs as straight as he could manage - again my recollection at that point was that his short grey trousers were stretched very tightly and you could quite clearly see the shape of his two buttocks. I don't know why everyone was always so compliant in that situation but we just were - nobody ever tried to get away with being just half bent over, even though we were assuming a much more uncomfortable position and probably making the subsequent beating hurt even more as a result. The arm holding the plimsoll went back high in the air and swiftly came down across the one buttock with a crack as a loud as a gunshot and then before there was any chance to react it went back again and came down, maybe even harder, on the other side. "Right, back to you seat." The boy's face was as red as his bottom probably was and he complied quickly, probably anxious not to be centre stage for a moment longer than he needed to be.  He looked very close to tears but I think he managed not to actually cry.

"Right, now back to your work IN SILENCE. Consider yourselves all to have been given a good beating and  if I have to come back again, inconvenient as it may be, I promise you I will soundly beat every one of you with double what you have just seen your colleague be given."

Most of us heeded the warning and tried to get on with the set work - one or two started messing around, primarily the regular delinquents who were no strangers to getting a beating or two and who probably quite liked the idea of trying to get some of those who never did anything wrong into trouble and getting to see how they took a beating, but by and large peer pressure kept things under control, and we survived the rest of the class without another visitation.

Alright, so there is a true factual situation that occurred in the early 1970's. For your hypothetical I need you to put aside any feeling you have about whether corporal punishment should or should not be used in the classroom. You are now the senior teacher in the scenario I've just outlined. To make it more interesting, we'll make it a mixed class and one where girls as well as boys could be given a physical punishment, although it was much less common - probably for every ten times a boy was beaten, only one girl would get it. You come into the class, everyone scrambles back to their seat, and as they do you hit on the idea of punishing just one (or two) as an example - you can justify punishing them for being rowdy, but you get to choose.

  • Do you choose a boy or a girl or one of each?
  • Do you choose a regular offender? That has the advantage that you know you can hit them jolly hard and they'll accept it and there is very unlikely to be a complaint.
  • Do you choose someone who you believe has never had a beating before? That gets across the message that it could happen to anyone and they might show more reaction, even to a more moderate punishment - perhaps you'd even get some tears - on the other hand, there is the slim chance a parent might complain about them being picked on (okay, so you have the 'first one I saw' and the fact they were breaking the rules so you're okay, but it might be a bit more hassle).
  • Do you choose one you particularly have it in for (probably a regular offender) where you relish the chance to make them suffer another embarrassing punishment?
  • Do you chose one that you've always thought had a rather nice bottom that was just made for being whacked, but who had never given you the slightest excuse?
  • Do you play it straight and genuinely pick out the one your eye fell on first the moment you opened the door?
Your free choice, but aside from any other (possibly devious) intentions, you need to make an impression that will probably mean the rest of the class passes relatively quietly.

 


Saturday, 1 January 2022

Favourite for January

A New Year means "In with the new!"

One thing that has always fascinated me is the way in which schoolkids learned about how discipline was applied in their school. I mean, I don't think I've ever heard of a new intake of pupils being sat down and getting the school rules and possible sanctions explained to them. So most times, the way they learned was by observing others (if they were lucky) being awarded punishments for certain misbehaviour. Over a period of time, you would probably learn first about things the school regarded as minor indiscretions (but indiscretions nonetheless) and the lesser sanctions that you risked if you did those things. It would be relatively unusual for someone to be made aware of a fellow pupil being given more serious punishment early on but eventually that would happen. Also people got to hear of examples of older pupils getting into more serious trouble - perhaps where a classmate had an older sibling in the class affected - but there was always the possibility that someone was exaggerating in order to frighten or impress a younger pupil.

But, inevitably, there will always be some who are the first in their class to discover first-hand how seriously certain behaviour is viewed and how the school addresses such matters. Common sense tells them, for example, that fighting is something the school strongly disapproves of. And waiting outside the office of the headmistress, facing the wall, hands on heads, in obvious disgrace, they are left to their own thoughts, wondering if the tales they heard of the headmistress caning girls for such offences are true and whether that is to be their fate. And if so, is the cane really as painful as people have suggested? And it can be quite a long wait to find out...



Saturday, 25 December 2021

Happy Christmas everyone!

 And remember, there are good old traditional ways of dealing with the naughty list...


...however long that list might be!

Tuesday, 7 December 2021

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?


Wednesday, 1 December 2021

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.