Favourite for December

This is quite an oldie from the Xerotics stable but there's a lot I like about it. The 'schoolgirl' looks fantastic - very smart and appropriate uniform although the skirt may not meet the length stipulated in the school regulations. I do always like a straight grey skirt like this as opposed to the pleated ones we get more often. But the real strength of this image, for me, is the tension in the room. She doesn't look like she would be one of the girls that are regularly in trouble and she probably thought that the young teacher would let her get away with it this time. However, this teacher is not impressed with the apologies and grovelling. the only decision that will be required in a few moments will be for the girl to decide if she's willing to bend across the table for a firm slippering or if she'd prefer to take her chances with a referral to the headmistress that would very likely end with a caning.

Favourite for November

Quite a few of those who have started out as 'bottoms' in the spanking community, often as models, as the years go by seem to be drawn to 'topping'. Others have always been tops. Many of those would insist that they have real expertise and know exactly how to dish out punishments without ever having been on the receiving end. There are a few who identify as tops but at some time or other have allowed someone to administer punishments to them so they have a better understanding of what it feels like. If you've ever seen Cassie Hunter thrashing some bloke, usually mercilessly, you could be excused for thinking she wouldn't like it if the roles were reversed. However, if you hunt around, you can discover that, on at least one occasion, she allowed another highly regarded mistress the opportunity to give her a caning. I haven't seen the video version of this event but I have seen some other videos of Cassie being punished, sometimes by men. I've not seen any where she took a punishment bare bottomed but there's one of her getting slippered OTK (with a plimsoll) on the seat of her panties and it would be fair to say she didn't seem to cope with the experience very well. Of course, a single image like this doesn't really show how well she handled being caned over the seat of her shorts although she does look a bit red-faced.

I tend to the view that those who seek to give, for example. a caning, ought to have, at some time or other, been given one. As someone who identifies as a top, it's probably only fair to admit that I have allowed a very competent exponent of canings, to allow me to experience what it feels like. You know what? It bloody hurt! 

Favourite for October

One of my favourite positions for administering corporal punishment is with the recipient lying face down on a fairly unyielding surface with hands and ankles secured. No putting a hand back to try to stop the punishment or pulling her bottom forward at the point of impact in the faint hope it might lessen the pain. Often the person administering the punishment will put something under the target area such as cushions or pillows to raise her bottom in the air and make it easier to target while keeping her reasonably comfortable to lie there for quite a long time.

And then there's this option...

This is the scenario where he's thought "Why the hell should she be comfortable? This is a punishment, it's meant to hurt, and you know what, if she finds it uncomfortable... Well, good!"

And although there are several switches discarded on the floor after he's used them on her, she can see straight in front of her that he has plenty more if he decides she's not yet sorry enough for what she did. And she's going to lie on that hard wooden bench for as long as he deems necessary.

Favourite for September

She'd had all morning fearfully wondering what her punishment was going to be. Now she was in the head's office she had part of the answer but not yet all. She'd been told to put her hands on her head and face the wall and he'd then tucked up the back of her skirt. But then he'd left the room and had now been gone for about twenty minutes. She had noticed when she'd first entered the room that he had a full array of weapons laid out on his desk. He had a large plimsoll - she'd felt that before and knew he laid it on with great gusto. She'd also been on the receiving end of his wooden paddle and had been bruised for at least a week after he'd blistered her rear end with it. But she'd spotted that he also had a nasty-looking cane there. She'd heard horror stories about that. It was difficult to imagine but there seemed to be a generally held opinion that it hurt even more than the paddle. She hoped against hope that she wasn't going to find out for herself if that was true.

Favourite for August

It may be a long time ago now, but there really was a time when errant pupils in English schools might be given the dreaded instruction "Touch your toes" immediately before a caning was firmly applied to the recipient's bottom. I heard that instruction given to others on several occasions and it was quite chilling. It always strikes me as much more evocative than the American equivalent of "Assume the position."

And it is a lovely sight when someone can follow the instruction so precisely.

Image courtesy of Miss Sultry Belle.

Those Chinese videos...

I would guess most of the spanko community has seen some of the plethora of Chinese videos that hit the scene recently, mainly on TikTok and YouTube. It started with pairs of players doing the old classic rock-paper-scissors game, where the winner got to whack the loser with an implement - mostly resembling a paddle, a cane or a belt and invariably across their bottom while they bent forward submissively.

The initial torrent of videos may have abated a little but there are also plenty of new ones. It's difficult to reliably keep track of when already posted videos have been reposted from other accounts. There have also been some variations - some great fun and others rather confusing. The confusing ones are particularly those where more than two players take part. So, for example, there are quite a few with two boys and one girl - one boy challenges the girl to the rock-paper-scissors game. If she wins she gets to whack both of the boys but if she loses, each of the boys gets to whack her. It's not rocket science to calculate that each outcome has a 50:50 chance of happening, meaning she is going to get hit twice as many times as either of them. I struggle to see how she is persuaded to agree to that.

Then there have been several videos where they use large elastic bands (resistance bands?) stretched tightly around the loser and then released giving a sharp stinging impact on a quite precisely controlled area. There has also been a bit more variation in targets. Perhaps it's a surprise that sometimes they have been delivered to bare legs, for example, leaving the 'victim' with very publicly visible marks.

Right from the outset, they seem to have played these games with little concern about being overseen by others. However, there have been a handful of video clips starting to appear in very public settings such as a busy shopping district. The lack of intervention by those passing by might suggest that there is, at least in some places, quite widespread knowledge and acceptance of the games.

There have also been a few where, instead of bending forward, the 'victim' is lying face down on a bench or table and they are beaten with what appear to be really large planks of wood. While these may seem strange to the Western eye, they probably reflect a form of punishment that was quite widespread in the past in China.

There have also been some alternative games to replace rock-paper-scissors. The most popular seems to be the use of large dice. Although initial use seemed to be restricted to 'largest number wins' they have mostly moved on to the loser getting the number of strokes reflected by the winner's throw. Sometimes it's not competitive - the boy throws and gives the girl the number he's thrown and then she throws and gives him the number she's thrown. Very occasionally I have seen a loser having to endure six hard strokes - unfortunately, the girls seem to very rarely be able to stay in position throughout the punishment.

There are a very large number of accounts posting - I have counted 38 TikTok accounts (the most prolific being @thutrangcl, @thichdangvd, @qupewss11, and most prolific of all @tieutudi) and well over 60 YouTube channels (most prolific being Girl's funny, Man man, and Funny Brave Challenge). Another YouTube channel called Anokha channel D posted a lot of videos but now seems to have gone a bit quieter - the interesting thing here is that whereas most clips are around 3-5 minutes long, on this last channel their clips are compilations usually running to 11-15 minutes).

One interesting development I've noticed recently is that some TikTok postings have had a warning notice posted on them.

Look right to the bottom of this screen. I would have thought this was rather unnecessary and obvious to anyone. I wonder if there are any people in other countries who are ready to risk disregarding the warning...

Favourite for July

 

Many years ago, I can remember reading a scholarly piece of research into different attitudes to punishing boys and girls, both at school and at home. Sadly, I didn't keep a copy (not a mistake I would make if I came across something like that today!) and I can't remember the exact figures they had come up with. I'll make some fairly credible statistics to illustrate what they found.

There were three main conclusions:

1. Both boys and girls did receive corporal punishment on occasion, but
2. Boys were eight times more likely to receive corporal punishment than girls, however
3. Girls were almost twice as likely to have clothing moved or removed for the punishment

The second conclusion was explained by the view that boys were more likely to do bad things than girls and that even if they did the same thing, people were more reluctant to use corporal punishment on girls than they were on boys. The third conclusion was explained that if a girl was wearing a skirt it was relatively easy to lift the skirt out of the way and that having done so it was also relatively easy to pull her underwear down. With boys wearing trousers it was more fiddly and time-consuming to do something similar. I think there's another issue which, as I remember it, the report authors did not consider. When a person wearing trousers needs to bend over to get smacked, caned, paddled or whatever across their bottom, the bending process simply causes the material in the trousers to be stretched more tightly, thereby making the punishment more effective. However, when a girl wearing a skirt or dress bends over, in many cases the lower hem will actually impede the punishment, thus leading the person conducting the punishment to decide it is necessary to move it out of the way.

In English schools, in the era when the cane ruled the schoolroom, there were, unquestionably, occasions when a girl would be the recipient of a caning. However, as time moved on, there was growing unease about caning a girl's bottom. Some schools changed their rules so that if girls had to be caned, it weould be given across the palms of their hands. Others changed their rules so that boys could be caned across their bottoms, but for the fairer sex, a 'slipper' would be used instead because it was seen as less severe. The 'slipper' in practice was more commonly a gymshoe/plimsoll/dab/sandshoe or whatever it was known as in your part of the country.

And so we come to this month's favourite picture. It's unusual for me to choose a B&W image but somehow it seems to add to the potential believability of the scene. And there is little doubt, that on occasions, a badly behaved schoolgirl would have found herself being told to touch her toes, the schoolteacher realising that the hem of the skirt would impede the punishment, lifting it up and folding it on to the girl's back, and then delivering some hard stinging whacks across her tightly stretched regulation school knickers.

Caned Every Day revisited

I wrote earlier this year about a curious film called Caned Every Day published under the Miss Marchmont imprint.

It was very clearly intended to be the follow-up to the film That'll Teach Them which ended with the three girls being warned that they would be caned every day for a week if they broke the rules again. The only part of Caned Every Day that ever seemed to make it to film was supposedly day 2 of such a punishment because their headmistress says that they are to be caned today, as they were yesterday, and in fact, will be caned every day this week. We've never seen any evidence of day one being filmed - it might have been that the plan was that on day one they would be allowed to keep some clothing on over their bottoms so it could be filmed last when the girls' bottoms were already marked from four 'days' of caning.

However, what I did recently come across was a single image that appears to come from another 'day'.

It's not the best of quality but it is clearly in the same room as the canings that made their way to film. It features Miss Brown and the girl known in the film as Elaine. However, in the 'day' that made it to film the girls entered the room one by one in full school uniform. They bent over and Miss Brown turned back their skirts and pulled down their knickers before caning them. This time Elaine has had to remove her gymslip - we can't tell whether or not she had been made to take her own knickers down or not. But, it's clearly evidence that more of the story was filmed. I'm now more curious than ever to know what really happened to prevent the whole 'week' from making it to film.

Favourite for June

They do say that every day's a school day. On this particular day, Barbara found herself doing a lot of learning and in charge of that learning was her boyfriend.

"It's not a request - it's a requirement. Either you apologise to my mother or you get a smacked bottom."

At which point Barbara laughed. She laughed because talk of a smacked bottom was the sort of thing that might apply to a little kid but not to a 22-year-old woman expecting to graduate in a few weeks with a first-class honours degree in Electrical Engineering. So it was just a euphemism, wasn't it?

Had it been a euphemism he might not have taken exception to her laughing at what he said.

So the first thing she learned was that a four-foot-eleven-inch engineering student, if she was unprepared and not expecting this to happen, could fly through the air remarkably quickly and land across his knee and over the back of the sofa. The next thing she learned was his reference to a smacked bottom was anything but a euphemism. She would have thought, strictly speaking, that 'a spanked bottom' might have been a more accurate description than 'smacked bottom' but wisely decided that this was not a good time to correct his English usage.

She was also rapidly learning that her favourite brief denim shorts which she had always thought made her look really sexy were not very effective at providing much in the way of physical protection. At the same time, she was learning that all the time and money he had invested in his gym membership was really paying off in terms of the strength in his upper arms as the one kept her very firmly pinned down and the other walloped her bottom mercilessly.

The final element of learning was the realisation that no amount of crying and saying she was sorry was going to make one jot of difference until he felt the point had been well made.

Favourite for May

Ask anyone, they would tell you that Emily was an exemplary pupil. She was never, ever, in trouble. Zero detentions, never sent out of class, nothing. Some of the other girls in her class saw her as boring and too much of a goody two shoes. They would, secretly at least, love to see her getting into trouble, just for once.

So they'd probably be smirking right now. You only got sent to the headmistress if you'd done something really bad. Two of the toughest girls in her class had been in her office earlier this year after a series of incidents and any number of detentions and they'd both come back to class crying their eyes out because Mrs Jenkins had caned them. Her canings were the stuff of legend - bent over the back of a chair and at least four but often six very hard strokes across their bottoms. Jenny Wales had the full six after she'd been caught smoking at the time she should have been in detention. Pat Roberts got four for not attending a detention. She'd been especially unfortunate because they had a PE class immediately after her encounter with Mrs Jenkins so everyone in the class, including Emily, had seen the red tramlines on Pat's bottom and they were seriously scary.

Emily's best friend Melissa had been sent to Mrs Jenkins earlier this year. She'd been a bit unlucky because she'd forgotten to bring her French homework in. It was a genuine mistake but their French teacher was getting fed up with people not doing homework and decided to make an example of Melissa. Mrs Jenkins had kept her waiting outside the office for what seemed like an eternity and had then given her a real tongue-lashing for a good fifteen minutes. Melissa had left the office in tears even though the headmistress never laid a finger on her.

Emily was really scared as she made her way to the office for her scheduled downfall. Her legs felt like jelly, she wanted to be sick, and she wasn't sure she'd even make it to the office. Of course, like Melissa, she had a previously unblemished record, so she tried to convince herself that she was heading for a frightful telling off and it would be awful but it would be over soon. On the other hand, there was a world of difference between forgetting to bring your homework in, and calling the art teacher, Mrs Connor, a "stupid old bat" - not exactly to her face, but close enough and loud enough to know it would be heard.

She reached the outer office and with a deep breath went in. The secretary looked up.

"Emily Cooper - I'm here to see Mrs Jenkins."

She consulted the diary in front of her.

"Well you'll need to wait outside because she's on a phone call with the Chair of Governors at present but let me just check... Oh yes, there's a note here." The secretary stood up and opened a cupboard. To Emily's horror, she took out a cane and handed it to the terrified girl. "Right, take a seat outside and wait for her to call you in. You'll need to take this in with you."

Emily was already crying as she sat down. She'd never even seen a real punishment cane before let alone handled one. It felt so lightweight. It was hard to believe the reputation it had. But there was no point now in thinking she might get away with just being told off. And if she was caned all her classmates would know and some of them would make fun of her. The school would probably tell her parents as well so she'd have to face them, and if anyone walked past the office right now they'd see her with the cane and they'd know as well.