Favourite for November

Something different this month - I've done a few "before" shots because I love the looks of trepidation and anticipation but this month for a classy "after" shot.

The Rigid East / Lupus stable produces a rather mixed repertoire of movies but for me their classic domestic and school scenarios have often had something really special about them.   This scene from their classic Crime In The St Thomas School is practically unique on having no less than twelve schoolgirls given hard bare bottom paddlings with a wooden paddle one after another for their share in the offence.

Previous post on copyright issues

I have withdrawn my previous post titled "Copyright Issues" - it was intended as light hearted comment.

I was really musing  this question

"If a man puts a girl over his knee and spanks her bottom while someone else takes a photograph, who has creative rights/copyright on the results?

a) The spanker (responsible for the red patterning produced)
b) The girl
c) The photographer"

and I hinted that it could be argued that the creativity came from the spanker (for the reason given in brackets above) not the photographer, and certainly not from the girl.  It wasn't meant to be serious but I did publish one sane and serious response.  I didn't publish the others who thought I was denying women's rights, etc.

I humbly admit it would have been better if I had not used a named real person as an example - hence the deletion.  To me, of course, the girl is the very essence of the image and I'm not saying that acting or modelling is not a creative role.  I wish I'd never mentioned it.

Favourite for October

Not much that needs to be said here -  a classic picture on the lines of "Just you wait until your father gets home" - it looks like it could be a long wait with a very unhappy conclusion.

A touch of bondage

I'm not really into the BDSM end of things as a matter of course, but occasionally there is something I see that gets a reaction.  This image is definitely unusual - although actually not all that good as it is right here.  What it's good for is the idea behind it - the idea of being taped to wall provides the potential for a truly original punishment scenario.  What I'd like to see is rather less clothing but the girl fastened to the wall in a not dissimilar position to this with her feet well off the ground before she's given a good hard spanking or strapping across her bottom.  Anyone up for shooting this scenario?

High flying

I used to write quite a lot of CP fiction but in recent times I've been struggling to write creatively.  However, very recently, I had a long flight and was fortunate to be in Business Class.  The flight wasn't busy so after take-off I was able to move so as to have nobody seated next to me and it seemed a good opportunity to do some writing - laptop out, shrink the magnification so I can just read the text on screen, reload a half written story - the rest of the flight was very happily occupied.  I wonder what my fellow passengers would have thought if they'd known?

Favourite for September

In a week that has seen the publication of a major survey in the UK that showed practically 50% of parents of 20% of schoolkids think it would be beneficial to bring back corporal punishment in schools, I thought this was an appropriate image.

It seems to me to convey potentially a very authentic image of what it may have been like for a schoolgirl to get caned on her bottom - I know it would have always been an incredibly rare even but showing it from this angle it's perfectly possible that her skirt hasn't been turned up or her panties lowered - the movement of the cane suggests some degree of force being applied and the expression on the girl's face confirms her anguish. No attractive young girl could really want to see pictures of her face looking like that but clearly the pain of the caning is the only thought on her mind at this moment.

I'm not sure of the source or the model - looks like it might be from the Xerotics stable perhaps?

Blue Mile

One of the big conservation groups has an event today encouraging everyone to do something in or around water,

"Through The Blue Mile, WWF is raising money to protect these amazing environments.  We’re asking people to move a mile on or near water in return for sponsorship from family and friends. You can do this any way you want: swim or surf, kayak or water-ski, walk or run..."

I have an idea...

School PE

After I left school, I discovered (rather late in the day perhaps) that I could enjoy participating in sport.  School PE only ever filled me with dread for three reasons...

Familiar combination to anyone?

Gordon Sergeant

Simply astonishing that this news didn't get greater prominence in our community:-

Gordon Sergeant, British Spanking Magazine Publisher, Dies          

LONDON—Gordon Sergeant, the founder of soft porn Janus magazine and its accompanying bookstore on Old Compton Street, died in May at the age of 83. Sergeant launched Janus in 1972 as a traditional publication narrowly focused on the practice of spanking. Still in print and online, Janus continues to feature articles, photographs, illustrations and comic strips, including by such artists as Anton, Hardcastle and Lynn Paula Russell, aka Paula Meadows.

The Janus website, which was redesigned in March, contains a statement posted May 11 on the passing of Sergeant, who died peacefully in his sleep in London.

“It is with the deepest regret that we must inform you of the death of Gordon Sergeant,” the statement reads. “Many of you will have happy memories of Gordon and appreciate the tireless efforts he made during his life to champion the rights of free minded adults to enjoy the pleasures of corporal punishment. …

“Gordon suffered a series of strokes and realising that his time on this earth was short, appointed his nephew, Tarquin, to oversee a dramatic new era for Janus,” the statement concludes. “His vision was to re-launch Janus onto the internet to reach further than ever before. Tarquin already has many exciting plans including new Janus videos, an exclusive club and parties. Gordon died peacefully in his sleep safe in the knowledge that his beloved creation will continue to prosper in the 21st century.”

A sad passing - I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that I owe a huge debt to JANUS for helping me explore my early understanding of spanking fetish, and through the magazine and the wonderful shop come to appreciate that my interests - while not exactly mainstream - did not make me some sort of freak of nature and that many others shared my interests.

RIP Gordon.

What happened next?

There's a long running sports quiz on UK television with one regular round where they show a video of some sporting action and then freeze the picture and the teams have to either remember or try to work out what happened next.

It strikes me that you can actually try this with still images as well.  For example this picture of Italian model and TV personality Alessia Fabiani on a beach greeting her boyfriend (presumably) who's been playing a game with some of his friends while he waited for her.

The question, of course, is....

What happened next?