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.

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Series - One Hit Wonders (1)

In the current era we may begin to feel that we actually know a bit about the real-life people that we see in spanking websites - even 'though that is undoubtedly something of an illusion.  It's probably because of the ease of producing videos that this has come about - it's clearly much more difficult to fake scenes when they're recorded on video than just captured with still photographs, especially when black and white photography predominated.  As a result many - perhaps even most - of those we are seeing in newly produced materials actually enjoy the experience and probably carry it on in their private live as well. For someone who just wants to make some money, it's not that easy nowadays.  We see punishments carried out that would, without question, be painful and we are critical where we see girls being punished too lightly.  It clearly stands out as absolutely ridiculous if a girl is stripped naked, bent over and then just feebly tapped with a cane fifty or sixty times.  If a girl is really punished in such a fashion you would expect to see very significant marking and clear distress, even if she does ultimately enjoy it in some way.

Of course there are exceptions.  It's not very long ago that a model called Katie Spades claimed to be a lifestyle spankee only for it be revealed later that she hated it but just wanted to make money from it.  Also some of the items coming from Eastern Europe in particular go much further than many of us might feel comfortable with and there has to be a clear inference that many of those who agree to be subjected to such brutal punishments are simply desperate to make money.  This is inferred pretty strongly when you find a website out there calling itself Caned 4 Cash (now defunct).  Nevertheless more and more spanking websites show behind the scenes clips showing the participants all really having a good time making the movie, and interview where the participants talk - apparently honestly - about how they feel and why they enjoy the scene.  there are also more opportunities to take part in parties and suchlike and meet and interact with the girls you have seen on your computer screen

If you go back to the 1970-90's period it all seems rather different.  There was really any feeling of connection withe the real life persona of the models,  So who were these people?  Some of them never even got a name attached to them.  Very many appeared once in a magazine like Roue, Janus or the Blushes stable and were never seen again.  One or two did do interview pieces but because these were just in print for, there was always a feeling that they were totally made up.  Quite a number were clearly very young - in the 18-25 age band perhaps.  More than a few looked a bit posh interestingly enough.  Some were extremely attractive but perhaps lacked the qualities sought by the very demanding glamour market.  Perhaps some of them were just needing to make a bit of extra money and if they couldn't make it from high-end glamour modelling, decided they preferred to take part in CP shoots rather than conventional sex scenes where they might be expected to have unprotected intercourse.  Perhaps there were students who were struggling to exist on their grant (we had them in those days) and thought this was such a niche area that nobody was ever likely to find out.  In many cases they might be required to wear outfits or accept nude scenes but rarely did the photographers in those days reveal too much.  And because film and colour printing was expensive, many of the scenes were only recorded with a still camera and black and white was widely used so it wasn't to hard to fake some marking and not have to actually endure a painful experience.  Over the next few weeks I'm going to feature some of these girls from Janus. Most - I think - only ever appeared in one issue.  However I would love to know if anyone knows any more about the girls I'm going to feature, whether they ever appeared elsewhere, and whether we actually know anything about them.

To get the ball rolling...
The first one is a girl I've featured before as a Favourite,  From Janus 15 she enacted a photo story about a girl caught shoplifting who accepts a hand spanking and bare bottom caning rather than the police getting involved.  They didn't even give her a name in the story.  There were a lot of red marks on her bottom by the end of the caning (this was before Janus became nervous about showing marks) and they looked fairly credible, but were they just come clever fakery?
This young lady from Janus 18 was called Jennifer Simmonds for the story of a young liberal-minded student teacher accepting punishment from her headmaster in order to get a reference from him.  Interesting use of very non-sexy clothing in this one.
Antonio du Bois is a strange case.  She made a film called The Disciplinarian that Janus made out was one of the major CP movies of all time.  It was good but perhaps not quite that good.  In Janus 20 we were given not just production stills from the movie but a lot of extras and a back story of what had happened before the film.  Strictly, she did appear again in Janus when she did one of their interview pieces but I don't recall ever seeing this posh totty ever doing another full shoot or another film.
And talking of posh totty, this delightful girl appeared in Janus 21 with the name Cynthia.  She had a lovely bum and ended up with some good cane marks once more.

Thursday, 1 January 2015

Favourite for January

First of all, let me wish all readers a very Happy New Year - especially the likes of Old Tom and Targetarear who go to so much trouble to provide feedback and comment.

Then on to business!
I love the classical honesty and simplicity of this image.  It does look about as close as it gets to how a schoolgirl might have looked bending over a desk to be caned across her bottom - no ridiculously short miniskirt (although nowadays it would probably be considerably shorter than this as fashion dictates), no stiletto heels, no unrealistic pigtails and no "adjustment" of her attire.  Okay, I like it as much as anyone when we are shown an attractive girl getting it across her panties or her bare bottom, but there is something about this that suggest rather more authenticity.  Obviously it was pretty unusual for girls to get caned across their bottoms (sadly) in the days when corporal punishment was used in British schools, but it wasn't something that never happened and it would most probably have looked something like this on those precious few occasions.  And anyone who thinks that because she has her knickers and a pleated skirt for protection, it's not going to be very effective and painful has clearly never been on the wrong end of a properly delivered caning over their normal attire.

To be honest, until 2014, neither had I, but then I decided that - although my primary interest is to be on the giving side - I needed to know more about what it would feel like before I can seriously contemplate going out there and finding some female interested in consenting to be punished by me.  My first experience then, of being caned across the seat of my trousers was not at school but rather too many years later in 2014.  And it bloody hurt!  My very sincere thanks to the lovely young lady who has been helping me with that exploration.  Now we'll have to see what 2015 brings!

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Sometimes I despair...

Everyone should read this typically erudite and forthright article by Pandora Blake and wonder what the UK is coming to.  Not allowing the freedom to share spanking video material from a UK site is just the latest step in ineffective and wrong minded censorship.
Online porn: the canary in the coalmine - Spanked, Not Silenced | Spanked, Not Silenced

Monday, 1 December 2014

Favourite for December

December is a great time for warming chilly bottoms!

And isn't "the slipper" a great way to go about it.  It's odd that in relation to it's use in corporal punishment, especially at school, it seems to have always been referred to as "the slipper" as in "getting the slipper" or "getting a slippering", when in fact the implement used was almost invariably a plimsoll / gym shoe / sand shoe or whatever it was called in your locality.  I absolutely love it as a punishment tool for so many reasons.
For one thing, and perhaps an obvious one, is that when properly applied it hurts like hell.  It always sounds - perhaps especially because of the "slipper" connotation - as if it will be very mild compared to the cane but the reality can be extremely painful.  I once saw a boy aged about twelve or thirteen who had already been caned by the deputy headmaster once in the privacy of his office (and went on to merit about three further canings before he was expelled) who was given two very hard strokes with a plimsoll over the seat of his trousers bending over in front of the class who immediately burst into tears, thus losing a lot of "cred" with everyone else.

Because it was perceived as less severe than the cane (and it was, but just not as big a difference as people perhaps imagined) a number of schools that used to cane boys across their backsides would apply the slipper to girls - as the fashion for short skirts prevailed they would often have had less protection and may not have been getting off half as lightly as people thought.  It also makes a very loud noise which is quite intimidating in itself - especially if you were waiting your turn to get a similar treatment.  The instrument itself would not appear quite so blatantly to be a punishment tool - it would be perfectly normal to have such items lying around in the classroom or in the school generally without everyone immediately assuming that they were there to punish youthful miscreants.    It also has the big advantage over the cane that if you're actually feeling really annoyed with the person to be punished, you can let rip and hit them just about as hard as you possibly could without any real risk of causing long term injury beyond a few days of bruising.

That seems to be pretty well what is going on here - the teacher is venting all of her frustration through the plimsoll on the young lady's panty-clad bottom and the loud cracks as it lands time after time will be echoing around the largely empty gym hall.  You have to suspect that she will be very careful about not swearing in school in the future as she wriggles uncomfortably on hard wooden seats in the remaining classes that day.

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Advantages of drawings over photos (5) - last in series

I sometimes find with drawings there's much more left to your imagination than with a photo.  Here a boy and girl have been caught misbehaving at school and sent to the headmistress.  After the ritual telling off the girl has been told to face the wall while the boy is given a humiliating and painful six strokes of the cane across his bare bottom.  Secretly the girl is sneaking a look and clearly enjoying the opportunity see her distressed boyfriend getting a red striped bottom.  As a girl she's safe from being caned herself and at worst might get a detention.

But what is actually going to happen?  Perhaps noticing that the girl has been turning to look, the headmistress will be so annoyed that she will decide to ignore normal practice and the girl will be bent over next with her skirt up and panties down.

Love Our Lurkers Day (s)

I'm not sure of the reasoning for us celebrating Love Our Lurkers day over two days this year but I guess it's a longer opportunity for some of those who normally view our blogs without commenting to add their voices..  Actually, recently a few seem to have been doing that anyway.  Even if you won't post to join us in this annual event you can rest assured that we appreciate the page views anyway.

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Advantages of drawings over photos (4)

Even if a drawing is not especially sophisticated it can be really good at capturing a lot of things happening at the same time, and often more so than a photo achieves.  In this example the four characters all express different feelings even 'though it is quite a primitive style of art.
Working from right to left the girl who has just left the office clutching her throbbing bottom is red faced and tearful and has no thoughts for anything or anyone else but her own current misery.  The headmaster is stern and unmoved and keen to get on with things and deal with the other miscreants so he can get back to more important tasks.  The girl being summoned into the office for her paddling is trying to look defiant but you can also see the fear in her eyes and the positioning of her feet gives away her real trepidation at what she's about to get.  The remaining girl on the left of the image is not coping at all well - even though it's not yet her turn to be paddled she knows it's coming and is clearly distraught - perhaps she's never been here before but she's just heard the heavy pops as the first girl got a sizzling six swats and she's terrified by the knowledge that, inexorably, her turn will come, and she knows from common gossip that a paddling from the headmaster is an extremely painful experience.

Saturday, 8 November 2014

Advantages of drawings over photos (3)

I talked on the previous "drawings" post about being able to have more spectators - of course there's no need to stop at a class full - it can be the whole school or even a theatre full of spectators adding to the ahame of the victim.

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Advantages of drawings over photos (2)

The school I attended between the age of about 8 and about 11 years of age used to use corporal punishment a lot.  The thing that I find annoying - with hindsight - was that it was very trivial.  I didn't realise this at the time and went out of my way to ensure I never got it, but a regular series of miscreants would get hauled to the front of the class and whacked time and time again and although it was probably a real laugh to them because they knew from previous experience that it wasn't really done in a way that would hurt much, the rest of us were cowed into meek compliance through our ignorance.

However, I would say that I - and I think most of my fellow pupils - did quite enjoy the spectacle when someone was getting whacked with a stick, ruler, slipper or just the hand.  When people are shooting spanking scenes it would get rather cumbersome and expensive to employ models to just be in the class watching with interest as one of their colleagues is dealt with but of course drawings don't suffer such limitations.
This drawing came from Janus magazine and was provided to illustrate a story where a teacher decided to punish one of the older girls by humiliating her - she took the girl into a class of much younger pupils, put her over her knee and spanked her bare bottom.  It was very much the case that the girl would have elected a more severe punishment delivered in privacy rather than this humiliation in front of the younger girls, but clearly they were very much enjoying the spectacle.  I'm not sure we would ever have jostled for a view quite this obviously but I can certainly empathise with the excitement showing in the faces of the audience.

Saturday, 1 November 2014

Favourite for November

It's great when you're the centre of attention disrupting class and making all you friends laugh.
However, it's really not so great when all your friends have left for home but you've been kept back after class by a very pissed of teacher.  There's just you and her and that cane that she's holding.  You know you'll be going home, late, and with a striped and very sore bottom.