Does this get any reaction?

Regular visitors to this blog will know that I am mainly interested in scenes with female subs so this is a bit out on a limb.

However, given the reputation that Catholic schools (and especially the Christian Brothers) had in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere, I'd like to bet there are some people who are going to be squirming a little bit at this picture which probably brings back some very unhappy memories for some guys of a certain age.  There's a tremendous tension in the scene.

Not sure where it originates from but I'm guessing a  movie - any ideas?

Love Our Lurkers Day 2018

For the thirteenth time, it's Love Our Lurkers day - and as is now the custom it last for two days to accommodate time zone differences!  The  tradition was started by Bonnie - if you are one of the hundreds who read blogs like mine and never dare to comment, this is your chance.  I know from the stats that many more people check by than ever comment - those that do (primarily Old Tom and Targetarear) are always welcome but actually if it wasn't for all the other visitors who never comment I'd have given up long ago.  Stay anonymous by all means but it would be lovely if you just said Hi!

Favourite for November

This is, you probably never realised, an auspicious post.  This is my 100th favourite for the month.  As such the choice of image was quite important and I've decided to go back to a photo story from Janus 62 that I've featured before.

Actually I featured one image as a favourite and then shortly afterwards posted all the images from that particular story in low-res. It was, to me, one of the most credible school canings ever in Janus and the girl was fantastic.  Possibly my only problem with it was that she looked so sweet and innocent that I couldn't really believe she would have exhibited behaviour bad enough to warrant the caning she got.   Her immediate reactions were excellent and even the way she practically ran out of the office when told to leave looked brilliant.  So, for one more time, here is Marjorie Jenkins.

A Little Knowledge

I read a piece on the web recently where a pro-domme was talking about her work.  She was asked if she'd ever been on the receiving end of the type of punishments she routinely gives.  She said she had not and didn't feel it necessary - part of her argument was that a brain surgeon does not need to have had his own brain operated on in order to do his job.  My first reaction was that it's a pretty silly thing to say and that it's not, in any sense, a useful analogy.  Many pro-dommes have been active as subs at one time or another - I could name several.  Even some domes who were never really active in the scene as subs have had some experience, for example if you look at the material on the web produced by the redoubtable and slightly scary Cassie Hunter (Cassie Canes, Montrose Academy etc.) you would form the impression that she is 100% domme and it's hard to imagine her ever being a sub.  However, if you explore far enough, you can find (try FullForce Spanking...) three rare clips of Cassie being punished.  Admittedly these are all just OTK spanking scenes and mostly only using a hand (although she does get a gymshoe across her shorts in one scene) and are well short of the severity of the thrashings she administers to males with straps and canes in the main body of her work.  Clearly there are also some on the scene who switch, so they may get regular reminders of what it feels like.

So the first question is, does it enable a domme to do their job better if they've experienced - or do experience - what the physical and emotional effects are on the receiving end?  Given that I am more concerned with writing CP fiction I guess the same question can be applied to CP authors - should they have first hand experience of giving and/or receiving?  I think the answer is probably yes in both cases.  There are so many stories on the web that are supposedly factual reminiscences - quite often there are aspects of those which trigger doubts for someone who's had personal experience as they stray more into fantasy.  It follows that when writing fiction it is easier to gain authenticity when you have first hand experience.

Favourite for October

I may have a strong preference for school punishment scenes to be with the subject being punished while normally clothed, I don't have the same issues with domestic scenarios.

In this case I imagine the young lady has been taking advantage of her parents being away on a business trip and thinking her grandad will be a pushover.  However, he's now caught her coming back in the early morning after overnighting at a party held at her boyfriend's house.  Given her manner of dress he's not having much difficulty guessing what she's been up to and threatens to tell her parents.  She knows he's not joking and how disastrous that would be. When he offers to keep quiet provided there is no more bad behaviour while they're away she is very relieved and thinks she's got around the old fool.  However he's then added there have to be consequences so she'll be punished in the same way he would have punished her mother if she'd every done anything like it.  Before she has time to argue her way out of it, her panties are coming down and she realises that she's in for an old fashioned spanking.  How humiliating!  She just has to hope he won't hit her very hard...

I can resist anything except...

...temptation.

Actually, I have a nagging concern that she may be more dom than sub but sometimes you just have to take your chances - if the dice don't fall the way you'd prefer, well you just have to take the consequences I suppose.

Unlucky thirteen (Movie Bloopers)

The people making spanko movies don't work to high profit margins so they need to get things right first time.  Often scenes are shot in a single take.  A few are quite good at giving girls a break on request and then checking the continuity to make it appear seamless in the end result (Northern Spanking for example.)  However, many want to make a virtue of the viewer watching the subjects' bottoms turn from pale creamy colour, to a pink blush and then to crimson red (and in some cases, beyond).  If, after shooting it, you notice something got in the way you can't wait for the girl's bottoms to return to original colour and start again.  Consequently, quite a few scenes that would become outtakes in conventional movies get to stay in.  Here are some examples...

1.  Often, as here, the problem is using one fixed camera and one moving camera and in the excitement of it all, the moving camera moves into shot.  If the shot you need at that point comes from the fixed camera, you just have to include it and hope nobody notices (or cares).

2.  Same again with this one.

3.  This second camera seems totally carried away - not only has he allowed his camera to wander in to the main shot, it looks as if he's about to join in.

4.  This time the second camera has just managed to keep out of shot, but not out of line of the bright studio lighting, casting a shadow on the wall alongside him.

5.  Similar to the last one; you have to think that sitting in front of the head getting a telling off and knowing you're probably going to get paddled very soon is bad enough without having a large camera lens moving in on your bottom as well.

6.  If I'd just seen this as a still, I'd assume it was one of those "behind the scenes" shots that studios sometimes put out. But no, the guy who appears to be rather distractedly checking his still camera was in the final film.

7.  Back to the same film as in (1) above.  You can make excuses where the second cameraman is on the wander, but really you do need to make sure your lighting rig isn't visible for your main static camera...

 8.  Because everyone just happens to keep a tripod and microphone in their living room...

9.  I don't know if the sudden and unexpected reaction of the model to her pain was a factor, but someone appears very keen to get up close and personal with the microphone here.

10.  Someone just didn't quite get out of shot in time.

11.  Sometimes what seemed like a good hiding place is just not quite good enough.  Unless that's a naughty schoolboy who's sneaked into the girl's gym to see what he can see and who's got more than he bargained for.  Couldn't really blame him because it's a great little scene and well worth the risk of getting caught!

12. Rather unusually in this scene, it doesn't appear that the 'extra' is just getting carried away with what he's seeing and forgetting to keep off-camera.  In fact, he doesn't seem too aware of what's happening at all...

13.  And finally someone who really is engrossed.  As a result he's as clear as any of the actors taking part and just as identifiable.  Hope he hadn't ticked the box requesting anonymity...

Very frustratingly, I have seen what I have think was one of the greatest ever spanko bloopers, but can't find it now.  I'm pretty sure the model was the lovely Catherine Corbet and it was probably from Spanking Online or another one of the Xerotics labels.  She was bent over being punished on her lovely bottom when a mouse ran across the floor.  Where did that clip go?

(credits to Broadband Spanking (1, 7, 13), AEG (2, 5, 8, 10), Xerotics (4, 11, 12),  Ravenhill (3, 9) - not sure about number 6)

Favourite for September

Once a naughty girl was required to bend over in the headmistress's office to be given a formal caning. the fact they all chose to wear very short skirts must have made the temptation to deliver the caning on her panties too much to resist.

Retro Vintage Spanking

I've only recently come across the blog Retro Vintage Spanking (now added to the Blogroll) - some interesting material including this shot, which I've never seen before, depicting a 'behind-the-scenes' view of the filming of the Janus classic The St Winifred's Trilogy.

A Touch Of Tradition

As people find ever more extreme way to celebrate birthdays, doing such things as jumping out of planes, I think it's important not to overlook more traditional means of celebration.