Favourite for June

A lot of things going on with this image that make it really interesting to me.  For one thing, there's pretty strong evidence that in the UK the tawse (in Scotland) and cane (most of England, Wales and Northern Ireland) were the favoured implements used for corporal punishment in school during the 20th century, the slipper (usually, in practice, a gymshoe/plimsoll/sandshoe/dab) was often the secondary choice, and probably, as such, gets under represented in the adult CP sites that try to depict "school" type scenarios.

In some schools, the standard rule was apparently that boys got the cane and girls got the slipper.  Where girls were subject to the cane, it was usually given on the hand, but it is generally the case that the slipper could only really be effectively applied to the bottom - hence in treating girls with the apparent leniency of the slipper rather than the cane, they were nevertheless exposing them to the greater humiliation of being punished on the bottom rather than the hands.

It was also, to a large extent, the case that if the person inflicting the punishment chose, the slipper could hurt almost as much as the cane (although the pain from a caning probably lasted for longer) so that those on the receiving end were probably not being given credit for how serious their punishment was.  After all, if you cane someone across their bottom, you need to stop the stroke at some point shortly after impact or risked damage to the cane - because the slipper flexes much more you can apply as much force as you want.

Another common rule in UK schools was that, where corporal punishment was to be used on girls, it could only be given by a female member of staff.  Of course, this rests on the assumption that male staff hitting a girl might derive some enjoyment or might be able to hit harder than necessary.  Of course, the reality was that there were probably some female members of staff who were more attracted to girls than boys and could get quite a kick out of physically punishing one of them.  I suspect that in some schools the girls would have their suspicions about some of the female staff and would probably have preferred to be punished by a male teacher if they had the choice. It would probably also be the case that many male teachers might hold back a bit when punishing a girl whereas a female member of staff may not feel the same need to be sparing.

There is also a widespread view on sites that depict corporal punishment of "schoolgirls" that skirts would either be so short that if they had to bend over, their knickers would be exposed or, alternatively, that the pleating and volume of material in the skirt would impede physical punishment and necessitate it being turned back.  Both of those were, probably, often the case, but some girls did choose to wear quite tight pencil skirts and bending over then would simply tighten the material across her bottom in much the same way that boys trousers were tightly stretched by the act of bending.

This image is taken from the magazine In Uniform and In Disgrace - I believe this was a one-off special from the team that produced the Strictly Uniforms magazines. 

The Wonderful World Of Spanking Fun

I'm forever fascinated by the diversity of spanking related activity that takes place all over the world, just for fun, and often involving those who don't share any sort of regular interest in the activity (unlike those who tend to visit this page).

For example there are certain hospitality businesses that have built a big reputation for spanking related fun.

First and foremost there's the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas where anyone failing to finish their outrageously large helping of deliberately unhealthy food is liable to get three swats with a wooden paddle across their backside in full view of everyone else in the restaurant.  There are dozens of videos out there on the internet and in most cases they don't seem be any too gentle although it's always done with good humour on all sides.

Then there is the Hofbräuhaus chain of bars all over the world.

I've never been to one so I can only piece together what I see on video clips online but there seems to be occasions such as birthdays that warrant a customer being invited to be paddled.  Also, they sometimes seem to be based on customers in a particular party drinking shots and then each getting paddled with the shots paddle.  Again, much laughter and hilarity for all, most of whom probably have no interest in spanking at other times.  These seem to just involve a single swat but they look hard enough to sting for some while.

Then there's some overtly sexual festivals where it is much less surprising that spanking fun appears - I'm thinking of the Folsom Street Fair that originated in San Francisco but now seems to pop up in other major cities as well...

...and various Exxxotica exhibitions...

Again, these are hardly "mainstream" events but still I suspect the spectators may not all be into spanking related activity outside of these events.

I don't know whether to include the Burning Man Festival in Nevada in this section as well - I don't think it's really a sexually themed event like the previous two, but spanking related activity (in this case a belting) seem to occur quite often.  I've read a bit about Burning Man but I'm still not sure I really know what it's all about.

Then there are a few European examples that I find very strange.  Firstly, there's the Easter Monday tradition in the Czech Republic of groups of boys/men going round whipping young women in some sort of fertility ritual known as pomlázka.  That this continues to survive in the politically correct "metoo" era seems wonderfully bizarre.

The consensus seems to be that it is less accepted today in big cities and is more prevalent in rural communities (although it is not absent in cities either) and that those girls who really don't want to become involved are unlikely to be pressured. Some of the girls seem to go along with it, albeit without much enthusiasm (perhaps because it seems to often involve getting doused in cold water as well as being whipped), while others joyfully enter into the fun of the whole occasion.  Again, probably for the majority, they never think of spanking fun at any other time.

Also coming from central Europe is Krampus - a sort of Christmas antidote to St Nicholas who, instead of being a jovial man bringing gifts for good boy and girls, is half-goat half-demon with a bundle of sticks for beating bad boys and girls. Very occasionally this also gets acted out.

Of courses there are "birthday spankings" all over the world, although predominantly in the USofA. The most common scenario is where one person gets to administer the hand spanking to the recipient's bottom - either a single smack (sometimes quite hard) or one for each year being celebrated "plus one to grow on" - in the latter case the main part is usually just symbolic but the extra one at the end can be quite hard.  Sometimes everyone at the party gets to give one smack - sometimes they stand in a line, legs apart, and the birthday boy/girl has to crawl through the tunnel while the others try to smack their bottom as many times as they can.

But the example that always seem most odd to me is Poland - reputedly the first country in the world to ban corporal punishment in their schools.  Nevertheless it seems that there is considerable enthusiasm for a birthday spanking, especially on the occasion of an eighteenth birthday.

This appears to be a very widespread practice (confirmed by a Polish friend of mine who remembered her eighteenth birthday with the spanking as being "the best bit of the whole night" - but then she is one of us!).  The subject seems to usually be put over a chair or over the lap of someone sitting on a chair (who can then stop them moving around too much) and most times a belt is used and passed around the group until everyone there has delivered one stroke across the celebrating party's bottom. Most of those involved will not be spankos normally.  Two things in particular I always look out for.  Sometimes one or both parents of the subject are at the party and get to give a whack with the belt, perhaps for the last time! Some of the spankers clearly make it very symbolic and barely touch the subject's bottom with the belt but most times a few seem to really relish the opportunity and deliver a real stinger.  The birthday boy or girl may be unable to not react to some of the harder whacks but they generally come out laughing and smiling.

Only very recently I came across another truly bizarre example of this genre from Japan.  We're used to seeing Japanese game show participants sometimes being subject to some very painful and humiliating torture so perhaps this one shouldn't come as a surprise.

Male and female members of the public at the Onda Festival are pursued by masked men trying to hit them with a bamboo stick - another fertility ritual apparently.  Although they sometimes give very gentle taps to children who are there, they're often far from gentle with the adults - usually it's just a single hit aross the bottom but some of them look like they really hurt, although everyone is usually laughing at the end.  There are loads of video clips for this out there so I don't know why I've not seen them previously.

Favourite for May

The eagle eyed may have noticed the absence of a "favourite' last month.  I hope this one makes up for it.

For me this is a classic example of "less is more" - ultra realistic school CP image.  We're only seeing a snapshot in time and there's no punishment taking place right now but maybe we can figure out what's going on...

We have the stern looking headmaster who has just had the unpleasant task of caning two of the senior girls.  We have the female assistant teacher, present as a requirement when he has to punish female pupils, and now looking intently at the cane she's just seen being used - perhaps remembering her own schooldays or perhaps wondering just what it would feel like.

And we have the two schoolgirls - heads bowed slightly and no doubt looking very sombre as they leave the office. Both unable to stop themselves from putting a hand to the seats of their skirts, very aware of the tremendous pain they've just experienced, and the shameful nature of the whole experience.  A lesson well learned we hope.

(Unable to identify the producer but the lady holding the cane is Miss Matthews @MissMatthews123)

The way my mind works....

This is in the style of book illustrations commonly found in the 1950s and 1960s. When I first saw the small thumbnail version of the image I was immediately excited by the fact that the father figure had a cane in his hand and appeared to be threatening his son.  Very disappointed when I clicked to see it full size!

Precautions

Pandemic

20 Mar 2020 UK schools close because of Coronavirus;

23 Mar 2020 Thousands begin home schooling;

24 Mar 2020 Growing calls to bring back the cane.

Image from Roué magazine

Favourite for March

While I've often expressed the personal view that scenes in a school context work better when they embrace more realism and don't feature bare bottom punishments, I've never said the same about scenes in a domestic setting.  Images like this one are brilliant.  Sadly I don't know the studio in order to give them credit - it's probably been cropped by someone before I saw it, but it looks like it might be from Punished Brats although I don't recognise either model.

And what a deserving brat she appears to be!  She was probably championing the view that she was too old to be spanked and she could do whatever she wanted but she's now learning very quickly that she was wrong on both counts. The way her bottom is reddening and her facial expression suggests he is doing a commendable job of adjusting her attitude.

UPDATE - I am reliably informed that this comes from a Shadow Lane production with Dr Joe (@DrLectr) spanking the very lovely Violet October (@VioletOctober)

On a personal note, I haven't been posting much lately.  Twitter readers may have seen that I recently suffered a close bereavement and it is likely to be some time before I get back to normal posting. Please bear with me.

Favourite for February

I love this image from our old friends at Northern Spanking.  Nice looking girl, classic school uniform, but this one has something extra - that's the issue of timing. One second earlier and she was still, to an extent, in control.  She could protest, beg, plead, make excuses - she could even try to move away, perhaps try to do a runner, although that would probably be most unwise. One second into the future and she'll be past the balance point; she'll be tumbling across his lap and has very little say in what is going to ensue.  She'll be getting her bottom spanked, I think we can all be sure of that, and, fortunately for her sake, he doesn't appear to have a hairbrush or slipper in reach.  But if he decides to pull up the back of her skirt, and even if he decides to take her panties down, it is going to largely be outside of her control.  And how many smacks she's going to get and how hard they'll be are all matters for him to decide.  In one second from now...

Happy Birthday!

This blog is now 13 years old as of today.  It was my third attempt at blogging - the previous ones had been more tightly restricted in the range of content and I lost interest as my concerns kept changing direction. So with this one I just decided anything related to spanko stuff could go in, and what a journey it's been.

A traditional birthday spanking seems appropriate, although, if it's all the same with you, I'd like to be the one giving the spanking!

Spanking machines

There's something kind of interesting about the idea of a machine capable of delivering a spanking, caning, or whipping with a complete lack of emotion.  Every stroke delivered with the same required force and great accuracy.  Unfortunately, most that have been produced in recent times seem rather too flimsy with the notable exception of the one used by the guys at Spanking Server/Pain4Fem.  But, there's no doubt that some people find the idea fascinating and keep on trying.

I was intrigued by this one I found on the web recently.  An ingenious mechanism to draw the cane back and then release it.

But no sooner had I found that, than I came across an even more intriguing clip, because the suggestion is that this is an historical item that was actually used in a school for the pupils to quite literally spank themselves.