Tim the Tum - A spanking good time

Tim the Tum's 6th Form Adventures (or, Was my school odder than most?)

2012-02-20T05:20:00.000-08:00

I attended school in the UK during the late sixties and the seventies, when corporal punishment was still used to bully pupils into line; while I got into my fair share of trouble I never got caned, although I did get a couple of slipperings (one from my female Head of House that I may talk more about in a separate post).

I discovered a joy in spanking before I started senior school; I played spanking games with girls in both Infant and Junior schools, although my interest waned a bit when I was around 9 years old. I've never known what rekindled my love of applying a palm to a female bottom, but when I was around 13 it burst back into my life, and I've never lost interest since.

When I was 14 or 15 years old, I was a School Librarian, and this lead to me finding a number of occasions to spank several girls from my year. These were pretty jokey beatings, with the girl usually bent over a desk while I administered 6 or so smacks to the seat of her skirt.

None of the girls I spanked ever took it badly; they generally just faked rubbing a sore bottom, and our conversation would continue where ever it left off.

There was also the dark room incident, a lightly fictionalised version of which has already appeared here (as The Perils of Photography).

I was 16 when I entered the Lower Sixth, and my world changed hugely. I attended a Comprehensive school in a fairly poor neighbourhood; it had 1500 pupils, a 6 foot 7 inch Irish Headmaster (he was one of it's main assets actually) and very little interest in academics.

The Sixth Form had around 50 members, 30 in the Lower, with the remainder in the Upper Sixth; this latter group was blessed with their own study area, and individual cubicles shared by 2 scholars each. For the first time I was among a group who had chosen to be at achool; this was bliss.

I had never really interacted with the year above mine, and I was startled to find that there were several lads almost as keen on spanking as I was. One guy in particular, who was going out with a girl in my year (let's call him Paul Judge) was clearly obsessed; he took every opportunity to put Jayne (his girlfriend obviously) over his knee, often in front of virtually the whole Sixth Form.

Whilst Paul was the keenest spanker there were several others, and, in the Upper Sixth, a number of girls seemed to, at worst, have become resigned to having their bottoms smacked. Often they seemed eager to egg on the boys, in order to get spanked.

And, joy of joys, they extended this to any Lower Sixth boys who showed an interest.

I think spanking may be virally based, because this also spread to many of the Lower Sixth girls, who had never previously exhibited much interest. There were 16 girls in the Lower Sixth, and by the end of the year I'd spanked 14 of them (1 of the others I had spanked when she was younger, but she had grown up tough and rather scary; the last one I finally got at a party the following year).

At the end of that first year the Upper's left (the king is dead, long live the king) to be replaced by my year; of course this also meant an influx of younger girls into the Lowers, and we weren't slow in introducing them to the firm smack of discipline. They took it remarkably well.

Not long before the Uppers left, Paul had his 18th birthday; a bunch of us pooled our resources and bought him a bull whip, from a stall in the local market. Of course, none of us knew how to wield one, but it didn't stop us trying. That was a painful day at school, believe me. Funny too, when the Head of the Sixth Form walked in on Nick trying out the whip on Paul.

I sometimes wonder about the teachers who were based in the Sixth Form Block; in addition to the Head there were three others, and they must have been aware of the spanking that went on, but no one was ever censured for it. There were no shortage of edicts issued about behaviour (in particular the noise and the somewhat heated card games), but no one ever said that the spanking must stop!

I think maybe they quite enjoyed watching it.

Thinking back now my mind is alive with sixth form spankings; virtually all over the knee, over skirts and with the hand. These are often my favourite type of spankings now, so I guess it's easy to see where that comes from.

I can only remember two spankings that lasted more than a dozen or so smacks; I gave both during my Upper Sixth year. One was at a house party (there seemed to be one of these at least every couple of weeks; every one turned up with a bottle of wine, or a four pack of lager, or, every now and then, a bottle or two of whisky or vodka, and we pumped up the stereo and had a good time).

A girl in the Lower Sixth spilt some beer on me and when I threatened to spank her if she did it again, she did so, only on purpose. I pulled her over my knee, and swatted her 10 or 12 times; then I stopped, expecting her to get off. She muttered something about being comfortable, and a naughty girl, and stayed there for an hour or so.

I naturally occupied the time with little bursts of spanking, while carrying on the usual slightly drunken conversations with everyone around me, until I had to reluctantly move her so that I could go to the loo; when I returned she had wondered off. Ah, happy days.

The spanking I remember a bit better (because it was at school and I was sober) was one I gave to Jules, the captain of the school hockey team. She was fairly attractive but solidly built, and not a girl anyone would push around.

One afternoon I found myself on a free period, and the Sixth Form was empty except for Jules and I; we were making coffee, and she put a sugar in hers, while looking guilty.

"Sugar?" I asked, with raised eyebrows; Jules was notorious for her healthy eating.

"Um, yeah. Naughty pleasure. I shouldn't really, but I just fancied one."

"How dare you! You need a good spanking" I said this, tongue in cheek; it was a bit flirty but not intended to go any further.

She looked me up and down; I stood 5 foot 8, and she was a good 4 inches more than that. She had on a pale yellow cotton blouse, and a multicoloured cotton skirt, that fell to about knee length. It's surface was quite rough.

"Well, you might be right."

I was taken aback by this; mind you, I was also very excited. I was conscious that, standing there in front of her in skin tight light blue drain pipe trousers, my interest was soon going to become apparent.

I reached out and seized her wrist.

"You better come here then."

The kitchen area was just outside the Head of Sixth Form's office; through a narrow passage was a more spacious area, with seating around three sides. It overlooked the entrance to the school, but no one could see into it.

I started towards it, Jules dragging behind me. I knew that there was no way I could force her to come with me if she wasn't willing; she was bigger and stronger than me. Nevertheless, along she came.

We emerged from the passage into the deserted sitting room, and I smartly made a path to the nearest seat.

"Come on then, over my knee" I said, seating myself. I gave a subtle tug on Jules's wrist, and she descended across my thighs.

The skirt pulled tight against her well muscled bottom, and, raising my hand as high as I could, I began to spank her, laying on a stream of firm smacks. Jules didn't react, lying unmoving over my lap.

After a minute or two my arm began to tire, and my hand stung, so I slowed down my blows. After a couple of minutes more the spanking had degenerated to a series of pats, and I was wishing that there was some type of smacking implement to hand. Sadly there wasn't, but I continued manfully on for at least another five minutes.

After a while Jules struck up a conversation; something about an upcoming Charity Walk that a bunch of us had agreed to do. I carried on spanking.

After a bit longer she said, in a voice filled with real curiosity

"Do you even remember what you're smacking me for?"

"Um, everything you've ever gotten away with until now?"

"Good enough. You'll need to make sure you catch up with me when I'm naughty in future though."

I gave her a few more smacks, but then we heard the door to the Sixth Form open, and Jules wriggled to her feet, my arm that had been lying across her back as a restraint having no appreciable effect at all. She smiled at me, and headed for the Upper Sixth area.

I sat, somewhat dazed, and placed a nearby newspaper on my lap, whilst I awaited some subsidence.

There is a sequel to this story, but that's for another day, and a different blog.

So, did anyone have similar experiences during their school days? Or did my school have a monopoly on our kink?

All the best

Tim

All of these lovely photos appear courtesy of AAA Spanking (look for a full review of the site soon)

Is this a popularity contest, or what?

2012-02-16T23:23:00.002-08:00

Oh fuck it, I'll apologise in advance. This is going to be a bit self-pitying, and probably whiny, but I've had a fucking shitty week, and that's how I feel.

I've just noticed that my blog has been nominated as one of the candidates for "Blog of the Month" on the Spanking Bloggers Network; looking back I see that the nomination was made by my good friend Secret Spanko.

I appreciate his enthusiasm, but I'm afraid it's not shared by his fellow bloggers, as, at the time of writing, there have been 26 votes cast, and I have 7.69% of them. That's 2 votes, for those who lack an arithmetic mind. And one of them was mine!

I'm not running down the other two candidates; The Pink Report is one of the classic spanking blogs, and seems to have been around for ever, whilst Bright Bottom is a smart entertaining blog that I enjoy a lot.

It's just that I don't think my blog is particularly likeable somehow; oh, don't get me wrong, I know that I have a number of loyal fans, and I really do appreciate their continuing readership, but I, in common with a lot of bloggers, put a lot of effort, and quite a bit of themselves, into producing a blog, which seems to have no tangible impact on anyone!

Perhaps that's as it should be; blogs are personal, to express the writer's feelings and views, but if we didn't want others to see and be affected by them, we'd just write a fucking diary.

I think that maybe I try to hard; I've produced interviews, reviews, semi-reviews, model appreciations, short stories and (I hope) humorous pieces. Maybe that's too wide a canvas to paint on; I suspect that, to most readers, my blog has no identity.

If I wasn't fed up none of this would get to me.

So, crying in my beer, and it's really a bit too early to be drinking (I'm not by the way; that's just a metaphor which I could replace with crying in my coffee, I suppose, and at least that's alliterative) I've decided to take a few days off; actually as this is only my second post this week I don't suppose that anyone will notice the difference!

I have several interviews at different stages, mostly though at the "what the heck shall I ask?" point, and I'll spend some down time prepping those and emailing them to the very kind interviewees who have consented to be quizzed.

Otherwise I think I'm going to give this business a miss for a bit; I honestly have had one of the crappiest weeks that I can remember, and a bit of quiet mourning may do me good.

Sorry (again - whoever said "never explain and never apologise" was a dick), this has been depressing and not about spanking, and without even any pretty pictures to distract you, but it's all I can muster up today.

All the best

Tim

Spanking Star Interview - Thomas Cameron

2012-02-15T02:00:00.001-08:00

When I first thought that I'd like to do a series of interviews with participants in the Scene, I decided that it was important to talk to people who had contributed in a number of ways.

It's pretty routine to interview models (although I still wanted to do that, as they do have a unique perspective; wonderful people like Leia and a couple more upcoming posts certainly show that), but I also wanted to speak to some of the behind the scenes people (like Clare Fonda's Cameraman) and some of the scenes commentators (my recent interview with Secret Spanko, a relative new

comer, and an upcoming interview with one of the giants of spanking blogging). I also wanted to interview someone who has functioned solely as a top, and, having read his comments on my blog, Thomas Cameron who has worked for Dreams of Spanking, Firm Hand Spanking and Northern Spanking was my first choice.

1. I've come across a couple of your Northern Spanking shoots now, so you've obviously been around the scene for some years. I have to ask the obvious question first; when and how did you first get into spanking?

I became aware of my interest in it through a combination of literature, and
growing up in a place where corporal punishment was still normal. I was raised
as an Evangelical Christian, so once I became consciously aware that it was
a sexual fetish of mine, I spent a number of years suppressing the drive as
a perversion. Once I left that religion, I started to practice what I had
always felt as 'normal' for me, both with kink and with polyamoury.

2. A bit personal this one, but have you only ever topped? I did for years before recently getting interesting in switching, but I do wonder if one becomes a better top for having experienced the other side. What do you think?

It's certainly a persuasive argument. I am a Top, pretty much to the core;
control is a basic identity function for me, and being deprived of it would
seriously erode my sanity. I also have a couple of experiences in my early

life which lead to what can only be described as berserk responses if anyone
tries to restrain me, so switching is not really possible for me to try safely.

3. I don't mean this as an insult but your look is delightfully old fashioned; you look how I picture the traditional Victorian squire. Is this a conscious thing, and do you think that the air of authority it gives you makes you a better top?

It's partly conscious; I like to dress up, I'm an historian by academic

training, and I have an enduring love of the Victorian and Edwardian
dress styles. Elegance for men has become a lost art.

Does it affect my topping? I subscribe to the school of thought that my
dominant power comes from inside rather than from the tools and trappings,
I'll happily top in bunny slippers if that's what I happen to be wearing. (I'm looking forward to seeing that shoot!)

4. Can one learn to be a good top?

One *must* learn to be a good Top. Instinct will only ever carry someone
so far; technique, philsophical understandings of things like consent,
psychology and implement effects, and all of the other aspects of how we
use bodies to mess with minds are crafts, and need to be approached with
the same resepct and deliberate attention to detail as any other complex
skill-base. Experience is invaluable.

5. I find that administering a spanking is always sexually arousing; is this your experience? If so is this a problem when shooting videos?

Control of the self is the first step to control of the environment and of
the Bottom. Part of that skill, for me, is detachment; sexual arousal and
physical response are by no means the same thing. But beyond that, while
acting in a good film is always going to be hot (or the product would not
be), like any professional actor one has to be able to carry contextual

reality as well as character immersion constantly in mind. The models with
whom I work are (with one or two notable exceptions) not people who would
ever be interested or available as sexual partners, so sex isn't what we're
there to do.

6. In a comment on my blog you said that it was more important for tops in videos to be good actors than spankers (I agree actually); how hard is it to top in a video, and how does it differ from filling the role in real life?

To run a good scene, a Top needs to be able to use tools (including eyes, hands, voice, rope, implements, or whatever else is needed) effectively, understand pace and the psychology of the situation, and be able to control all of the above.

To be able to carry the power of the scene that is happening in real life through the lens to a secondary observer, there a whole set of specific techniques which are identical to those Anthony Hopkins or Judi Dench would use on a mainstream film. Ability to remain still; awareness of where one's head is relative to frame, not blinking on camera, voice projection, and so on and so forth.

Sometimes, what would be perfect in real life does not carry well on film;
my personal battle with this cross-over is against lowering my voice too much.
Quietness often conveys more controlled power than a shout, and I sometimes
drop my projection too much for the microphone to pick up!

7. This is going to sound pretentious. In a book I was recently reading the following statement appeared:- "No one should ever impose their own perception of fulfilment on anyone else". Do you think that this can be applied to the spanking scene?

As a Top, my practice is that I am manipulating the Bottom's state of mind. The physical manifestations of that process are, however enjoyable, tools to that end. If I am to do that well, I first need to read and understand the mind as it already is, and then work with that. As a result, to do my job well, I must first (through negotiation, empathy or any other tool) understand what experiential journey will be fulfilling for the Bottom, so that I can manipulate

and, if necessary, subvert it.

8. You mentioned to me that you had shot a video with Firm Hand Spanking, which has yet to appear. They're US based. How did that come about and can you tell us anything about the clip? Are there any big differences between shooting for a US site and for a UK based one?

While Firm Hand shoot to American legal requirements and usually do so in the
States, the site is operated by a Briton, and the shoot I was actually on
took place over here. The story sequence I filmed features Leia-Ann Woods
and Amelia-Jane Rutherford, in a quasi-military context; I suspect that's
all I can say at this point! I thoroughly enjoyed working with Firm Hand;
the differences between that shoot and others were mostly of the sort that

will always evolve between different directors and producers. There's a very
clear house style and directorial requirements for a Firm Hand shoot, and I
found them very easy to work with.

9. Dreams of Spanking lists you as it's principal cameraman; do you have any technical training?

I sincerely hope it doesn't! I've shot stills on one shoot and done a
small amount of in domestic scenes, but I'm not usually *behind* the camera,
I'm mostly in front of it. The most frequent videographer is probably either Pandora herself or Jimmy Holloway. (Sorry, my mistake; I saw you listed as "cameraman" and jumped to the wrong conclusion).

I don't have any formal training in either video or still photography, but

I've learned a great deal from working with people who do, and am now starting to work seriously on learning to shoot stills; video will come with time.

10. Do you find production duties harder when you're appearing in a video?

Directing from in front of the camera is definitely complicated, though

it's much easier on a shoot with a full crew. I mostly end up directing in scenes where it would be difficult for Pandora, because directing from the Top is certainly easier than doing so from the Bottom.

Pandora is the producer; I am sometimes involved at the writing stage, but I've

not done any actual production work in the traditional sense.

My best experience so far as an actor/director was on a project we shot for

Roue called Lost Causes, which they funded well enough that we could operate with a full crew and equipment, a story-board, and an experienced DOP. That made my life very much easier, and the end product was quite special.

11. Many of the DoS scenes run quite long; how much of the filming is done in one shot? Is a lot of editing involved in getting the videos ready for release?

We are steadily moving towards shorter shots as time goes on, partly in adjusting to the limitations of single-camera shoots and partly because the scenes are getting more ambitious. We relatively rarely (I think only

once, in fact) use a single static camera for a scene.

Pandora edits her own material, and is doing more of that than anything else lately!

12. I am always interested in sites that produce image galleries independent of their films. Why do you do this on DoS? And, as I've always wanted to know, are the spankings in these shoots real, or merely staged?

One of the joys of artistic still work is that you can really capture marking
in full glory, so the spankings are definitely real. We shoot photo-stories as
well as video for several reasons. It begins from Pandora's vision of quality
porn as being compositionally and artistically evocative, as well as the action
captured being erotic.

Still work provides for a different kind of gaze, and a different
interaction with the viewer; I for example watch very little video when it
comes to, shall we say, personal use, as I often engage better with photographs
or drawn art than with film. Photo-stories allow us to generate images that
would be very difficult to produce on film without spending big-budget levels
of money, and they allow more complex and artistic lighting and composition.

It also forms part of the general ethos of Dreams of Spanking to provide

content which breaks the assumptions of the scene; audio stories, M/M
content, and all the other things that many mainstream spanking sites
have avoided. This is experimental, but it seems to be working so far.

13. This is another personal question; I know that you support Pandora in incorporating M/M and F/M scenes within the site, but do you yourself find them arousing, or interesting in any way beyond the purely technical?

Partly because of being in so much of it personally, I'm very unlikely to
make intimate use of most of what we publish on Dreams. M/M (and, indeed,
F/M) films are not part of my sexual taste, but that doesn't prevent
me from responding to power and emotional engagement on the part of the
participants, or from recognising aesthetic and artistic quality in them.

14. How heavily are the scenes scripted? Is it the case of just supplying a basic scenario and letting the performers get on with it, or do they have actual lines to learn?

This has varied. We've done some work that was almost scripted properly, though that doesn't tend to work well at all during actual punishment scenes, which need the flexibility of improvisation to flow well. Some scenes have written themselves as they went along, while we all watched helplessly (and often giggling).

One of our core operating principles is that many scenarios are written
by our actors, because that produces dreams of spanking that we often
would not have thought of, and tends to produce really intense performances
from the authors.

In most cases we discuss scenarios in detail with everyone involved,

so we can identify important story beats or concepts (or names!) clearly
in everyone's minds, in order to be able to reproduce them when necessary
for re-shoots.

15. How are the performers on the site selected? The ones so far have been exceptionally good. Is there anyone we're likely to know to be featured soon (that you can tell us about)?

Pandora has cast her films from her experience of shooting for other sites
while we put Dreams together, so many of the actors are people we've worked
with before. Others are discoveries of her own, including Jimmy Holloway and
Sebastian Hawley.

With regard to juicy gossip, yes indeed! We have just published a debut
appearance from Ludwig of Rohrstock-Palast, in 'Psychic Weapon C', and will
shortly be unveiling the first scene we made with Hwyel Phillips of Restrained
Elegance in front of the camera. That one is a four-hander with myself, Pandora
and Amelia-Jane, and was rather a lot of fun to make!

We're in pre-production negotiations for a shoot some time in the next couple

of months with Dana Kane and Mike Stryker, and we're also negotiating with Nimue Allen of Nimue's World, Danielle Hunt and Clover Rock. Watch this space! (I'm a big fan of these models, especially Danielle, so this is really something to look forward to!)

16. Dreams of Spanking seems to have gotten off to a good start. Where do you see the site going?

Anywhere we find interesting!

More seriously, we're on a bootstrap path which leads ever onwards to more ambitious work. As we can upgrade the equipment we're shooting with, and
afford fuller crews, the production values and attention to detail should
steadily improve towards the mark set by Elegance Studios, who're probably
the highest-quality producers we've worked with.

Creatively, we've never been short of ideas; it's time and money that are
difficult to find. We have all sorts of concepts we want to develop into
products as soon as we can build up the skills and the budgets to deliver
them well. Though with some of the ideas, it's really hard to wait...

17. Pandora seems to generate a huge amount of goodwill within the spanking community, both from professionals, like Amelia, and from fans like myself. You know her as well as anyone; to what do you attribute this?

She engages as a real and fully-featured person. The Spanked Not Silenced blog
is a big part of that, as it has presented a view of her evolving politics,
kink and personal life over a period of years. The fans (and fellow-
professionals) who have engaged with her through that blog now 'know' her,
in a very real sense; this is a person, not a marketing image.

Also, she's really sexy when spanked, which definitely helps.

I have a couple of follow up comments here that Tom sent back to me; I think that they're worth including.

I've learned a lot from your comments (not least that I don't always read stuff carefully enough - sorry about the principal cameraman thing) especially about the nature of topping. No one seems to talk about how that works (or at least not to the same degree as bottoming) so I think it will be a very welcome viewpoint to read about.

There are some quite good books out there, but you're right, people don't
talk about it much. I tend to attribute this to some kind of odd sense of
mystique; that if they talk about how topping works and why, people will
somehow see through their act and it'll stop working. This, for me at least,
is simply not true; I take considerable enjoyment in being able to show the
audience how a magic trick works and then *still* being able to fool them,
as it were. My dominance doesn't rely on the sub not understanding me; it
relies on them understanding me as well as possible.

I think this may also be an artefact of Tops gaze in the blogosphere; more *personal* blogs are written by Bottoms than Tops. Professional and marketing blogs, the equivalent of the blog at DoS itself, are to me in a different category from personal blogs (like Pandora's SnS, or Adele's long-famous Spanking Model Speaks). The former category are frequently written by Toppy male producers.

Very many thanks for taking the time to do this, and for taking it so seriously.

The core of my kink is psychodrama; I take it pretty seriously and enjoy
talking and thinking about it. Hitting willing girls with sticks is a
bonus :)

Sorry to rush out of here but I think the kids are getting up.

All the best

Tim

Hopeless optimism

2012-02-10T23:50:00.000-08:00

One of the definitions of madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results. You know, continually smacking your head against a brick wall, and then being surprised when, each time you do it, your head hurts. And bleeds.

I feel a bit like that in putting up a new poll; the response to the last one I did was, I freely admit, a bit of a disappointment to me. During the height of the Chross-propelled feeding frenzy I got 48 responses off 3000 page views.

Now then, I'm going to assume that the lack of interest was because the poll subject sucked; it was a pretty standard one, I agree.

I've given a lot of thought to the matter of what information I'd poll if I did decide to try again; I thought of favourite spankee, favourite paysite, best article, experience of spanking professionals, time spent on spanking each week and whether I used too much bad language in this blog.

As the stated reason for putting up the poll was to give me a better idea of what I could do to enhance your blog reading experience (yes, I stole that from British Airways, or anywhere else you like) I decided that a new poll covering the different things I put on the site might be a good idea.

Please let me know; I love to wank, but some outside involvement would be nice too!

All the best

Tim

Spanking Star Interview - Leia-Ann Woods

2012-02-09T22:08:00.000-08:00

There are a number of obvious superstars in the spanking field, both in the US and the UK; if you are a regular reader of this blog it will come as no surprise to you to learn that I consider the luminous Leia-Ann Woods to be one of the greats.

Just why this is I have covered in my Model Appreciation Piece about her (go on - shameless plug; check it out! It's still on here) but for now, let's just say that she is beautiful, generous and talented.

Leia has been on the Scene for years, and has appeared in spanking videos for just about every decent producer; she started her own site Bars and Stripes a while ago (although she no longer works with them) and her most recent project has been the setting up of the Bottoms Up spanking parties.

She very kindly consented to answer a few questions for me, and here they are, along with her illuminating and thoughtful responses.

1. Sorry but I had to start with this. Your name; is someone a Stars War fan?

No it is a good question! When I first came on the scene I had a habit of wearing my hair in buns on either side of my head. The first time I went to a public scene event the gentleman I was with asked me what I would like to be known as. I was unsure because I had not thought about anonymity until that moment! He took one look at my buns and said, “How about Leia”. It has stuck ever since. I added the Ann Woods later on so I could have the initials LAW.

2. You’re much admired as a spanking model; how do you feel about so many people basically fixating on one part of your body?

I find it lovely in many ways. Most people on the scene are really good people and there is nothing that brightens my day more than a gentleman writing to me telling me how much he enjoyed a video he had seen me in.

3. I love that you continue to do one to one sessions; what do you get from them, and do you intend to carry on with them indefinitely?

Oh I get so much out of sessions. I love role-playing and some gentlemen I see really come up with original ones that I can get totally lost in. It is great I can experience different takes on corporal punishment too from the different gentlemen I see. No one person sees this scene in exactly the same way another person does.

4. Sorry, still curious. How many one to ones do you do a week on average?

That varies, but I do not see more than one person in a day as a sub.

5. You were never spanked as a child and neither was I. Do you think this makes it easier to accept CP as it has no inbuilt negative connotations for you?

I am not sure as I do not know how I would feel about the scene if I had been spanked for a while, but I do know many that were, either at home or at school and those experiences are the driving force for many of their fantasies today so maybe it is not all a negative thing. It is a complex topic and like many things I am guessing people react differently to childhood experiences.

6. Do you regularly dream of spanking? If so you do you find you do so more often when you’re stressed?

I do indeed, but they generally happen when I am in a relaxed state of mind. If I am stressed or unwell I tend to have dreadful nightmares, but we won’t talk about those too much!

7. Perhaps I've just been lucky in the people that I've interacted with, but I've generally found Spankos to be of above average intelligence and politeness. Do you have any thoughts on that?

I totally agree with you. In all my time on the scene I have had very few negative experiences. I have some very close friends on the scene who are intelligent, kind and funny, if a little eccentric!! I cannot tell you why this is the case, but it does seem to be true.

8. Going through the earlier Northern Spanking stuff, whenever they wanted to branch out into BDSM you seemed to be the go to girl. How wide is your experience of fetishism outside of spanking?

Oh I would not say that, Northern have done many BDSM scenes with quite a few models. However, my experience with fetishism runs far and wide. I have done many, many things in my private life under three different slave relationships and my present one is no different. One of the many things I love about the scene is that there is

always something new to discover.

9. I know that, in common with most who relish both roles, you came to switching some time into your career; actually I was surprised to find some relatively old topping stuff you did on Northern Spanking. Personally I find the act of topping to be sexual, and whilst bottoming arouses me in anticipation, I find the act more cathartic and emotional than physical. How do you experience the two roles?

Yes I did do some topping for Northern when I was fairly new to the scene, though I am far more experienced now and would like to think I am much better at it nowadays, but I cannot be objective. For me it is almost in reverse. I find submission to be an erotic experience (though it does not have to be), where the psychology can really play with my mind, especially where there is complete power exchange. In topping my enjoyment comes from my skill and accuracy with the implements and the joy of (hopefully) taking them to the places I go to with in that position.

10. After all these years in the scene does hearing someone say "spank" still give you a tingle?

Yes it does indeed! I did a session recently where the role-play became quite dark and I was being threatened with a public caning. He was asking me to imagine my bitter humiliation at having to bend over a trestle for a beating with my knickers round my knees. I found that rather hot!

11. You strike me as strong, intelligent and independent; does the patriarchal tone of many spanking videos bother you? So many seem to be “I’m a man and I know best, so get over my knee”. I still enjoy the spankings as much but the context sometimes bothers me.

I don’t think it is like that at all. Some of the biggest on-film ‘clashes’ I have had are with my best mate Lucy McLean of Northern Spanking where she was Matron and I was Mrs. Woods. This was when I was still co-running Bars and Stripes. I find the alpha-male rather hot so I guess I am a bit of a failed feminist, but as someone who does not do Father/daughter scenes there is nothing patriarchal about what I film.

12. I had an exchange of views with Thomas Cameron, of Dreams of Spanking, in which he said, for video purposes, it is more important that the top is a good actor than spanker. Do you have a view on this?

I am not sure I agree with him. Ideally I believe a top should be both. It is all very well coming up with a verbal performance worthy of an Oscar but if, for example, your caning is lame, or worse inaccurate, then the imagery of the film is all but lost. The CP must look real so I believe someone with at least a reasonable skill should really administer the CP.

13. Are spanking videos pornography? Does it matter if they are?

Oh gosh that is quite a question. In my opinion any media that turns you on sexually is pornography, so I would go for a yes to this. I really don’t think it matters that spanking videos come under the banner of being pornography; it really is nothing to be ashamed of.

14. A vanilla question; I read somewhere that you like thrillers. Name three favourite books or authors.

Tough one. Thrillers I like but I have to say they are not the only genre of book I read. My favourites at present have been the Bernie Gunther series written by Philip Kerr. These books are fascinating because although they are a thriller they are set in Germany during the run up of the Second World War, life during the war and post war Berlin. I guess these books have reminded me that not everyone wanted that regime and that life was tough for the average German too.

15. In the interview you did with NS you referred to running a business supplying alcohol while at school. Do you still drink, and if so, what's your favourite?

I do indeed! My favourite? Dom Perignon. It melts in your mouth and is (almost) better than sex. I have only had this drink twice for obvious reasons!

16. Sorry, inspired by the last question; you studied ballet, and I was wondering if you still practice it as a fitness aid?

Not at all! I swim nowadays. I suffered a serious knee injury during rehearsal for a ballet when I was with the ENB Company. I struggled to do high-end fitness that puts strain on the knees for years.

17. What led you to start the Bottoms Up parties? Do you find these group encounters more satisfying than one to ones?

This may sound a little arrogant but I believed I was able to bring something to the party aspect of the scene. I have done many parties myself and so I had the experience of them from the point of view of one of the girls. I hoped that if I came up with something new for a party then gentlemen would enjoy spending the afternoon with us. I really care about both the ladies AND the gentlemen h

aving a great afternoon of spanking joy!

18. How do you choose the models to book for the parties? I would imagine compatible personalities are the most important thing?

I will have ladies I know and I do prefer to have ladies who are really into the scene passionately. I think you are right with the personalities aspect but since most of us get along just grand that is not really a major issue. The main thing is that the ladies and the gents are happy to play with each other, that way everyone gets the most out of the day.

19. How big are the Bottoms Up parties? That is, how many girls and customers on average? And are there switching opportunities? Yes, I admit this question is really here because I am interested in trying to get to one at some point.

The numbers of gentlemen are 15-18 with 7-8 ladies at a party so they are no cattle market! There are indeed switching opportunities with the ladies present so gentlemen who believe they deserve it may bare their bottoms!

20. Have you thought about taking the Bottoms Up parties on the road at all? Birmingham would be a nice central place to hold one.

Sadly this is not something I can do because of the volume of equipment I need to take to a party and the fact that I would probably have to stay in a hotel the night before. Sadly it is just not a viable option, I am sorry! I hear Virgin trains are good though for those in the Midlands!

Well, I've had mixed experiences of our train network, but it's a fair point; I'm just a bit lazy and was kind of hoping for everyone to put themselves out, to come to me. Life is so unfair!

Anyway, very many thanks to Leia for donating her time to answer my questions, even the slightly inappropriate ones. She is a charming lady and I look forward to meeting her at one of the Bottoms Up parties later in the year.

Hope you enjoyed this post; I have several more interviews in various stages of preparation. Please let me know what you think, and whether there is anyone in particular you'd like to see interviewed here.

All the best

Tim

Pictures are originally from the sites they are stamped by; Northern Spanking, Punished Brats, Bars and Stripes, Strict Women and Leia's own Bottoms Up

In praise of the professional spankee

2012-02-09T00:21:00.000-08:00

I'm lucky, I guess, that I live in the UK. I'm lucky for a lot of reasons really, but the one I want to discuss here is the prevalence of professional spankees.

Try this if you have a minute; do a Google search for "professional spankee US". Very little of any use comes up, does it?

How about this then. Click on this link to Spankeefinder; check the section for US spankees. Or don't. I'll save you the trouble. There are 9 listed. I know of 3 more, who are also profesional models; Pixie and Lily Anna (who only work together) and Sarah Gregory.

Just running an eye down the UK list, which is large enough to require segregation by area, and I count 110.

Now, this is, at present, a kind of theoretical luck, as I've never visited one of these ladies, although I am currently arranging to do so (and there will be a new post about My Great Adventure later this week). Just knowing that they are available is sufficient reason for joy.

Spankeefinder is a wonderful resource, providing each spankee with their own page in order to entice the willing spanker into contacting her. All of the entries are for female spankees (sorry if you're into male spankers, but I suspect most who are don't need to pay for it).

It's also an entertaining place to browse; clicking on the links provided and reading the details of each lady, whilst glancing at her pictures (oh yes, most have pictures, even if faces do not always appear). I've spent many a happy hour mired in the fantasy that I would arrange to see some of these women.

What's great about them is that they fulfil a need, and provide a safe outlet for a kink that, to those outside the scene, is dangerous and creepy.

Many would be spankers are married, and their wives are not receptive to the idea of being spanked. Some spankers cannot bring themselves to explain their needs to their other halves. Some wives put up with being spanked, but don't enjoy it, or won't accept anything beyond the most gentle of smackings.

For a (relatively) small fee the frustrated spanker can meet a lady who is not only willing, but quite often eager, to be spanked; she is experienced and spanked frequently, so she has a tolerance above that of (ahem) amateur spankees. Most have a variety of outfits to be spanked in, and throw themselves wholeheartedly into role plays.

They are gentle and helpful for the newbie, guiding the uninitiated into whole new realms of spanking pleasure.

They provide spanking without strings; as most who have spanked will agree a spanking is, of itself, entirely satisfying, without any supporting sexual activity. Professional spankees do not provide any sexual services, and this step away from an intimate connection between sex and spanking can be a relief of itself.

For those customers with a little more desire to experiment, many professional spankees also switch, and will spank on request. I find that more and more men nowadays are keen to give the other side a try, and there is certainly an argument to be made that, having experienced the process from the bottom (as it were) they will be better and more sympathetic as tops.

One last thing; visiting a professional spankee can also give you a chance to meet one of your heroes. Many of these ladies are regulars in spanking videos, and I would suppose that most men who visit a spankee will have watched their share of spanking porn.

Of the ladies listed on Spankeefinder I have seen the following in videos (this is not exhaustive, as, contrary to some opinions, I have not seen every video ever made. Not quite.):-

Leia-Ann Woods (well, of course I start with Leia)

Aleesha Fox

Danielle

Donna

Emma Bishop

Katie Didit

Kirstyn Gold

Sam Johnson

Xela

Zoe Montana

Liz

CJ Spankee

Paris

Scarlot

Irelynn

Amy Hunter (finishing on a real high)

If you are a more gregarious spanker you could also consider a spanking party, of which several are listed on Spankeefinder, including the splendid sounding Bottoms Up (run by our own Leia-Ann); there you would be able to spank several girls for a very reasonable fee, as well as meeting a number of individuals with....well, similar interests.

Any views of who you'd like to spank? The comments box, alone and forlorn, awaits below. Please give generously; only you can change the life of a comments box for the better.

All the best

Tim

Oh yes, the pictures. All of these have been snatched off spankeefinder, to give you an idea of what you can expect. Go on, check it out. Be brave, and maybe contact one of the girls near you.

PS if any of the ladies pictured would like me to remove their picture please let me know and I'll so so.

Interactive Blogging - The Great Bottom Quiz

2012-02-07T21:21:00.000-08:00

Well, let' s see if we can awaken a little interest in all of you jaded blog followers out there. I'm going to provide you with the chance to prove the depth of your knowledge of spanking matters.

Well, not matters so much as bottoms.

Where would we be without bottoms? Well, I wouldn't be sitting here typing this flippin' blog without one, that's for sure!

So then; I've posted maybe 200 pictures on this blog since I started. Actually that's pretty conservative (and I promise you'll never have to deal with anything like that wearing a big "C"). It's probably quite a few more.

Aren't I nice, giving you so much fun flesh to mentally fondle?

Anyway, in the spirit of an easy quick post, here are 5 more bottoms. All shots come from Northern Spanking image galleries, and all are of bottoms you have seen here time and again.

All of the models are female.

All you have to do, if you have the nerves of steel required to boldly cast your opinions adrift on the waves of blogging commentary, is to post a comment with your opinions, numbered 1 to 5, of whose bottoms these are.

I can offer no prize for the winning entry; for all I know many of you may respond correctly. I shall crown a Champion Blog Bottom Watcher though.

So here they are; 1 to 5. Be brave. Have a go.

Answers will be posted next week.

All the best

Tim

Corn beef hash - comfort food brunch supreme

2012-02-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

No, this is not some obscure metaphor for sex. Or spanking. Or wanking. Or anything else.

I'm very much afraid, dear reader, that this is a vanilla post. Oh, I might chuck on some totally inappropriate photos, just to make a guilty association in your minds between food and sexual matters, but the content - just a recipe.

Unless there are some ladies out there who wish to spank me for eating such a self indulgent meal? No? Come on, are you sure? Okay then, that's what I thought.

So then the recipe.

Get a 7oz can of decent quality corned beef. Remove meat and discard the can into a recycling bin.

Cut beef into smallish chunks. Place in bowl.

Add 1 large tablespoon whole grain mustard and about 1.5 tablespoons Worcester sauce; mix well, and put to one side.

Take two decent size potatoes and, without peeling, chop into small chunks. Place in saucepan and cover with boiling water. Boil for about 5 minutes, until tender. Drain, and place clean tea towel over strainer to catch steam.

Take large frying pan, and heat 1 tablespoon oil until very hot. Chop I large onion quite finely, and do the same with 2 garlic cloves. Drop into pan and stir vigorously, to soften and release flavour. Fry onions and garlic for maybe 3 minutes, and then add the potato chunks. Fry whole mess for about 5 minutes more.

Chop about 250 g mushrooms (chestnut work well) into small pieces; add to pan and stir some more.

Allow to soften. Ideally potatoes and mushrooms have started to brown.

Add corn beef and stir; heat through and combine. Allow to cook for about 2 minutes, and then remove from heat.

Allow mix to stand until cool; place in plastic/tupperware containers (I use ones left over from Chinese takeaway). You should get two large helpings. Place in fridge and leave for 2 days.

Heat trusty frying pan; deposit contents of one container into pan, and, as it heats through, flatten it out. Heat for 3 minutes, and turn over. Do this a couple of times. Ensuring pan quite hot turn final time, and leave for 5 minutes.

Push mixture to one side of pan, and add a little oil to space left. Add two free range eggs to oil, and fry to taste, but ideally leave yolk a bit runny.

Turn corn beef hash onto plate; it should be crisped and browned on side that faced pan. Get this on top if you can. Place eggs on centre; divide between 2 plates, and eat, with partner and crusty bread.

Delicious and warming on a Winter's day.

Oh, or you could eat it all yourself, but it is a hearty and fattening meal. Yummy though.

I apologise to any vegetarian readers; I only have a meaty version of this, although I suppose you could substitute quorn in place of the beef. Um. Not sure how well that would work.

All the best

Tim

Pictures are, rather inevitably I'm afraid, from Northern Spanking; they do have a lot of lovely pictures though!

What do you get out of watching spanking videos?

2012-02-07T04:11:00.001-08:00

I know what I get. A few moments of pleasure, a warm feeling and a sticky piece of kitchen tissue.

Oh, is that a little crude?

If you think so, I suggest you avoid the rest of this post; there may be some strong language, and the odd discussion of a certain bodily function.

Still here? Well, you were warned. Today I'm going to talk about wanking.

Yes, yes. I could be more circumspect; I could refer to it as masturbation, or self relief. But come on, you and I are not ones to walk on tippy toes around an issue, are we? Let's call a spade a spade, and getting off a good one a wank.

A while ago Pandora wrote a blog post asking how we watched spanking porn; I have an easy answer to that. With one hand on my dick. Well, honestly, what else do you watch porn for?

If you want to tell me it's for the elegance of the scripts, the sumptuous costumes, the historically accurate sets, the skillful performances of the actors and the sweeping direction, well, yeah, I suppose I've seen all of those to one degree or another in a spanking video, but really, if that's the main reason you do it, you are wasting your time and your money.

Hollywood does all of those things better, and more consistently.

They don't often make me want to polish my knob though. (Um, that may be British slang - I'm pretty sure context makes it plain that I mean wank).

Secret Spanko did a post about his activities when he had the house to himself for a night; he referred to how he passed the time as a wankathon. Lovely word. You have to admire the honesty. And probably the stamina that suggests. How many times do you have to cum for it to be a wankathon. 26 times? Shit, mate, no wonder you've being looking so tired.

I've posted a number of spanking stories at the Kilahara Library of Spanking Fiction; I actually had one rejected. It was a pretty explicit piece, in which I strove for realism, describing an evening in the life of a spanko/alcoholic, who gets more than he bargains for when his wife spanks him for real. I admit it's not my best work, but not all experiments are totally successful.

The moderator rejected it initially because she thought it was a report of real life rather than fiction. I still don't understand why that should be an issue, given they publish letters from actual magazines (all right, but some of the letters may be true, and at least they purport to be). I confirmed that I had made it up, and I was told it didn't fit into the ethos of the library, as it was pure wank fiction.

Now I can understand the official position of the Library being that the stories they publish are not porn; many feature children as protagonists, and that would raise some uncomfortable ideas.

However, spanking is a sexual fetish, whatever else we sometimes say. Accordingly we are likely to get aroused by reading about it. I get aroused typing the fucking word! To get to the point - of course people read the stories in the Library to become sexually excited, and, potentially, to help them to a happy wanking conclusion.

Sometimes we shy away from this reality; we cover it with the illusion that spanking is a hobby. We could be building model railways. Could we? Well, only if a train entering a tunnel gives you a throbbing hard on.

The amount of time we devote to it, spanking is more than a hobby. It's an obsession (and yes, I know, some people go to absurd lengths to pursue their hobbies, but I think you have to admit that those who do are obsessed themselves). Hobbies just pass the time.

To clarify; there's nothing wrong with obsession, as long as it doesn't take over your entire life. I actually tend to approve of it; people who don't care excessively about anything are dull, bland little non-entities. I want commitment and passion, damn it!

Even if it's just to making your dick hard. (And I'm sorry if I seem to be ignoring my valued female readership - please feel free to substitute "pussy wet" for "dick hard").

Back to the passion thing; I'm serious about this. If people do not care excessively very little gets done. It is the driven individuals in society who produce innovation, whether in technology, music, literature, social engineering or porn.

Can anyone seriously spend time at Dreams of Spanking and tell me Pandora isn't driven; it's clearly a committed work by someone who cares more than deeply about their subject (not their art. Never their art! God, I hate that phrase).

I'd go as far as to say that the same is true of most spanking site producers; spanking is a passion first and a commercial enterprise second. It's certainly true for Paul and Lucy at Northern Spanking, the Chief at Triple A Spanking and Miss Shan.

So, is it wrong to become obsessed about something primarily sexual? Clearly I have a somewhat biased view of this - I am a wanker! (or am I Spartacus? I get confused).

Sex, and each individual's sexual foibles, are vital to who we are. This is a true for the repressed prude as for the most voracious sex addict. But most of us fall in the middle somewhere.

I am obsessed with spanking? I believe so. It is important enough to me that I spend a portion of everyday thinking about it, or writing about it, or watching porn featuring it. Oh yes, and, most days, wanking.

I seriously think that I wank now more than I did as a teenager. Of course, I may just have more time on my hands (along with that gooey sticky stuff).

The thing is this; I love the feelings associated with sex, but, in a three bedroom house, with two teenagers, it is difficult to find times when we are alone, and have enough privacy, to have sex. Loud unconstrained sex anyway.

If we manage it 4 times a month we're doing well. I hate the lack of spontaneity; we sometimes plan for a couple of weeks in advance (for instance, my son has arranged to be out on 18th February, so we are now actively encouraging our daughter to plan something for the same day, without wanting to appear as though we want rid of her!).

My wife sometimes arranges a day off work, just so we can spend a couple of hours in bed.

We have a healthy and varied sex life. Three years ago we barely seemed interested in each other; now we're like teenagers, keen to try new things. My body may be flabby and ageing but it can still experience physical pleasure. Intensely.

Neatly bringing me back to wanking; I'm in the house alone most days. I can wank whenever the urge takes me. Pop online, surf a few favourites, boot up some of the 150 gig of spanking videos I've collected over the years. Get a tissue, have a tug. Sigh with pleasure.

So what do I get out of spanking videos?

I think you all know the answer to that.

Best wishes

Tim

The pictures this time are from Northern Spanking and My Spanking Roommate; any stains or smears are nothing to do with me. Isn't is about time you learned to control yourself?

Rest in Peace - Shanelle's Spanking Friends website

2012-02-07T02:00:00.000-08:00

So, I'm feeling a bit better (and many thanks to Kaelah for the kind wishes yesterday), and I promised myself that I'd get a new substantive post up today, so here it it!

Shanelle (or Miss Shan, if you're a submissive) has been around the UK spanking scene forever. I think that I first became aware of her in connection with Liz and her Spanking Services site; as I've mentioned before I was always thought that, if I worked up the nerve to see a professional spankee, Liz would have been my choice. There was something about her that seemed safe somehow.

Liz has always had a large number of video samples on her website, and, playing with Liz as both top and bottom, there was this willowy dark haired lady, cheeky and vulnerable as a bottom but severe and intimidating as a top.

I confess that I still find Miss Shan a bit scary now, although she has been nothing but chatty, helpful and friendly in our email correspondence.

Anyway, Liz and Shan seemed to have so much fun together that I actually bought two of their spanking DVDs - the only time that I've done that rather than just paying to download clips. They were "Retro Spank", a tale of two sisters arguing over clothes, and spanking each other (this wasn't exactly a surprising plot twist) and "Cousin Capers" (two cousins discover their Uncle's spanking magazines, and experiment, before being caught and punished by him).

I loved the films; there was a genuine sense of fun, and the interactions between the girls were great. I watched them a lot!

I've always kept an eye on Liz, who's sites have undergone various changes over the years, and she now offers a lot of her videos through the clips for sale store.

I somehow lost track of Shan; I'm not sure that I was aware she had websites in her own right.

A couple of years ago I was doing spanking searches on Google, when Aunty Shan popped up in connection with slipper spanking (one of my favourite things, and I'll blog about the Britishness of that at some point).

I clicked on the link and a wonderland of new spanking videos appeared.

There were three sites; Miss Shanelle (where you can book one to one sessions with Miss Shan as a top), Shanelle's Spanking Friends (which hosts 350 M/F and) F/F videos and Spanx Productions (which has Shan's F/M videos).

My interest in switching was still in it's infancy, so I joined Shan's Spanking Friends, and went on an orgy of downloading.

The best thing about Shan's videos (except for Shan herself, and she isn't in all of them anyway) is there simplicity and directness. There isn't a mass of set dressing, with most taking place in either a simple school room or a living room, and the costumes, while appropriate, aren't overdone. Each film has a plot of course, but they tend to be basic, and a vehicle for justifying a spanking.

Within a couple of minutes of their start there is spanking to be seen.

I love the level of discipline in these films; it's firm, and progressive, but never excessive or cruel. Spankings tend to start over clothing, moving to underclothes (quite a lot of slips and tights, which are things I always enjoy seeing) and finishing on bare bottoms.

I'd say the majority are hand spankings over the knee, although there are a good number in which canes, slippers, tawses and belts appear.

The naughty girl is often shown ruefully rubbing a well smacked bottom, which I also find most appealing.

I also splurged on a three day membership of the F/M site, and I must say that Shan really does make a wonderful angry Aunty, or awe inspiring governess. I've included a shot of her in period costume applying a carpet beater to her unfortunate charge.

I don't think I would ever visit a professional top (being a switch I want to have my cake and eat it) but if I did, I'd want it to be Miss Shan.

As to the models; well, there's something for everyone, from petite and pretty, to middle aged and a bit overweight. Shan has a definite very humanistic view of this, and I'd like to offer a quote from the website:-

"WE ARE NOT AGEIST, RACIST, WEIGHTIST OR SEXIST, WE USE VARIOUS PEOPLE WHO ARE INTO THE SCENE FOR REAL, IF YOU WANT STUNNING MODELS MAY I SUGGEST YOU #1 LOOK IN THE MIRROR FIRST then #2 VISIT OTHER SUCH SITES WHERE YOU GET GIRLS WHO CAN'T TAKE IT, DON'T LIKE IT and CERTAINLY CAN'T ROLE PLAY. WE ENJOY WHAT WE DO ON OUR SHOOTS AND PORTRAY EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. "

The enjoyment of all concerned certainly comes through; it's not that there are lots of nudges and winks, or smiles at the camera; it's just a general feeling.

You'll see a number of images dotted around this post; these are all taken from videos on the site, and generously provided by Miss Shan specifically for my use here.

Shan is very protective of her work; not just the actual videos themselves but also images taken from them. This is material that she has paid to produce, and the reimbursement that she gets from spankos joining the sites or buying clips both provides a living to her, and funds further video productions.

I'm making a point about this as it leads me to the headline of this article; Shan's membership sites are no more.

I recently emailed her about reviewing Shanelle's Spanking Friends, only to learn that she had discontinued them from 31st January; I must confess that I was gutted to learn of this. I was really looking forward to another month of downloading her down to earth videos, and luxuriating in the genuine English accents of the the actors.

Family difficulties, declining income from the sites (as a result of password trading and people stealing clips to upload onto free sites), combined with the expense of hiring models for the shoots themselves amalgamated to make continued updating of the membership sites impractical, and regular updates were required in order satisfy CCBill.

This is very sad news, although luckily the clips are not lost; they can still be bought individually at Shan's clip store. I'm pleased about this, as it allows fans to get just the material they specifically want, but I must admit that there is nothing like the thrill of discovery when first you log into a new site, and explore the variety of clips available.

I'm always like a kid in a toy store (but without the creepy Santa vibe).

I'd urge you to check out the links in this post; Shan is currently undertaking a project to make all of their photo sets available for viewing, in order to promote interest in her clip store. You will certainly be able to see what you are getting before you buy!

So there we go; another site destroyed, at least in part, but by bastard video pirates. I'll have a piece about them shortly.

For now I think I'll boot up my Shan file, and sample some of those brilliant videos again.

All the best

Tim

Sorry, there is no post, post

2012-02-06T06:14:00.000-08:00

Just a quick note (and not even with any pictures attached); there should have been a new blog entry today but I'm feeling rather unwell (no, not hung over!), and I can't concentrate to finish writing it.

Maybe tomorrow.

All the best

Tim

There are more questions than answers? Not here. The Cameraman of My Spanking Roommate

2012-02-03T22:54:00.000-08:00

Good morning regular readers (if it's your first time here - why? I was here; where were you? You really must show more responsibility!).

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a paysite review of My Spanking Roommate, a site that I particularly enjoy.

I found that there were things I wanted to know about the site, and how the approach to working on it differed from others.

Whilst the site is part of Clare Fonda's stable, it is run by The Cameraman, her long time production partner. He has very kindly consented to answer a few questions for me, and his detailed and informative responses are below.

There is also a piece of breaking news in his answer to question one that will make many fans happy.

Please read on.

1. the site is pretty much unique; what inspired the different approach?

ANSWER: I had never seen a spanking soap opera anywhere. Most sites have separate scenes and talent comes and goes, usually playing different characters. So I thought, what if you have an entire ongoing drama that is centered around 3 or 4 young ladies, and once spanking becomes acceptable among that group, it spreads and happens all the time.

And then you can develop little nuances. If you watch all the episodes with some of the regulars, you really pick up little character things here and there. We were looking to add a new site a few years back and Clare seemed to like this idea. It’s more complicated to manage, but it provides something fresh.

I am going to drop some breaking news here -- we liked the format so much that we are developing another soap opera spanking site with Veronica Ricci as the star. It will be called www.spankingsororitygirls.com and will debut April 1 this year. I think the title pretty much explains what you’ll be seeing from this site.

2. many of the videos are quite long, with individual scenes running up to 30 minutes; do you tend to shoot in one take, or do you do multiples and edit them together?

ANSWER: When the site began, we had one high end High Definition camera, so I shot takes that lasted up to 4 or 5 minutes and we had to cut in order to vary the angles. After a while we got a second HD camera so that we could shoot longer without stopping. Now we have 3 HD cameras and are capable of shooting for 30 minutes without stopping if the actors go that long.

Initially there was a learning curve for the talent, so they would stop to ask what happens next. But when we shoot with the regulars now, there is typically no stopping. Two of my favorite episodes, 89 and 90, feature Mary Jane (who is trained as an actress), Kay and Madison. They are both very long episodes that were shot without stopping at all.

3. how much are the scenes scripted in advance? Some of your performers, Kay for example, seem very loose and it's easy to imagine they are improvising much of the dialogue. It has a pleasingly naturalistic feel.

ANSWER: I strongly believe that you get a very realistic vibe from this site. I know it tends to be comedic at times, but that is because some of the models have a sense of humor and the characters really reflect what they are like. Kay Richards, who you accurately depict as loose with the story, is one of the funniest people I know. And many of her episodes have moments of great levity. But she also has other moods and has cried for real in some scenes, and gotten angry in others.

As for how it is scripted, there are 20 to 40 storylines planned in advance. Certain things must

happen in each episode. Certain lines or references to other episodes are included. Sometimes an episode centers around an event, such as a birthday or a holiday. A desired length is preferred for some episodes so that

it can play out to finish in time for an episode with a specific release date in mind, such as the Halloween and Christmas episodes. But sometimes the models get inspired and go for as

long as 30 minutes. And you have to encourage that.

Last Christmas, we released 4 clips for an update, in part to reward our viewers, in part so that we could reach the January 1 launch for the New Year’s Episode with Veronica Ricci and Missy Rhodes, who were making their debut on the site. Interestingly, by scripting episodes so far in advance, sometimes we are left racing to shoot and edit to make a deadline. And on other rare occasions, it might be over a year before a scene from a s

hoot is released. Sierra Salem retired as a spanking model, yet she appears in our current episode and will appear once more, in our Christmas 2012 episode. Most of the episodes between those two have yet to be shot, and some have not yet been scripted.

4. sneaky bonus question - Cameraman, do you have the best job in the world? How did you get it?

ANSWER: Do I have the best job in the world? Well, if you polled the world, I think maybe less than 1% of all people would say I do. If you polled only men, maybe that number goes up to 5%. If you ask only men who are into spanking, then it probably jumps way up to 80%. If you poll men who mostly enjoy F/F spanking then you probably get closer to 100%.

I started shooting with Clare Fonda on Jan. 5, 2000. That was our first shoot, but we met a while before that. Since

then, I have shot nearly all of her content for all of her sites, and helped in every aspect, from designing sites and planning shoots. Lately I have

been booking models. I have shot for other fetish sites as well, but working with Clare has been the greatest experience by far. She is an awesome person -- funny, talented, kind, creative and beautiful. She has a magic aging wand that doesn’t allow her to age. I have a blog in which I look at the spanking world from a behind the scenes approach called www.spankingview.com

So there you go; a lot of interesting detail, and a piece of breaking news! You read it here first!

Clare also agreed to answer a few more general questions, and her responses will be posted in the near future.

Many thanks to both Clare (for putting me in touch with him) and The Cameraman; he's a pretty lucky guy whatever he may say above!

All the best; I'll be back soon.

Tim

"We were lovers, 24 hours ago." Noisettes

2012-02-03T07:26:00.000-08:00

I'm a big fan of Noisettes, a London based three piece band, fronted by the extraordinary Shingai Shoniwa; she has the big diva pseudo soul singer voice so beloved of the charts, but she uses it without fashionable whoops and quavers to sing actual pop songs.

The quotation above is from their song 24 Hours, which appears on the Wild Young Hearts album, a wonderful power pop mix of sixties sounds with 21st Century issues. The song is about impermanence and the uncertainty that change brings.

But what, I hear you wonder, does this have to do with spanking? Is Tim off on another of his flights of fancy. Is this, damnit, more aimless waffle?

Oddly enough, no it isn't. Well, not exactly.

I was looking at my page views, and it caused me to reflect on the difference a week makes. This time last week I was contemplating the possibility of getting through 20000 hits by the end of the weekend, and trying to decide what to do to mark the occasion.

And then everything changed; I got Chrossed.

My review of Pandora's Dreams of Spanking site was selected as one of his Spankings of the Week. All of a sudden my average daily views went up from around 450 to over 2000 on Sunday. It makes my eyes water to think of it.

Sunday was the peak; page views have gradually tailed off, and seem to be settling around 600 a day. I'm certainly not unhappy about that, if I've managed to gain 30% more regular readers. I may have a better idea once this weekend has passed.

It is still astounding to me though that, in a week, I got over 7000 hits. I always knew that Chross' blog was popular (I've visited it daily for years) but his influence is much greater than I thought.

In my Rules for Blogging I said that readers come and readers go, and I've never been more aware of that than I am now.

It was always an ambition to be Chrossed, but I never seriously thought it would happen; earlier on in my blogging career I had a couple of posts that I thought might make it, but sadly they were roundly ignored (which raises the question of whether something can be ignored in any other geometric fashion; hands up if you've ever been hexagonally ignored. Anyone?).

I still look at the Spankings of the Week on Saturday when I get up, but only to see what I had missed - I've normally come across around half of the stuff listed anyway, and sometimes more.

Now I find that I'm eagerly checking Chross every hour or so, just in case I'm there again. I don't expect to be; I've had some decent posts this week, but probably nothing outstanding.

But then, I didn't think my review was anything too special either!

Well, it all certainly adds a bit of excitement to the end of the week.

Enough for now; see you in the funny pages, chums.

Tim

Pictures are from Noisettes page on Wikipedia

I don't know what to post today

2012-02-03T00:21:00.001-08:00

I don't know what to post today - hold on, is there an echo in here? Hullo, hullo, hullo. Uh, just a strange trick of the err, I want to say light, but that doesn't really work.

So, I got distracted. It happens all the time. See, I have a song going through my head as I write. Lucky sods, at least you don't have to listen to my tuneless warbling!

Come on, focus now.

Right then; don't know what to post. As a follow up to my review of My Spanking Roommate I have a great Q&A with Clare Fonda's Cameraman, who produces the site, but I was going to post that Monday.

I have a piece on the divergence of language and experience between the UK and the US but I need to tighten it up; it meanders even by my standards.

I have a slew of photos of Leia-Ann Woods, from her earlier Northern Spanking shoots; she looks so young (not that she's exactly an ageing hag nowadays either of course!). They'd be fun to post, but I need to write some appropriate words to accompany them, and frankly, I'm just feeling a bit lazy.

Ideally I want to put some good coffee in the filter, some loud music on the stereo (I'm in the mood for the Foo Fighters I think, or maybe Weezer, or maybe an old Springsteen show; crap, another decision to make) and to finish my book (an old Dick Francis novel, Driving Force).

I planned a piece on the results of my poll (loud raspberry noises, and no, I did not have beans for breakfast), and perhaps putting up a new one. I was also going to muse thoughtfully on the effect of being Chrossed on my page views. Fuck it though, another time.

That reminds me, I was going to talk about bad language in spanking videos (I'm not a big fan, which is odd as I used to get really annoyed when the Beeb or ITV cut films for language on the box; thank God for satellite TV); there were going to be some amusing comments on the alternative phrases we use in our household ("flaming tofu dogs of Hell" is my current favourite, although "custard toes" has much to recommend it).

I have the beginnings of a piece on what I don't like in spanking videos (diaper position, abusive tops, school girls caned bare bottom, punishments on the hand etc) but I'd have to sort out appropriate pictures to go with it; I'll definitely get to that one next week. Almost certainly. Uh, well, you know.

In the planning stages there is an article on why, on most spanking sites, the bottoms are beautiful, slim and damn near perfect looking women, whilst the men are ugly fat slobs (much like I myself am); that'll be fun, but it needs a bit more thought. Don't want to offend anyone; actually, they get to spank all those lovely bouncing butts - fuck, I don't care if I do offend them! (This comment comes with a jealousy alert courtesy of Frustrated Spankers Called Tim).

I was rather hoping for a comment or two on the Secret Spanko interview; I thought that his frustrations came through well, and they might move some of you, but, as all too often, it's quiet, too damn quiet. Is the monster sneaking up behind me? Well, as long as it's not the one from the closet (a shout out to any fans who've been around for at least a couple of weeks).

At this stage I have the feeling that I'm being watched by more people than are still reading this, and the only one here with me is the goddamn stupid cat (who follows me around the house more loyally than any dog I've ever owned).

Overwhelmed by ennui I will, I think, slap a few photos from Northern Spanking and My Spanking Rommmate on this load of waffling bollocks, and give up for the day.

Oh, but who knows what delights tomorrow will bring!

All the best

(and I really am very very sorry)

Tim

Oh, and I have to cook today; sausage rolls (which I do with very finely chopped up mushrooms, tabasco and Worcester sauces), corned beef hash (a guilty pleasure; I make a wad and parcel up a couple of helpings for future breakfasts) and a rustic sausage casserole (which cooks for about 3 hours, a real Winter warmer).

Reading back that last paragraph I think I can begin see why I am that ugly fat slob!

PS (I know, will he never shut up?!) I've found out how to work the link function!

Celebrity blogger interview - Secret Spanko

2012-02-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

I can be fairly arrogant, but even so I'm pretty sure that if you're reading this you must read other spanking blogs as well. I read a fair number (some of which you can see over there on my blog roll); one of my favourites, which started around the same time that I started this one, is Secret Spanko.

What I like about his blog is that he's coming at TTWD from a different angle; he is totally in the closet about his obsession, even to the extent that his wife is unaware of it. He has some very interesting things to say, and he doesn't limit his comments to spanking matters. I urge you to check it out at Secret Spanko.

I though it would be interesting to get his opinion on some issues that concern me, and he kindly consented to provide some very detailed answers. I hope that you find them to be as compelling as I did; some of these responses are brutally honest and he really lays bare his soul.

1) roughly how old are you?

Late 30's

2) how long have you been married?

12 yrs

3) in your first post you mentioned that you had tried to raise the issue with your wife; was that a request to spank her or to be spanked yourself?

It was about me spanking her. My interest in being on the receiving end is very recent. The way I explained it in my first post was sort of setting up the theme of the blog, but reality is a bit more nuanced, reading it again. I have spanked my wife in foreplay --just not a lot. Several slaps- like a small portion of a warmup to most spankos, probably. She does not get into it, and thinks it's weird and sick that I want to do that to her. (Which she brings up later) and she has seen some spanking stuff left on the computer, which led to a big fight and she told me I need counseling, etc...

She'll still sort of indulge me and allow me to spank her a very little during sex, but I'm hesitant to because I know she's definitely not into it, and will likely bring it up in a fight later. Besides, "you've been a good boy, so you can spank me just a little" is a very different dynamic than a spanking spanking I desire. I've even tried recently to suggest that I've been a bad boy and need a spanking, but she's not into that, either.

So I've basically gone underground as far as my interest in spanking. Just easier to keep the peace.

It is very interesting that you bring up my first post. I like looking at first posts of blogs. It's insightful, but it's a shame because almost no one looks at the first post because the blog doesn't have an audience or links to it in the beginning. Maybe "first posts" is a good topic for a blog post.

4) how do you cope with keeping such a major part of yourself from your wife?

Not easily. This is a difficult question to completely answer without getting intensely personal. I'm conflicted and feel a little guilty about it. I have a lot of irons in the fire, and a lot of worries and hopes and projects, and I do a decent job at compartmentalizing them I guess. Our schedules (and my lack of needing much sleep) help, because I have time alone on the internet.

There's also a great deal of rationalization going on too. As in... I don't tell my wife much about work. (She would be bored) and she doesn't tell me much about school gossip or how much she spends at certain stores or anything. So there's that.

Plus, this secret little fetish of mine I guess is not JUST a sexual fetish but also an outlet to express myself, maybe rebel a little. (I'm otherwise really boring!) I know an engineer who's an exceptional piano player- it's a completely wasted talent that he only uses for fun. Doesn't do him much good. That's kind of how blogging is for me, though I'm not saying I'm exceptional at it, it's completely useless in my real life, but I enjoy this creative outlet. That's part of it, and a big part of why I'm enjoying my blog, but not a full explanation.

Maybe it's better this way than to try to fit a square peg (her) into a round hole (spanking) that she's clearly not into. Maybe it's like that south park episode where they take kids to the don't-be-gay camp but it doesn't work so well and this is just a part of my sexuality that I can't control because I'm weak willed. That's not a great answer, or even a full answer, but it's a start.

How about an easier question?! I promise not to ramble as much.

5) do you find it hard to come up with topics for your blog? Do you have a process for inspiring them?

I don't have a process for coming up with topics. I sometimes piggyback off ideas I have while reading other blogs. I joked with Erica Scott that she was my muse at one point after about 3 of my 4 topics were at least partially inspired by something that she had posted. I think I've mentioned your blog a time or two as being part of the inspiration for a post. Other times, I just try to come up with something that I haven't seen discussed before. (Maybe in an effort to actually contribute something rather than borrowing ideas.) I just talked myself into a post topic in my answer to your 1st question above!

6) do you ever get discouraged by a lack of feedback? My comments to pageview ratio is less than 1%; What's yours like?

Never checked that until you asked the question. Yup, just over 1%. Although if you took out my responses to comments, as well as what I call "back-scratching comments" where the comment on my blog was almost a response to a comment I made on someone else's blog, the percentage of feedback is even lower.

My response rate based on that ratio might be just a bit better than yours because I've never been in the chross-hairs of that page view cannon! I have received a few unsolicited emails of folks that are truly secret spankos but are so secret they don't want to comment, and I treasure those.

7) I loved the account of your meeting with Dana. Have you had any further encounters?

Yes, and I haven't blogged about every spanking encounter I have on purpose. I don't want readers to think either a) "wow he sure writes a lot about spanking to have only participated once every few months or so!" Or b) "wow what a male spanking slut!" My actual spanking activity ebbs and flows.

Plus to some extent, it's a privacy thing. Don't want to spank-and-tell (or get spanked-and-tell) every time. Don't want to say "I'm meeting so-and-so tomorrow afternoon- can't wait!" Because someone could find out where they were, and then where I'd be, or maybe they don't want it known what their schedule is like,etc...

But stay tuned, don't want to give away too much, there's more to come and for my throng of clamoring fans, you just might be seeing my quivering reddened behind in action here pretty soon.
8) Obviously, like me, you're switchy. Do you find that you get very different things from the two roles? What are the principle differences?

Absolutely. Giving a spanking is a huge sexual turn on. Not as much for me in being on the receiving end, although there is an element of undeniable sexual excitement before and after.

However, there's something mentally relaxing in just completely letting go and taking it without being "on" at all. Don't know if that makes much sense, so I'll try to explain. I'm not naturally a people person, but I have to deal with people almost every day, so I can turn it on. Sometimes it can wear me out. Some days at work I have meetings and have to make the right impressions and constantly be watching what I say and try to be charming and have an agenda (or agendas) that I'm trying to push... by the time I drive home I'm worn out. If you've ever taught - a class, a lecture, etc... you know what I'm saying about being "on."

When I'm giving a spanking, like I said, it's a huge sexual turn on, but magnify the being "on" by quite a bit because not only are you paying attention to what's being said and what you say but also body language, etc... I don't know how professional spankers do it. I love it, but it's exhausting.

Now getting a spanking is completely the opposite. I'm not charming, I'm not witty, take my pants down this is me in my rawest form. Completely off, but unlike a massage, that complete relaxation is coupled with a white knuckled adrenaline rush --because it fucking hurts!-- and it's quite an experience. I do feel that every self-respecting top should experience a spanking once or twice for educational purposes, and it really adds to the appreciation of giving one too because you know how much it hurts. That's sort of how my interest in being on the receiving end began, but somewhat surprisingly, I kind of liked it too.

I'm going to leave it there; I can add nothing to these words, which I think describe the attraction of bottoming perfectly.

All the best

Tim

Pictures from Northern Spanking and Strict Women

Why I Like...Sarah Gregory

2012-01-31T21:35:00.000-08:00

I know that there are a lot of gorgeous and talented spanking models out there but even so I can't believe that it's taken me this long to get to the vivacious and multi-talented Sarah Gregory.

What do me know about Ms Gregory? Well, she is a US citizen, 5 foot 7 inches tall.

She was always dark haired, but now, magically, she is a blonde (the records do not show if she now has more fun).

She is in her (ahem) late 20's, and seems to have been appearing in spanking shoots since the world (of spanking videos) was young. I believe that her first shoot was for Punished Brats, and that she had not been seriously spanked until then. It came as something of a revelation to her.

Sarah has a bubbly bratty personality, and is clearly highly intelligent; she has a degree in Psychology and Elementary Education, and is working towards another in Art and Theater.

Sarah likes women, and for quite a long while, she was only spanked by them. A couple of years back she consented to be spanked by David Pierson at Punished Brats, and now seems to have taken to it.

In addition to modelling Sarah also, unusually for a US model, participates in one to one sessions, which is always something I like to know. She does so as a switch; well, that certainly sparks my imagination!

Sarah has, for some years now, run her own paysite, Sarah Gregory Spanking, which has a large number of tremendous videos, featuring Sarah as both top and bottom. In a number of clips she actually switches roles, which is one of my favourite things!

In addition to her own site Sarah has appeared pretty much everywhere, on both the US and UK scenes; the following list (which may not be exhaustive) has been taken from her Model Mayhem page:-

enagenda.com
capturedsnapshots.com
bondagedesigns.com
dominicwolfe.com
northernspanking.com
aaaspanking.com
barsandstripes.com
heroinepower.com
scissorvixens.com
stephanielocke.com
danaspecht.com
Girlspanksgirl.com
spankedsweeties.com
MySpankingroommate.com
Punishedbrats. com
Shadowlane.com
Spankthatbrat.com
missaudreyspanks.com
spankedcallgirls.com
straitjacketed.com
tickleabuse.com
goodspanking.com
Badtushy.com
SpankSinn.com

So then, why do I like Sarah Gregory? Well, look at the photos. She is stunningly photogenic, with a delightfully rounded rear end that cries out for the application of a flattened palm.

In addition to her fierce intelligence she has a strong personality which shines through; in an interview she said that, even when bottoming, she did not consider herself a submissive, just a brat in need of discipline, and I think she's right. I can't imagine Sarah acknowledging anyone as her Mistress.

Sarah is instantly believable as either a naughty school girl or a

I think Sarah is the closest thing we have to a world ambassador; there aren't all that many models who've worked as widely (both in terms of the content of her videos and the geographic area covered), and she just keeps cropping up everywhere. She is always a delight.

Also, she is the star of one of my favourite videos, both entertaining and erotic; the film was shot for Spank That Brat, and features her as a librarian with Kat St. James. The film, simply called "Librarian Fantasy" runs for 25 stunning minutes, as the two girls spank and caress each other into advanced states of nudity and ecstasy. It's worth joining the site for that video alone.

I don't believe that I've ever been disappointed in a Sarah Gregory film, and she has blossomed as both a performer and a writer/producer since starting her own site.

Again then, why do I like Sarah Gregory?

Ah come one. Look at the pictures.

All the best

Tim

Pictures this time come from a variety of sources; Sarah Gregory Spanking, My Spanking Roommate, Spanked Call Girls and Northern Spanking.

No spanking at all...this just makes me laugh!

2012-01-31T17:09:00.000-08:00

Just a quick middle of the night in England post; if you are an attentive reader you will have noticed that I have taken down the spanking orientation poll.

I had intended to replace it with a different poll but the general lack of interest in it has made me think again; I can't decide if very few people bothered because it was a lame question or whether they would prefer not to complete any poll.

I will give this some thought.

Anyway, the reason for the current post; the kitten covers

Go on, click on the link; this website it the product of an original but obviously deranged mind, who thinks it is cute to replace the figures on classic album covers with pictures of, well, kittens.

You know what? I think she's right. And pretty damn clever too. These just make me laugh. And there are lots there to look at.

I'll be back in a few hours, at a time when decent people are abroad (which just leaves the nasty kinky people like you and I at home) with the next one in my model appreciation series Why I Like...

I won't tell you who the US model is, but there are some really great pictures to go with it. And no pussies. Well, no cats anyway (I know, awful crude joke , but I'm tired and my resistance to horrible puns is terribly low).

See you at a sane time.

All the best

Tim

This is not a love song. Er, website review. Northern Spanking.

2012-01-31T00:54:00.000-08:00

Welcome in out of the cold once more my friends. Blow a nice warming breath onto your blue tinged fingers, and pull a stool up around the fire. You'll soon warm up.

So, are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin; I have a little story to tell you.

As regular readers may recall a few weeks back I referred to Northern Spanking as my current favourite paysite, and promised a review in the near future.

More recently I contacted Paul at Northern Spanking, to advise him of my intention to produce a full review; he politely asked if I would mind holding off as they are currently planning a major revamp of the website, which is looking a little old. Naturally I agreed to this most reasonable request, and, rest assured, once the work has been undertaken, I will produce a proper assessment of the new look site.

For now though I had promised a look at Northern Spanking, and I intend to give you a flavour of just why I do enjoy it so much; I'd hate to disappoint any of you perched there eagerly on the edge of your seats!

So, a little background; NS is a long established site, with masses of material. The oldest items currently hosted there date back to June 2003.

The early entries are all photo galleries, which show a good deal of invention. The move to producing videos was made around 12 months later, the first being Sunstroke, with Morgan Taylor and Sam Jones. Since then they have continued to produce a mix of stills and live action updates.

The site updates more or less daily, with most videos being in 3 or 4 parts. The earliest ones are available for download in WMV, although the majority are in the better MP4 format. File sizes vary widely; the largest I can recall downloading being 379 meg for a 13 minute video.

Picture and sound quality are fine, and virtually all videos are shot with multiple angles. The clips are very well edited, with a nice smooth flow, and a good structure.

Having said that most videos have multiple parts there is a series of stand alone clips which are collected under the banner of SSS - short sharp shocks. These are videos with little build up before the action gets underway, and they often seem to have been suggested by the models themselves.

Who are the models? The site boasts that they do not use professionals, just girls who are into spanking. This may have been true in the early days but now a number of the better known UK based spanking models appear.

Actually the list of spankees is comprehensive; all of the names you might hope to see appear (Amelia Jane Rutherford, Leia-Ann Woods, Pandora Blake, Kami Robertson, Jadie Reece, Jean Bradley, Lucy McLean and Elizabeth Simpson for example) do so, along with a large number of spankees I've only ever seen here. There are also a number of US guest stars ( such as Sarah Gregory, Erica Scott, Niki Flynn and Zille Defeu).

Looking over the list on the site I now feel guilty for all of the other great spanking models I haven't mentioned; there really are a lot of great spankees here.

I'm not sure exactly how many separate videos there are but I have over 28 gig of downloads from the site, and there is still stuff that I haven't gotten to yet, not to mention the huge number of still galleries which do not relate to any of the films.

There are a number of videos which feature a pretty much original premise, no mean feat with the number produced; I love the fairy godmother clip, and the hilarious twins video. There's a great cat burglar one with Niki Flynn and two delightful Democracy in Action stories with Sascha Harvey. I could spend all day listing particular favourites, but I think I'll just leave it with a note that there is masses of entertaining stuff.

Spankings tend to start off mild, over clothing, but building up in intensity; there is a wide variety of implements used, including canes, slippers, tawses (to both hands and bottoms) and, of course, the trusty hand. There is also, mainly in the older material, some BDSM and lesbian stuff (a lot of which stars the divine Miss Woods). The site designers go out of their way to warn subscribers whenever there is anything other than straight spanking material present.

The majority of videos are M/F, but there is also a significant amount of F/F. The spankers are generally very good, and in fact two of the better UK male tops feature extensively (Stephen Lewis and Paul Kennedy). The two primary female tops are Lucy McLean and Amy Hunter, both of who are great.

The overriding feel of the videos here is that the participants are having fun. This it the type of intangible factor that is hard to back up, but it's not hard to see. In particular there are a large number of outtakes provided which suggest it.

Each of the spankees featured is encouraged to write a few words about themselves, and they often comment on how much they have enjoyed their involvement. The fact that so many models make repeated return appearances suggests a comfortable working environment, and the vast majority of clips seem somehow to be good humoured.

This is in addition to the fun videos that use actual humour.

So there you have it; great fun videos with a wonderful range of spanking stars; why wouldn't you like the site? I have no idea. Go on, give it a try why don't you? The recurring cost is around £16.75 per month (US$24.95) and there really is more material than any other site I know.

Northern Spanking - it may be grim up North but at least there are warm bottoms to cheer us up!

All the best

Tim

New feature! My favourite scenes.

2012-01-30T01:07:00.001-08:00

Hullo, and welcome back, to the show that never ends!

Take a seat in the Big Top; the clowns will be along presently, once their tiny car has been serviced. Ah, repaired, that is. No kinky car sex here please!

We promise you thrills, spills and chills, as out highly skilled acrobats gambol across the skies, risking life and limb in the name of popular entertainment.

Right then; glad I got that out of my system. And now, to resume our normal service...

Whilst I have a lot of different pieces in the pipeline, I had nothing actually ready to go today. Idle fingers and a keyboard are the Devil's playthings (without the keyboard they tend to lead to masturbation, and there's nothing evil about that), and so, after nearly 18 seconds of constructive thought, here is the first in a new series.

At the end of my review of My Spanking Roommate I listed several favourite episodes, and I thought it might be interesting to talk about why a particular video works for me.

I'm not saying that it will be interesting for you to read about it, mind.

Still, there are those pretty pictures; always give the public what they want, don't you know.

Is it just me or is the style of this piece all over the place today? Um. Regional stuff. Upper crust. Maybe the odd moment that lowers the tone.

I have several of these things loosely planned, with videos from a number of different producers. However, for now, I'll start with my absolute favourite from MSR - episode 36.

This features two performers; the incredible and gorgeous Snow Mercy, who is eye catching as either top or bottom, and Dee Dee, about whom I know absolutely nothing. Never seen her before.

The story briefly; Kay phones and asks Dee Dee to pass on a message to Snow, that she wants her to be her bodyguard while she spanks another girl. Instead Dee Dee tells Snow that

Kay wants her to spank Snow, which she does, at some length, with hand and hairbrush.

Kay then phones back and speaks to Snow, who, upon getting the real story, turns the tables and spanks Dee Dee.

This video works especially well for me for three specific reasons:-

1. It pushes my buttons, in that it's two attractive girls spanking each other OTK. I love OTK, and I love turn about stories.

2. The performances, which are extremely well judged; their tone is
perfect for the piece, which is fairly tongue in cheek throughout. Dee Dee in particular is very entertaining - I love her "No, I have a tender ass!" line, delivered in a slightly quavery high pitched voice.

3. The overall sense of fun; yes, there are two decent spankings, but no one really gets hurt. The costumes, worn for a party, are ridiculous but great for spanking. The girls seem comfortable with each other; it's easy to believe that they are friends and roommates. There is a lightness of tone here which contrasts massively with the sense of threat so often pervading spanking clips.

I suppose if you're a big fan of the Dallas Spanks Hard school of strictly disciplinary beatings this all looks rather mild, and perhaps not worth your time. That may be, but I always enjoy spankings at the milder end of the spectrum (hurt but no harm), and this is just so goddamn good natured.

Yeah, I think that's it. The whole thing is good natured; nothing vicious or cruel. Two friends basically fucking around.

The performers are having fun, and the camera faithfully records this; there is no attempt to make it more than it is.

Whilst the models obviously take a huge amount of the credit for the entertainment value of this piece the producer/writer must also be acknowledged, for a job very well done.

Like all of the videos on MSR this is very professionally produced, using simple but realistic sets.

I really really like it (ya think? Two reallies? Ah, is that the correct plural. Can you have a plural form of an adverb? Ah shit, sorry, back to the

random waffle again).

So anyway, I regret to inform you that there are going to be at least 2 more of these; the next clip discussed will be from Northern Spanking, featuring Amelia Jane Rutherford, Lucy McLean and Stephen Lewis, and it's one of my favourites of all time.

Okay, enough already. I have to go and clean the patio doors now and then I want to whip up a large pan of my delicious corn beef hash for breakfasts for this week (and I don't even like corn beef!).

See you around.

All the best

Tim

All pictures are from My Spanking Roommate (although I'm sure that you guessed that), and, now that I look at them again, they really should be presented in reverse order.

Whoops.

Tim's Rules for Blogging

2012-01-28T18:39:00.000-08:00

So, something a little different today; these are my self imposed rules for blogging. I'm not saying that these are the rules all bloggers should adhere to. They are just the ones that I try to stick with, most of the time.

And yes, I am a bit of a hypocritical son of a bitch (hey, careful how you talk about my Mom, sonny!) and have broken several of these already. Ah hell, I'll probably break most of the rest of them, given time. At least I'll try to acknowledge what I've done.

For all of you who don't give a damn about my opinion (please see rule no. 2) I've added some nice spanky pictures, once again courtesy of my good friends at Northern Spanking.

So then, onwards:-

1. Don't post angry. I did that once. Posted about no one answering my poll. Had a good old rant. Net result? Sod all.

2. Lighten up; this is only a blog, for fuck's sake, and odds on no one gives a stuff about your opinions.

3. Lots of pretty pictures please - 85% of readers are only here for the titillation factor (figures provided by the Commission Against Numbering Exhibitionists, in a survey of approximately 1 brain; there might be a slight allowance made for error in poll gathering of around 100%).

4. Don't be afraid; post whatever you want, irrespective of whether you think your readers will like it or not.

5. Don't chase numbers; oh, so tempting! I lost approximately 20% of my pageviews when I reviewed Strict Women (no, I didn't make that figure up, it's numerically accurate), and for a while I regretted the post. In retrospect I'm glad I made it, and I would do so again.

6. Don't get too full of yourself; readers come and readers go. Whoops. Certainly been guilty of that recently.

7. Be ambitious and reach out to people; this blog was originally intended mainly to host my stories, but now it has become much more than that, partly because I have made contact with a number of industry figures (I'm not sure that this is the right phrase - is there really a spanking industry?)

8. Be polite; no one wants a flame war. Well okay, some people do. Not me though.

9. Be honest and state your bias; you can get away with most things provided you are open and up front about them. Well, apart from being a Man Utd fan.

10. Have fun; if you're not enjoying producing your blog what the fuck are you here for?

11. Don't post drunk; slurred words are never funny in print

12. Don't post late at night; ah, alright, post whenever you get the chance. Most of my stuff is done late at night.

13. No fucking swearing! Use good old demotic Anglo-Saxon only. In all seriousness swear if you want to, but be aware that some readers may find it objectionable. And then see rules 4 and 5. And 10 probably.

14. Worship at the altar of Chross (and who knew that there were so many spankos in Germany? My third highest readership comes from there, and it's around 50% of my UK figure. Not bad for a country using a different language. Danke schon. Sorry, can't do the umlaut).

15. All of the above is subject to negotiation - does this mean I can ignore my own rules without being a hypocrite?

Ah, so what?

All the best

And may the kinks be with you (hey, Ray Davies is looking for you!)

Tim

Coming Attractions...um, not meant as a pun, honest!

2012-01-28T17:50:00.000-08:00

Well, hullo there! Back again, eh? Nice to see you; I trust that the weekend is treating you well.

Did you have a nice lie in this morning? Did your better half bring you a nice cup of tea in bed?

Did your team get knocked out of the Cup? Mine bloody did!

Hrmm. Well. On to better things.

So I've had a busy day or so, largely thanks to my review of Dreams of Spanking, and Chross adding me to his Spankings of the Week (no, that's not bragging - if you're here you probably know all of that anyway).

The volume of pageviews has zoomed up, and the number of comments has increased too. I always try to leave sensible responses to any comments made, and, given the dizzy state of my mind, that can be a challenge.

I must say that I am extremely pleased by the standard of comments this blog does receive; they are thoughtful and address the issues raised, rather than just the prurient "cor, look at her arse!" crap that I suppose I do leave myself open to with the pictures
that I choose to post. So, thanks you to each and everyone of you who have me a line.

So, in honour of me having a lot of fun with my blog (isn't that the best reason to do stuff, ever?) I have been trying to set up a few different things, as well as more of the same.

A couple of weeks ago I commented on the Northern Spanking site, saying it was probably my favourite paysite, and promising a review; well, look shortly for my non-review of the site! There really is a good reason for that.
I'll cover it in my post (and many thanks to them for the delightful photos that accompany this one; cheers Paul!).

Coming up shortly I have an interview with one of my fellow bloggers, a gentleman who started his blog around the same time that I started this one, and who has some interesting things to say about his somewhat different experience of the spanking lifestyle.

I'm currently preparing a set of questions for an interview with one of
the biggest names in US spanking video production, which you'll hopefully see in the next couple of weeks.

I am in the process of contacting several spanking models, with a view to getting them to subject themselves to a few questions as well; we certainly try to cover all of the bases here!

In addition to all of this there will be at least one further paysite review this month, and hopefully that will give you some food for thought.

I am at various states of preparation
for my next two "Why I Like..." model appreciation pieces, and I think it's only a matter of time until I write my first spanker appreciation piece as well.

No one actually yelled at me for my film review of The Artist, so I may try and sneek in a couple of more vanilla posts; I've seen 4 of the 9 films nominated for the Best Film Oscar at time of writing.

I have a couple of opinion posts in various stages of completion, including one nearly ready to go which I think will be up on Monday (accompanied by a slew of handsome spanking piccies of course).

So, that's about it, I guess. I hope that there's something there to interest most of you, even if it's only the pictures of pretty girls with smacked bottoms.

Time for me to creep up the creaky stairs to bed I think; I have a traditional roast beef dinner to cook tomorrow at my son's request (I always prepare
whatever meal is requested in a birthday week). Of course, we went out for dinner tonight, and all ended up having steak, and Friday I cooked beef paprikash, so our colons will be stuffed with red meat by Monday.

I can feel my arteries hardening as I type.

Well, I'll be back soon.

All the best

Have a peaceful Sunday

May your God go with you (yeah, I stole that from Dave Allen).

Tim

Ah, so that's what happens....

2012-01-27T16:27:00.000-08:00

Hullo, hullo, hullo, and welcome back to another self-congratulatory blog post!

Just checked my pageviews, and had something of a shock; Friday's numbers were double my previous best day. I had expected to reach 20000 total views over the weekend, but the numbers had already sprinted past that landmark.

Initially I was at a loss to explain this sudden expansion in readership; I knew that there would be some interest in the Dreams of Spanking site review, being as it's a fairly new site created by one of the few genuine British spanking superstars, but I hadn't expected this level of enthusiasm.

It was then that I realised the source of many of the hits; my Chross referrals was way up.

Quickly popping across to Chross I found the answer - my review had been included in Chross's Spankings of the Week. My very first one!

I was chuffed a while back when he listed my blog on his site, but this, as a sign of having arrived, is way better.

So firstly, many thanks to Chross; I have been a daily visitor to the best spanking blog on the planet for several years, and it is still my first call. The one truly indispensable spanking site on the web.

Secondly thanks also to Pandora, for producing a paysite interesting enough that even a review of it can be considered worthwhile viewing.

Finally thanks to my readers; I know that I've moaned at you this week (about the poll thing) but if you didn't keep checking back here then this would be a cold and lonely place. Instead it is somewhere I enjoy keeping going on a more or less (well, a little bit less actually) daily basis.

I hope that lots of you keep turning up, and I promise to keep trying to produce stuff that will interest you.

Coming up in the next 2 or 3 weeks are another site review, some more ramblings about spanking themes, at least one new story, more details of my continuing Great Adventure and hopefully some pictures that you haven't seen before.

Speaking of pictures the ones here were all borrowed from Tush Spanking Art on tumblr; the second one down is of course Leia-Ann, but I believe the spanker is Pandora's own Thomas Cameron. I knew I must have seen some of his work before; I don't recognise the picture from any video

that I have however.

Well, with a slightly smug and self-satisfied grin I shall finish my glass of wine, and take myself off to bed, to dream of spanking and related stuff.

All the best

Tim

Website Review - Pandora's Dreams of Spanking

2012-01-27T01:00:00.000-08:00

Good day to you all, gentle readers, and I hope that the morning finds you fair and hearty; it's goddamn cold here, so I have the fire on high and a hot water bottle stuffed down my back, for comfort.

My wife is on the school run, and afterwards is popping into the junior school she remains a governor of, for it's awards assembly.

And after that she is coming home to "sort me out", as she puts it; I'm tingling with anticipation!

So, in order to occupy my fevered mind for a while, I thought that I would have a stab at my somewhat delayed review of Pandora Blake's Dreams of Spanking paysite.

I should probably explain the delay; there were 2 main reasons. One is that, as a fairly new site, there is limited content to consider, and I was waiting for a few more items to be uploaded. Well, the site has been running for just over a month now, and there is a decent range of material now.

The other reason is a bit more personal. My esteemed colleague Secret Spanko posted a while ago, saying that he would find it difficult to review a site when he had any kind of relationship with it's owners, even if this was just that they commented on his blog.

As you will know if you've been even a slightly keen reader of this blog, I am a huge fan of Pandora's, and she does read these entries, and has, on occasion commented on them.

I am keen to ensure that all of my reviews are as honest and unbiased as possible, and this did give me pause. I don't think that I would be able to produce a negative review of Pandora's work if I tried.

In the end two things swayed me to go ahead; having looked at DoS, I have only minor negative comments to make anyway. Additionally, well, this is a blog, for Christ's sake. They are, by their nature, relective of the opinions and prejudices of their writer. So long as a bias is declared (and mine has been often), readers can consider any comments made through an appropriate filter.

I hope that's clear.

So then, on to the site. DoS is a high end spanking site, very much revelling in Pandora's ambition to
produce high quality fair trade porn; a clear effort has been made to provide any spanking bias with something to enjoy.

There are (at the time of writing) 29 separate downloads available on the site, split into 3 areas; videos, galleries and audio clips.

Membership costs are fairly modest; 5 days for £10, 30 days for £20 and 90 days for £50. The shortest period is ideal for those of us who like to hit a site occasionally, downloading anything new. I confess that I'm not
sure how it works out from an income point of view though.

The site's look is attractive, and it's extremely well organised; downloads are viewable either in date order, from newest to oldest, or by a voluminous set of categories.

It also hosts an extremely thought provoking blog, a mission statement and frequently asked questions.

I must highlight the cast pages,
where each of our stars gives a chatty account of themselves, and from which they can be individually emailed; it's very nice to see this degree of connection between models and the paying customer.

The clips are fairly large, and are offered as both high and low quality downloads in either WMV or MP4 formats. Downloads can take a little while; one of the low quality WMV files is 494 meg long! The file sizes are entirely justified by the length and clarity of the clips.

I've tried all formats, and while there is a visible difference, the low quality downloads are perfectly viewable, with clear images and good sound quality.

Each video clip also has an image gallery which can be viewed shot by shot, or downloaded en mass.

There are also a number of stand alone galleries, which feature some gorgeous shots; one disappointment is that the story based ones do not have accompanying videos. I'd love to see a film of Ms Howard's Little Girl and A Secretarial Fantasy, for instance.

In an unusual touch there are a couple of audio stories, read by Pandora and Thomas; while these were okay they are not my favourite bit of the site.

So, what of the clips themselves? Production values are superb, with really good costuming and authentic looking settings. All videos feature multiple angles, and the performances are uniformly fine.

The scripts are interesting, and widely varying in the sources for their inspiration, from the works of Charles Stross (I wonder if he'd be flattered?)

Shakespeare and the TV show Hustle to the more traditional errant spankee.

Pandora has taken the opportunity to live out some of her fantasies, and this somehow makes the site more intimate. Additionally two of the models are her real life disciplinary partners. One particular clip, Caning Merit Badge, is almost painfully intimate, as we see a real life scene between Pandora and Thomas. It's not one for the fainthearted, and, as it runs for nearly an hour, it can be a little hard going, but it's ultimately rewarding for the way that it pulls you into the mind set and life style of our hosts.

Thomas, who appears in a number of the videos, is the site's revelation; I'm not aware if he has appeared in videos before, but he comes across as very natural, and comfortable in his role. When he scolds there is little of the bombast that I find repellent in many male spankers; he is authentic and effective. Nice job!

It may be a bit early to judge but, at present, if the site has one failing it is Pandora's determination to fulfil everyone's needs. While I enjoy M/F, F/F and F/M, M/M material leaves me cold. I've looked at the male orientated videos on the site, and they embody the same high quality seen elsewhere here, but they're not for me. They just leave me cold.

Now, not liking some scenes is fine, except that at present there aren't all that many scenes available, and, while I can easily skip over anything I don't like (and I'm not a massive fan of caning videos either, in general), it does mean that there is less bang for my buck.

Even with the caveat it is still difficult to criticise Pandora's intentions; spanking should be inclusive and in principal I applaud the concept. It would be interesting though to see how many of the site's subscribers actually enjoy every one of the video clips.

Still, I am sure that Pandora considered all of these issues before launching the site; her potent and challenging blog posts certainly touched on them.

So then, conclusions. Should you subscribe to Dreams of Spanking. I have to say that, with the 5 day option, the answer is a resounding yes. The material, while not yet voluminous, is produced with an attention to detail rarely, if ever, seen within the spanking community. The clips are attractive, and care has been taken to select performers who can actually act.

The image galleries are delightful, and the site navigation is the best around. It is obvious that a massive amount of care and planning went into this launch.

Further, despite my own slight reservations, there is something for everyone; while the clips on Spanking Tube give a flavour of what you see in the full films, they do not really convey the atmosphere and realism the whole experience provides. These are little movies; I have not come across another site where I watch so many clips from start to finish, rather than skimming them to reach the spanking stuff.

All concerned are to be commended for their dedication and ambition; go on then, filter that one through your bias detector!

All the best

Tim

The Monster in the Closet

2012-01-26T19:07:00.000-08:00

Good evening, and welcome to Tim's Middle of the \night blog; this is starting to become a worryingly regular occurrence. Even my yawns are getting fed up of it.

Still, for your delight and delectation, I have a silly little story for you; I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, and there are no pictures to accompany this one: I didn't want to confuse anyone by suggesting that this story is in any way titillating. It's just a story about a naughty little boy.

All the best, and I hope to see you tomorrow, when I expect to post my review of Pandora's Dreams of Spanking site.

And now I'm back off to bed!

Tim

The Monster in the Closet

Michael was not a well behaved little boy and on that particular day he had been less well behaved than usual.

His day had started at 7.30, when his Mom came to wake him; it was during the school holidays but as both of his parents worked Michael was supposed to be dropped off at his Auntie Vera's.

Mom prodded him awake, and told him to get up; 15 minutes later Michael was still in bed. She prodded him again; Michael just rolled over, his eyes closed once more.

“C'mon Mickey.” she implored. “I need to be in work by 8.30, and Auntie Vera is waiting for you.”

“Tired.” grunted Michael, and stayed in bed.

Mom sent Dad to get her lazy son, and Dad had much less patience. He shook Michael by the shoulder, and, when he still didn't jump out of bed, he threatened to spank him if he wasn't ready in 20 minutes time.

Now Michael knew that his Dad was a man of his word, and so, exactly 20 minutes later, he tottered down the stairs into the living room. His hair was uncombed, his shirt buttons were not in the correct buttonholes, and he had on both odd shoes and odd socks. His Mom sighed but ushered him out to the car anyway.

She dropped him at Aunt Vera's, asking her sister to feed him as he had been too late for breakfast.

“What would you like?” she asked.

“Cereal.” came the surly reply. His aunt had a sunny disposition, and rushed off to prepare a bowl.

She presented it to Michael, who stirred the cereal around in the milk, and then took one mouthful. He turned up his nose, and spat the spoonful back into the bowl.

“I wanted chocolate cereal!”

“I'm not sure that I have any.” said his aunt, but checked anyway. She was delighted to find a small box, from a variety pack, both in date and unopened. She poured it into a fresh bowl and added milk.

Michael took the bowl from her, and, head on one side, examined the cereal. It passed this initial test, and he lifted a spoonful to his mouth.

“Yuck!” he cried out. “This is soggy! I want a new bowl.”

His aunt explained that she had no more, and Michael became huffy. He banged his feet on the legs of the kitchen table, and sighed deeply.

“I suppose you'll have to make me some toast then.”

Although thoroughly fed up by now, Auntie Vera had a very kind heart, and agreed to make him a couple of slices.

She toasted the thick fresh slices of bread under her grill, and smothered them with soft margarine; she bore it, like an oriental feast, to her nephew. He took one look at it, and sat back, crossing his arms.

“I wanted peanut butter on my toast.”

“Well, the jar's there, on the table. Feel free to spread it yourself.”

“No, I wanted peanut butter instead of margarine; make me some more!”

“I will not. Eat that or go with out.”

Michael picked up the toast and threw it at her; one piece struck the end of her nose, which was rather pointed and the other landed, margarine side down, on her hair. He dropped the plate on the floor.

“I hate you!” he screamed. “You want me to starve, you miserable old cow!” He ran outside, banging the kitchen door behind him.

His aunt let him go; if she had been able to get hold of him she would have wrung his neck! Spiteful little brat!

Michael spent the day outside; he insulted the neighbours as they passed, he threw stones at the local cats, and he aimed a kick at a small dog that he saw exploring. He striped every branch that he could reach from his aunt's peach tree, and he pulled every rose from her prize winning bushes.

At 5.15 his Mom came to fetch him; Aunt Vera informed her that Michael would not be welcome to stay with her in future.

Mom was furious; in the car on the way home she lectured him on his behaviour. It seemed likely that she would need to take the next day off, to arrange for someone to stay with him in the future. She hated to lose a day's pay like that.

Michael's Dad was disappointed in his son, and spoke to him at length, asking why he had been so mean. As far as Michael was concerned he had behaved perfectly well; he told his Dad that his aunt had been telling lies about him, because she hated him. She was jealous because she had no children of her own.

This did nothing to mollify Dad, who told Michael to get undressed and go to bed; he had already eaten his supper, calling for seconds in order to fill his empty stomach.

After half an hour Dad put his head around Michael's door; he was sitting on the bed, reading a Batman comic, still dressed in his jeans and casual shirt.

“Michael, I said bed. I mean now. If I check back in 5 minutes and you're not in your pajamas, under the covers, I will spank you. I mean it this time. I've had enough of threats.”

This time Dad's anger cut through Michael's indifference; he had sounded quite serious. Michael did as he was told, and snuggled beneath his cosy quilt.

His Dad popped in, said goodnight, and turned out the light.

Both Mom and Dad had worked hard, and had very tiring days, so by 10.30 the house was quiet, and dark.

….........................................

When Michael was younger he was convinced that there was a monster in the closet that lay at the foot of his bed; he pictured it creeping out in the night, and gobbling him up. Lots of times he ran crying into his parents' room, waking them up with his frantic yelling.

Finally his father became tired of these far too regular occurrences; he told Michael that he was a big boy now, and that he had to stop telling these tales. If he kept it up he would get a spanking.

Now, the only thing that frightened Michael more than the monster was the idea of being spanked; when he was very young his mommy had read him a story in which a naughty girl was turned over teacher's knee, and soundly spanked. He was terrified; what if that happened to him?

The next night he chose the lesser of two evils; he ignored the monster, and found that he slept well. He never thought of the monster again.

He would come to regret that indifference.

….................................................

Michael was woken by a creak; he checked the digital display on his bedside clock, and saw that it was 2.15 am.

He rolled over and closed his eyes again; just as he was about to drop off, he felt the edge of his bed subside, as though someone had sat on it.

He sat up, and turned on his bedside lamp; blinking in the sudden harsh light he was startled to see a wizened figure, around 4 feet tall, perched on the edge of his quilt.

Michael shook his head and pinched himself.

The grotesque figure shook its large head, hairless and wrinkled, and spoke.

“No, you're not dreaming. I really am here.” Its voice was cracked and aged; it sounded as though its vocal cords had been roughly sanded. It was dry and carried the smell of ancient evil.

“But who are you? Where did you come from?”

“Surely you recognise me? I'm the Monster from your closet.”

“What! Don't be ridiculous. I'm far too old to believe in that stuff.”

“Doesn't make much of a never mind to me whether you believe or not; I'm still here. I have a job to do, and, by my fabulous floppy earlobes, I mean to do it well.”

“No hold on; this isn't right. How did you get in? There really isn't anything in my closet except clothes.”

“Shows what little you know, you rude child. I came in through your closet; I've always waited there, until you needed me.”

“Needed you?” squeaked Michael, who by now was quite frightened, and considerably confused.

“Yes, needed me. One of my tasks, one of the most funnest, is I get to punish naughty little boys. And by my ever hairy armpit are you ever a naughty little boy.”

“Punish me? For what? I'm not naughty!”

“You are rude, lazy, ungrateful, spiteful, mean and all around nasty. Naughty doesn't start to cover it. But, by the hairs of my littlest toe, tonight I'm going to do something about all of that.”

“What are you going to do?” trembled Michael, although in truth he had a pretty good idea.

The grinning little gremlin had shuffled down the bed while they talked, getting ever closer to the frightened child; it reached out with long spider leg fingers, and delicately clasped Michael's eat.

“I'm going to spank you until you are pink! I do enjoy a good spanking, and I have prepared a particularly leathery palm to use on you. I'll just place you so...”

The Monster pulled Michael out of bed, and across its spindly thighs; his thin cotton pajamas were almost transparent as he lay there, bottom sticking up, and feeling extremely exposed.

The little creature raised its hand, and flattened it against the upturned rump; Michael screamed, a shrill explosion of pain and panic. His tormentor hummed to itself; this was the life.

It gave Michael 5 more spanks; even through the pajama trousers he could see a growing pink glow.

“Red bottom in morning,

Michael take warning.” it crooned to itself.

“Red bottom at night,

Michael's spanked right.”

The homunculus cackled to itself, and peppered the tiny bottom with another volley of stinging smacks; Michael cried, calling for help at the top of his voice. No one came to his aid.

The spanking continued for a little longer, each slap bringing a sigh of pleasure from the monster, and an exclamation of a different sort from Michael. At length the creature pushed Michael off its lap, onto the floor.

The Monster looked down at its prey in satisfaction; each tear that ran down Michael's face created a fresh explosion of delight in its soul.

“There now; a good job well done, I dare say; but, by my foaming green bogeys, if you are naughty again I'll be back. But for now, I'll say my goodbyes. Be seeing you. I hope.” It hopped off the bed, and opened the closet door; it creaked behind the monster as it pulled it shut, leaving behind a ghastly evil chuckle that seemed to hang threateningly in the air.

Michael sat for a moment, stunned; it was like a dream, except for the burning he felt in his bottom. He jumped to his feet; he must tell Mom and Dad at once. Maybe they would board up the door to the closet.

He slammed open his door, ran down the corridor and then hurled himself at the door of his parents' room. It opened with a bang, and he threw himself onto their bed.

“Mom, Mom, Dad, Dad!” he yelled. “The monster in the closet came out. And he sat on my bed. And he spanked me for nothing at all! He did!”

“What, what, where's the fire? What time is it?” Michael's mother was full of questions, while his Dad just lay there, blinking furiously as he struggled to awake.

“Come quick; the monster spanked me.”

His Dad found his voice.

“Don't be daft; there is no monster. You had a bad dream, that's all.”

“No, Dad, it's real. It spanked me Dad. Come on Dad.”

“Look Michael, I've had just enough of this. It's the middle of the night; you've been a brat all day, and now you're making this ridiculous tale up. You know what I told you would happen if you carried on about the monster in your closet; I said I'd spank you. Well, I think it' s about time; come here, you deserve this.”

Michael wailed; not another spanking!

Freebie site review...Sculacciate - Spanking Italy Gallery

2012-01-25T18:37:00.000-08:00

Well hello there; no ranting this time, I promise!

It's the middle of the night here in good old England (odd phrase, since it's really the early hours of the morning) and I'm feeling kind of crappy so to cheer myself up a bit I thought I'd bring to your attention a fun site that not all of you will be aware of.

The site is Sculacciate - Spanking Italy Gallery (http://spanking.altervista.org/gallery/) and it's the off shoot of a bigger Italian spanking site. Unfortunately, although I did study Latin at school (and boy did I ever suck at that, and not in the good way that my wife enjoys) I cannot read any Italian at all, so let's just stick to this bit that I do understand.

Sculacciate is a great site bringing together approximately 1200 spanking illustrations from the mainstream; there are separate sections for:-

Spanking Art
Spanking Advertising
Spanking Anime
Spanking Manga
Spanking Cartoons
Spanking Animated Gifs
Spanking Comics
Spanking Comic Covers
Spanking Postcards
Spanking Magazine Covers
Spanking Satirical Cartoons

As you may expect the pictures are a mishmash (that may be my word of the day) of M/F, F/F, F/M and M/M. Be warned; a lot of the comics show children being spanked. This is inevitable considering the source of many of them is children orientated comics and cartoons.

Image quality is variable, from very clear to pretty damn murky, but there is a lot to look at here. If you can spend a couple of hours meandering through the dusty hallways of this mansion of images you will find a lot that you haven't seen before, and I think there is stuff that will entertain most of you.

The galleries detailed above are created as a series of pages, each with 18 cartoons on it; clicking on a picture will bring up the next one in a slide show effect.

I stumbled on this site by accident, from a link on an art wiki and it is one of my favourites. The site does say that there are daily updates; take that with a pinch of salt. There seem to be little bursts of activity, with very frequent posts, followed by lazy Sunday afternoon wallows that go on for several weeks at a time.

I hope that you get a chance to check this one out.

All the best

Tim

I think I may have misjudged you...

2012-01-25T01:15:00.001-08:00

Now, I know that I'm an opinionated sod who can't resist foisting his views onto others; why else would I write this fucking blog?

If I see a poll I almost always complete it; if it's on a site I particularly enjoy I will do so without fail.

I had assumed that you and I were basically like-minded individuals (especially after the femdom haters left us when I reviewed Strict Women); I hoped that you read this blog because it entertained you, and maybe, just a little, you cared about what appeared here.

Sadly I think I must have misjudged you; most of you, anyway. I thought adding a poll would be fun, and, once I had got more of an idea of what you were looking for, we could have a weekly poll with some more unusual questions.

I really don't think that there is any point.

I had over 500 page views yesterday, and there have already been another 200 today, but, so far, only 10 of you have bothered to complete my little poll.

Now, this may well be because you don't feel your spanking orientation is any of my business, and, if that's the case, I suppose I can't really argue with that. After all, I'm the one spouting my opinions and laying bare my soul for you, and it's strictly of my own volition.

I can take the lack of comments; those I get are intelligent and thoughtful, from people who clearly care. I have had a number of emails too; that's fine, that's why my email address appears.

It's just that I kind of thought you might care just a little more about what I'm doing here. And taking a couple of seconds to tick a box doesn't seem to be asking a lot.

As I've said elsewhere, today is my son's 18th birthday; it's bad enough to feel old, without feeling unloved and unappreciated. Sigh. Pause whilst I wipe away a small salty bead from the corner of my eye.

Pathetic enough? I hope so.

I think that'll do for self pity. One last try; please complete the poll. And avoid me writing more bollocks like this.

All the best

Tim

The photos today are all oldies, as befits my mood; I think I found most of them on tumblr, but one or two may be from Richard Windsor's splendid vintage collection.

Is F/F best? The Great Debate Rumbles On....and on.

2012-01-24T22:24:00.000-08:00

What? You're here already? But it's so early. What do you mean, you never left? Come on, you're just messing with me, aren't you? Although there was that strange noise in the night. You haven't been here all along, have you?

Hmm. I'm disturbed. Don't all rush to agree with me.

Anyway, today is my son's 18th birthday. Shit, I'm getting old. Still, if you'd all join in, and sing along; no miming at the back. Take a deep breath and, all together now:-

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday name left out to protect the innocent,
Happy Birthday to you.

Ah, that wasn't bad; not all in the same key. Or tempo. And I'm not sure you all used the same words as me either. Still, it was a nice gesture, and I'm sure he'd appreciate it. If I ever let him see this blog, of course.

Onwards to the reason for this (already long winded) post; a couple of times recently I've mentioned in passing my enjoyment of F/F spanking, and I have received an email taking me to task for this.

Oh, and while I'm happy to receive any contact, please consider posting in the comments box next time - I've received more emails about content than I've had comments made in total.

The email was quite thoughtful, and couched in very polite language, but the crux of it was this; men are physically strong, and it is realistic for them to spank women. Women are weaker and it is therefore pure fantasy to suggest that they would be able to spank other women (or men).

There was also some stuff about God setting Man over Woman, but the religious stuff lost me a bit. Sorry.

This raised several issues for me, but the biggy is this; I'm a big fan of consensual spankings. I'm not so keen where a spanking is forced onto the recipient.

So far as I am concerned all of the videos I see, and all of the images I upload, show consensual spankings. And if both parties agree then it is as reasonable for a woman to spank as it is for a man to do so.

Of course this ignores any arguments relating to aesthetics, or personal taste.

Taking those in reverse order there really is not argument so far as taste is concerned; you like what you like. If you prefer to see only M/F spankings that is entirely your prerogative, and no one (not even almighty I) have any right to say that you are wrong.

The aesthetic argument is a different top hat full of bunnies altogether; I don't necessarily expect to change any minds here, but this is intended to explain why I like to look at F/F spankings.

Take a glance at the pictures to the left of these scribbles; go on, look at the top two. Now as you're reading this I'm going to assume that you are either a heterosexual male or a gay female, and accordingly you enjoy the sight of these two female bottoms (Abigail Whittaker and Leia Ann Woods I believe); they're both gorgeous, whether being spanked or not.

Let us compare the spankers; the top one is, of course, the magnificently talented Audrey Knight. Look at the concentration on her face, the totallity of focus on the backside before her. The fingers of her left hand are hooked slightly as they steady her victim, and her right hand bends to fit the contours of Abigail's bottom. She is dressed nicely, and her breasts protrude over her spankee as she bends slightly forward in the follow through of her smack. I could stare at this picture all day.

The male spanker is the estimable Richard Windsor; raconteur, spanking expert and website entrepreneur. I'm sure he exhibits the same concentration and mastery of his craft as Audrey does, but I just don't want to look at him. The only thing of interest to me in this shot is Leia (who looks fabulous in those sheeny purple knickers, sheer and nearly transparent); it's tempting to crop the picture so just she appears.

So which picture do you prefer to look at? Much as I adore Leia the top one wins hands down for me; it's much more satisfying to look at 2 attractive women than one attractive woman and some guy, even if he's one that I envy and admire.

You see, the thing is this; when I look at photos of spankings, or when I settle back and letch over a spanking video, I do not mentally place myself into the position of either spanker or spankee, when the bottom is female. I don't fantasise about the clip; I just enjoy it.

The situation with F/M is very different, but that's a post for another day.

Take a look at the other pictures; they're from a range of sources (Punished Brats, Miss Audrey Spanks, Spanked Sweeties, Tears for Audrey and Spanked-in-Uniform), and they all show beautiful women being spanked. No disrespect to Richard, or to Mike or Sir Christopher Robin, but don't you find the F/F shots to be more attractive?

To me it's simple arithmetic; two hotties are better than one (I already hate myself for putting it like that). It's not that I don't like M/F; the first spanking videos I ever saw showed men punishing women, not to mention the several mainstream spankings that I stumbled across, and I still love to see them. I'm still turned on by them.

It's just that I'm a little more turned on by seeing two women together.

What do you think?

All the best

Tim

Website Review - My Spanking Roommate

2012-01-24T00:34:00.000-08:00

Ah, hullo, hullo! Come in, quickly now! Wipe your feet on the mat and shake that icy rain from off your shoulders. Do you need a towel to dry your hair? No? Okay then. let me pour you a drink, and we can get started.

So, before we get to the business of the day, just a gentle reminder to think about completing the poll that lies somewhere to the right of this post. I personally can't leave a poll incomplete; please help me improve this blog by telling me what you are primarily interested in.

Anyway, we are here today to have a look at My Spanking Roommate, a US paysite that is run by the stunningly energetic Clare Fonda.

The site is a little different than most, styling itself as a spanking soap opera with a consistent (but substantial) cast of characters; at present there are 97 separate episodes on line, often of up to 30 minutes duration each.

Each episode has build up, and at least one spanking; many clips have multiple punishments, often of different girls. There are also a number of videos featuring one of my favourite spanking things; the tables being turned, with the spanker becoming the spankee.

The site is extremely good value at £16.88 per month, billed on a recurring basis by CCBill. The preview section is very good, and well worth checking out.

The site updates 3 times each week, with each episode being broken down into a number of relatively small clips (often 8 or 10 for each), before being collected into a larger single (actually in practice between 1 and 4) larger file once completed. There is also a splendid photo gallery for each episode.

Personally I can't be bothered with the smaller updates, so I've downloaded each episode using the large full episode option; these downloads can be quite substantial (the longest I recall was 298 meg, but there are a lot that run over 100 meg at a time). This reflects not only the length of the clips but also the very fine image quality.

All clips are provided in WMV format, and, as stated, are of very nice quality. They look like a real tv show when expanded to fill the full screen of my 19 inch monitor; there is no fuzziness or degredation at all.

The site is fairly well organised; the episodes are grouped onto menu pages, each of which contains 25 stories. Clicking on any story takes you to a still image gallery and a menu of downloads (either small or large clips depending on your taste and download speed).

There is a comprehensive update schedule provided; this is a very nice touch, covering up to a couple of months at a time.

There is also a stars of the site page; this details the characters within the soap opera, along with the actors playing them. In the case of some of the lesser frequently seen characters there are links to the episodes in which they feature, although this doesn't appear for everyone (Leia Ann Woods character, for instance, only appears once but has no link).

Due to the soap opera nature of the site, it is to be expected that some models appear more frequently than others. This series is based around the misadventures of two roommates, played impressively by Kay Richards and Madison Martin. Both are very attractive (there is quite a bit of nudity, in addition to the expected bare bottoms), and can take a hard spanking. More importantly both are pretty convincing actors, with Madison in particular appearing to gain in confidence as the videos progress (Kay always seems to have bags of confidence).

In addition to these two the site features an all star gala of US spanking stars, including (but not limited to) Clare Fonda, Snow Mercy, Chloe Elise, Veronica Ricci, Kailee Robertson, Lana, Madison Young, Sarah Gregory, Amber Pixie Wells, Audrey Knight, Abigail Whittaker, Beverley Bocchi and Jenni Mack. Leia Ann Woods represents UK spanking in one scene. Danny Creighton and Steve Fueller are among the male spankers.

That brings me to the only real element that may disappoint some readers; the spankings are 85% F/F, with the remainder being M/F. Personally I love F/F stuff, but I know that this isn't the case for everyone.

The stories themselves are fairly well written, and often quite inventive, imagining a world where putting a pretty girl over your knee for a spanking is the appropriate response to any bad behaviour, rudeness, lateness or even lack of comprehension. Everyone seems to accept this, and often characters propose spankings as a way of conflict resolution.

The majority of spankings are OTK (of which I'm a huge fan), although there are a fair few with spankees bending over desks, chairs, prison benches and such. Most spankings start on clothes and progress through underwear to bare bottom, and there is a good range of severity. There is no shortage of red bottoms on display, and several clips end with tears.

The open hand is the implement of choice in most videos, although paddles, canes and belts also feature, normally as an escalating punishment.

Most spanking tastes are catered for, along with a little lesbian sex, for those who like it.

The scripts are often a lot of fun, with some entertaining comedy moments. The acting is mostly at least decent; some of the models are very good but, in view of the number of actresses who appear, some fall a little short.

Overall production values are high, with the scenes being very professionally shot with multiple camera angles. You would, of course, expect no less from as experienced a producer as Clare Fonda.

So, do I recommend this site? Oh yes I do, whole-heartedly. There is a tremendous variety of clips, all of which are extremely well produced. The spankings are convincing and frequent. It is easy to believe that this is a soap opera from a different world, where spanking is an everyday thing (I don't think even Fringe would try that storyline!). They even have outtakes from some of the episodes.

So far as I can see the only readers who might not love this site are those who dislike F/F spanking videos; for the rest of us there are hours of entertainment here. At present I think I can say that this is my favourite US paysite (although I am fickle, so that may change at a moment's notice).

Go and check out the preview page; it's good fun even if you go no further. If you have the cash to spare you could do far worse than trying the site for a month; I'm sure that you will get your monies worth.

All the best

Tim

All pictures are from My Spanking Roommate image galleries; if you're interested my favourite episodes are numbers 36 (Snow Mercy and Dee Dee), 50 (Madison, Kailee and Lana), 44 (Chloe Elise and Sarah Gregory), 41 (Clare, Abigail Whittaker, Sarah Gregory and Ashli Orion) and 85 (the schoolgirl episode, with too many models to list)

Hey, look right...yes, over there, it's a poll!

2012-01-23T15:27:00.000-08:00

Just a quick note to say that I've put up a poll, in order to give me a better idea of what you, my beloved readers, might actually want from this blog.

I hadn't intended to mention it specifically, but as only 2 people have completed the poll out of the last 140 page views, I thought I'd bring it to your attention.

Whilst completing the poll (and any others that may follow it) is, of course, strictly voluntary, I would be grateful; if you enjoy looking at my blog at all why not spend a few seconds giving me this most basic information?

I thank you in advance for considering helping me out with this.

All the best

Tim

The pictures, just as a reward for reading this, are all of the wonderful Juliet Valentina, and taken from Punished Brats video clips. Look for a review in the near future.

Final thought; sorry if anyone is offended by the Welsh comment. My wife's family are from Wales and this is kind of a running joke (although not a terribly funny one I guess, unless you know her Uncle John and his history).

Whoops! A vanilla post. Film review,,,The Artist

2012-01-23T06:08:00.000-08:00

I don't usually do this, but, what the hell, this is my blog, and I can do what I want to! Right? Well, except review fem dom spanking sites, 'cos that cost me around a 100 pageviews a day last time.

Anyway. I'm not bitter. Well, honestly...

So look, I just watched this wonderful film. Each year around Oscar time I try to watch as many of the best picture nominees as I can, and with the nominations due this week, I'm trying to get a head start.

The Artist is, I suppose, a gimmicky film, in that it's shown in black and white (although it was shot in colour), and, apart from 2 scenes, it's also silent, albeit illuminated by a wonderful score.

The film is set during the end of the silent picture era, and revolves around the diverging career paths of a defiantly proud male star, unable and unwilling to change, and a dazzling young dancer whose star is rocketing into the ascendancy.

I love to watch black and white films now; the improvements in technology mean that they leap, crisp and almost translucent, from the screen. Their pixel perfect definition shows every fault, and this film has none, being beautifully shot, with wonderful scene composition. The storytelling is splendid, so much so that you rarely miss the use of sound.

The two scenes in which it does feature are tremendously effective, especially so in the case of our hero George's nightmare, in which everything around him has a voice, save only himself. The other use is in the film's climactic scene, and, of course, for just 2 words, George talks.

I guess that, overall, the film is about the inevitability of change, and how difficult it can be to accept it. The film is also a charming love story, between two effervescent leads; they fall in love during 5 takes of a scene set at a dance, with each one of which they connect more. It's a thrilling moment, with tremendous economy of storytelling, but where the performances leave you in no doubt as to the subtle emotions beneath the surface.

The two stars are French, which I guess you wouldn't know until the final scene. The rest of the extremely good cast is American, and both John Goodman (as a film producer) and James Cromwell (as George's loyal chauffeur) stand out; the black and white images seem to make their craggy features oddly beautiful.

It's nice to see Penelope Anne Miller on screen too, although she only has a small largely unsympathetic role as George's wife.

Oh, and I should probably give a nod of the head to Uggie, as Jack, the dog, who based on screen time should probably get third billing. Someone has done a great job training him, and the director has used him to marvellous effect.

Does the black and white/silent picture gimmick work? The absence of sound forces the viewer to concentrate on the visual performances, and perhaps encourages you to see more subtle aspects of the images presented, so in that way it does. I was actually quite relieved that, as talking pictures began to take over in the film, silence did not give way to sound in reality too. This would have been a lazy option, although in purely a filmic sense it would have been reasonable.

Once the decision to omit sound was made I suspect that deciding to go black and white was easy; I think that colour would have pulled you out of the mood created by the silence, clashing with the atmosphere of 1920's film making.

Clearly I liked the film a lot (why else the review?). It's one I look forward to watching again; I suspect that there are a lot more film references to spot once you know the plot. The images on screen are beautiful, and the story is simple but moving. The performances are faultless and, at around 100 minutes, the film doesn't outstay it's welcome.

If you're looking for spectacular special effects, or whizz bang action, you won't like this film, but, especially if you are willing to commit to it's timeless false reality, you are in for a treat. I can't imagine seeing a better film this year (although I will keep looking).

Thanks for staying with me to the end - back to spanking tomorrow!

Tim

Why I Like...Amber Pixie Wells

2012-01-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

Welcome back my friends; it's time for another model appreciation piece, and this time the subject is US spanking superstar Amber "Pixie" Wells.

So, first of all, what do we know about Pixie? She was born in October 1982, in a small town in Jersey (I'm guessing that's not Freehold). She's 5 foot 4 inches tall, and a natural blonde.

Pixie arrived on the spanking scene in 2004, linking up with David Pierson as he was about to begin the website that became Punished Brats; she has since written and directed material for the site, of which she is a co-owner, as well as appearing in many videos herself.

While still primarily a bottom she has appeared as a top with other girls on Punished Brats, and she appears to have a very stiff handed spanking style, the blows delivered with a force that belies her slight frame.

Pixie is one of the best known models on the US scene; she has appeared in clips for (amongst others - these are just the ones that I've seen):-

Punished Brats
Girls Spanks Girl
My Spanking Roommate
Spanked Sweeties
Kara Prepare Yourself
Spanking Online
Firm Hand Spanking
Shadowlane.

She really needs to get over to the UK, to shoot with some of the producers here; this would assure world domination!

She is fond of cats and, each year, she arranges a charity spanking shoot to raise donations for the Cause for Paws charity.

Pixie is happily married, and her husband comes from outside of the scene (although naturally enough he has grown to love spanking Pixie's wonderfully rounded butt).

She has a degree in nutrition, and a keen interest in photography, which is often reflected in some wonderful pictures that appear on her blog, http://spankingpixie.com.

Pixie is very rare in US model circles, as she also participates in 1 to 1 sessions; actually I suppose this should be 2 to 1 sessions, as she does them with her friend, the wonderful Lily Anna.

What makes Pixie an outstanding spanking model? She is very pretty, in an extremely natural girl next door way; she has a terrifically round bottom, firm yet fleshy enough to bounce when smacked. She can take an extremely hard spanking (one on Dallas Spanks Hard is actually frightening), and has a delightfully bratty screen persona.

I've never met Pixie, and indeed, I do not know anyone who has, but it's hard not to believe that she is a genuinely nice person. She has a mass of close friends in the scene (the tidal wave of sympathy and best wishes when she was ill recently confirms that), and is clearly a caring person, as demonstrated by her continuing public support of animal charities.

It is a real pleasure to watch her wriggle and yelp as her bottom grows redder under a firm hand; she was the primary reason that I first subscribed to Punished Brats, a good few years ago now.

Pixie, thank you for all of the great video clips; I hope that there are many more to come.

SPANK!

2012-01-21T19:36:00.000-08:00

Ah, spank!

The very word excites me; the sound of it on film, the sight of it in a book.

Saying it always gives me a gentle shiver of pleasure. Hearing it makes me tingle with anticipation.

I grew up in a very English family; no one used the word. If you were naughty you were threatened with a smacked bottom (something that my parents never actually followed through on).

I think I first was exposed to spanking (the word) in an Enid Blyton book; I was a voracious reader from an early age (so much so in fact that my school didn't believe I could possibly read and understand as quickly as I did, and placed me in a remedial reading class, for about 10 days, before they realised I really did devour the written word).

A friend from down the street where I lived was strange; his family came from Canada and he called being smacked being spanked. He called his bottom his butt, too. One afternoon, in my parent's veranda, we played a spanking game, taking it in turns to lie across each other's lap for half a dozen smacks, delivered as hard as we could. Still the only time I've ever indulged in spanking with a same sex partner; I honestly believe it's the only time that I will.

I don't know if that's the first time I heard the word; I think not, actually. I have a vague memory of an episode of Jackanory (a daily tv programme where a celebrity read from a children's book) with a spanking at a dinner table.

SPANK! Still awake, eh?

It's such a lovely word, so descriptive. It sounds just like the act it describes. That flat splat of palm smooshing into wobbling flesh; the noise is exactly spank. It manages to encompass the smacking blow and the reverberation and recoil of Newtonian physics.

Spank is the perfect onomatopoeic word.

Just typing it makes me breathe a little more quickly; there is a light glow to my cheeks, and my eyes sparkle.

How can I become aroused at just a word? Just a word that I myself typed? It's a kind of mental masturbation; a hands free jerk off, fueled by a life time of self conditioned response to the idea of slapping a pretty bottom. Or any bottom, really.

I was never beaten as a child; spanking has no negative implications for me. It was a form of sexual expression before I had ever heard of sex. It fired up my sexual fantasies throughout puberty, and beyond. It still does; if I can't sleep I tell myself little stories, and they either revolve around unearned wealth or spanking.

Or fame as a writer, and wealth, and spanking. Or, oddly, as a football manager/tactician (that one has no spanking in it).

I have several Dennis the Menace annuals from the 1960's and 70's, back when spanking children was considered to be a damn good thing! My 13 year old daughter picked one up and leafed through it. After a couple of minutes she frowned, and looked puzzled. Head on one side she looked at me and shook her head.

"All of these stories end with Dennis getting spanked. His parents must have been sadists. He should have yelled child abuse."

We do not believe in striking children; physical punishment, once a child is old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong, is an attempt at intimidation, nothing more. Parenting through fear.

Hearing my daughter say this made me embarrassed to hear the word for the first time in my life. It's as though she said "fuck", without understanding what the word means (and she would have had to be much younger for that to be true).

Spank is now, and always will be, a sexual word to me. I love spanking but I hope that neither of my children inherit my pleasure in it. Or, at least, that I never find out it they do.

But, SPANK!

Ah, what a lovely word. But still, not an entirely guiltless pleasure.

All the best

Tim

All pictures this time are from the Tush Spanking Art tumblr site; I thought we'd go vintage tonight.

Oh, happy day!

2012-01-20T07:12:00.001-08:00

Just a quick post, as we're all off out for Chinese food in a little while. Sorry I didn't get around to either of the promised posts yesterday - life intervened (it has a bad habit of doing that).

Still, I've had a tremendous day today.

Firstly, my wife and I spent a couple of hours playing this morning; mutual spanking, to a greater extent than usual, followed by some wonderfully arousing (and exhausting) sex. My testicles still tingle to think of it, not to mention my bottom!

Heard the new Bruce Springsteen single (I know, you don't care about this vanilla shit), and liked it. Wonderfully ironic verses that stand in stark juxtaposition to the (apparently) flag waving chorus. Sadly mixed Clarence's sax though. RIP Big Man.

Thirdly got a response from my proposed partner in my Great Adventure. Acceptable rates, a location I can easily reach, and her email was pleasantly chatty; she sounds like an ideal partner. Probably won't happen until March though, as she is heavily committed. I'll let you know more (with maybe a couple of pictures) once I've exchanged a couple more emails with her.

All sounds very promising.

So, it's been a really good day, with my favourite food to come.

Why can't all days work out this well?

All the best until next time

Tim

Apologies for my absence but....

2012-01-18T14:17:00.000-08:00

Good evening good people (and I hope that the bad people reading are having a fun time too!), and sorry for my recent absence.

A lot is written about writer's block, but I can honestly say I've never suffered from it. I do however occasionally suffer from "I can't be fucking bothered" syndrome.

I would explain exactly what that entails, but I think it's fairly self explanatory.

There are several causes; I've been feeling a bit under the weather, my wife has had a week off work so my computer time has been limited, and I'm just generally subject to a vague sense of ennui.

Basically, I just can't be fucking bothered.

I know, I know. I'm lazy. I'm a bad blogger. I'm such a disappointment.

Ah, so what!

Also I'm a bit fed up, as my Great Adventure continues to lurk moribund in the harbour; my second option hasn't replied to me, leaving me becalmed and unable to set sail for spanking lands fresh and new. It's just a tad depressing.

I really should try harder to entertain my honoured readers, post a few pictures maybe, but frankly (Come on, say it with me now) I just can't be fucking bothered.

So now you know. I haven't wasted away (not a lot of chance of that with my increasingly Falstaffian girth). I haven't left and joined a convent (although if the nuns were spankers I might go for that). I haven't wanked so frantically that I've worn away the muscles of my left hand (I'm right handed but use my left for self abuse, which I'm sure could be seen as a sign of self-disgust if you were a religiously minded psychologist).

Still, I can feel my funk evaporating (my parents used to drink coffee made with evaporated milk - Jesus, I feel sick thinking about it), and I have tomorrow morning to myself, so I'll try and post something of some merit; either a piece on why F/F spanking is so much fun, or a review of My Spanking Roommate. In either case both will follow soonish.

Pictures this time are either from tumblr, or they are stamped with their source; just some random shots lurking tigerishly on my hard drive.

Don't worry, normal slightly kinky service will be resumed shortly. I hope.

All the best

Tim

Oh, one last thing; if you haven't seen it already Pandora's Spanked not Silenced blog has a brilliant piece on Spanking for Beginners - worth checking out even for those rated "expert" by the Institute of Butt Smack Artisans.

My Great Adventure...Part 3

2012-01-12T03:24:00.000-08:00

Well, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again, as my old granny used to say. And then she'd fall asleep, rocking happily in her chair, cigarette balanced delicately between two fingers, it's burned-ash chimney tottering precariously.

So, no answer from option number one. I thought I'd try a follow up email, just in case the original vanished into cyberhell somewhere, or merely got dumped into a spam in box maybe.

So I pasted the original message into the body of a new email, and apologised for my impatience in the event that the first message had arrived and was waiting for a response to be composed. Pasted in the email address. Pressed send.

Whirling icon on screen; nothing happens for a minute or so. Then a message appears to say the programme could not send the email.

I retyped the email address, and pressed send again. The message whirrs its way off into the great unknown.

An hour later I log on to my email only to find a notice advising the email had not been delivered.

I can only conclude that the email address that appears on the Spankee Finder page is no longer valid. And like that, option one is retired.

I had a look at option two again; still sounded like a great choice, fun and bubbly and meeting all of my criteria. So, being lazy, I pasted my first email into yahoo, changed the name of it's addressee (obviously) and pasted in the email address for this spankee.

And then, finger poised over the send key, I had a panic attack. Was this a good idea? Did my initial failure mean that the Gods of spanking were trying to tell me something? Should I delete the message, and carry on as before?

You know what pushed my decision? You lot. I told you I'd have a Great Adventure, and I can't back out now.

So the message has been sent, and I'm back to the waiting game.

Sigh. I hate waiting. I'm not a patient person.

I appreciate that it will likely be a day or more before I get a response, so I'll just have to wait. Aargh!

That's all for now.

Tim

Oh, the photos are all from my current favourite spanking site, Northern Spanking. I'll do a review of them in a couple of months.

Congratulations to Amelia

2012-01-11T15:29:00.000-08:00

Well, of course, I'm behind the times; no one tells me anything, and I was born with my eyes shut. You'd think that I never learned to read.

Anyway, it has finally come to my attention that, in her blog post on 2nd January, Amelia Jane Rutherford announced her engagement to Hywel Phillips (who will hereafter be known as the Luckiest Man Alive, or LMA for short).

All joking aside I'd just like to wish the happy couple all the best for the future: it is wonderful to see a couple come together who have such compatible needs and desires.

I'm sure that you will have a wonderful time as husband and wife, and I honestly offer my congratulations to you both.

Best wishes

Tim

The pictures are, of course, all of the divine Amelia; one from her website, with the others from Firm Hand Spanking and Spanked in Uniform.

You know what? Time for a story.

2012-01-11T06:50:00.000-08:00

Well, sadly, I have no news to tell you about my great adventure, other than I'm now thinking I'll give it another 24 hours, and then maybe email my second choice.

Sitting here, stewing in my own juices, as it were, I thought I might just throw a story into the ether, for your enjoyment and edification.

This one is an experiment in using a consistent voice, one which is distinctly not my own. I apologise in advance for any embarrassing lapses, especially to any US readers. Obviously I'm English, and my protagonist isn't. I had fun writing it anyway.

There really is a sequel, should any of you enjoy this one. And, you know, let me know that you do!

All the best, with crossed fingers that I'll hear something back from my proposed spankee.

Tim

PS photos this time are all taken from My Spanking Roommate, which is one of my top three spanking sites on the web (not that I've been a member of them all, of course).

When Push Comes to Shove

Sometimes being naughty can just be fun, y'know? You push and you push, just to see how far you can take it, and sometimes you just take it that little bit too far.

And that's when he hauls you over his knee and spanks you.

Take my guy, Keith. He's basically a patient sort; kind, slow to anger, pretty much an old world gentleman, y'know, all that sort of thing. A bit of a chauvinist, yeah, I guess so, but in the nicest possible way.

He certainly thinks he knows better'n anyone else, especially this little lady, and he isn't any too shy about telling me so, when he thinks he needs to.

I met Keith at the Railroad Diner, eight or ten miles south of Nashville. 'Course that ain't my hometown, but, like many another, I'd found my way here with dreams of stardom filling my eyes.

Damn eyes were bigger'n my belly, I guess, as I soon had my fill of the country music circuit, and all them promoters who couldn't keep their hands to themselves if you tied 'em up with barbed wire.

I always kinda thought I'd head off home one day, but not 'til after Ma passed; sorry to say I couldn't stand the idea of her gloatin' 'bout how she knew I never had no talent anyhow. She'd make takin' me back into a charity case, and I was fuzzled if I'd ever go for that.

So, yeah, Keith; he swept in one day, and with one look he swept my heart out with him. He took a seat at one of Leanne's tables, but I bounced her out of the way with my hip and, while she was picking her pad back up, I was over at that table, ready and able.

I could tell he was taking a shine to me, and really, why wouldn't he? I was a delightful eyeful, if'n I do say so myself. Strawberry blonde, full mouth, big ol' blue eyes, heavenly curves and a wiggle in m' walk.

Hell, if I liked girls, I'd be after me!

So we chatted while he decided to order chicken fried steak, with okra on the side, and a good plate of home fries. I fetched him a glass of water, and made sure I put extra ice in it; it was a real steamer, that day.

Leanne was a bit pissy 'bout me taking her customer, but I promised she could have any tip he left, and I fancied it'd be a good one. I reckon Leanne could see we was hitting it off too, as she didn't argue or fuss once I told her that.

When he'd finished eating I brung him the check, and he paid it with a bill off of a big roll he reached out a' his pocket; the he handed me somethin' else and murmured to me.

“Here's a little somethin' else for you, darlin'. Hey, and what's your name; don't think I caught it.”

“Well, that's 'cos I didn't throw it. But, yeah, I'm Loretta.” That wasn't my name from back home but when I came to Nashville I had the idea that a famous name wouldn't hurt any.

“Pretty name for a pretty gal.” His voice was big, deep and warm; listening to him was like drowning in a jacuzzi.

“Well Loretta, happen I'll see you around, now and then. Look out for yourself, won't ya.” With these closing words he slid from behind his table, and ambled to the door; he had a kind of John Wayne wobble when he walked, and it was all mighty impressive, I tell ya.

He opened the door and had to bend his neck to get through it, 'tho some of that was on account of the old stetson hat that he wore.

“Oh my, oh my, he was a big one.” sighed Leanne, as she reached for the tip that I held clutched in my hand. “Now let's see what he left me.”

I released the paper, which proved to be a ten dollar bill; Leanne hooted her approval as she turned away, but then she turned back again.

“Hey look, 'Retta. He left you some 'at else too.”

She handed me a small piece of paper on which, in bold swooping curves, was written “Keith – Call Me” and a 'phone number. I was walking on air all the rest of my shift, and I waited less than patiently for it to end.

Just as soon as I was done I headed over to the phone that Max, the owner of the Railroad Diner, kept on the end of the counter, as a courtesy to his regulars; everyone understood, it was local calls only, be short and to the point and don't abuse my hospitality, 'less you want cigarette ash in your eggs next time.

So I called Keith up, and arranged to meet at the Lexington Bar and Grill, which I told him I'd heard about but never bin to. It was 4 streets over.

Sure my Ma would have disapproved, calling a man, and so soon 'n' all, but, Hell, a girl gotta take her chances where she can.

We'd agreed to meet at 10.00, my shift having ended at 9.00, and as I lived in a trailer out back of the Diner I figured that gave me plenty of time.

I charged across to my home, and threw myself into the shower right quick; scrubbing off the smell of bacon grease was a real pleasure. I took a quick belt from the bottle of Jack I kept by the icebox, and then cleaned and flossed my teeth. In the mirror my smile sparkled with promise.

I went to the good undies drawer, and pulled out a pair of black silk briefs, with a low slung kind'a flowery bra to match. I tugged them on while I regarded the rest of my wardrobe, deciding what best to wear.

I sure wanted to impress Keith, but the Lex was a pretty rough and tumble place, and I couldn't see a dress working there. Spit 'n' sawdust seemed to call for jeans, or maybe a jeans skirt.

I only had one skirt matchin' that description, and, when I held it against me, it seemed kind of long for my purposes; y'know, a bit old-maidy?

So I decided to go with jeans after all; I reached for my newest pair and pulled 'em up over my thighs. I had to jump up 'n' down a bit to get my ass into 'em, but the shiny silk of my underpants helped with that. I lay on my back, on my bed, and took a real deep breath in order to fasten 'em, but the pain was worth it. When I studied m' butt in the mirror it looked right pretty.

I selected a silky blouse to go over the top; a shimmering blue thing that brung out my eyes nicely.

Okay, so I was ready to go. Quick look at the time; 9.45, and Lex's wasn't 5 minutes away. Couldn't go yet; I really didn't want to be early. Besides a lady don't walk unaccompanied into a bar with no man waiting for her.

So I put on my little television, and flicked around the channels; Max lived in a room behind the Diner, and had satellite, and didn't mind if I kind of leached the feed off him. He'd even done the wiring.

I got a Jack, over a little ice, and settled in for a bit. The drink was soothing after being on my feet all night, and I took my time with it. When next I looked at my clock it was 10.15. Still, nothing wrong with a lady keeping her gentleman friend waiting a little, was there?

The more I thought about it the more it seemed like a good idea, so I poured another drink, and waited for another 15 minutes or so.

I was feelin' real relaxed at that point, and so I set out for Lex's, enjoying the cool night air; it had been another hot one at the Diner.

Berle, a huge black guy who worked the door at Lex's, greeted me by name; why wouldn't he? I was here 'most every night.

I described Keith to him, and Berle allowed that he might have seen him, if'n he was the guy he thought, and pointed me towards a booth just to the right of the bar. It was one of the good ones, so I guess Keith had made the right kind of impression on Ol' Berle.

I sauntered through the bar, greeting a whole lot of people by name, and gesturing to Andy behind the bar for my usual Jack.

As I reached the booth, Keith stood; he was a real gentleman, alright.

“Loretta. I thought that I'd missed you. Please, take a seat; I'm real glad you made it.”

I smiled, but gave no explanation for my tardiness, and sat down by his side.

“Let me get you a drink; what'll you have?” Keith had a half-full bottle of Coors in front of him; in these parts that damn near counts as exotic.

I waved away his offer. “My drink's on its way, thanks.”

He frowned at that; if'n I hadn't had them Jack's before I came out I might have realised he knew I'd lied before, about not knowing the Lex quite as well as I did.

Still, like the gentleman he was, he made no mention of it, just nodding. When Charlotte brung the drink over he indicated it was to go on his tab; I knocked it back and called for her to bring me a refresher.

I could tell this behaviour did not sit too well with him, but again he kept his feelings to himself. I love a strong silent man, and, our conversation at the Diner aside, it seemed that Keith fit that picture.

This time when Charlotte set my drink down in front of me I showed a little class, and sipped a bit from it's edge.

Keith kinda came out of his shell then, and got into askin' me how I came to be in this tiny out of the way dunghole; I had just started in to recount my life as a would be country superstar when my good friend Darius dropped his hand onto my shoulder.

I jumped in my seat, and catching my glass with a waving hand, I dropped it to the floor. Well, it would have been the floor if Keith hadn't been dead centre in the way. I'd drunk some of my bourbon but there was still a decent helping of chilly brown liquid to splash his shirt and tie.

By now I was feeling the drink more 'n I was used to; usually I'd have eaten a bite before commencing to drink, and the smooth liquor had hit my empty stomach like a freight train going off the tracks.

“Whoops!” was my brilliant conversational gambit; I could see that Keith wasn't happy, but he took a handkerchief from his pants' pocket and mopped away at his chest. This had the effect of making his shirt see through, and I couldn't help but hoot at the sight; hair and muscles up 'n' down!

I guess Keith was on kind of a slow burn by this point; what else was that I guess I knew it, but found it kind of funny. Sometimes you just gotta push and push again.

Darius had a bottle of Bud in his hand; I snatched it from him, and placing my thumb over its opening, I gave it a good shake, while pointing it at Keith.

“Woo hoo, redneck champagne!” I hollered as most of the beer in the bottle deposited itself, as froth, on Keith. Darius, mostly sober, took one look at him and took the straightest route away from our booth.

“You goddamn brat!” Even slow burning stuff let's go, sooner or later. “ I'm going to teach you a damn lesson.”

He took my arm in his huge paw, and, with a single solid pull, I was lying face down across his lap. I was still kind of confused, on account of the drink, but I did remember this position; Ma had placed me in to lick me with her mean old hairbrush, back when I wuz a kid.

Keith didn't need no hairbrush; his hand walloped into my butt. Back home the Principal had paddled me once, and it felt just like that!

His hand fell again, and I tried to roll off his knees, onto the floor. His other hand was around my waist and I got no joy from my attempts.

Each spank was making a mighty whacking noise; the jukebox had gone quiet between songs, and everyone in Lex's knew someone was getting' a hidin'. It din't take any too long for them to see that it was me.

Keith was a big intimidating sort of guy, I guess, 'cos none of my damn friends rushed to help me out.

I don't really know what I was saying as the pain in my ass roared past soreness into real breath taking agony, but I know I kept up my end of the conversation, with a lot of howls, and calls that he stop, 'n' let me up. He paid me no mind at all.

Honestly I don't think he hit me more'n 12 or 15 times; Ma would have kept spanking me for an age, but she wouldn't have made me dance around like he did. I clutched my fiery butt, and found that hurt too much, so I let it alone. But I needed to rub it, so I did. But that hurt more and...well, I danced my hot butt dance for a good few minutes before the pain began to subside.

I turned back to the booth, and there sat Keith, wet through with beer and bourbon, but otherwise looking like nothing had occurred. As I stepped over to him he shrugged; kind of, what do you expect if you misbehave?

I tried to sit alongside him, but m' butt was in no state for that; I jumped back to my feet, quick as a fox after that last egg in the henhouse.

I mumbled something about how sorry I was to be bad, and that I thought it'd be better if I went home, to sleep off everything.

Keith nodded wisely, and offered to walk me home; he did as he promised, mostly supporting me I guess, and at the door he gave my cheek a gentle kiss, before sayin' he'd see me at the Diner at lunchtime.

So, that's the story of how we met; it ain't how Keith tamed me tho'. That'd be another tale altogether.

Sadly I can't say my naughty days were behind me yet.

A difference of opinion...paternalism in spanking

2012-01-10T03:12:00.001-08:00

Hey there spanking fans and fellow obsessives; I'm going to have to ask you to bare with me a bit on this one, as I'm still working out exactly what I want to say. Still, let's give it a go - there's always the delete key!

If you've been around the scene for any length of time I'm sure that you have heard of Dan Rivera; he's the American gent who was originally responsible for compiling the wonderful Cinema Swats series of videos, which collected together mainstream spanking scenes for the first time.

A few years ago these were invaluable; I got my sets directly from Dan back in the early 90's, I think it was.

Dan is also a talented artist and has created a number of cartoons and comic strips featuring spanking.

Dan is definitely a man of forceful opinions.

Dan is not a fan of F/F spanking; on a message board awhile back he stated, and here I must paraphrase a little as I've lost the actual quote, that he only likes men spanking women because those are the roles that nature intended for us, our natural roles.

Now, leaving aside the argument that this sounds a little like a religious justification for homophobia (and I'm not suggesting Dan is homophobic - I have no way of knowing) it does worry me in the way it sets out stereotypical roles.

On one level the contention is vaguely logical; traditionally men are physically stronger than women, and therefore they can potentially compel a woman into a submissive position.

Also historically men have legally been able to dominate women, and society has instructed women that they are merely chattels of their husbands and fathers.

Thankfully society has now (largely) outgrown these ridiculous constructs, and men and women are considered, by and large, to be equal, at least in the eyes of the law. Yes, you can list exceptions to this, but in general it holds true.

In view of this, is it a bit strange the number of spanking videos that are produced where men spank women because, effectively, "they know best"?

I know that, in reality, videos are effectively role play, and you can imagine anything if it works for you. Still, the incidents are not framed as role plays; they are presented as valid interactions between two members of different sexes.

I'm happy to exclude videos which establish a specifically parental authority for the provision of discipline (although I'm not really a fan of this aspect of M/F spanking) but boyfriends, employers, bodyguards, husbands and uncles all seem happy to decide that their point of view is the only one, and to punish any woman who objects to it.

It's entirely possible that I'm making too much of this, and that I'm letting PC ideologies swamp my muddled mind, but I'm curious as to how the models themselves feel about the matter.

There are any number of strong, independent, intelligent women involved in the spanking scene, both here and in the US; Pandora Blake, Amelia Jane Rutherford, Leia-Ann Woods, Clare Fonda, Chelsea Pfeiffer and Audrey Knight all spring to mind. Whatever disciplinary games they may play in their own lives, I do not believe that any of them would truly accept a man's judgement as being superior to their own, purely because he is a man.

Despite this, I think pretty much all of the women mentioned have made videos in which this is the role they have portrayed. I apologise to those who haven't (if there are any) for maligning them.

You can argue that they all appear in videos for money; it's a job, and a role is a role. Spanking models are actresses, playing a part; this doesn't mean that they believe in the reality of what they are doing. I totally accept that, but still I wonder how they feel about being forced into a position they may have little sympathy with in real life.

There is of course a solution; make your own videos. Certainly a lot of the better known spanking models have gone down this route, whether through establishing their own site, like Pandora recently has, or writing and producing clips within an established site, as Amelia has done with Firm Hand Spanking.

I don't know the answer to this, and I've rambled on long enough. I'd welcome any comments/corrections.

All the best

Tim

The photos this time come from Punished Brats and Real Life Spankings; apologies to both David and Mike for using several shots of each of them. I'm not suggesting either gentleman adopts the paternalistic approach in real life - I just wanted some M/F shots and I had their videos to hand to capture screens from.

My Great Adventure...Part 2

2012-01-10T00:34:00.001-08:00

Hullo everyone and welcome back once again.

If you're champing at the bit waiting to hear of my progress in the pursuit of a professional spanking experience then, I'm sorry to tell you, I have none to report.

I'm not panicking, or jumping up and down in frustration. It's only been 36 hours since I sent off my enquiry, and spankees, like the rest of us, are entitled to a life outside of TTWD.

I admit though that I'm keen to move things along; I know nothing can happen until next month but, having seized upon the nerve to send off the initial email, I'm naturally impatient to see what happens next.

To me at least, this is a great adventure!

I'll let you know when I hear anything. Honest, I will! I wouldn't lie to my comrades in seeking after spanking perfection (or just a good sore arse).

I'll be back later with a new post; just some thoughts and questions.

All the best

PS the photos today have been captured from Bad Tushy videos.

The Beginning of a Great Adventure?

2012-01-09T02:30:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, and I hope the beginning of a new week is treating you well.

So firstly, did anyone catch the Lou Reed reference in the title of this post? From his brilliant "New York" album? Yes? No? If you didn't you should rush out and buy it. Or download it, I suppose.

Anyway, second question. Hands up. I'm watching you there in the back, shuffling guiltily. I know what what you're doing under the desk.

Ahem.. where was I? Oh yes. My question. Have any of you readers out there ever attended a 1 2 1 session with a professional spankee. Or spanker, come to think of it? Or even a commercial spanking part?

I've been thinking about doing just this for several years now, ever since I came across the Spankee Finder UK link off the S F & R Website (back when it was regularly updated).

I'd look at each model's page, and read all of their terms and conditions carefully. Then I'd focus on the ones listed in the Midlands, and try to decide which one I liked best.

I've spent hours on this over the years. For a long time I thought that, if I ever worked up the nerve to see one of them, I'd travel and see Liz in Maidstone. She seemed to be safe; a bit more mature, and looking like someone I would meet in the street. It didn't hurt that you could see her in action in any number of videos.

Still, it was just an idle fantasy. I never planned to go through with it.

My wife would hate the idea. It cost too much. Travel would be inconvenient. I just didn't have the nerve (I'm a shy boy, damn it!). Isn't it like being unfaithful?

In recent years I've become more open about my spanking obsession (I would never have written a blog about it even 3 years ago), and my wife understands my needs, without, sadly, sharing them at all. As I grow older I care less about what other people think, and my self confidence has grown. I understand that an hour of playing spanking games with a professional doesn't mean I love my wife any less.

For the first time I can see myself wandering into a room with a woman I don't know, but intend to spank, and not be entirely tongue-tied. And red-faced.

So my intentions became a little firmer. I began to study local spankees in earnest.

I needed to establish a criteria for choosing one; firstly proximity. I would need to use public transport, and I'm based in Birmingham, so that left me about half a dozen options.

Over the last few years I've gotten in touch with my switchy side, so if I am to go to the lengths of seeing a professional it needs to be one who will switch and spank me too. That takes out a couple.

Whoever I visit needs to have a venue available. That's another one out.

I need to feel that the spankee I visit is attractive to me. Actually that doesn't narrow it down at all. I have a wide variety of aesthetic interests.

As a first timer I think an experienced practitioner would be a good idea. That takes out one more (who had been the front runner for a while).

So I'm left with three options; all attractive, experienced and switchers. My final choice comes down to seeing one of them in several spanking films. I love the idea of spanking and being spanked by a lady who I've seen on film. (I've dreamed of visiting Leia-Ann Woods, but with travel costs as well that's not practical).

So I made my choice. Would I have the nerve to go further?

Yesterday I had the real desire for a spanking; the need struck home deep into the depths of my being. Ugh. Horrid phrase. But it is descriptive.

I mentioned it to my wife. My daughter was in Wales, and my son was still in bed for at least a couple of hours, so we could play, although sex would be difficult.

My wife doesn't like spanking on it's own. So nothing happened.

That afternoon I sent an email to my number one choice, asking about her availability in early February; I would have some money available then, and my wife would be at work, while the kids were at school.

I asked for details of cost, where the venue is located, and I detailed my preferences. I gave a few details about myself and directed her attention to this blog should she want to know more.

And now I have to wait and see. What response I get. Whether we can arrange something. Whether I have the balls to carry this on.

I think I will though. I already have a shortlist of 2 other spankees, in case I can't come to agreement with choice number one (I won't give her name unless we do progress things).

Last night I went to sleep fantasising about spanking a firm bottom in black nylon pants, and believing that it might happen.

I'll let you know what happens.

Tim

Oh, all of the photos this time are grabbed from Hand Prints videos.

Why I Like...Danielle Hunt

2012-01-07T04:05:00.001-08:00

Welcome back (or, indeed, for the first time if you haven't been here before); today I have another in my series of model appreciation pieces.

This time I'd like to recommend to you the effervescent Danielle Hunt, a 21 year old English girl.

As you can see from the adjacent pictures she has a truly spectacular bottom (I know, it's shallow to focus on looks, but it does draw the eye); in addition she is very pretty, with bouncing black locks of hair.

As you may guess from her age, Danielle hasn't been around the scene for all that long, having answered an ad while looking for modelling work. That was for Redstripe Films, and, while she initially found being spanked a painful experience, her limits grew rapidly.

She has now appeared in videos for a number of producers, including Wellspanked (look for the clips on Spanking Tube), Spanking in Uniform (a site I have already reviewed on this blog) and, most recently, Triple A Spanking. She will appear on Spanking Sarah in the near future.

Danielle is also one of those performers who still schedule one to one sessions (which, if you are a long time reader, you will know always endears models to me), and she is available all over the country. Check out her page on Spankee Finder, where you can also see some more photos of her.

So, why do I like Danielle? She's pretty, has a great bottom, a bubbly personality and, if her webpage is any guide, a real love of spanking. It's delightful to see her rear wriggle as a spanker's hand bounces off it, and she acts quite convincingly. Check out Spanking in Uniform especially.

She is accessible and down to earth, and I'd love to put her over my knee sometime.

Who knows? It might happen.

All the best

Tim

The pain in the pleasure (or maybe the other way around?)

2012-01-06T05:48:00.000-08:00

I assume that most of you are aware of the Cranky Spanker (http://crankyspanker.com/); he has a great blog, which you should check out if you don't already.

His most recent post made me think about what I enjoy, and what I'm prepared to put up with in order to indulge myself.

CS talks about the discrepancy between disliking pain, and enjoying being spanked; I remember reading a great article in a spanking mag years ago by an out of the closet spankee, in which she commented on the erroneous assumption outside the scene that if you like to be spanked then you enjoy being in pain.

I know something about pain; I've endured several health issues in the last few years, and, in particular, I have severe arthritis in my fingers and toes. It is advanced enough that the large joint in each of my little fingers has been totally eroded. There is no longer anything there to bend.

My fingers hurt all the time, everyday, no matter what I do. On bad days it feels as though someone is slowly forcing the joints apart, whilst at the same time the sharp jagged edges of my bones are breaking through the flesh. It really isn't fun.

Imagine what it feels like to slap these fingers against someone's bottom, 70 or 80 times.

You know what? I'll happily do it, on my worst day.

I'll tolerate the pain, for the psychic, sexual and physical pleasure that I get from spanking a fleshy bottom.

I've never considered my spanking obsession to be a perversion, but it's just possible that being willing to suffer prolonged pain in order to pursue my cp compulsion is.

Quite apart from the pleasure I take in having a stinging well-spanked rear from time to time. Of course, in absolute terms my bottom hurts less than my fingers do.

Why do I love one specific type of pain. Dunno. It is very specific too. My wife likes to slap my thighs when she spanks, and I quite dislike that. A few inches higher and I'm in heaven. Buttocks good, thighs bad. There's no logic to this, and, whilst I am a master of creating seemingly reasonable origins for almost anything that I care to justify, this has me stumped.

I know what I get from spanking, and being spanked, is more than the merely physical, and so the pain is only a part of it, but it is an important part. I get much less satisfaction from being spanked if it doesn't leave me at least tingling and warm, and ideally I want it to have stung, a least a little.

If anyone can give me a good reason for this I'd love to hear it.

The comments box is open.

Tim

PS the pictures, for your viewing pleasure, have been captured from various Xerotics trailers.