The philosophy instructor was infamous. Fail one of her quizzes, and you’ll be staying after class. You don’t want to stay after her class, not if you enjoy sitting comfortably. She’s got a paddle and she knows how to use it:
So this guy I know has him a new girlfriend, a cute little Goth chick. She thinks she’s real tough. Hell, she actually is pretty damned tough. But she’s been learning — the only way, the hard way — that nobody is tougher than forty inches of good belt leather with a strong arm behind it. No matter how much she chews the sheets and grunts her defiance, that pitiless belt just keeps swinging. Her ass just keeps getting redder and redder. The pain in her bottom gets worse and worse. Nobody’s tough enough to ignore that! Eventually, she cries. Long after that, she capitulates, and makes whatever promises her man wants to hear from her. They’re still working out the parameters of their new relationship, but a few of her more self-destructive habits are already gone. Her bottom, though? It’s pretty much sore all the time:
Artwork is by MitchAfterMidnight, who has a motto: “Red butt is best butt!”
The look on her face says she’s getting pretty desperate about the amount of spanking attention her poor bottom is receiving. But it’s only been, like, five minutes. She knows damned well nobody put all that effort into such elaborate bondage to spank her for only five minutes! No, she’s in for a long evening, and her bottom is going to be a puffy and throbbing red mess before her tormentors are done with her:
The steel bondage stockade in this amateur photo looks a lot like one that I’ve seen for sale online. Honestly, this much metal bondage might be overkill for keeping her in place with her ass up. But her weekly “reminder” caning has to be pretty severe, because as soon as the ass-pain starts to fade, she tends to start forgetting who is master and who is not. And anyway, can there really be such a thing as too much bondage?
Let’s face it. Spanking Blog ain’t a progressive bastion, and it probably never will be. With most of 5,000 posts under my well-oiled heavy leather belt, there are certain readily observable patterns. I like to see (and share) spanking porn featuring men who spank women. I don’t usually think too hard about the gender labels in that sentence, either.
And you know what? Dominant men spanking submissive women is… well, it’s not progressive. It’s downright retro, in fact. It’s not incompatible with progressive politics or lifestyles or people, because it’s also play. And when we play, we get to put on costumes and assume roles and enter fully and enthusiastically into fantasies. So that’s fine. It doesn’t mean that we want to make the world more like our fantasies and play. But there’s no point pretending that our maledom/femsub frolics are doing much to advance the frontiers of feminism, either.
Of course, the world of pleasure spanking is a lot bigger than Spanking Blog’s editorial niche. It always has been. Gay M/m spanking porn has always been out there, but its representation here on Spanking Blog is tokenistic at best. A few stellar examples, I would claim — but no steady pattern of inclusion.
The same is true of female-dominant males-submissive spanking porn. It’s everywhere! But not, usually, here. Again, you’ll find plenty of tokenistic exceptions if you dive into the archives.
What’s remarkable about what I’ve just written is how gender-essentialist it is. If you feel you know what makes a man and what makes a woman, and if you think — as I certainly did when this blog was a baby — that you can pick them out of a naked lineup by looking at genitalia, then what I just wrote makes sense. But we live in a world where none of that is actually true or possible.
Trans people exist. Their gender identities are not defined by the shapes of their bodies. Their sexualities are their own. And that throws our fun spanking game of manly men whupping pretty female bottoms totally up in the air, to come raining down as a chaotic game of 52-Pickup. I mean, we can still play it — and we do! — but it’s a lot more meta once we internalize that our notions of male and female are as arbitrary as the roles of dominance and submissive that we’ve assigned for play purposes.
Fortunately, we live in a world of gender-inclusivity, tolerance, and love. (All of these things need work, but we have them.) Trans people can find places where they are welcome, or they can make their own places. They can be celebrated in porn, or they can make their own porn. The miracle of the internet is that there’s just as much room for, say, a camsite like TSYUM.com as there is for one of the big ones whose popups chase you around the internet.
Fortunately for Spanking Blog, that also means there’s no real need for this blog to abandon the narrow subset of spanking fun that we started colonizing way back in 2003. Manly men whacking curvy lady-butt. Mmm, yumm, it never gets old. Good to stay aware, though, that every role we assign in that fantasy is arbitrary. And if a post now and then explores the hitherto ignored world of TS spanking porn, well, that’s only polite and inclusive, right?
These two illustrations are from the cover and interior pages of The Enchanting Spanker, or Spanked And Revenged (Paris 1925). But not, I think, by the same artist.