Whipped By A Man In A Loincloth
Here’s a peculiar old whipping illustration for you:

Shall we call him Tarzan Of The Lash?
Here’s a peculiar old whipping illustration for you:

Shall we call him Tarzan Of The Lash?
I’m never happy to see popular press articles about consenting spankings between adults, because most of these reporters seem congenitally unable to understand that what consenting adults agree to do cannot be “domestic abuse”. The big Daily Beast story on Christian Domestic Discipline is no exception, but (aside from reporting an ignorant “it’s sick and abusive” opinion from someone who runs a shelter for abused women but isn’t reported to have ever encountered a spanked woman there) the story is fairly balanced. It even gets to the skepticism that I myself have always harbored about the Christian flavor of domestic discipline; I’ve always felt that DD couples who deny a sexual element to the practice are being less than completely truthful, perhaps even with themselves:
What seems to be the most obvious explanation for CDD, one acknowledged by some domestic discipline advocates not tied to the Christian church, is that the practice is a means to justify the fulfillment of a sexual fetish. On a CDD blog, “Sue” writes, “Boy do I wish more of the women in DD would admit to this. It’s a sexual fetish. There’s nothing wrong with it, but they try to make it so much more than it is.”
But the moral constraints of the church make it difficult for couples to be honest about the sexual nature of their desire, says Paul Byerly, who with his wife runs The Marriage Bed, a site dedicated to sexuality and religion. Byerly, who calls CDD a “distortion of what God intended,” believes that “women, particularly in the Christian church tend to be sexually repressed.” Domestic discipline, he explains, could be “a way around that” — a chance to explore sexual desires while still nominally acting in the name of Jesus.
Still, CDDers themselves reject this pain-for-pleasure explanation. “The pure CDD people don’t go there,” says Vera, who is both in a domestic discipline relationship as well as into sex play. “A lot of folks think of Fifty Shades of Grey — but this is not that,” she says.
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It’s usually a bad idea to mock the governess when she has caning rights:

These young ladies clearly have a lot more deportment training ahead of them!
The cartoon is another by Max Safonov.
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If you have been following Pandora Blake’s recent frustrations with her billing services provider over some very petty objections to the content on her Dreams Of Spanking site, here’s her official announcement of the free site called Darker Dreams she’s created to give away the spanking porn the credit card companies won’t let her sell. Apparently you can’t talk about consent on the website where you sell porn, and you can’t fight with rubber swords in your porn, either:
Many commenters have remarked on how tame the scenes CCBill objected to are compared to porn you can find elsewhere on the web. Our silly sword-fighting scenes, for instance, all use fake weapons, such as rubber toy swords or capped fencil foils – and yet CCBill still found the “threat to life” implied by these duelling scenes too “realistic” to be allowed.
I purely love Pandora’s response to this:
Fuck capitalism: I’ll give it all away. Full length video downloads, image galleries, behind the scenes documentaries, associated writings, everything. Plus the comments, the blog posts, the performer bios, all the surrounding context that demonstrates the ethical production and enthusiastic content that went into the making of those scenes, because without that, it’s not representative of what I’m doing.
Free range porn, released into the wild! It’s an exhilarating, liberating prospect. Free economics: the last line of defence against the capitalist censors. If I’m not charging, there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
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When you see this many buckled leather straps in play, you know that something is about to be happening where there is potential wiggling that needs to be prevented:

Caning, anybody? Oh, yeah:

Let’s get down to business!

From the most recent update at Device Bondage.
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There’s a huge page of comic book spankings here, which is where I found this nice panel of a cowgirl getting “handled” by her cowboy:

She’s lucky she didn’t get roped and (eep!) branded, too…
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More than five years ago I posted small images of this Adam Johan Braun oil painting from 1789 showing a nun birching a girl as two other girls look on in tears. The images were from an auction house and quickly vanished from the web after the auction was over. Well, much that is good eventually returns. Now, via another art dealer who gets no link because of intrusive watermarking practices, and courtesy of the watermark removal efforts of volunteers at the Wikimedia Commons, I can show you much nicer images of the painting, in higher resolution. Don’t forget to click these pictures to enlarge them!
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