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Since we’re on the subject of pervertible botanicals, how about stinging nettles? This has gotta hurt: the nettles spanking gallery at Urtication.com.

Here’s a website that’s all about the nettles spankings. The English is a little bit entertaining, but there’s plenty of good information and photographs:

One can choose to caress the buttocks of the punished simply by walking stinging nettles on the skin from top to bottom, that is by putting at first the extremity of stalks and by making them slide on buttocks up to their base… That does not generally make laugh the owner of behind so caressed!

Everything you ever wanted to know about tormenting your loved one with stinging nettles, but were afraid to ask:

“Sado-Botany: A Nettle FAQ”

Thanks to Urtication: Sex & Nettles for the link.

Now, hold still and STOP WIGGLING!

Here’s a tale of self-urtication and cleverness dating to before 1900; it appeared in a Kentucky newspaper of February 20, 1900 but is credited to The Youth’s Companion and concerns an earlier time when the Orkney Islands were apparently much beset by hated press gangs from the British Navy:

One bright young fellow, with plenty of fortitude, saved himself by an ingenious stratagem. He, too, was engaged to be married, and was determined not to be taken from his sweetheart. He was pursued and headed off.

Seeing capture inevitable, before he could be reached he stripped off his clothes, rolled in a bed of nettles, and dressed again.

When the gang came up, he submitted to be taken; but on being brought before the surgeon to be examined his whole body was found to be frightfully blistered from head to foot, and the dismayed official, supposing him to be suffering from some shocking skin disease, that was probably contagious, hastily released him. He was declared unfit for his majesty’s service, and allowed to return to his lady-love and nurse his blisters in peace.

Stout-hearted lad, and a quick thinker too!

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I’m sorry to report that the Her First Punishment site (promoted here at Spanking Blog since 2004) has closed its doors with this message:

If you are seeing this post, you probably tried to follow a link to the defunct site. I apologize for the inconvenience.

The site featured severe spankings and canings of pretty Eastern European girls, sometimes with bondage and costumes. I have good news for you: I’ve learned that the Her First Punishment spanking scenes you may be looking for (and a great deal more similar stuff) originated in several series of movies produced by Moscow-based Nettles Studio. Most of these movies are available quite inexpensively on a pay-per-view basis. You can stream them for a per-minute charge (some free minutes are available to new customers), you can do a seven-day streaming rental, you can purchase lifetime streaming rights, or you can buy them for permanent download, all at the following links:

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Enjoy!

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I am sorry to report that after many years of promotion here at Spanking Blog, the subscription spanking site variously known as “Russian Discipline” or “Discipline In Russia” is gone, with this message showing when you try to subscribe:

If you’ve reached this page, it’s probably because you tried to follow one of the many no-longer-functional links here on Spanking Blog. I’m sorry for the inconvenience!

However, I have good news for you: I’ve learned that all of the Russian Discipline spanking scenes you may be looking for (and a great deal more similar stuff) originated in several series of movies produced by Moscow-based Nettles Studio. Most of these movies are available quite inexpensively on a pay-per-view basis. You can stream them for a per-minute charge (some free minutes are available to new customers), you can do a seven-day streaming rental, you can purchase lifetime streaming rights, or you can buy them for permanent download, all at the following links:

Series: Discipline In Russia
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Enjoy!

Recently I came across a little ditty about stinging nettles:

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.

Well, that’s kind of cute, but is it true? My own experience with nettles is that they sting rather intensely no matter how I grasp them. We do have the phrase “grasping the nettle” in the English language, but I’ve always understood that an idiom for “face an unpleasant task squarely and do it briskly so that the pain of it is soonest past.” It’s a concept that comes from Aesop’s fables, as indeed does the “soft as silk” imagery from the verse above:

THE BOY AND THE NETTLE

A boy, stung by a nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it.

“Son,” said the boy’s mother, when she had comforted him, “the next time you come near a nettle, grasp it firmly, and it will be as soft as silk.”

Moral: Whatever you do, do with all your might.

But was Aesop correct? It turns out that a bit of research has been done on the matter, and it would appear that Aesop was full of bunkum. In Grasping The Nettle: An Empirical Enquiry an intrepid researcher looked into it:

My original theory of nettle grasping was that nettles have little sticky-up hairs that poke in to your skin and inject poison in to it if you brush against them, but if you squish the hairs before they can poke in to you, you stop that happening. Grasping a handful of nettles won’t work – no matter how boldly you grasp, there will be parts of the nettle not squashed (where your fingers and palms don’t press against each other when your fist is closed) and just close enough to your skin to give you a nasty sting. So the trick is to find a largish, flattish leaf, position your thumb and forefinger above and below it but overlapping an edge, and grasp firmly. I have vivid memories of doing this repeatedly as a teenager.

I tried that trick again today, and I can attest that it works perfectly. And I repeated it many times on lots of large, flat nettle leaves, without getting stung at all. Hooray!

Except, except, except. A thorough-going empiricist…would notice that this isn’t watertight proof. I had no direct evidence that what I’d grasped would have stung me had I been less assertive.

So I decided to pay the price of a slightly-loopy curiosity and sting myself on one of the nettle leaves I’d just grasped, just to prove my point. Except I failed. No matter how lightly I brushed against those leaves, I remained unstung.

I knew the nettles from this clump could sting – in fact, it was getting stung by them while starting to clear them away that had painfully reminded me to check. But the leaves I’d picked to grasp didn’t seem to sting me.

I guessed that the stingy hairs might lose potency with age, and spread out as the leaf grew. So, while large leaves didn’t sting no matter what, the tiniest, newest leaves at the top of the stem would probably do the trick. A quick brush with the back of my hand confirmed — very painfully — that the little tiny leaves at the top emphatically could sting.

So to the real test! I boldly squeezed a tiny known-stingy nettle leaf between thumb and forefinger. And oh, my, but it hurt. It’s still hurting now, about twelve hours later.

There’s more, but you get the idea.

There’s also more, it turns out, to the “tender-handed stroke a nettle” verse that opens this blog post. According to Bartlett’s, it’s the first of two related verses in a poem by Aaron Hill, a poem that labors under the name “Verses Written, on Windows In Several Parts Of The Kingdom, In A Journey To Scotland.” The second verse press-gangs the first into the service of drearily-authoritarian advice for getting obedience out of rogues and commoners:

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.

’Tis the same with common natures:
Use ’em kindly, they rebel;
But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
And the rogues obey you well.

And there you have it! Bad horticultural data from Aesop, recycled as unpleasant management advice.

But don’t let that stop you from quoting the nettles verse in a reassuring voice, right before you make your bare-assed naked submissive go to the bottom of the garden to pick the nettles for her own nettles spanking…

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