The Spankings Of The Gallant Ladies

This charming excerpt is taken from a suspected-to-be-poor 1901 English translation of a 1665 French work called La Vie des Dames Galantes, meaning roughly “The Lives Of The Gallant Ladies”. Apparently it was a compilation of court gossip by a courtier named Brantome. The bit with spanking interest is this one:

I have heard speak of a noble lady of the great world, one of the very noblest of the land. In truth she was a desperate harlot, not content with her natural lubricity, who had been married, and was now widowed, and was a very handsome woman to boot. The better to excite and provoke her passions, she would have her ladies, wives and maids alike, stripped naked, especially the fairest of them, and she did take much naughty pleasure in gazing at them.

Then would she strike them with the flat of her hand on their backsides with loud smacks and spankings, giving them good sound knocks. Girls who had committed some delinquency would be struck with good birch-rods. Then was her contentment great to see them wriggle, and to see all the motions and twistings and turnings of their bodies and bottoms, the which they did exhibit according to the blows they got, and which were right curious and diverting.

At other times, without stripping them, she would have their petticoats tucked up as they were (for in those days they wore no drawers), and would slap and whip them on the buttocks, according to the offence they had done her, or just merely to make them laugh, or cry. And by dint of looking at these parts and studying them, she was used so to sharpen her appetites that afterward she would of times away and satisfy them in good earnest with some good, strong, robust gallant.

I have heard say that, beside the women and girls that were regularly of her suite, such stranger ladies as did come to visit her were in two or three days, or sometimes every time they did come thither, quickly broken in to this same game, making her own women first show the way and tread the road first, then the others after. Whereat some were sore astonished to see this kind of sport, others not. Truly a merry pastime this, and an agreeable one!

I have heard speak likewise of a great nobleman who did find pleasure in gazing at his wife so exposed, whether stripped naked or dressed, and cuffing and slapping her, and watching her move her body to and fro under the blows.

With a bit of help from Google France, I was able to learn that at least one famous edition of La Vie des Dames Galantes was illustrated by Paul Emile Bécat, and he seems to have chosen the spanking scene described above for one of his illustrations:

spanking scene from vies des dames galantes as illustrated by Paul Emile Becat

Charley’s Dinner Party

So the folks at Public Disgrace threw a dinner party for Charley Chase.

It turns out, she was what they had for dinner, if you know what I mean, and I think you do:

BDSM dinner party for Charley Chase

Before it was over, she was the well-spanked centerpiece:

spanking charley chase on the table among the remains of the dinner

Sadly, I don’t think she got to eat much dinner. Sure, she wound up with her face in the dinner more than once, but it was like feeding peas to a two-year old: a little bit in her and a whole lot on her.

messy fun with charley chase getting her face pressed into the leftover food

There are more pictures here.

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Spanking Night At The Sorority

I don’t actually know the scenario that goes with this vintage spanking photo, but it sure looks like pledge spanking night at the sorority to me:

sorority pledges lined up for a paddling

At least, that’s the fantasy that I’ve decided to go with.

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Spanking Fantasy

Among the books I found “inspirational” when I was a young man were the compilations of female fantasies that Nancy Friday put together in books like My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers. These were the “respectable” equivalent of the book-length compilations of Penthouse Letters that I also got my hands on in that era; but they were a lot more plausible (I can’t say if they were in fact any more authentic) and they were real eye-openers.

I recently stumbled across some of Nancy Friday’s books again, and was freshly reminded of this fantasy, one that got my full attention the first time I read it. Its charm has not been dimmed by time:

My first fantasy is that of being spanked. I have always provoked the spanking, it’s never unjustified. My innate female bitchiness causes my lover to say, very quietly, “All right now, that’s enough!” I say “Don’t order me around” and he replies “You’re asking for a good spanking.” I answer “I’d like to see you try it!” in a very taunting manner.

At this point he grabs me, grasps both hands firmly behind my back, pulls down my panties, turns me over onto his knee and traps my kicking legs between his.

I am embarrassed and scared. He usually uses his hand, spanking me maybe two dozen times, very hard. Sometimes I fantasize that he uses a hairbrush or a ruler. I am sobbing and enraged, but the rage turns to humiliation, and then to helpless submission. At the end he forces me back on the bed and enters me quickly and without foreplay.

Sometimes I like to imagine myself staying in an enraged mood throughout the spanking. Then he pushes me back on the bed, hovers over me and pushes his erect penis into my mouth, ordering me to suck it. I refuse and try to bite his cock, which brings on another, even more painful, spanking, at which point I am prepared to do anything he asks.”

Ass Whipped And Boob Tied

From Bondage Blog, some serious bottom whipping while held in place by tied breasts:

woman whipped hard while tied in place by ropes around her breasts

Consensual Whipping In Africa

I was intrigued to Google up (by accident, like all the best Google finds) this account of severe but consensual ritual whipping of women in Africa, complete with a photograph. This is a “traveler’s tale” in the best sense:

Eventually we escaped the grips of Omorate on a truck to Turmi, two hours away. Although Turmi doesn’t differ much in its layout, it was certainly a bit cooler. Turmi is home to the Hamer people and we were fortunate to witness the rare bull-jumping ceremony.

woman whipped in Africa

Beautifully decorated women challenge the young men to beat them brutally with whips. Although reluctant, the men eventually give in to the women’s constant taunting and deep gashes are gouged in the smiling women’s backs. The boy who is being initiated, the Jumper, is required to run across the backs of ten bulls stark naked with his hair frissed into a giant afro. He has to do this four times, and if successful, then enters into manhood.

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Now, Listen, Missy!

Too often in modern BDSM porn there will be a tasty spanking, but none of the accompanying kinky condiments that we spanking fetishists often enjoy. For instance, whatever happened to good old-fashioned lecturing?

allison pierce getting a lecture before her bondage spanking

I don’t know what the actual dialog was above, but he easily could be saying “Now, listen here, missy. I’m going to say this once and once only! By the time I’m done spanking you, you’ll know better than to even dream of [insert misbehavior here]…”

Followed, of course, but a nice and helpless bondage spanking:

a bondage punishment spanking for allison pierce

Pictures are from this Sex and Submission gallery.

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