Any job worth doing is worth doing well. In this case, that means “up one side, and down the other”:
From this shoot at Sex and Submission.
If you haven’t done your internet Christmas shopping yet, you’ve left it perilously late. Yes, second-day shipping could still rescue you; but you remain at the mercy of the web merchants, who are generally swamped and behind and may not actually ship your presents in a timely fashion.
Thus it was a few days ago that I ordered some items (can’t say what, because Bethie reads this). If you’ve got that sinking “Omigosh, I meant to order something last week!” feeling, you might still get lucky!
What should you order? That’s up to you. But (just to make her worry) here’s a little something I might have ordered for Bethie:
Or, I might not have.
Found this spanking and sailing gem on eBay:

It reads:
The pretty young wife of the banker
Sweetly slept while the yacht lay at anchor,
But she woke in dismay
When she heard the mate say:
“Let’s life up the top sheet and spanker.”
I found this vintage whipping artwork on Usenet:
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I’ll confess I’d never heard of Rihanna (or spanker Robin Thicke) before I saw this photo. Apparently they are singers in a band called “Umbrella”, currently doing a “Good Girls Gone Bad” tour:

From photospread in GQ.