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Patty of A Creative Spanked Wife has posted a nice review of the spanking video The Schoolmaster’s Revenge (which I also liked when I reviewed it). Patty also includes some commentary about spanking video reviews in general, and makes one very good point: sites that focus on reviewing spanking videos don’t always have the best interests of the consumer in mind, and may not tell you if a video stinks.

Since I sometimes review videos on Spanking Blog (and cheerfully accept review copies from spanking video producers — consider this a big “hint hint nudge nudge” to the outfits who aren’t sending me review copies yet) I figure I owe you all a statement of my review policy.

Which is, simply: Life is too short to write bad reviews. If a video stinks, I don’t want to waste my time writing a bad review. And you won’t see the review here. Truly bad spanking videos should languish in well-deserved obscurity, without any extra attention from me.

Mind you, I’ve never seen a perfect spanking video. These are usually low-budget semi-amateur projects in the porn industry, in a niche without many experienced actors, directors, or videographers. There are always things not to like. So my strategy is to lead with what I liked about the video, then include a section on what I didn’t like, and wrap up with a summary that acknowledges the defects but emphasizes what I liked. The net result is a positive-sounding review (or I won’t write it) that also identifies whatever I didn’t like so much about the movie.

Bottom line: Video reviews are my honest opinion. I’m not for sale — or, at least, not for the retail value of a porn video.

What a delightful idea! If she likes hand spanking, but tends to laugh it off when she gets it, you’ll want to get on board. Thanks, Matt!

Claire has found and posted the most wonderful detail from a sixteenth-century French tapestry:

Go see Claire’s post and its comments if you are having trouble translating the captions.

Wooohoo! Big news, long awaited: Bethie has finally opened the doors and turned on the lights of her new Spanking Den, a spanking forum / discussion board / bulletin board. It’s brand spanking new (heh!) so you’ll want to sign right up (posting is for registered users only, but registration is completely free) and start some spanking conversations.

I haven’t spent much time on the spanking boards since I met Bethie, especially since the board I used to frequent had some moderator trouble that made me feel like I was living in Soviet Russia. (Posts and even whole threads used to disappear without a trace, and I’d find myself questioning my own sanity: “Wasn’t there a thread about whalebone crops here yesterday?” ) Anyway, I miss the free-form exchanges and light-hearted banter that gets going on a good discussion board, so I’m hoping Bethie’s board will take off and become a roaring success. Please check it out!

There’s an entertaining “mainstream” article (by the prolific Rachel Kramer Bussel) about spanking in the May 2005 edition of Penthouse Magazine. Rachel writes at length (for a mostly vanilla audience) about the pleasures of spanking, emphasizing the fun along with the fact that it’s really not scary-kinky like some of the more rigorous BDSM practices out there.

There’s not too much that’s new in the article for commited spanking pervs like myself, but it would be an excellent introduction to the idea for (say) a man who hasn’t been into spanking. So ladies, if you’ve been trying to get your man to spank you, you might want to slide this magazine subtly into his “collection” (or, for a more direct approach, read the article aloud to him). Good luck!

And Rachel, thank you very much for the kind mention of Spanking Blog in the article. I know that the printed men’s magazines don’t have so big a readership as they did when I was a young man, but there’s still something very exciting about seeing something I did (My site! Mentioned in Penthouse!) in a magazine I’ve been “reading” (on and off) since I was thirteen.

It’s been awhile since I posted any vintage spanking photos, so here’s a nice old birching for your Sunday entertainment. Perhaps this young lady neglected to study her catechisms?

Found on vintage.

On TV, you’ve seen those mass weddings the Moonies have — 30,000 people at a time getting married in a stadium. But did you know that a Moonie wedding also contains a spanking ritual? This article in Nerve has the details:

In the Indemnity Ceremony, each couple bestowed a symbolic beating to their partner. After listening to a speech detailing how we were to forget our past history with, and resentment toward, the opposite sex, we lined up two by two with several hundred members of the North American camp, in one of the concrete meeting rooms. We dressed casually in jeans and T-shirts. A few members arrived wearing short shorts and leather pants.

“The more you love your partner, the harder you will hit,” our Central Figure said. “Just imagine your spouse is a big baby.”

A three-hundred-pound brother beside us turned to his petite Japanese wife.”A VERY big baby!” he laughed.

When we reached the front, a Korean brother handed Gabriel a wooden baseball bat, watched while he whacked me three times on the backside, then handed the bat to me. We bent over to receive our blows, and were advised to hit our partner only on the buttocks and upper thighs. After this, my only physical contact with a man for over two years, I lay on my stomach on my sleeping bag, concentrating on the tingling sensation where wood had met flesh.