I have a bad habit of tentatively attributing way too many of these old vintage black-and-white fetish photos to the legendary photographer and kinky porn monger Irving Klaw. Many of them are probably from other sources, but if nothing else, “Klaw” is a good keyword to use when checking to see if I’ve published them before:
There’s a lot of detail in this vintage martinet whipping photo. The careful stage set by the spanking bench draped with rich patterned fabrics, the nice silk stockings with lace trim, the print-fabric dress raised to her shoulders, the taught rope bondage, the poised whip, the sturdy woman administering the punishment: everything points to an extended painful session that our punished heroine will not soon forget!
Long before multiple camera angles were a practical proposition for a spanking photographer, this one understood the potential of a well-placed mirror:
Do you have so many canings to administer on a daily basis that the only efficient thing to do is to line them up, assembly-line style? It’s a good problem to have:
Our sinister cloaked figure? We don’t know who he or she is, but obviously they’ve got so many girls to punish that it’s necessary to birch ’em two at a time:
Source is this tweet by Johan Oosterman, a professor of medieval and early modern literature at Radboud University in The Netherlands. His caption: “Times changed: corporal punishment was fun for the bystanders in sixteenth century Flanders. CambraiBM125-128”
I hear that the problem with being a cougar is that younger men these days have no manners whatsoever. But on the bright side, some of them can be taught manners!
I’m not sure whose catalog this is from (perhaps Irving Klaw’s?) but it’s clearly an ad for a movie or photoset (not sure which) for a whip extravaganza called Backstage Frolics:
I see this vintage photo and I imagine that her husband told her “Take your bath, and when you’re all done, then bend over the stool in the bathroom and call for me. Don’t you dare move until I get there…”
Sometimes, there are advantages to being an assistant cheerleading coach. Such as, when it’s time to restore order after a catfight in the locker room:
This is from one of the vintage spanking magazines, but I couldn’t tell you which one.
This surprisingly modern-looking gagged spanking illustration is actually by Georges Töpfer, illustrating a vintage French erotic book called Visites fantastiques au pays du fouet by Aimé Van Rod:
To my eye, it looks very much in the modern style. But no; the vintage attribution is solid. It turns out ErosBlog published one of the other illustrations a couple of weeks ago, and managed to crowdsource an attribution to this wonderful post at Au carrefour étrange containing all of the illustrations from the book in glorious high resolution. Awesome.
I would really like an attribution for this. It looks like 1930s vintage work to me, but it also reminds me of more modern BDSM artists like Guynard.
Here, I imagine, we have a bride who refused her new husband when he attempted to take certain “liberties”. Her refusal, to her tearful surprise, didn’t work out quite as well as she hoped it would…
Here’s a vintage spanking photo that brings the sexual arousal element right into the foreground, instead of keeping it in the implied background as so much spanking porn does. I don’t mind saying this is closer than the general run of spanking porn to looking like spankings at my house: