We interrupt this program for a special announcement:

The State Of The Spanking Union Address!!

You have a choice here, you can either read this post or you can listen to me read it for you by clicking play on the box below 🙂 (You might have to click play twice) Just know though that I read for 18 minutes without a drink so my voice gets decidely rough towards the end 😉

 

Over the last week or so the spanking video industry has been under attack. The basis of this attack has been posted to multiple boards and the claim is that spanking has now become all about who can hit the hardest, and is all about earning dollars and is regardless of the spankee’s personal well being. Well I am here to refute those claims and offer my own take on it.

The reason I am addressing this here is that I simply do not have the time, nor the energy, to go chasing after all the websites that these views were written on to counteract with my own opinions. Plus, my post on perceived abuse was inexplicably linked as a resource to views that I am in the complete opposite opinion of. The claim is that NOW, more than ever, video producers are going the extra mile in ratcheting up the severity. However, having done some research, these views have been presented for at least 5 years now, each time with the same claims are being made. Well my claim is that is an incorrect statement, spanking videos have ALWAYS been severe, if that is what you are looking for!! Let me take you on that journey.

It is not something that is new in the spanking world, neither the opinions of one person who is opposed to hard spanking, nor hard spanking in video itself!! How do I know this? Well, I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert on the matter as I have been a spanking pervert since I was 16 years old, and an active one at that as well. Besides, I am the 2009 Florida Moonshine Trivia Champion, so I must know a thing or two. So be prepared as I take you on a journey on the history of spanking in film, and why I categorically disagree that the spankings that are being presented to us today are any different to what they were 30 plus years ago. In fact I dare say that today they are conducted under better circumstances and are much more controlled.

Before I start, if anyone is going to link this anywhere, please DO NOT paraphrase me in any way, and if you do paraphrase me, make sure that the context of what I am writing about is made clear. Just recently I was sent a line from an email showing support to someone, however, I have actually seen the whole email and it is completely incorrect to present the email as being one that lends support. I call that the selective hearing syndrome.

I would actually like to start in the 1970’s as that is where my first experiences occurred, however, for historical reference we will go back earlier than that and then get into the 1970’s. The first spanking film that I am aware of is a French film that was made somewhere around the 1920’s. Now not only have I seen this film, but I also have a copy of it, and the premise behind it is decidedly dodgy. To be honest though, I never expected anything less from a pioneer film. In this particular film a Female schoolteacher spanks two schoolgirls, before who I am guessing is the Principal, comes in and does the same. There is a twist to this though, because before too long at all, out comes the Principal’s big schlong and a whole bunch of fuggin and sucking is going on.

Nobody here I think needs a lesson from me regarding the 1950’s and McCarthyism, but needless to say that most of the spanking material that we find from that time is of the lamest variety. In fact it would be fair to say that Patty McCormack in ‘The Bad Seed’ and Carla Merey in ‘The People’s Choice’ took a harder spanking in mainstream television as kids than Betty Page ever took!! It is pretty amazing that the 1950’s was rife for mainstream spanking, yet you couldn’t include it in any type of sexual representation because of morality. Very strange indeed. The 1960’s we really fared little better, though we were able to have spanking included in sexual environments. I would have to check, but I believe that George Harrison Marks made his first 8mm spanking loop at the end of the 1960’s, which was the beginning of the sexual revolution in regards to censorship.

So now we come to the 1970’s, and this is where things started to turn around. In the early 1970’s we began with the publication which was known as the Janus magazine. Finally there was a publication for spanking aficionados to look forward to, and most of those early publications centered on the caning of schoolgirls. This was the 1970’s remember, starting over 35 years ago.

In 1979 I used to visit London when I was 16 years old to purchase these magazines at the Janus store on Old Compton Road. That same year I recall a spanking movie theatre in the same general location as the Janus store. Now then, I do NOT recall the exact address, but having looked it a map of the area it had to have been located on Dean Street, just around the corner to the Janus store. Can anyone confirm that to me as it was 30 years ago? I’m pretty sure I have the location right though.

This theatre used to run a whole gamut of spanking films from the time and there wasn’t a SINGLE one that didn’t have a young schoolgirl getting caned in it. One in particular that I remember I can only take a guess at the title, was that of a schoolgirl being spanked I believe at first by her Mum, though it could have been her Dad. What I clearly remember though was when the scene moved into the bedroom and the girl was in her vest and panties. Her Mum ordered her to take her knickers off and go and rinse them in the sink with water. She did this and then returned to lie face down on the bed wearing her wet knickers. Her mum then proceeded to whip her severely with the cane.

It is too long ago to remember each and every detail and I am sure I have some of it wrong, but the film can be found someplace online I am sure, probably called ‘Caned in wet knickers’. What I do remember as clear as day though was the caning itself. Not two years had passed since I had been personally caned at school and I was horrified to see this girl getting so many cuts, with such force, and with only a pair of wet knickers to protect her, which of course probably increased the sting tenfold.

Another film from that time that I recall was a schoolgirl sitting on a swing, her guardian calls her in and proceeds to spank and slipper her OTK, before applying the obligatory heavy dose of the cane to her bare butt. Yet another had a man spanking his wife and daughter with a tawse in a pretty uncontrolled state. There is one point where the wife is standing in front of him and he is leaning over her just whipping the tawse down and it seems regardless of where it was hitting, which of course was the backs of her legs, her back and even in between her legs. I watched these films in 1979, therefore they were made any period of time before that. There is nothing that is made today, save perhaps for the people at Mood/Lupus that is anything different to what was made 35 years ago in regards to severity in film, and those were just the films that I saw. There is one that springs to mind called ‘Dawn Deacon’s 2000 stroke challenge’ which I’m afraid I have no idea when it was made, though I will take a guess at the early 1980’s. A lot of the films from this era had a story to them, but a lot of the story involved a teen girl getting naked in front of a parent or an Uncle. The Uncle ones had a decidedly dodgy undertone to them as well, one in particular where a ‘Niece’ has to strip naked and then climb up on all fours on a table!!!

The point I am trying to make here is that spanking films have ALWAYS contained both mild and severe spankings, though in the 1970’s you would be hard pressed to find one that didn’t result in the girl getting severely caned, that is something that ISN’T a requirement nowadays so I would say that we have advanced from there. The 1980’s began to offer up a variety of spanking vendors, most notably Nu West and Shadowlane. I will confess right now that I was, and still am, a huge lover of both of their products. To keep with this theme though, I would like to ask ANYONE reading, to tell me of a hairbrush spanking that was harder, or more severe than the one that Michelle took in the Nu West film “Out of the closet”. If you haven’t seen it, Tony Elka was sat in the room as the spanking was being filmed, and I am sure he can attest that the severity of that hairbrushing can hardly be matched. This is around 1984, 25 years ago, nobody can tell me that the spankings of today are any less than what they once were on film!! I don’t buy it, in fact I would go as far as to say that with the multiple vendors that are out there today, 90% of them do not attain anywhere near the level that they once were. Severity has been in spanking films since the 1970’s, they just aren’t getting any harder today.

So this brings me to the censorship thing, and no matter how you slice and dice it, we are all adults who have the ability to make a conscious decision as to what we do, and what we do not watch. It is so blasé to say that making our own decision is a cop out, it isn’t, it is a cold hard fact, if you DO NOT wish to watch something, then nobody, and I mean NOBODY is telling you that you should watch it. I’m not going to speak for Dallas here because he is fully capable of speaking for himself, but I am going to take a guess that if someone views his material as being too harsh for their taste, he will say fine, go and watch something more to your liking. He doesn’t hide what he does, his website is called Dallaspankshard for Pete’s sake, you know when you sign up what you are going to get. He has a core audience that he is targeting, the same as any other website out there, and if people want to watch what he has to offer then they have every given right to do that. The spankingtube clip that is shown below is from the Dallas video that he shot with Audrey Knight, and let me give you an example of what I mean. I watched the clip below KNOWING that it was going to be a hard spanking, I have to admit that it was a little out of my comfort zone, but you know what, I made the decision myself to watch it because I wanted to. Dallas wasn’t sat behind me holding me in a headlock saying “You WILL watch this video”, the video was posted and it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to watch it or not. So in turn I am doing the same by posting the clip here, firstly because I want to be someone who puts my money where my mouth is and back up what I am saying above by linking the clip itself, and secondly, to validate my firm stance on censorship. Everyone who has read this post this far KNOWS that the clip in question contains a very hard spanking, but I am not telling you one way or another what you should do. If you wish to watch the clip then do so at your own leisure, if you do not wish to watch it then that is your call, not mine. I am not telling you one way or another what you should do, you have the ability to decide for yourself whether or not you want to watch this. My point being, you decide what is best for your own liking. Please continue reading underneath the video as I have more to say.

Now that the video is out of the way I want to address my final point. One of the things that irks me more than anything when it comes to claims of abuse, is the veiled reference that women our weak minded individuals. Think about it, if abuse is being claimed then the spankee is the ‘Victim’. That really pisses me off because it is telling me that women are incapable of making these decisions for themselves. In every single spanking scene for any company that is ever filmed, how many of these scenes do you imagine that the female is not fully coherent of what she is signing up for? In fact, and I have no marketing data to back this up, but I am going to guess that there are more scenes developed by women than anyone can possibly imagine. In the scene above Audrey had a choice of different scenes to pick from, it was SHE that decided that she wanted to artistically test her limits, and I’m damn proud of her for doing that. From a different artistic standpoint, if you have ever seen the video where I was dressed as Santa and I am spanking the Gingerbread girl, AUDREY is that Gingerbread girl. There are two different extremes right there of someone exploring their artistic talents in two completely different videos, and this is where we get back to choice again. You have a choice to watch whatever you want to watch, nobody is forcing you to watch anything. Some people will watch the Santa/Gingerbread girl video and think it is too wimpy for their liking, and some will watch the Dallas and Audrey video and think it is too hard for their liking. Who decides that? Neither Dallas, Audrey or myself decides it, you do.

The Santa/Gingerbread girl video has been watched nearly three hundred and fifty thousand times, and as somebody who is pleased with the artistic output of that video, I am delighted that it has been watched that many times. Why shouldn’t Dallas and Audrey also be as equally as pleased by the artistic masterpiece that they also created?

In summary, it is my clear opinion that spankings in film have ALWAYS been severe, IF you wanted to watch them. In the 1970’s you really had no choice, they were severe and you either liked it or lumped it. Since the 1980’s though, you have had a choice, right up until today, whatever your particular level of enjoyment is there is something out there for you. It is my opinion that the spanking industry has gone the right way and it continues to get better as people dare to be more creative. I have reached the grand old age of 46 years old and I couldn’t be more excited with the spanking world. In 2010 I will be making my own videos and I will stand by my words here, if you do not like my artistic contribution then you have the choice not to watch it, there will always be something for you to enjoy. Bottom line there though, I am creating my own artistic vision of what I want to present, not sitting back moaning at what everyone else is doing. My spanking days number 30 years now, yet I feel like I am only beginning to explore what is inside my mind and what I want to create. Exciting times lie ahead.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you what you should enjoy, allow your mind to be free and decide for yourself what it is that makes you tick, and don’t ever be embarrassed by that. Not too many years ago I was foolish enough to have a closed mind myself, and I was pretty quick to label something as abusive if it crossed my personal zone of comfort. Though many people have contributed to opening my mind, there is none more so than Niki Flynn when she published her fantastic book “Dances with Werewolves”. An author will generally say that if they reach one person then it was worth it. Well Niki, you did that, you cracked the shell of this old Swindon fossil and you freed the devious pervert that it contained inside. I highly recommend to anyone to pick this book up, just follow this link to do so. Instead of me repeating myself, just go to the user comments on the book to read my in depth review on it. Also, if you have ever read a book by the author, Fiona Locke, go to Niki’s blog again to find out just who Fiona REALLY is!!

So here are the relevant links for you, and actually it is just one of them, the link to Dallas Spanks Hard. Go and check it out for yourself.


13 thoughts on “We interrupt this program for a special announcement:

  1. Thanks for giving the option to have you read the post. ( I just love to hear your voice) Very good points indeed Richard thanks for sharing.

  2. Very well said Richard. {{APPLAUSE}} I have nothing constructive to add to this, other than YES there are some dodgy production companies out there but for the most part we are all real spankos doing what we love and sharing it with the world. Not everything on every site will appeal to all tastes. Some are harder than others. But rest assured (amongst the reputable producers) that those that are harder are done with full consent of the women concerned, often even at their request, and no one is ever strong armed into anything. And women are allowed to have fantasies themselves, and hell, some women actually really LIKE the harder action. Equally some don’t. And that’s cool too. It’s all about balance and keeping it in perspective.

  3. First of all….why did you FORCE me to watch that clip against my will?!

    But seriously, back when I started looking for spanking stuff….as in pictures (magazines mostly back then) or the occasional rare video back in the early to mid 90’s I would say….I actually had trouble finding anything that was just straight OTK spanking. Most were either heavy BDSM/black leather type things or the big almost bloody cane marks. If I did happen to find one that was just hand spanking, it was so fake/lame it wasn’t worth watching. Meaning it was obviously someone who had never done it before, the hand was barely making limp contact, and the spankee was wiggling and owing in an exaggerated manner.

    I personally have found that now there are many many more options available varying widely across the spectrum as far as severity goes. Sure there are the heavy, hard-hitting, bruising types, but there are just as many lighter end OTK scenes. People just seem to get up in arms because not ALL videos or pictures happen to fall in the niche that he or she happens to like or find acceptable.

  4. Hi Rich
    Thanks for reading, I enjoyed it. But you probably could have read my sophmore year economics text book and I would have enjoyed that too.
    We live in this wonderful time were there is so much information instantly available. And at times the information is too available and there is too much of it. It’s easy to see extremes. It’s usually the extremists making the most “noise” Whether the subject is politics, spanking, religion, film or which way to hang the toilet paper the moderate people don’t all band to together to create a big loud moderate movement. Richard, Perhaps your blog post will start the much needed moderate movement? I doubt it, must of us are too busy being sane and living our moderate lives to create all that hoopla.
    Thanks for the post – it’s obvious you thought a lot about it before posting.
    D
    PS: clearly the TP needs to hang over the roll.

  5. Shame on you for forcing me to watch the clip of Audrey being spanked so hard over and over and over again.

    You hit the nail on the head, if something does not appeal to you, don’t watch it.

    Dave

  6. Thank you, Richard, for a good post and a much-needed blast of common sense.

    As someone who has a taste for severe spanking / CP videos, and as someone who has worked with some of the most “infamous” producers out there himself (Mood Pictures, Lupus Pictures), I am no stranger to this kind of discussion. Actually, on forums like British Spanking, I’ve been called everything from a “sociopath” to a “Teutonic demagogue” to a “sick, sick man”, simply because I’ve done a couple of videos which some people don’t like (videos that were, needless to say, produced in a perfectly legal and consensual manner – but that apparently doesn’t matter much).

    What it comes down to is a matter of personal taste. Some people don’t like severe videos, and that is fine – don’t watch them. But this doesn’t mean that severe videos should not be produced, or that there is something wrong with severe videos. Just like the fact that you don’t like horror films doesn’t mean that horror films should not be produced.

    It’s a matter of taste, not morals. Some people are confused about the difference, hence all the screaming and the hysteria. My position has always been: as long as a video is produced by consenting adults, and as long as no permanent damage is done, it is morally unobjectionable.

    I have as of yet not heard one single moral argument that successfully challenges my position. The only thing people seem to come up with is: “But… but… spanking should only go to a certain level, otherwise it is wrong!” Which is not just nonsense (why does your personal taste have to be shared by the rest of the world?), it is also self-contradictory, because by that “logic”, you might as well argue that all kinky play is “wrong”. It’s a completely arbitrary, meaningless argument.

    Or you have people who claim, without any argument at all, that severe videos are simply “immoral” or “abusive”. Of course, when you ask them why they think so, they are usually unable to point out why. They just “feel” this way. Or they make an argument to the effect of the above: “Spanking should only…”

    It really is a dumb useless debate. How I was able to muster the patience for it once, explaining the same simple points over and over again to people who either would not or could not understand them, and how I was able to muster the politeness to stay reasonably civil and calm while I was called all sorts of insults, I don’t know.

    I do know now that it was mostly a waste of time, though. The point is, you really are talking to idiots. Not a very tactful way of putting it, I know, but it’s the damn truth. These people do not understand, they will not understand, and trying to debate with them really is a waste of time. It doesn’t matter what they think, anyway, because in light of their apparent intellect and education, and in light of their self-righteous, judgmental behaviour, they cannot be taken seriously. And the truth is, nobody among the friends I have in the scene takes them seriously…

    The newest debate about “abusive” videos on British Spanking was actually a surprisingly civil and interesting one. The OP was still confused about a lot of things (as you said, he quoted you in support when your views are really the opposite of his!), and he didn’t have much of an argument. But at least he was polite and not being a total idiot.

    As I wrote there already, no, I don’t believe that videos are really “becoming more and more severe”. It’s true that there is a higher number of severe videos being made than, say, 20 years ago – but that is simply because more spanking videos of any kind are being made today. When you look at the number of producers who do really, really severe stuff, it isn’t all that big, actually – they simply get talked about a bit more than the others, in debares like this one. But for every “severe” producer like that, you can find several others who do lighter stuff.

    As well as that, and as Richard points out, severe videos have always existed. Look at Nu-West / Leda, they’ve been doing some pretty rough stuff, starting ages ago. So no, I for one do not see this general “trend” towards harder videos which some people are muttering about.

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

  7. Very well put, Richard! People need to realize that just like everything else in life, everyone arond you has different preferences. Tolarance is the word!

  8. interesting post richard yes there are choices i have my favourites punished brats .clares girl girl ones chelseas ones bad tushy spank that brat northern spanking brit spank etc.etc so many and so enjoyable best wishes ,tim .

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