8 thoughts on “He’s Alive”

1. Glad you’re still active Richard.
   Thanks for another classic photo.
   They certainly look like they are having fun…..that is until he takes her belt of and gives her a few licks with it!

2. Richard,

   I hesitate to reply as I don’t want you to feel obligated to respond. Obviously, you are busy being you and that is great. Enjoy your summer as well, and, as always, thanks for the really great pic!

   Jim

3. Glenmore,

   I will probably do a post this year about it, but the spark has gone. My real reason for posting is that I have so much material yet to post that it would hurt me not to share it with the community. My spark may never come back, but I at least understand the sparks and triggers in others.

   Rich

4. Jim,

   Not at all. In fact the lack of interaction is one of the most disheartening things when running a spanking blog as a male. Comments and interaction are encouraging. When you don’t get any interaction it gets to the point where you question what the point is. Normally I have 4 or 5 regular guys, yourself included, who will offer their thoughts on what I have posted, and that’s actually something that I find encouraging.

   It has always been like that when it comes to blogging as a male. In fact I know one former blog where the author would write to himself, lol. He would create different female characters and interact with those characters in the comment section. It was so easy to spot, the same style of writing, the same word structure, and the biggest telling part of all, the same use of punctuation style. Plus, everyone has a style of writing, a digital footprint if you like. I see it on a spanking story site where someone uses alternate egos to bump their stories up by commenting on them 🙂

   Rich

5. Rich,

   That idea of writing my own replies is tempting. I write on a RR google group and whine constantly about replies, but I really shouldn’t, after all, what can someone say to reading my stories other than they liked it or didn’t like it? They could say what they liked, or what they missed, but soon, I’d be writing to fulfill their wishes, not my intellectual choices. So, I know replies can be a double-edged sword.

   I reply in gratitude for a thankless job. Running a blog for free has to be so draining. You, at least know those who come to your fine site are here for a similar reason, but I can see no payback for you other than in generously offering your time and the fruits of your time freely to the world and knowing your gems can be appreciated and NOT lost to the sands of time and destruction. That said, it can’t be enough to keep you excited and plowing forward in your efforts.

   I was losing interest in our mutual interest as well, until I realized it was the humiliation of a spanking that was really the trigger for me. This sent me down a bottomless rabbit-hole of all sorts of humiliating spanking scenarios that occupy me and my time now.

   I realized there was a whole world of unexplored or underdeveloped scenarios that mainstream spanking producers have ignored. Too long have schoolgirls or naughty secretaries, stewardess’s, daughters, and wives garnered all the attention both in print and film. Then the PC police came in and watered those down adding that the spankings had to be consensual. What the H-E-Double hockey stick is the fun in that?

   “I was bad, I know I deserve a spanking, so, although I hate it (or worse, secretly love it), go ahead and spank me. I’ll try to forgive you afterwards!”

   Gawd! No wonder you are losing interest! I lost interest at I was bad!

   I’m really into reversal of fortune, where the superheroine, not the bad guy, gets spectacularly spanked on television for the world to see, or The mother of a bullied child gets spanked by the bully. A female cop gets taught not to approach without proper back-up, and, well, you get the idea.

   Female joggers wearing skintight leggings are a natural target for an old-biddy with a hairbrush.

   Then throw it open to older couples getting caught making out on Lover’s Leap and being treated like naughty hormonal teenagers by the local Moral Majority Committee!

   The idea is to re-package the old idea. Kind of like what Americans do to every great British TV show. You KNOW what I’m saying! lol!

   Don’t know if this will help at all, but know you are not alone out there. Although the silence of replies belies that reality, you have a whole community of individuals who truly love your work. I know THAT and two dollars will get you a cup of coffee at Mac-Donald’s, well, maybe not in NYC, but almost everywhere else, but take heart that we, I, for one, do truly care!

   Hang in there, bro!

   Jim

6. What a great picture, Rich, thank you! I’m guessing they’re in the garden of their house, so I imagine there’s a nice bedroom for later!

   That belt around her waist is very suggestive of some more serious action at some point…

   Enjoy your summer too, what’s left of it!

7. Theo,

   Thanks for the comment! It is one of those images that has sat on my hard drive for years that I needed to share. Of course the image was taken back in the days where not every camera was the same, as evidenced by there being more dead space in the picture than the actual individuals 🙂 I remember those days when you would get your pictures back and hope that you managed to capture people in the shot, lol.

   Rich

8. Jim,

   You will have to forgive my ignorance but I don’t actually know what RR stands for. Role reversal? I’m fortunate that at least the stories on my blog do get comments, even if they can be spread out over many years. For many years I posted stories on forums and I will be honest, I was lucky to get feedback quite often on them. In regards to the blog though, it has always been that way, a total lack of interaction save for a few kind people.

   A funny story, Pixie used to be a wonderful brat who would tease me about comments. I could write a complete spanking thesis and get one reply, whereas all she had to do was say “Good morning” as her entire post and she would get 50 replies, lol. That’s not unusual for a male blogger, and perhaps it was a reason why some male blogger’s pretended they were female all those years ago 😉

   You raise an interesting point about losing interest as well. In my situation I have been very fortunate with my spanking life, I’ve got to play with many partners, had some great relationships and was even lucky enough to bring my vision to the screen in both video form and through writing. Eventually though, I think I just got to the point that I was saturated with it. Everything that I wanted to do I did, in fact I would go as far as to say that I got out of it 100 times more than I ever expected to. One particular play partner even gave me the gift of letting me film a couple of private roleplays that I treasure, which is just compounded by the fact that she is a genuinely awesome person.

   To your point though, I agree with you. There are aspects of the genre that I adore, and while they only consume perhaps 10% of how I once felt, that part of the interest is still there. And likewise, one of the things that I loved to do 20 years ago or so was to sit down at the computer and spend the better part of the day chatting to Pixie, coming up with every spanking scene imaginable that she could film. Even if someone else got the credit for “Written by” lol, I used to love doing it 🙂 And that also has something to do it, I’ve often felt that I have done everything that I ever wished to do.

   In my situation I also have to accept that external factors have played a large part in the changes that I went through. As you know I lost both of my parents and both of my brothers in a relatively short period of time, and as strong as I am mentally, it had a big effect on me. For the longest time I had some pretty bad thoughts until I was able to lift myself up by the bootstraps. The final loss was combined with something scene related that I found particularly appalling given the circumstances I was dealing with, and it was something that turned me off of the active scene entirely.

   I’ve even got to the point where I don’t think I will ever get to play again. Unless I get incredibly lucky where I get to meet up with a spanking friend at a non spanking related event. That could happen. I’m going to be travelling later in the year and it isn’t completely unusual for someone to reach out if I am visiting their country. If for nothing else I have been incredibly lucky when it comes to spanking, something that I am eternally grateful for.

   Rich

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