Yesterday’s slippering post has drawn a few comments, from “slippers are weird” to “slippers are hot”, and I feel the need to give my perspective.*
The slipper and its relative, the plimsoll, are not my favourite implements just because they are so damn painful. “So what?” I hear you ask. “Tawses and belts are painful. Canes are painful. Haribrushes are painful.” That’s right, and I like tawses and belts a lot less than I like the slipper, which is why I said it wasn’t my favourite, rather than that it was my least favourite.
The slipper has lots of advantages, which make it one of the hottest implements to fantacise about, to imagine other people get, etc.
Top 5 Reasons Haron Likes the Slipper:
- It’s authentic for school scenes. It belongs in a school scene. I know people who’d been slippered at school. And I like school scenes.
- Unlike the cane and the tawse, it’s a hell of a lot easier to aim, due to not being whippy. I’ve never heard of a slipper landing somewhere it hasn’t been aimed.
- A slipper is all “thud” and little “sting”. I like “thud”.
- It looks really hot laid across a round bottom encased in bottle-green school knickers, preparing to strike.
- You can slipper somebody really fast, which makes them reach the state of “Oh My God” (identified by the culprit hanging limply over your knee) that much quicker.
Come to think of it, that last one can also been seen as a disadvantage.
Top 5 Reasons Haron Is Apprehensive About the Slipper:
- When you get slippered really fast (impossible to do safely with other school-specific implements – a cane or a tawse) holding on to a degree of control is completely impossible. As part of said control is the ability to keep down the noise, the slipper is, therefore, not very neighbour-friendly.
- It’s really bloody painful! (I can’t emphasize this enough. It is. Very painful.)
- It may be hard for a top to judge just how painful the slipper is, because it looks fairly harmless. It’s imperative that you let the top know by every verbal and non-verbal communication method in your collection the impact of each individual thwack.
- Thick rubber creates little raised blisters surprisingly quickly, and knocking heads off them can draw blood. I don’t get unduly freaked by bleeding, but it does put a stop to any further play, even if you’ve only just started, and it hasn’t actually started to hurt that much.
- Man, are those freaking’ things *ever* painful!!
However, if you’re lucky, you may get cool tread marks. (I did once, before Abel – sorry, sweetie, I don’t believe that’s possible any more; that train’s done departed now.)
So there you are. Make your own conclusions, really; as you can see, I haven’t quite made up my mind on the issue of slippers, other than they are hot, and also painful.
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*Not the need need, you understand, just something I feel like writing about for the next few minutes.
everything i ever learned about corporal punishment in schools came to me after i started into the spanking community. well, except the odd prairie story about paddling in one-room schoolhouses, but those always seemed very far-off to me… really, i didn’t even know that they still use CP in some places until immersion on some discussion boards. i live in an area where they took corporal punishment out of schools a LONG time ago.
so… i hate to be an ignoramus… but i am having a really hard time picturing this slipper. was it something that teachers wore and took off their feet, or was it kept laying around somewhere? obviously it’s not like the fuzzy warm slippers that lots of people wear, because that wouldn’t hurt very much, and plus, haron, you mentioned rubber. i really can’t picture it. would it be the same type of slipper in every school? how would it be chosen? how big would it be?
you’ve already answered all the questions about what it feels like, so at least i have a clear picture of that. i like thuddy too, but i’m not cool with bleeding. eek!
Boy, Haron, your described it in such a tempting way, makes me wanna try it out, although I still can’t help thinking that it would somehow be demeaning to be spanked with a shoe… Not like spanking isn’t demeaning in any case…
I tend to think of slippers as being more a home punishing implement and plimsolls or gym shoes the ones used at school (although they were still called slippers by everyone, very confusing I know)… that’s certainly what was used at my school and every teacher had their own, all different, kept in a desk drawer, or on a shelf, or in a particular cupboard. You could hear a pin drop when someone had been told off and the teacher went over to where everyone KNEW the plimsoll was kept! One teacher used what was more like a hiking boot, well ok, that’s an exaggeration, but it was at least a good training shoe, really really solid and one whack from it would have the toughest of boys in floods of tears(only saw it used on a girl once and I think he went easy on her…she still cried though). He hardly ever had anyone misbehave in his classes though, can’t think why that would be! Strange that he wasn’t considered cruel at all, but then teachers used to get away with throwing solid wooden chalk erasers at pupils heads too, with resulting concussion blamed entirely on the pupils bad behaviour!!!!
The type I bought yesterday were what a lot of teachers used, black slip on canvas topped gym shoes with a bumpy rubber sole, and they were usually man size… and I have noticed that there can be quite a bidding frenzy on ebay (type in plimsoll) for the larger sizes, while small ones can be bought for practically no money at all 😉 I think spankos are about!
Spanking slippers of the cosy night in front of the fire are not as painful and were never used at my school but I know of many a parent who would take the slipper off their foot there and then and whallop away with it. I know of one poor thing who got slippered for not wearing slippers…by a father who was himself only wearing one slipper at the tiem… where’s the justice in that?!
Funnily enough we had a slippering movie as our update on SoundPunishmemnt.com this week. If you want to see a a free 4Mb movie sample just go to http://www.soundpunishment.com/theme2006/tour02.htm and select “naughty Nurse”.
The actors are friends of ours in a r/l spanking relationship … and Jason’s favourite ‘weapon’ is using a plimpsoll on Ashlea.
No plimpsolls were harmed in the making of this movie
I have never been spanked with a ‘slipper’ but it somehow doesn’t sound like it would hurt so much. Maybe I have the wrong idea of what you mean by a ‘slipper’. I am thinking of something like a tennis shoe. Is that what is used?
I can’t offer any first hand experiences but folk law here supports Haron’s opinion that the slipper is very painful. Just prior to being banned in schools here, the headmaster of one of the leading boys grammar schools chose to use a slipper rather than a cane. It tends to be talked about in hushed voices, whereas boys who got the cane down the road at the other leading boys grammar school swap caning stories in a raucous manner nearly every time they get together. Make of that what you will.
Yes. I have never experienced the sensation. It appears to look innocent. But from all description sounds horrible. As a confirmed spankophile there is a part of me that must now have it, of course! Thank you all for this wonderful discussion!
What IS a slipper, anyway? I mean, in a SCHOOL setting? All I can think of is a Russian grandma wearing her “tapochki” around the house.
Anyone who thinks the slipper (plimsoll) as a punishment instrument is a soft option, as opposed to the cane, really should get somebody to give them a good whacking with one. I was given the slipper several times at school and the degree of pain depended upon the person giving it. A male master I got it off made sure you did not wish to return for a second helping too soon afterwards. A plimsoll is heavy because of the rubber sole and the impact causes a thud and a sting all in one. One’s bottom was warm and reddened for hours afterwards and a dull ache could be felt for two ot three days too.
Let me tell you about slipper and how it was given when I was in school when corporal punishment was very much a part of everyday school life. For starts if anyone thinks for a second that the slipper is some soft option over that if the strap or cane, they are very sadly mistaken. It depends on two factors on how much it will hurt and how long your going to be feeling it afterwards. One is who is giving it, and the second is having the right slipper for the job. In the hands of someone that knows how to use a shoe for giving a spanking with, even a normal household indoor slipper can often get your attention very fast on just how much even that thing smart. But the slipper I am writing about is not some house slipper, it is a canvas top sneaker with a smooth or dimpled rubber sole on them and has some weight to them not much, but more then enough to set your butt on fire in just a matter of seconds. When I went to school boys and girls all wore the same gym shoes and was very common sight to see boys and girls wear those canvas sneakers and not just in school. It was not until sometime in the mid 70’s or early 80’s that this shoe somehow became a shoe that was deemed a girls running/sneakers shoe. The slipper in the hands of someone that knows how to you it will in just a matter of 3 swats have you in tears and by the 6th all out tears crying was often heard, even the toughest boys never walked away without being very tearful after just getting between 4 to 6 with the right slipper. Your butt was very red for many hours after and you felt it as well for many hours as well. Sometimes for the whole day and well into the afternoon of the next day was common as well. Each teacher had there own, and rumor had it that when a student were going to be leaving the school as they were about to graduate and he or she had a perfect spanking slipper that they wore for gym classes, some teachers would ask to have it donated, I do not have to tell you what that donation was going to be used for! The most feared slipper was an gym shoe that was clearly a girls gym shoe by just the way it looked, this gym shoe “slipper” was not like all the rest we had seen. This one had a perfectly smooth rubber sole, not worn down till it became smooth, but smooth right from the start. It was white rubber and thick and had a weight that was not to heavy nor to light. When this slipper was used no one came away after it without being in fully tears or crying a river of tears, all this from just a mere 3 swats from it. The slipper was so powerful in the right hands that it ranked a very close second to that of the cane, and had heard some students wishing to be caned in place of getting that slipper. Rubber is an interesting material for spanking, in that for lack of a better way of putting it, it has memory. The sting it imparts will not fade away, you feel it for many long hours after and often you feel a dull pain well into the next day. And if you were one of those unlucky ones to get what was called “6 of the best”, then you felt its handle work for as long as 3 days and sometimes even the redness on your bottom of an expertly given slippering could be seen well into the next day. And in place of a leather school strap, we had a rubber one, and this was just as bad as the slipper. It turned your bottom very red very fast and was also felt for many hours and even going to bed you saw and felt its handle work as well. Oddly the strap never left any bruises, but it sure left very clear signs on your bottom that you got the strap at school. Which often got you another strapping at home for getting the strap at school. Some may think that getting a slippering on the bare would hurt more, I found from my experience and what I have heard from others when I was in school, was to avoid at all cost being told to put your gym shorts on without your under things one, or being handed a pair of gym shorts that were clearly to small for you. This for some ungodly reason this just made the slippering you were to get that much more memorable. It did not hurt more as I recall, but the way it trapped in the heat made it feel worse, and the after effects of that slippering lasted longer, often adding a extra hours worth of having your bottom sore and throbbing. To this I can attest from personal experience. And bending over touching your toes made for the perfect position to feel it, feel very well for a good long time afterwards.
In closing the slipper is better then a hair brush which seems to be the “in thing” with many spanko’s. A slipper can be worn and used, no need to go looking for your spanking paddle or strap or hair brush, it right there on your foot at the ready to turn a lilly white behind a deep shade of red, as well as give a very powerfuly and safe sound spanking that will not soon be forgotten!
Tim: wow, what an amazingly detailed post. Thanks for sharing.