I posted recently about branches of British public schools popping up in China. I’ve visited Shanghai a couple of times in the past few years for work, and picked up a racy (and very well-written) book after my last trip that described some of the city’s dubious past. The Pearl of the Orient was so decadent that in the late nineteenth century that one missionary commented, “If God lets Shanghai endure, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah”.
A couple of anecdotes might appeal to our pervy readers. The city’s streets were lined with girls from the country, earning their way:
“Fear of a beating by their madam should they fail to secure a customer for the night accounted for [their] aggressiveness. In the late hours of the morning, a customer might find himself seized by the arm by a girl who would desperately plead, ‘Please help me out!’…. Once a girl was in a brothel keeper’s or madam’s hands, she had few opportunities of escaping…
It was not uncommon to see a little slave girl break away from her [male servant] on the street… If she was caught, her body would rack for days from the keeper’s cuffs and lashes””
It wasn’t just Chinese girls who appealed to the city’s “gentlemen”: the Madams “always kept their eyes open for new talent”, including foreign women:
“One madam, the mistress of the chief of police, approached a visiting Margaret Sanger in a tearoom to leave her card: the admiral of the British fleet, the madam informed her, was dropping anchor in Shanghai in the next few days and the demure-looking Sanger happened to be ‘just his type.'”
And then there was the British Vice-Consul in the 1850s, who:
“ran afoul of the Church… by taking as his mistress a pupil at a Protestant girls’ missionary school in Ningpo. When he was transferred to Foochow he took the girl with him, which so outraged the head of the school, an upright Englishwoman named Miss Aldersay, that she reported him to the Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong. The outraged bishop denounced the Vice-Consul from his pulpit, forcing the errant diplomat to send the girl back to her home.”
One might presume that said young lady would have been especially soundly whipped on her return home. Unless she ended up stopping over in Shanghai en route, of course.
I guess them hookers are desperate anywhere. J.’s first brush with the Obscure Country, where he flew to visit the university right after spending couple month in Spain in a language program (to see if he wanted to transfer there), was warding off hookers on the street. Eastern Europe and third world in general can be especially sad in that way.
(Strangely, I never met him while he was on that visit, even though the school was only 700 people).
Haron and Abel: OK kids, you’ve had your free time; the natives are getting restless. Spill the dirt – what’s been a happenin’?? Amber and I have shot the breeze to keep things on the boil, but it’s over to you. Who’s been spanked, when and how??? (do you have any suspicions at all that I have opened a bottle of champagne, and enjoyed 3/4s of it??????)
Fine, Rob, just read about my spankings instead:). Or, better yet, write about yours!
Amber: Well I am the shy, retiring sort of spanko, actually, not comfortable with the limelight, but you never know!! My daughter asked me one day what I was doing and I said I was responding to an internet blog. She mentioned the word ‘nerd’. Does that make me a nerd, I asked. No, it doesn’t make you a nerd, but it’s a nerdy thing to do, she said. So, it’s not risque at all, it seems, instead, quite nerdy!!
Little does she know what you are replying to
Blogging I found to be lots of fun, I love writing although I ain’t no Hemingway… wait, I am, but not that Hemingway!
Amber: Chuckle chuckle. Good line. I love writing too, and reading other people’s writing, especially on this topic, though I am selective. There’s a lot of piffle out there. That’s why I’m here!! Signing out now, it’s my last weights class for the term…Have a good day/evening.
Anyone know the difference between a geek and a nerd? If you ask a technical question, the geek will know where to look up the answer on the web… The nerd will know the answer.
(Sorry we’ve been a little lax in replying to posts – we’ve been travelling, and have had very limited online access… and too many girls to spank! Not that one can ever have too many girls to spank, of course!)
Abel: As far as I know a ‘geek’ is a techno head, a nerd is someone who does things that aren’t considered ‘cool’.
“Too many girls to spank”. That’s it???? Details, dear boy, we need details!!! Too many Christmas preparations this end, and not enough spanking details that end, for my liking!!!
I swear to God, Abel and Haron, I still cannot get comfortable with the idea of Haron being caned by people other than Abel and Abel spanking girls other than Haron. Did I tell you that before? That’s a bit edgy for me, so to speak.
Even if I thought it hot to be spanked by someone else willing to spank me, I think my husband wouldn’t. Plus, I wouldn’t know how to process it in my head, where to put it in my system of values.
Rob: don’t believe everything he tells you… We’ve been working! OK, there might have been a spanking party in the midst of all the work, but an itinerant spanksman Abel isn’t. 😉
Amber: Whether people play spanking games exclusively with their partners or with multiple partners is very individual. You may or may not find that this is your cup of tea, and it’s OK either way. For both of us spanking is not part of unique intimacy between exclusive lovers, but a thing to share with friends, but it doesn’t mean that you should try to turn your head around going in the same direction: just do what’s comfortable for you!