Another memoir, another caning episode – this time from the screenwriter Jimmy Perry’s “A Stupid Boy”, which we happened upon in a local second-hand bookstore. He’d been caught bunking off school to go to the local theatre, and failed with his attempts to extricate himself from the situation:
The next morning I presented myself at his study for the obligatory six strokes of the cane. I waited outside with three other boys. They were pale and frightened, but I was determined that no trace of fear would appear on my face. I heard my name shouted from inside… one of the boys whispered, “Good luck, Perry.”
I went in. The assistant headmaster just pointed to the chair and I bent over it.
It’s difficult to describe the searing pain of the first stroke and you think you cannot possibly stand another five, but not a sound came out of me, though my whole being wanted to scream and plead for him to stop.
When it was over I could hardly straighten up for a searing, red-hot pain that racked me from head to toe.
His twisted face growled, “You, Perry, are a liar and a cheat. I’m only allowed to give you six strokes, but if I had my way I’d thrash you until you couldn’t stand… I’m giving you a note to take to your parents, and don’t entertain any thoughts of destroying it: I’ve said I want an acknowledgement.”
Reading this sort of account sparks some interesting questions.
I find myself mentally swap genders for the recipient of the caning, substituting ‘girl’ in place of ‘boy’ throughout as I read. I wonder whether other readers whose interests are confined to anecdotes of females on the receiving end do the same.
And then there’s the fantasy versus real-life debate. This is long enough ago, and the author seems to have survived the experience without any deep psychological damage, that I can somehow park that too as I read. Again, I wonder whether others have that nagging guilt of “should I be finding this hot” – and whether some just simply don’t find that real-life accounts spark any spanko interest.
I can’t say my interests are confined to females on the receiving end, but even if they were, I think I’d find it hard to make this work as an M/f story. There’s something about the boys’ code of bravery– both ridiculous and somehow mesmerizing– that give M/m stories their particular flavor.
As for the nagging guilt, yes. But that’s a lot better than was my long stint of feeling too guilty to admit I enjoyed such stories at all. My obligatory all-nighter on the internet after I first typed “spanking” into Google was spent reading the accounts–some RL, some fiction, some no doubt fiction masquerading as RL– of schoolboy punishments on the Corporal Punishment Archive. To be honest, I’d ever been so aroused in my life, and the newly found sense of exhilaration that there were actually lots of other people who had the same response was rather overpowering. So the guilt faded to the background, and I’m glad it did. In my mind, it helps that I’m imagining myself as the boy rather than as the headmaster. Do you tops feel a greater sense of guilt?
OMG, did I just imply that tops have sense of guilt? I must need more coffee!
Where’s the guilt in giving a girl a much-deserved thrashing?!
Lovely comment, Indy. Thanks for sharing
I read this and for some strange reason thought of you two right away! I had to send the link, so enjoy!
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Hi, Sara
That shouldn’t make me smile, but somehow it does. Girls who smoke should read your link and quiver…!
Love your blog, too. Hadn’t discovered it before, but I can sense a few hours of Sunday being given over to catching up with what I’ve missed to date
I didn’t find it all that hot, until I got to the
“You, Perry, are a liar and a cheat…” and then, my mind immediately imagined a girl having just been caned being spoken to like that…
…and how awful that would be.
Because, it is the wrong way round altogether. It’s one thing to get told off before the caning, but how awful would it be to have the guy say that to you afterward?
But, in a perverted way…
Yeah!! It was hot!
Sometimes I copy and paste stories in to word and do a ‘find and replace’ on the genders so I don’t have to concentrate on that when i’m reading. I do agree though, some behaviours don’t really ring true from a female perspective. Still very hot though, especially the comment …if I had my way I’d thrash you until you couldn’t stand…
I’m with Indy – I definitely think this is hotter as M/m!