My darling wife wrote recently about her dislike of surprises in spanking scenes. The post and subsequent discussion left me pondering the age-old question of whether ’tis nobler to inform a girl of the number of strokes she’s to receive before starting to thrash her, or whether to leave the tally unstated.
The former feels far more authentic for some scenes: the judge condemning a young convict to receive thirty strokes of the birch on her admission to the Reformatory; the ship’s captain sentencing the stowaway girl to twenty lashes; the Headmaster solemnly informing the pupil standing before him that she would receive six of the best for her misbehaviour.
I rather enjoy creating the moment of nervous uncertainty (“so how many am I going to get?”), followed by that jaw-dropping moment of truth (“he can’t give me *that* many”). I like the idea of the girl knowing precisely how many strokes are to come (and more importantly, perhaps, how few – relative to the total – have already been administered). And there’s something in making the girl concentrate on the progress of the punishment – the count preventing her from switching off and losing herself, blanking out what’s happening to her.
But the latter? “I’m going to thrash you until you’re truly sorry”? “Whip her until she breaks”? “Oh no: I’ve hardly started”. Mmmm, I could rather enjoy those. But they’re best saved for somewhat different scenarios, methinks, authenticity being everything.
I don’t agree that counting prevents from loosing oneself. At least it doesn’t for me. I count instinctively, without thinking about it, and part of my mind slips whenever it wants!
(True, I often miscount…but that’s different stroy LOL)
“I’m going to thrash you until you’re truly sorry”? “Whip her until she breaks”? “Oh no: I’ve hardly started”
Frist one not hot for me
Second, depend of amount of trust
Third…Oh, god, one of the hottest thing I can think of in the scene based mostly on CP once the girl is already nicely broken and in tears…mmmmmmmm……
Hmmmm. You scare me sometimes. I think I’d rather know the number of strokes. Although actually, if you cry after the second stroke and are truly sorry, that kind of pees on the dom’s petunias I think!
Yes, the flaw in the plan is if the girl is fairly good at crying when she wants to, the whole “I’ll whip you till you’re sorry” thing could well fall victim to, as Jessica so beautiful phrases it, “the dom’s petunias being peed on.” I.e. the punishment is over before it’s barely begun.
It’s an interesting one. I think for formal punishments it feels quite ‘right’ to know how many strokes you’re getting, though knowing how many you have to go can be quite awful (does anyone else find themselves thinking random thoughts like ‘in two strokes I’ll be a quarter through’?). Being told you actually have to take more when you’ve been told a set number of strokes is horrendous.
Not knowing can be hot but I’ll agree with what Kami said about having to feel safe with someone and that you’re in the same ballpark – sometimes being really pushed can be incredibly hot though
I’m rather thinking that those of you who think that crying to order will work perhaps underestimate some tops
Interesting comments. It’s fascinating to hear what you all think.
PS no watersports here, thank you – any petunias are to be left well and truly alone. Back away from those flower borders…!
No Abel, they just remember the comment you made about crying working on YOU 😛
“I’m rather thinking that those of you who think that crying to order will work perhaps underestimate some tops”
I’m rather thinking that some tops are underestimating our ability to cry to order effectively 😉