One of the things lacking from many of my scene ideas and spanking fantasies – a sense of pseudo-authenticity being all-important for me – is a hug after the thrashing. Would a schoolmaster embrace a caned girl, a prison officer wrap his arms supportively around a whipped inmate? I rather doubt it. And yet a cuddle after a spanking is one of the loveliest parts of any scene.
A solution sprang to mind in the cab on the way to a meeting the other morning. The two girls I’d just mentally caned lived in a residential centre for troubled young ladies, of which I was the principal. We’d take in girls who’d come from difficult backgrounds – perhaps, those convicted of minor criminal offences, those expelled from school, or whose parents and guardians were struggling to control them. Good girls, deep down – just troubled, in need of tender loving care.
So there’d be hugs aplenty – chaste, of course – as we helped and supported them. And when corporal punishment was occasionally needed, there’d be a mutual sense of disappointment – and a tight emotional bond between disciplinarian and the punished girl.
This pair had been caught brawling in the common room the evening before – a fierce argument that had spilled out of control. By the time they reached my office, they’d both kissed and made up – regretting their actions, friends once more. Yet the rules of the establishment were very clear: fighting always resulted in the most serious form of correction. I called the first girl in, and bade her close the door behind her. We talked: a lecture was hardly necessary, but she needed to hear from me that she’d let herself down, and that punishment was inevitable.
Four strokes of the cane followed, laid hard across her jeans as she bent over my desk; she was then sent to stand facing the corner whilst her erstwhile combatant was brought in to be similarly admonished and disciplined. And then the hugs – the three of us holding each other close, supportively, as their tears fell and they vowed to try harder in future…
Hot fantasy, definitely!
A wonderful story, Abel! Very close to my “caring guidance” fantasies (except for the fact that those are usually M/m 😉 ).
And of course you’re right – cuddling definitely IS important!
Beautiful story indeed.
Cuddling helps the one who was punished be reassured that they are forgiven and helps them move on from the punishment on a positive note. This becomes even more important if the person punished is someone who has a hard time forgiving their self.
Hugs don’t feature prominently in my fantasies, either. In fact, I find most stories in which the girl sits on Daddy’s lap afterwards, sobbing on his shoulder, a bit strange. In RL, hugs work fine for me after a light or just-for-fun scene. After role play, though, I need time to come out of character first, and I definitely prefer that the top do so, too.
I suspect I’m in the minority of female bottoms on this issue (and many others, probably), as the above comments suggest!
In your fantasy universe a school teacher would no doubt get away with hugging a pupil…
@Krampus – it’s so funny that it’s the idea of a schoolmaster *hugging* a pupil that merits comment, whereas the thought of him caning her goes entirely unremarked!!
@Indy- I think for me it would depend on the scene. If it is a scene that would leave my character feeling the need for reassurance, then the reassurance would be best if done while still in character as it is her need not my own.
@Abel- I agree it is funny that the idea of a schoolmaster *hugging* a pupil is questioned yet him caning her is not. It just goes to show that, in general, people view the schoolmaster as the strict disciplinarian and not as a caring mentor. I personally prefer to think of a schoolmaster as someone that is a mentor and a guide not just a strict disciplinarian. I mean, why can’t he be both?!
I love giving hugs afterwards – reassuring the punished, vulnerable girl that she’s OK… but only if that’s the right thing for the girl in question during a scene. I know there are some play partners who prefer, for example, to be sent on their way, punished, a scolding ringing in their ears, in disgrace…