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The severe judicial scenes that Emma Jane and Catherine played with friends a while back have had me wondering about the role of the girl’s partner during such floggings.
Whilst the scenes concerned clearly were ‘play’, they were so well organised and run that they did seem to engender the feeling of real trepidation beforehand for the girls, and the whippings were so harsh that they doubtless felt all-too-authentic whilst the birchings were being administered.
So imagine, for a moment, a real punishment – a genuinely scary ordeal with no potential for the girl to escape, with strokes that were clearly hurting, rather than something playful or light-hearted that could be stopped at any moment. What would be harder for the girl’s partner to take:
• Not being there at all, as was the case for me in these two scenes – in Emma Jane’s case, wandering the streets nearby, in Cath’s checking my phone every few minutes for tweets or texts, in both cases quite unable to concentrate on anything other than worrying about whether they were OK.
• Being in the room as a witness – having to watch, but unable to intervene. At least one would be there for them – but how hard to stand by and watch a loved one suffering. (And would it be worse to stand behind, watching the impact of the strokes and the emerging marks, or in front observing their pained facial reactions?)
• Being in the room as a witness, but allowed to hold and cuddle the girl during the whipping. (I picture the girl tied over the bench, myself kneeling in front of her, holding her hands, her head buried in my shoulder between strokes as she muffled her sobs).
• Being made to inflict the punishment, knowing that if it wasn’t hard enough, the court officials would re-administer it from the start. Hurting her, yet knowing that it was being done with love – better, perhaps, than by a complete stranger, a disinterested official.
Actually, I guess the answer is that all would be pretty tough! That’s the nature of the scene.
And I wonder which would be best, most supportive for the girl on the receiving end? There’s advantage, I guess, in solitude – in one’s suffering not being observed. But there must be benefit from support, too. I’m curious as to what people think…
Em
July 31st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I can’t speak to which would be easiest or hardest on the poor girl’s partner, but I’d think if I were in Emma Jane’s or Catherine’s place (and I don’t believe I’d want to be!) it would be easiest for me not to have my partner there.
Not because I wouldn’t want him to witness it, but because if I had any reason to hope he’d be able to lessen the ordeal I wouldn’t be able to keep myself from pleading and whining and in general making a scene. On my own I feel I’d be more likely to keep myself in check.
Kaelah
August 1st, 2010 at 6:42 am
I don’t know what I would prefer if it were real (and I don’t think I even want to imagine that situation), but interestingly a scene very similar to the one you’ve described has been on my mind for almost a year in the context of a storyline I might like to do on video one day. It’s also about a very severe (and in this case also undeserved) judicial caning and I’ve chosen option number four.
In my story it wouldn’t be the girl’s partner who administers the punishment, though, it would be a caring senior officer. Since the two are secretly fond of each other, it comes close to being partners, though. The appeal behind that scene is that the two people actively taking part in the punishment could do it with the feeling of: The two of us are fighting together against the rest of the world. Even for a clip I would never let someone else than Ludwig administer such a hard spanking and I would feel much safer doing it embedded in a storyline where he is on my side. And I think that comes very close to my real preferences, too.
Although I can understand Em’s point about the higher chance of keeping oneself in check without the partner being there. What might help me in that situation is the thought of Ludwig being into brave girls and of not wanting to cause him any pain by breaking down. Maybe that would work…
Indy
August 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
When I first read this entry, my answer was (e) none of the above. But reading Kaelah’s comment reminds me how very hot I find scenes in which the top and the bottom are both victims of the system in some way, so that the top can be extremely sympathetic even as s/he metes out an undeserved punishment.
candycane
August 1st, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Abel, I always thought that your post of several years ago, “Watching my girl’s caning” was one of the hottest you ever published. I was, (and am still) fascinated by your stoicism (and hers) but with no loss of compassion…still a very re-readable post. How you looked on, concerned, but not intervening…it still brings on authentic shivers.
Ordalie
August 1st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Well, I missed that post called “watching my girl’s caning” and I would like to read it.
Could anyone give me the link or the date it was posted?
Ordalie
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:13 am
Well, I’ve found it page 7 in “A taster of our best posts”.
Haron
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
For anyone else who needs a link, it’s here: http://www.spankingwriters.com/blog/2007/08/17/watching-my-girls-caning/
Kaelah
August 6th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
@ Indy:
It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who finds that scene hot!
Lily
August 8th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
I think for me it would be hard to have my partner watch me go through a caning like that. I say this because it would be heart breaking for me to have to see my partner hurting with me while I endure the caning. I would feel as though it were me that was hurting my partner. Although it would be nice to have my partner near by to comfort me afterwards. If my partner had to be the one to cane me so hard, I would feel terribly guilty for putting them in that position by doing wrong in the first place.