As I mentioned in my recent post about back-whipping, I watched some rather intriguing spanking porn recently.
Pain4Fem are a well-established European producer, known for traditional spanking movies at the more severe end of the genre – not always to my taste, it must be said.
Amongst their more recent movies – albeit still a few years old – they’ve demonstrated both originality and remarkable technical skill in creating the ‘Spanking Machine’ series. I won’t post pictures here – this being a site that always aims to be relatively safe for work, in style if not in substance – but they’ve built a rather clever little device.
The cane, strap or lash is fixed to a robotic device, and positioned carefully behind a tied girl. At the push of a button, the machine swings into life, whipping the implement fast across the backside or back of the victim. The program obviously ensures that the height of the stripes varies ever-so-slightly, to avoid each blow landing in precisely the same place – and ensuring a perfect, even set of parallel weals.
The machine in question appears to be controlled by an operator, the whip cracking at the touch of a laptop button. But the concept, taken to its extreme, with no human intervention whatsoever, really is quite… well, either disturbing or fascinating.
Picture the girl, tied in place to be flogged. With a person administering the punishment, there’s an element of variability – not every stroke precisely the same strength, different gaps between whacks. And there has to be something to be said for the degree of human interaction: the knowledge (assumption? hope?) that the disciplinarian will adjust the severity, the frequency, even the number of strokes if the girl starts to struggle.
But with a machine – after the officers who’d bound the girl to the whipping frame presumably pressing some button, then leaving the room? Just the girl, totally alone, facing a whipping that would be administered truly without mercy? No-one to respond to her cries, moderate or vary the strokes – just the inevitability that the flogging would take its full course.
Scarier for the girl being punished than the human touch? Easier than knowing another person was responsible for your pain? Or simply *different*? I wonder…
I suppose this brings up the question of a spanking robot. Now that robotics has gone so twenty-first century, do you suppose there are kinky researchers in some university lab cooking up a better version of Asimo? (No jokes now, that’s a Japanese name.)
It would not seem to be that difficult to build in random variance. That’s easy enough. But, could your spanking robot respond to your cries? Or, writhing and squirming about? How about pleas? Could you bargain with it?
“No more! No more! I’ll do the dishes for a week! Ah! Okay, okay, the laundry, too! Ouch! SOFTER, YOU PILE OF PIPES!”
This would be an obvious boon to LDRs. Just leave Spanko with your mate while you’re away, and you can phone home to inflict any needed corrections.
“Susan. You’re going to get a whipping. Go to your room and turn on the robot.”
This is one of my current recurring fantasies – being punished via machine. There’s always someone in the background controlling it, able to see & hear me but someone whom I can’t see (although it tends to be someone I know, not a stranger).
Right now I’m very much liking the idea that it isn’t exactly the person who is causing me pain. A variant on this is having someone other than the person prescribing the punishment being the one to carry it out, though not quite the same as a machine 😉
@Rich – wonder if anyone knows any Japanese researchers?!
@Em – interesting that you compare being punished by a stranger to being punished by a machine. That rather appeals to my “nasty Abel” side – the thought of a girl being handed over to me to punish; not knowing her at all; the lack of any prior history or relationship meaning I would feel no inhibition whatsoever in punishing her harshly, to the limits…