You’re ready to be punished – over a desk, touching your toes, lying on a bench, even tied over a whipping frame.
Your posture gives you the freedom, should you choose to use it, to see the person who is disciplining you – looking up, looking back, looking over your shoulder.
So what do you do? Observe your disciplinarian and their expression – anticipating the strokes as they are about to fall, watching them descend. Or stare straight ahead, not watching, trying to cut yourself off from the sight of the person who’s punishing you?
Depends on my mood. If I look at all, it will only be once, before the actual punishment begins, and then I quickly turn my face away. I almost always keep my eyes closed for the duration anyway.
If it’s a *real* punishment, then for me part of the punishment is being made to look directly at the person punishing me while I am being scolded (or even just talked-to, sorrowfully) beforehand.
Besides there is also the consideration that if I am aware enough to keep sneakingpeeks, then the punishment isn’t focussing my attention properly….
I’m not allowed to look…I will sometimes try, but he doesn’t want me to know when the strokes will fall. I like looking back and seeing the look on his face, but I also like not being allowed or able (because I’m blindfolded, for example) to look. In a way it’s exciting, not knowing when the next stroke will come.