Last summer Tom and I finally got the change to take to bed a good friend we’d been courting for some time. The young lady tells me she’d like to be known here as Jacqueline – and yes, she’s the same girl who recently inspired me to top a lover for the first time. This [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Live blog: What Happens in Vegas
Posted by Pandora on April 27th, 2011
I’m just watching NSI‘s film What Happens in Vegas, which they filmed at the Shadowlane party last September. I was drawn in by the exceptionally pretty photography – the colours and lighting in the accompanying stills are just gorgeous – and, of course, by the tempting prospect of Zille Defeu and Bailey Sullivan in black [...]
Posted in Bailey Sullivan, Marcus Black, Northern Spanking, Performers & producers, Zille Defeu 
Tags: cane, F/f, M/f, paddle, reviews 
8 Comments »Adventures in topping
Posted by Pandora on April 26th, 2011
Last week I experienced my first over-the-knee spanking from the other side.
It happened like this. My friend Jacq, whose place I was stopping at during my trip to London, texted me asking if I wanted to accompany her to the local fetish night. Her tone was embarrassed. It wasn’t a real fetish night, she hastened to assure me; it was, in fact, full of posey spooky kids and a bit crap, but she used to go to it a lot and her friends were begging her to come out with them. She wouldn’t expect to actually play, since no-one else ever did, but it would be much more fun if I was there.
I was up for it, but I was already on the hoof and I only had what I carried in terms of outfits. The summery day dresses for the 50s style domestic spanking shoot on my first day in London wouldn’t do, and everything else I had with me was similarly casual. The only thing that might do was my new Japanese-style school uniform, which I was taking to D’s for a rape scene we’d been planning.
Jacq and I became lovers over a year ago, but we’ve never managed to quite sustain a sexual energy to match our mutual attraction, because she, like me, is very submissive. Neither of us is an experienced switch, but both of us are kinky enough that vanilla girlsex alone doesn’t quite keep our interest. We agreed that in general, we both enjoy things much more with a top in the bed. I’d sort of hoped that we’d slip into a regular ménage with one of my boyfriends, but for one reason or another it’s been harder to engineer than I’d hoped, and in the meantime I like spending time with Jacq, and want to find a sexual dynamic that works between the two of us.
Originally I’d wondered if we might find our inept, giggling way towards learning to switch together, but after a couple of almosts it became clear she didn’t quite have the confidence yet. I started to come to terms with the idea that one of us was going to have to step up and take control, and that it was probably going to be me. But although I’ve dished out some straightforward CP-scene canings and floggings in the past – and discovered that I take a particular glee in caning an enthusiastic recipient – I haven’t ever attempted erotic dominance in the bedroom. Approaching the idea as a newbie, I realised it was a whole different ballgame.
Posted in Fetish clubbing, Jacq, Play Tags: otk spanking, school uniform, switching over 23 Comments »Comic Relief caning
Posted by Pandora on April 20th, 2011
To celebrate my shiny new blog, here’s a video I filmed back in March, in honour of Comic Relief. A friend who wishes to remain anonymous suggested that he’d donate a pound to Comic Relief for every stroke of the cane I took from him. He knew me too well, however, to want an open challenge (my bottom could outlast your pocket, any day), and so proposed a round figure of 26 in honour of my age.
Well, I rarely need an excuse to take a caning. And I enjoyed this one rather a lot…
Bye bye Blogger, and hello freedom
Posted by Pandora on April 19th, 2011
You’ll have noticed that earlier this year, Google saw fit to whack a compulsory “content warning” on my blog, forcing all viewers to click through a page informing them that “some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog’s content is objectionable”. I’m not sure what annoyed me more: the fact that unlike the self-selected Adult Content Warning, this was externally controlled; the fact that in a single day, my hits dropped to 1/3 of what they had been, and haven’t recovered since; or the weasel wording in which Google saw fit to inconvenience my readers while disclaiming any prejudice or opinion on their part.
The disclaimer is, frankly, bullshit. Of course Google side with those who believe that adult content, or kinky content, is “objectionable”. That’s why Google Ad Words aren’t permitted on adult blogs; why Google Checkout doesn’t permit any use by adult service providers (my account was suspended after I used it to accept payment for a spanking audio story. The filename was totally innocuous, so either one of their employees sat down and listened to the mp3 to see if it was “safe” or not, or else they judged me on the basis of my blog contents).
The only reason I stayed with Blogger so long was lack of time to setup a new blog elsewhere. This new content warning pushed the move higher up my priority list. And I can now, not before time, happily announce that this blog has moved permanently to a self-hosted, independent home.
I haven’t quite arranged everything to my satisfaction yet, and will be adding more pages, widgets and links over the next little while, so bear with me if anything seems unfinished. But it’s good enough to get going. Please update your bookmarks, links and feed readers to point to my new url, www.pandorablake.com.
So bye bye Blogger, Google and your discrimination against adult content, and hello, independence.
Wanted: male spanking performers
Posted by Pandora on April 16th, 2011
There’s been some excellent discussion this week about discrimination among spanking afficionados, especially site owners and event organisers, against M/m couples and content. I haven’t had the chance to engage with the debate yet, although you can probably imagine where I stand. Conversation and debate are essential, but so are actions. Specifically, so are positive, [...]
Posted in Female gaze, Gender politics Tags: m/m, making a scene, other pictures, pipe dreams 11 Comments »Schoolgirls in Space!
Posted by Pandora on April 14th, 2011
Here’s an awesome thing: Northern Spanking Institute have just released a spanko sci-fi satire to warm the cockles consoles of geeks everywhere. Starring the “comedy core” NSI cast of Amelia Jane Rutherford, Leia-Ann Woods, Paul Kennedy and Amy Hunter (whom you may remember from Strictly Come Spanking!, among myriad other projects), Schoolgirls in Space is [...]
Posted in Amelia-Jane Rutherford, Amy Hunter, Leia-Ann Woods, Northern Spanking, Paul Kennedy, Videos Tags: comedy, review 6 Comments »Delicious domesticity
Posted by Pandora on April 11th, 2011
Things are pretty good at home right now. The sun is shining, and we’re all basically solar powered. Tom and I have been making more effort to spend time together and put each other first, and it’s paying off. His health and my work commitments still aren’t predictable enough for us to plan for intense [...]
Acquiescence
Posted by Pandora on April 6th, 2011
I have some very exciting news.
A film I started making nearly four years ago is now, finally, available. Tom and I wrote and filmed Acquiescence with Michael Stamp and Stephen Lewis for Control and Reform in the summer of 2007, but the process of editing and finishing it has been a long and drawn out one (with some spankings along the way!). I haven’t seen the final cut yet, but Michael Stamp has just sent me a trailer and the news that it’s ready. Click on the picture to download the five-minute video preview:
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Communicating by touch
Posted by Pandora on April 1st, 2011
I’m an inconveniently light sleeper. I’ve also suffered from insomnia my whole life – as far as I can tell, the primary cause is having too much to do, and a brain that is extremely reluctant to turn itself off. Since moving out of London I’ve managed to develop a routine which has mostly suppressed [...]
