Others have written before about the ways in which play begets more play. I don’t know why I didn’t expect that going fulltime as a pornographer would boost the amount of kink in my life. I knew I’d be looking at more of it on my computer screen, but I thought I’d be more of [...]
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A week in the life of a spanking pornographer
Posted by Pandora on February 19th, 2012
Posted in D, Dreams of Spanking, Jacq, Jenna Jay, Katie Didit, Photos, Play, Sarah Bright, Spanking Sarah 
Tags: bruises, switching over 
8 Comments »Intimate hardcore
Posted by Pandora on February 15th, 2012
I'm not a fan of the commercialisation of Valentine's Day, so was reluctant to join the throngs of marketeers insisting that the primary objective of the 14th of February was to have hot romantic sex with a lover, and their product could best help you achieve this. On the other hand, the date provided an ideal opportunity to step up the steaminess on my website a notch or two.
Posted in D, D/S, Dreams of Spanking, Fairtrade porn, Featured, Photos Tags: cane, ruler, Tricia Sullivan 9 Comments »Meet the dreamers
Posted by Pandora on December 23rd, 2011
Are you still dreaming, or is my website finally online?
Pinch yourself. After six years of inspiration and shooting, three years of production and editing and a year of development, my dream is finally a reality.
Dreams of Spanking has edgy punishment fantasies, historical scenarios, heartfelt dominance and submission, romance, drama, adventure and a hell of a lot of spanking. It has girls and boys being punished together. It has some of the most raw, honest and intense films I’ve ever made, with some of my favourite people. I mean, it goes without saying that you’ll be able to see me getting spanked on there, but I’m not the only one. Let me introduce the amazing performers who have joined me so far:
Spanking superstar Amelia Jane Rutherford, dancer, actor and choreographer. Elegant, graceful, kind, and ever so keen on spanking.
The unbelievably sexy Zille Defeu, a petite redhead with a kinky mind as creatively deviant as she is beautiful.
Jimmy Holloway, the young man about to take the spanking scene by storm. Switchy, gorgeous, and one of the best actors I’ve ever seen in porn.
Stunning, smart, switchy Adele Haze, who first inspired me to start thinking politically about spanking porn, and has kept me motivated ever since.
My beloved Thomas Cameron: director, actor, storyteller, and absolute expert at spanking me.
The lovely, sharp-witted Caroline Grey, who can upstage me any day and has a wicked switch side when provoked.
Zoe Montana: gorgeous, warm-hearted, fantastic at scolding. My female top of choice for working with new spankees.
Hot, kinky switch Sebastian Hawley, who’d developed a newfound taste for spanking by the end of his first shoot.
Blogger and switch Kaelah: pretty, thoughtful and sincere, who honoured me with her first ever shoot for a commercial site.
My beautiful dominant D: a geek, a pervert and a gentleman. I build the parts of the website that look nice. He built the bits that make it work.
… and, of course, yours truly.
Come dream with us!
Her Ladyship’s Breakfast
Posted by Pandora on December 19th, 2011
I’ve just announced, with great pleasure and no small amount of trepidation, the launch date of my long-awaited spanking website. Dreams of Spanking will finally go live this Friday, 23rd December.
Tonight, I want to share with you the first F/M scene I produced for Dreams of Spanking, and the only "pure" F/M scene we're launching with (if you exclude F/MF). It's called "Her Ladyship's Breakfast" and it represents a whole heap of firsts, actually:
- The first time real life couple Adele Haze and Jimmy Holloway played together on camera
- Adele's first scene for us as a top
- The first scene of the day on our shoot with talented photographer Daniel R, an old online friend who spent a day taking beautiful photos for (and of!) us
- The first scene I produced/directed without also performing in it
- My first attempt to produce/direct a spanking scene with a male spankee.
I'd done a lot of thinking about malesub spanking before getting to this point – going from political sympathy and outrage with the general shortage of beautiful, empathic spanking scenes which treat male submissive bodies as sexy, to starting to look out for this sort of material and, in fact, developing a taste for it. I had some very clear ideas about what I wanted. Physical chemistry between the characters; subtle characterisation and complex motivations; a romantic, elegant aesthetic and a strong visual focus on the appealing form of the male spankee. Mutual sexual desire, but focussing particularly on the desire, affection and respect the female top feels for her beautiful, strong, vulnerable male bottom.
Adele and Jimmy, close friends of mine and long term supporters of this project, had been playing together for five months, and it was a new dynamic for both of them. I had particularly enjoyed following my friend Jimmy's journey into affirming, positive bottoming and submission with a nurturing partner who respected his limits.
These days, the pair switch easily between roles and Jimmy has developed a very sexy confidence as a top/dom. But when we shot this scene they were still quite strongly in an F/M place, and I'm really glad that we were able to capture the unique flow of energy between them in this amazing scene.
What stands out to me about these images is the heat in Adele's gaze as she looks at Jimmy; his exquisite nude figure and heartbreaking vulnerability; the palpable D/S dynamic which implies no weakness on Jimmy's part, but rather strengthens both of them by their mutual trust.
Perhaps I can feel this more acutely because I'm not, personally, in it, but for me this embodies the principle that you should make the kind of porn you like to look at. I can't stop looking at this one, and I hope you like looking at it, too.
Click on any of the images to view the free gallery. The full set of 149 high res photographs plus behind the scenes commentary by Adele and Jimmy will be available to view on Dreams of Spanking from December 23.
Posted in Adele Haze, Dreams of Spanking, Fantasies, Jimmy Holloway, Photos, Vintage Tags: cane, F/m, pipe dreams 2 Comments »Radical porn
Posted by Pandora on November 30th, 2011
I’ve just published a two part article on the Dreams of Spanking blog about making radical porn.
In part 1 I ask: is gender segregation in porn as intolerant as race segregation would be, and is it okay to discriminate on gender lines because it’s “not your kink”? To what extent can we hold individual producers responsible for being complicit in segregation and inequality in porn? How much social responsibility do porn producers have, anyway? I also question the tendency to defer to “market forces” as an excuse for maintaining an unfair status quo.
In part 2 I look at the duty website owners have to cater to the taste of their members, and the extent to which all businesses choose their audience. I also examine the tension between quality/originality and marketability/profitability and the assessment and balancing of risks which is inherent in all creative entrepreneurship, and the role economic and social privilege plays in this. Finally, I examine my own privilege in an unfair society – and why I’ve made the choices I have.
This article is the culmination of quite a lot of thinking on the social and economic issues involved in pushing the boundaries of porn production. I’d be very interested to hear what people have to say.
The accountant strikes back
Posted by Pandora on November 22nd, 2011
Kaelah has written an in-depth shoot report about filming for my soon-to-launch site Dreams of Spanking earlier this year. She gives the behind-the-scenes scoop on our F/F scene 'The Taxman Cometh', in which she plays my long-suffering accountant who despairs of my poor organisation, and eventually takes me over the knee for a hairbrush spanking.
This video is loosely based on a true story. I’m not organised enough to keep accounts throughout the year and tend to compile everything for my tax return at year’s end. The second year I had to submit a return, I left it far too late and discovered, to my horror, that I couldn’t find my paper copies of several months’ bank statements. It was too late to order replacements, and my online banking records didn’t go back that far.
In reality, my accountant wasn’t someone I knew well, but simply a stranger who worked for the agency I’d hired. I didn’t confess the problem to them, and instead put together figures based on my invoices and emails for those months. But it caused me a lot of stress – and if they had been a friend and I’d put them in that position, they might well have decided I needed a spanking.
The following year I tried to be a bit more organised, but I still required some prompting in order to start working on my return in a timely fashion.
I’m still not as organised as I should be, although I’m getting better at starting a little earlier each year. This video is a reminder to me of the consequences of leaving it to the last minute … and a punishment I felt like I well and truly deserved.
View more images, behind the scenes details and a free clip from The Taxman Cometh »
Posted in Dreams of Spanking, Featured, Kaelah, Photos, Videos Tags: hairbrush, otk spanking, pipe dreams 3 Comments »Caught reading
Posted by Pandora on October 14th, 2011
Today's the last day of my self-imposed deadline for editing the films and photosets I want to launch with. I've made good progress the last couple of weeks, although not quite as much as I'd have liked, as I had to spend one day doing some owed work for a vanilla client, another earning money, and on Wednesday I managed to sprain my ankle during a stumble coming down steps in the train station, which meant no more editing on Wednesday. But I've picked things up the last couple of days, and have been photo-editing at a rate of knots… with the result that I've finished two new galleries in as many days. Woohoo!
Both these two photosets, and most of the others remaining to be edited, date way back to 2006 when I first started filming scenes for my own purposes with Tom and D, before the Dreams of Spanking concept was even firmed up in my mind. All I knew at that point was that I wanted to create my own professional-quality spanking material with my own partners.
Posted in Dreams of Spanking, Featured, Performers & producers, Photos, Thomas Cameron Tags: cane, school uniform 2 Comments »Schoolboys and aristocrats
Posted by Pandora on September 16th, 2011
I'd put a casting call up on my blog, but disappointingly, my inbox was not instantly flooded with requests for work from bright young things willing to shoot M/M spanking scenes. I received lots of emails from willing chaps over 40 who wanted to bottom to women, but lovely as I'm sure they were, none of them was really suitable for the scenes I had in mind.
In the end it was Twitter that solved my problem. I posted to the effect that I was looking for kinky young men willing to bottom on camera for CP films, and that I was offering competitive rates of pay, creative input and good times. Someone on my feed put me in touch with a friend of theirs. He didn't have a website, but he did have a link to a fetlife profile. I took one look at his photo gallery and was sold.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to Dreams of Spanking's newest star, Sebastian Hawley:
Sebastian switches, but was mostly interested in new encounters as a bottom, and had experience at modelling and acting. He's into deep D/S and service. Plus, look at that beautiful inkwork. I had to shoot him. All I needed now was someone to top.
Posted in Dreams of Spanking, Female gaze, Jimmy Holloway, Photos, Sebastian Hawley Tags: cane, F/m, m/m, other pictures, otk spanking, pipe dreams, school uniforms, shoot writeups 4 Comments »Female gaze, spankee gaze
Posted by Pandora on September 8th, 2011
Well, the name and URL of my forthcoming spanking site has now been released into the wild, and the pre-launch page is open to the public. I've been thrilled by the positive response so far. Thanks so much to all who have signed up to our mailing list, followed us on twitter, left positive comments on photos and written emails. It's been great to see others sharing my excitement about this project. Thanks also to those who have sent constructive criticism and feedback which has enabled us to improve aspects of the site, especially our introductory text on the homepage.
I've wanted to post these vintage photo montages since I first saw them on Chross' blog, but they fit the Dreams of Spanking idea so perfectly I've been holding off until the URL was made public. Check these out:
Aren't they wonderful? I love the facial expressions of the daydreamer, and the contrast between her lustful body language on the bench, and her submissive postures in the daydream. I'm seriously tempted to recreate this series as a full photoset for Dreams of Spanking 
But the most exciting thing about these images, to me, is that they represent an early example of female gaze spanking erotica. Not only female gaze, in fact – but spankee gaze.
Posted in Dreams of Spanking, Fantasies, Female gaze, Photos, Politics, Vintage Tags: pipe dreams 11 Comments »The dreamer of dreams
Posted by Pandora on September 7th, 2011
I have a secret to share with you.
(I know, you’d never have guessed, right?)
