I love these illustrations from an old printing of a French erotic memoir, Au Rouge Vif: anecdotes intimes sur la flagellation. The clothes are marvellous (split bloomers! and look at that hat!), the poses are dynamic and I love the dual punishment image.
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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 »YouTube spankings and judicial fantasies
Posted by Pandora on December 12th, 2011
I’ve stumbled across a few unexpected and good public YouTube spankings lately. This one was found by D (we were searching for ‘dragon spanking’ in the name of Rule #34, believe it or not):
Only one whack with a wooden paddle, but it’s a solid one. I was also entertained by the comment accompanying it:
“Went to Pride and came across ‘spanking will turn you gay’, well guess what!? It worked… actually I was already… but it felt good.”
(There are some other convincing “one strike” paddling clips on Youtube here and here.)
A young woman is given 18 smacks over jeans for her birthday by gleeful friends, relatively hard, while being held face-down on the ground. She seems largely amused by the whole affair. I particularly liked the way the spanker keeps blowing and rubbing his palms between smacks – but seems determined to keep on dishing it out just as hard, despite the sting.
Finally, this one was linked on Twitter today by QuaiDisciplines:
In this scene from The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, the young Mary watches a woman receive 25 lashes. This is severe, realistic and utterly gorgeous if you like historical judicial punishments. I particularly enjoyed the harsh soundscape of the whipping itself – the punchy, wet sounds of the lash landing, and the woman’s screams muffled by her gag.
My prison caning with Pain4Fem was nearly three years ago now. It scratched that itch for a while, but watching this clip I realised I’m ready to start thinking about my next severe punishment on camera. My ideal scenario would be a historical, judicial setting: a whipping block or bench with restraints and a gag; me in petticoats, playing a hapless, probably poor young woman given a harsh sentence. The sentence should be between 25 and 50 strokes, but I wouldn’t want to decide the exact number myself. I’d want it to be the cane, though, and I’d want Tom to deliver it. I could trust him to do it hard enough; hard enough to draw blood, to make me scream through the gag.
The problem is that I don’t have any shoot budget until a few months into new year, but I want to do it now, while I have time to heal. And I can’t think of a location which would be suitable and wouldn’t also be expensive. Rather than film what I’d like to be an atmospheric, believable scene in an entirely inappropriate interior, perhaps this one should wait until I can afford to do it properly. In the meantime, the thought of it will just have to tide me over.
Posted in Fantasies, Thomas Cameron, Videos, Vintage Tags: back whipping, cane, hand spanking, judicial, pipe dreams, wooden paddle 12 Comments »Fiction and non-fiction
Posted by Pandora on October 18th, 2011
Click to view BBC footage of a boy’s school cross country run from 1948
I dreamed the other night about reading an autobiography of some (fictional) well-known man. My dream, of course, focussed on his school experience. The most memorable part was his recollection of cross-country PE. Long runs through beautiful green English countryside in horrible grey English weather. Icy wind and stinging rain that raised goose-pimples on your bare legs below your scratchy white shorts. And a sadistic PE master who would wait for you at a turning point, cane in hand – ostensibly to prevent the boys from getting lost, but missing no opportunity to slash at you across your damp, chafing shorts to encourage you along.
Because this was a dream, the same PE master could be waiting at every crossroads, snug in his warm blazer, applying a cane stroke to the seat of a struggling boy every few minutes during their 3 mile cross-country run.
I think I know where the dream came from. I’m still hobbling around on crutches after spraining my ankle last Wednesday, and when she was visiting over the weekend Adele Haze told us a story from an Australian autobiography she’d read – a true story, although I can’t remember who told it – of a school teacher who delighted in caning the hands of the boy with the hurt leg with special relish, knowing he’d have to use his welted hands to make his way back to the back of the class on crutches. I shuddered when I heard it, sickened and unable to fetishise such targeted cruelty when I’m struggling so much with mobility at the moment.
Despite having loathed cross-country runs at school almost as much as I currently hate being unable to walk unaided, the school scenario of my dream appeals to me much more. Perhaps when I’m off the crutches my kinky brain will be able to appreciate the sadism of the true story, but in the meantime fiction suits me just fine.
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 »Mounted
Posted by Pandora on August 29th, 2011
A friend showed me this comic today. A lady of the manor, a callipygopterist, who likes nothing better than to display the shapely bottoms of her collection to honoured guests.
I particularly like the suggestive way she’s holding that riding crop…
Lick your lips, but don’t click this.
New figure nudes
Posted by Pandora on May 17th, 2011
Last week I had my first art nude shoot in a couple of years; certainly the first since I put on weight and went up a size or two. However, I wasn’t nervous about my shape. The photographer in question was one I’d worked with before, and he booked the shoot because he specifically wanted [...]
Posted in Body positivity, Featured, Photos, Victoriana, Vintage Tags: al fresco spanking, art nude, learning curves, otk spanking, shoot writeups 41 Comments »a complete cure for OBESITY, HYSTERIA and GOUT
Posted by Pandora on February 22nd, 2010
Tom and I have started watching Mad Men; we’ve only watched the first few episodes, but I’m enjoying it so far. The portrayal of 50s culture is deeply claustrophobic, and really puts paid to the claims that life is worse now than it was then – certainly in terms of social permissiveness, equality and personal [...]
Victorian spanking burlesque?
Posted by Pandora on February 15th, 2010
I love these Victorian photos by digitalfailure on flickr (thanks to Chross for the link). They’re the only two spanking images in a gallery full of stage and travel photography. Was this a Victorian spanking themed act in a burlesque show? If so, I wish I could have seen it! I adore the face of [...]
a very Victorian birching
Posted by Pandora on December 9th, 2009
I’ve spent most of the last week plotting historical scenes for my shoot with Zille de Feu and her Master on Monday. I am ridiculously excited – about meeting them, working with them, and about the scenes we have planned. It helps that Zille and I appear to have almost exactly the same taste in [...]
Posted in Fantasies, Northern Spanking, Victoriana, Zoe Montana Tags: meta-analysis, other pictures, pipe dreams 2 Comments »
