The Tesco Value fetish range?

I just love getting emails like this a couple of weeks back, from Lazarina:
I very much enjoy your blog, and not having one of my own, I wonder if readers would be interested to know that larger Tesco ‘extra’ stores are now selling riding crops for £5? My boyfriend and I were in the ‘outdoor […]

Spankernet?

Walking around London, we were amused by this shop window:

They’re renaming the Internet… into what, exactly?

The best of the kinky rest - 7: The life of a secret-keeper

And finally… We hope you’ve enjoyed our choices over the past week of our favourite entries from other blogs. We’ve saved perhaps the best of a great bunch to last.
It’s a thought-provoking, touching piece that appeared last month at “The confessions of a spanked princess”. In it, Kelly explored some of the challenges of embracing […]

“Abel’s Spanking Stories”

I know that many of you first discovered my writing through my website, Abel’s Spanking Stories. It’s been around since January 2002; in that time it’s had well over two million hits and lots of kind comments from very many readers.
Sure, it’s woefully out of date – but we’re finally getting round to redesigning “The […]

The best of the kinky rest - 6: Just like a woman

We love Emma Jane’s blog, and one of her posts from May is the next selection in our annual round-up. In it, she related the lyrics of a Dylan song, line by line, to her kink, starting with the opening line: - “She takes just like a woman”:
I am a woman, a grown-up, an adult. […]

The power of prefects

Here’s an interesting item: “The Loom of Youth” by Alec Waugh, a book about public school life.
From the preface we learn that it caused a scandal, and it was banned in some schools: “In self-defence the schoolmasters hit back and by mid-November the book had become the centre of violent controversy. In many schools […]

The best of the kinky rest - 5: OMFG

“Inside the mind of Gloria Brame” is a veritable treasure-trove of photographs, illustrations and perceptive comments - and one of her posts is the fifth of our annual “Best of the kinky rest” selections. Not all of the material on her blog is spanking-related, but it’s invariably hot and often very witty, as with our […]

The harem caption competition

The ever-enjoyable Photino featured a wonderful harem illustration the other day, wondering whether anyone knew the source:

I spent an enjoyable half hour seeing if I could solve the riddle. I found one Google reference that appeared promising in an article entitled, “Slaves, Sex, and Ascetics in Rasdhan, ca. 1800–1857”, published by the Cambridge […]

The best of the kinky rest - 4: Caning procedure

The next of our summer selection of the blog posts we’ve most enjoyed in recent months is this, from the ever-so-dark “News of the Lash” – which publishes news accounts of real-life thrashings from around the world, interspersed with photographs from spanking movies and of “deserving young women, the sort who look like they deserve […]

Crop, whip, cane

We went for a stroll in a small Cotswalds town, and walked past a window of an antique shop. And what did we find in the window but this interesting instrument:

I thought it was a walking cane, but Abel pointed out that the shop label actually called it a riding whip. This made it a […]

The best of the kinky rest - 3: Inspirational artwork

Continuing our week of our favourite posts from around the spanking blogosphere comes one from Tina, describing her “masochistic wet dreams”:
I simply cannot help it. When I see some artwork of women being punished, I immediately identify myself with the victim, taking her place. Yes, so strong is this feeling that I feel like I […]

‘The English Experience’

Standing just beyond the security checks as I headed home through Stuttgart airport last week was a very cute young lady, in a neat uniform of short grey skirt and pale blue polo top. She held a sign aloft for all to see – ‘The English Experience’. Every few minutes, lost-looking teenage girls wandered up […]

The best of the kinky rest - 2: Birched

Next up in our annual selection of entries from other blogs we love is this lovely little tale from “Beauty and the birch”, in which nineteen-year old Sally finds herself before the judge:
It is the sentence of this court that you be taken, at a time convenient to the Governors, to the square at St […]

A short investigation

An amusing episode is described in one gentleman’s memoirs of his school days: *
In 1951, I was sent to Bishop Westcott, Namkum, Ranchi. Westcott was immediately adjacent to the Eastern Command headquarters of the Indian Army, Bihar… I thought it strange that there was barbed-wire all around the school grounds but very soon realised that […]

The best of the kinky rest - 1: The worst punishment

It’s become something of an annual tradition for us to post a summertime selection of entries we loved on other blogs. So we’re pleased to present the first of this year’s selection – further entries will follow throughout the coming week interspersed with our own posts.
We start with an absolute gem from Graham’s “The S […]