MBS Spanko Brunch #174

Hello again, my friends. After a long winter, nothing is more welcome than bright sunshine and beautiful flowers. Since we have plenty of the former today, I’m planning to get out and plant the latter!Our question of the week was submitted by an MBS …

Riding Crop Tease

Last night we had the dual pleasure of watching the Eurovision Song Contest and receiving Abel’s parents for the evening.
The night became particularly entertaining when we realised that Germany’s entry involved Dita Von Teese strolling around the stage, laced into a corset and waving a riding crop. For Abel and me this was a nice, […]

The escape committee

Sometimes, I think spanking stories are best cut off early, leaving the subsequent detail to the reader’s imagination. I’ve been playing with the following, for example, for a while now – tweaking words here and there on my laptop in idle moments.
I personally think it works better than if I’d kept writing and described the […]

Stealing the banned books

I read a review recently of an intriguing-sounding book, “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France”, by Professor Robert Darnton of Princeton University. Sadly, the books concerned seem to have been more political than erotic - but the review still included an interesting line:
It was the public hangman’s duty to destroy forbidden books that had been […]

checking in before I check out

It feels like everyone has taken a break from blogging lately. I’ve been hard pressed to keep up with posting myself: lots of different deadlines have converged this month, so not only have I been working flat-out at the office, but I’ve had hours of w…

The hotel’s cane (yes, really)

And then my Norwegian hotel experience got even better.
For, tidying the room at the end of the day’s event, I found what the hotel would doubtless claim to be a whiteboard pointer. Only we know better, don’t we?

No wonder the lass who brought in our coffees had tears in her eyes as she entered this […]

auctioning the Shambles

If you’re in the UK, did you ever visit the Shambles Museum? It was a recreated Victorian town in Gloucestershire that was open to the public, complete with cobbled street, shops, workshops and houses.

I’m not entirely sure, but unless there are two …

Punishment of young offenders

The British Library website has an interesting, lovingly compiled page:
This selection of sources shows a range of methods for the punishment and rehabilitation of young offenders in past centuries.

Among the presented documents, there’s this one:

So, if the new rules recommended that the girls not be subject to corporal punishment, would they have been thus punished […]

A little tangled up

I’ve got more things going on right now than I have time to deal with but I wanted to post something. I hate letting this blog get stale and yet, I don’t have time to post anything significant…so here’s a picture. I’ve got my fingers crossed that by the weekend, I’ll have time […]

life without bruises

I’ve commented before on the similarities between kink and sport. Both are activities where one consents to physical discomfort and potential injury for purposes of enjoyment, social bonding and personal satisfaction. The only real reason I can see tha…

Great Expectations

I’ve finally finished Great Expectations, one of those literary treasures English teachers in America force on fourteen-year-olds every fall.And I do mean force. I have extremely dim memories of this book from my freshman year in honors English, and no…

Well, it’s a hotel *nowadays*

So, my Scandinavian hotel had me thinking kinky thoughts even by breakfast on the first day. By lunchtime, I’d discovered a leaflet in our meeting room describing the hotel’s history: in Norwegian - not a language with which I’m overly familiar.
I could decipher that it had been built in 1914 - but something mysterious had […]

The tawse of nightmares

There must be a law that, if you live in a new place, you must fill it with new stuff. That’s what Abel has been doing since we moved: he’s gone on an implement shopping spree.
The latest arrival has been a replica ROSLA* tawse. It’s a handsome artefact: greyish-white, quite short (travel size, Abel said […]

Recap: MBS Sunday Brunch for May 10

I hope everyone enjoyed a peaceful and joyous Mother’s Day. Our topic was favorite spanking films. Here are your thoughts.Hermione: A movie called “If…” starring Malcolm MacDowell came out in the early 70s. It takes place in a boys’ private schoo…

MBS Spanko Brunch #173

Hey, everybody! It’s time for brunch again. Our question this week was contributed by an MBS reader.Can you recommend a few movies that have spankings in them? We like Secretary, but we have watched it too many times.This is a fairly open-ended ques…