Questionable March – And Too Angry!

Ask me a question

Apparently it is going round some of the blogs that this March is the time to ask blog owners questions. So I dare you to delve into my mind and psyche and I will do my best to answer as I can. Alternatively, no one can ask a question and that will make me cry.

How angry is too angry?

That ticking off before getting a butt warming can be a wonderful part of a spanking but as with all things too, much can be not good. I would like now to explore good angry versus bad angry using photographs to illustrate.

Just nicely angry

Too angry

Glasses and angry = MMMM! nice

Safeword! Safeword!

And finally

So that’s how she got her nickname

Or was it the curry that I made for her?

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Hot Cockles

Just how old is this game?

Many of you may have played this game, even Elizabeth Hurley admits to having played it. I know that I have but I knew it as “Guess the spanker”.

It is played like this

One player sits down, another player is blindfolded, kneels, and places his/her head in the sitter’s lap. The kneeler places an open hand on his/her back, with palm uppermost, which other players take it in turns to strike, and the kneeler must guess who has struck the blow.

Except the version that I played had mine and other peoples back sides glowing, before it was finished.

But it has been going on for some time

Originally I presumed it to be a Victorian parlour game but last week I heard on the radio that this game had been defined in the first English Dictionary, written by Samuel Johnson dating it as far back as 1746.My curiosity aroused, I engaged on a little internet search mission and found this page Hot Cockles: Information from Answers.com that stated that this game may have been going on since the 14th century.

So rather than the hundred and something years that  I thought this game had been played, it looks like it has been going on for seven hundred years or more. Long may this traditional spanko game continue.

And here endeth the history lesson

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Able-Whackets

Punishment at sea

We usually expect Corporal Punishment on a ship to be something along the lines of the image above but there was a more tame and fun based version.

Able-Whackets

This was a card game popular with 19th century sailors and the loser would be hit on the palms of the hand with a twisted  or knotted handkerchief. Although I spent literally tens of minutes on Google search performed extensive internet research, I could find out little about this game, how the implement was prepared or how many swats the loser could expect to receive. All I could find were simple definitions like this one.

An obscure card game from the 19th century.

A popular sea-game with cards, wherein the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope.

Still, it is nice to know that there was some light hearted CP play at sea and not only the brutally bloody floggings, that we have all heard about.

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Dickensian

Happy birthday Charles

Today, the 7th of February, is the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. The thing that Mr Dickens left the spanking world was the wonderful word that sums up the atmosphere of the attitude of the Victorian era and that word is Dickensian. When I hear this word it just sends my imagination spiraling. Here are just a few examples of what surges into my imagination.

Dickensian attire

All those wonderful uniforms and overly restricting dress styles of the period.

Dickensian Mistress

Governess, Lady of the house or other feminine authority figure, who’s wrath and harsh punishments where to be feared.

Dickensian devices

Of restraint, punishment, confinement. The people of the Dickensian era had such a broad and inventive bent when it came to thinking up such things.

Dickensian punishment

Brutal, hard and nearly always of a corporal nature.

In conclusion

Things Dickensian are wonderful to fantasize about and can make excellent play scenes but I think that we should be glad that we did not have to live through the harsh reality of that period of history.

Happy birthday Mr Dickens

And thank you for a wonderful word

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A Spanko On The Move – Travel Warning – Janus Focus – And MMMM! Bacon

maamyesmaam  has moved

Thanks to RedRump and All Things Spanking for news about this. Due to another Google Blogger pogrom maamyesmaam’s original blog was deleted but is back in action on WordPress. the new address of this blog is

http://maamyesmaam.wordpress.com

Travel warning for kinksters in Belgium

On Monday 30th of January there is a Belgium wide strike (in which I am taking part). It looks likely that most if not all of the rail network will be closed down and there will be increased road traffic. There will be a large protest in Brussels, which hopefully will be peaceful and not a stone throwing riot (with inflation as it is, stones are getting too expensive to throw away), but travel in and around Brussels will probably be very difficult. If you get caught in a jam there is a suggestion of how to pass the time in the illustration above.

Janus focus

It is a bit of a slow news week and I do like to have at least three items in the Roundup, so I thought that I would point to a couple of interesting posts that have been made about Janus, this week. The first is from MarQe ‘s Study and can be clicked to from here Roy Tersley; Janus Interview. The second is from Cherry Red Report and can be seen here Cherry Red Exclusive: The Top 10 Most Popular Janus Spanking Magazine Issues.

Bacon lube

The perfect thing for a morning glory. Thanks to Laci Green | A sex positive web space for finding this.

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Spanking Advert Banned

Some time ago

I was very excited when I came across this piece of news but then I looked at the posting date and found that it was 2003. So not so much news but olds. Still it is an interesting spank related thing. Apparently a company that used to be known as WE sweden showed this imaged of a woman with a reddened rear end on the packaging of their women’s underwear. This image attracted so many complaints that it was banned and the underwear had to be recalled. Personally I think that this company might have been less criticized if they had a spanked male bottom on the box of their male underwear.

Instead they had this

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