Welcome to the Chicago Spanking Review!

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Last Updated 05/17/2013.

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Chicago Spanking Review is a Chicago-based free on-line journal of information and opinion on the the spanking scene, intended for those interested in the subject of adult spanking. Our goals are:

• Further the understanding of Spanking and Discipline within the context of human behavior. Our primary aim is to help those who are curious about their dominant or submissive desires, but we also want to provide a resource for the serious psychological researcher as the scientific literature on the subject is rather meager.
• Publicize spanking social events, especially those taking place in the American midwest, to encourage greater participation in them by members of the spanking community.
• Explain the importance of using proper techniques for both safety and satisfaction.
• Present stimulating photos and drawings (including comic-book spankings, a special interest of ours), placing them in social/historical context where possible.
• Provide a forum to promote discussion and an exhange of information among spankophiles.

For more about who we are and what we stand for, please scroll down to "More About CSR" or click here.

CSR was designed to be easy to navigate - from this page you can reach almost any other page on the site with only two mouse clicks - but it is a very large site, and if you're having trouble finding your way around, try the search box below or take a look at the Navigation Page. For spankings taken from comics books and strips, you can also search the Comics Spanking Data Base (see button below).

All pictures and artwork have thumbnail images to help you locate what you want to see. Click on the color-coded radio buttons below to go to the section you want. Scroll down past the radio buttons to find links to our most recent updates.

Personal Messages from the Web-Ed

• Remember to check out the CSR Forum (link above) if you have not already done so. You must join the board in order to post - be sure to follow the instructions given in the announcement over there and send us an email.
• Next Week: Humorama Spanking Positions 2! You won't believe how many examples of models and cartoon girls in the bending over position we've found: Fifty images accompany our erudite discussion of this subject, along with some unexpected surprises like another Playboy Playmate who assumed the position in the pages of Humorama, more about Julie Newmar, and one of the fifties' fittest models bends all the way over!

-- Web-Ed, 05/17/2013

• Humorama Update: New scan of Dan DeCarlo's Really, Charles.
• Humorama Update 2: Kirk Stiles' Secretary Spanking #29. New scan and both the original and second printings are now identified.
• Humorama Pastiche #4: Expressionism meets Humorama as a spankee gets butterflies in her stomach.
• Humorama Series #140: The George Morrice mini-series continues with a park ranger who posts one "No Trespassing" sign and ignores another to deliver a spanking. Another CSR first with another cartoon that has never appeared on the web before!
• Video Extra: To whet everyone's appetite for Super-Spanking Summer III, which begins in two weeks, we've completely redone our Spankings in DC Comics Video. We were never satisfied with the original version in which we put too much emphasis on making DC look ridiculous, so we got rid of all the Super-Tot stuff and stuck to the 24 examples where an adult female gets spanked. We also redid the opening and closing sequences and added a new soundtrack. And for the first time, we posted it to YouTube as well!

• Right after we posted Herc Ficklen's Fly-Swatter Spanking in March, CSR Resident Artist Hugob00m made some enhancements. We should have posted B00m's version the following week, but because we tend to do Humorama updates in alphabetical order based on what we have in our files, we forgot and did some Bill Ward instead! Let's fix that now and see what B00m did to fix Ficklen's fly-swatter flogging!
• Speaking of Bill Ward updates, here's one in which borrowing a girlfriend's boyfriend results in a spanking! New scan from this cartoon's final appearance in 1978!
• Humorama Series #139: The George Morrice mini-series continues with a man who doesn't waste time moping - he gets right down to spanking! Another CSR first with another cartoon that has never appeared on the web before!

• The Joe Shuster series concludes with a weird paddling machine in Rod Rule. Also, we reflect on the circumstances that forced Shuster to do this kind of work, and tell how his Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel was living during this time as well.
• Humorama Pastiche #3: Tim is at it again with the spanking editor of Laff magazine.
• Humorama Series #138: The George Morrice mini-series continues with a man spanking another man's wife - and her husband approves! This is the 190th Humorama spanking cartoon to be presented on CSR, and we're pleased to announce that due to recent discoveries we will in fact make it to 200!

• The Joe Shuster series continues with Nights of Horror #17, Hollywood Detective.
• Humorama Series #137: We continue our George Morrice mini-series with some British-style humor as the family butler spanks the mistress of the house.
• Humorama Update: Somewhat similar is this new scan of Morrice's Maid Spanks Miss.

Surf Free or Die: This is a free site, something of a throwback to the early, pre-commercial days of the web. There's nothing wrong with commerce, of course - it is after all the lifeblood of the nation - but we're sick of pay sites run on the side by large porno outfits that have no genuine interest in spanking. There are some worthy pay sites of course (usually run by genuine spankos), and you can find a few of them on our links page along with free sites and blogs.

What we stand for: Our focus here is on adult spanking, with sane people engaging in safe, consensual play. Because of this, with some very minor exceptions we don't feature any material on this site involving the disciplinary spanking of children, a subject which can and should be discussed elsewhere (we're against it, by the way, like most spankos we know). Our concern is that if we included spankings of both adults and children, some people might think we were trying to eroticize child-spanking because the larger context in which it was presented included elements of adult erotic spanking as well. Therefore, despite our interest in comics, we won't post any of the numerous comic-book spankings involving Nancy, Li'l Dot, Li'l Jinx, etc. We don't consider Superbaby/Superboy spankings (really attempted spankings) to be a problem because, as will be seen in the Comics Gallery, they never come off. By contrast, there is a panel from an old Superboy that shows Professor Lang spanking a young Lana Lang that we won't post, although we do have an aborted spanking of Lana as an older teen. And we have posted an anti-school paddling article by "Martin" that echoes our own thoughts on the subject.

In the galleries, we try to present interesting examples of popular culture and erotic art, placing them in a social/historical context where appropriate. Most of this has appeared elsewhere, but some of the comics material is from our personal collection or was actually commissioned by us for the site. With the articles the situation is reversed: most are original and have never appeared anywhere else, offering our readers what we hope is a unique and valuable perpective.

Who we are: We (that's an editorial "we") call ourselves the Web-Ed because back in 2004 when we started the site, we didn't like the common term "Webmaster", although given the "master" part, it is somewhat appropriate in the broad context of D/S. We edit this site much the way we would a printed magazine (except that we can't pay contributors), so we shortened "Web Editor" to "Web-Ed". Because of our early involvement in the world of comic books, we also intended a sly reference to Spider-Man, who bore the appellation "Web-head", but this was too obscure to be picked up on by normal people. We won't give any more autobiographical details here, but you'll find bits and pieces scattered throughout the various pages. Every word on this site not specifically attributed or bylined to someone else was written by us.

Our website design philosophy: With the exception of the Bulletin Board, we write all our own code, and without fancy web page creation software either (we use Arachnophilia, simple but extremely useful and versatile freeware, for all HTML, PHP, CSS, and JAVA files). While we could do anything that other sites do (given the cooperation of our site host and the time to analyze and understand the code), we strongly believe in "keeping it simple." We hate the pop-up windows, slow-loading pages waiting for extensive 3rd-party content, and labyrinthine navigation that are all too common on web sites these days. Nor do we appreciate the assumption of some web-designers that every visitor has the latest and greatest browser with every obscure plug-in and extension. The use of flash players to provide picture slideshows in place of simple thumbnails hyperlinked to new pages is another unnecessary complexity all-too-frequently encountered.

We have therefore written simple web pages that display quickly, don't use pop-ups or lengthy scripts, and that can be reached from the home page with a maximum of three mouse clicks (usually two). We have shied away from a lot of video content because in our experience large video files and embedded players cause too many problems. There are plenty of other sites that feature extensive video content. Generally speaking, then, we're not too fond of excessive bells and whistles, but on the other hand we're not completely opposed to modernizing the site somewhat. In 2010 we added over 300 new pages, including some videos, and modified our page templates slightly to improve their appearance.

Submissions: We update the site with additional material whenever we can. Most of it we gathered ourselves, but we are always grateful for submissions although we can't pay for them (the only exception being occasional commissioned works of art). If you have written an article, a work of spanking fiction, or have any pictures (which you own or to which you hold the copyright) that you would like to see posted, please send them along to the web-ed.