Welcome to the Chicago Spanking Review!

Updated every Friday

Last Updated 07/30/2010.

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, or even troubled by, 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 appropriate.
• Provide several forums 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.

Personal Messages from the Web-Ed

We've completed our sad project of removing all of Andy Price's spanking artwork from the site, but nonetheless, it's been a big week for comic spanking: Three more with Captain Easy, one from Dixie Dugan, another with Hedy Wolfe getting it from her father, and a new discovery of ours in which Beezy Bumble spanks his sister Betty (he also spanks his sister hard - heh heh!); and the Comics Spanking Data Base passes the 150 mark. That means we have documented 150 spankings - another painful milestone in comics history!

-- Web-Ed, 07/30/2010

Coming Attractions:

• 08/06 - Another new Golden Age spanking, this one from Kiki Kelly. And a man shows he can still give a spanking even with only one leg in Flash Gordon.
• 08/13 - A romance comic story, I Was A Flirt - and we all know what happens to bad girls who flirt too much!
• Sometime in August - Six Bat-Spankings and two with the Teen Titans!
• Every week - Doc Cylon's colorizations and animations.

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 written on this site not specifically attributed or bylined to someone else was written by us.

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.

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 plan to add over 200 new pages, including some videos, and modify our page templates slightly (nothing revolutionary) to improve their appearance.