daneldorado wrote:
Wait. Isn't a hard leather slipper an implement?
I very much enjoyed the opening panels, which showed Walter spanking his sweetie Xandra over his knee with the hard palm of his hand. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but let me say that to me, a hard palm-of-the-hand spanking is the most sensual and enjoyable spanking there is. Just think. The man -- assume he's the spanker -- gets to wallop his sweetie on the sexiest part of her outer body, with his actual hand! The exciting tactile sensation produced by flesh-on-flesh action sends me into joyous exhilaration, far more than I could achieve by using an impersonal slipper, hairbrush, or paddle. Let me ask you this: Isn't using a weapon kind of sadistic?
The curve of a woman's buttock is shaped -- deliberately, I believe -- to conform to the same curve produced by a man's cupped hand. Even if you are not religious, doesn't that at least suggest that they were shaped that way by Intelligent Design?
Dan
I think we'd have to concede that the plimsoll is indeed an implement, Dan. On the other hand, we'd also have to concede that Phil could be inventive enough and work hard enough to bring yet another implement into this story if he wanted to, although I personally think that would require a scene-change. It's up to him, of course, and the rest of us will just have to follow along along - a simple and enjoyable task!
I don't think you're in the minority here in favoring OTK hand spanking. I've seen a poll somewhere in which OTK was the favored position among spankos, although it wasn't scientific (that is, it wasn't a random sample of spankos). OTK has to be the original spanking position, and the hand the original implement, and hats off to the genius who figured this out way back in human prehistory.
On the other hand, both have their limitations. You yourself once spanked until your hand split open! Implements save a lot of wear and tear on the hand. Paddles are extremely versatile and can administer a wide range of spankings, from sensual to fun to punishment, and canes have a special cachet as disciplinary implements. As to sadistic, well, that depends: the thin oval leather paddle is quite gentle even though stingy, while paddles of wood, lexan, or heavier leather (the basic factor here is weight) must certainly be used carefully - but when they are, they're wonderful!
As for OTK, it works best if the man is substantially larger than the woman, as often happens. It's not so good with a jockey trying to spank a plus-sized woman, although it can be done. Once at a spanking party it took two of us guys sitting on separate chairs facing each other to fit this woman over our combined knees, but it worked and she got whacked really good by two hands instead of one

! Probably OTK's biggest drawback is that it's not easily
perfectible; that is, it's hard to get it exactly right. The Bending Over positions are perfectible - you just keep adjusting the spankee's position until it's perfect, using aids such as a chair, ottoman (forces her to bend over further than a chair does

), desk, or spanking horse if desired - and I find making the spankee arch her back (ideally with a bare bottom and feet wide apart) and stick it out extremely effective in producing the humiliation and "loss of control" feeling many female spankos are desperately seeking.
Finally, we must never forget my theory of the
Transformative Event (TE), presented on CSR two years ago. Early experiences rather than rational choice explain many of the preferences in spanking. School canings and paddlings in particular have without question influenced many of us in the scene. Once you have, as an impressionable youth, seen or fantasized about your good-looking female classmate having to bend over for the paddle or cane, you're not going to be able to forget about it later in life, and it may be that OTK will be relegated to a distant second place as far as desired positions go.