What does Speedy Gonzales - the fastest mouse in all Mexico - have to do with spanking? Read on.
Ron and I were engaged in our favourite activity last weekend. Due to unforseen circumstances, we had had to postpone my bottom-warmings a couple of times. Now Ron was making up for the neglect, and I was struggling to remember why it was that I liked spankings. This one really hurt. My poor bottom had become soft and tender with the absence of regular attention, and now an ordinary spanking felt like a real humdinger!
Ron could clearly see that I wasn't up to the usual menu of swats that he normally delivers.
"You've got a blood blister." He patted me and motioned for me to get up. But I didn't want it to end so soon, in spite of the discomfort. I stayed put and hoped things would soon become more enjoyable.
After a couple of half-hearted swats, Ron put down the paddle. "You've had enough." Then, as he saw me reach around behind, "can you feel it"?
"Yes. Did you do that? With that paddle?" There was definitely a large raised area on my right cheek.
"Yep. I did it with the Big Bopper" Ron is a fifties music fan, and had renamed our most-used leather implement to suit his taste in music.
I giggled, then tried again. "I mean, was it there before you started?" I was hoping Ron wouldn't decide that I was no longer up to taking the kind of spanking I had always enjoyed up till now.
"No."
I pulled on panties and shorts, and rubbed my bottom thoughtfully. Maybe I needed some aloe vera. Maybe I can't handle this any more. Maybe I'm too ol.......
Later, as I sat uncomfortably on the couch beside Ron, trying to watch whatever was on TV, but actually attempting to find a non-painful position, my husband turned to me and, in his best Speedy Gonzales accent, said, "How's the bleester on your keister?"
As we laughed together, I knew that he wasn't at all put off by my slight injury, and would do his best to toughen up my bottom again.
My keister will soon be back in shape for a good old-fashioned spanking. And who knows? Ron may start a new career as a stand-up comedian.
More sketches from Souvenirs of a Boarding School.
The cherubs are busily preparing some sort of spanking apparatus.
The dresser does not look at all comfortable for this poor servant, being beaten by two ladies. That's quite an array of implements on the wall.
... for playing too much online poker!

Today I have another highlighted excerpt to share with you from S-M: The Last Taboo, by Gerald and Caroline Greene.
Another of Havelock Ellis's female correspondents wrote: "Actual pain gives me no pleasure, yet the idea of pain does, if inflicted by way of discipline and for the ultimate good of the person suffering it... I only get pleasure in the idea of a woman submitting herself to pain and harshness from the man she loves when the following conditions are fulfilled:
1. She must be absolutely sure of the man's love.
2. She must have perfect confidence in his judgment.
3. The pain must be deliberately inflicted, not accidental.
4. It must be inflicted in kindness and for her own improvement, not in anger or with any revengeful feelings, as that would spoil one's ideal of the man.
5. The pain must not be excessive and must be what when we were children we used to call a "tidy" pain; i.e., there must be no mutilation, cutting, etc.
6. Last, one would have to feel very sure of one's own influence over the man."
The authors conclude "The passage is particularly compelling since it suggests so much control. A Sadean fantasy frequently has the infliction of punishment accompanied by a mandatory smile on the victim's face. Outside the sexual sphere pain is condemned.
So s-m is a personification of the imagination."
Here are your creative interpretations of the conversation taking place in the picture:Karl - "And then I burned his toast. And you know what that means....
His mom gave us this souvenir paddle that says, among other things, that it's to be used on wives who burn the toast. Would you believe he takes that literally. That's why I am standing here right now.
So what's with the rest of you. Why aren't YOU sitting?" SixoftheBest - "The best spanking I've ever had in my life, is when 'Six of the best' took my knickers down, and walloped my naked rear end good. Painfully good. Next week when I invite him over, he will gladly bring the same painful joy to your bare bottoms." Michael - "And then I found this magazine at the back of his drawer. It has pictures of women spanking men on their bare bottoms. What do you girls think I should do about it?" Red - "Would you believe it that he came home and had stopped for a drink without any concern that our dinner would be burned, and then, although he profusely apologized, I had him remove all the clothes he was wearing, and I spanked his bottom until it displayed a fire engine red, certainly a spanking he will not soon forget, and another bad habit that will not be repeated."Lorraine - "..And then I hid all his furniture in my shoulder pads and came straight here." Welcome, Lorraine.
Ronnie - "I just couldn't resist it, thought it a real bargain but Bill didn't think so when he found the receipt and then I was made to bend over the chair while he spanked me with hand. It was worth it, the ring is lovely, isn't it?"Barely Pink - "...and then I took his hand, like this, and said, 'Why darling, this is sufficiently hard. Please put that silly paddle away.' Anyone care for more tea?"Hermione - "And then I hid his TV remote, and wouldn't tell him where it was until he spanked me hard."
Here's another picture by my favourite feminist, Anne Taintor. These ladies, dressed in fifties-style bathrobes, are discussing something of great interest. Why are they in their bathrobes? Could they be talking about spanking, do you think?
Only you can answer these questions by filling in the blanks and completing the caption.