Sunday, January 11, 2026

Spanko Brunch 2.0 #625

Welcome, dear friends, to our weekly spanko brunch. This week's topic was inspired by a recent shopping trip when I wandered into the kitchenware section of a large department store.

When you shop in a vanilla store for a spanking implement, do you ever feel embarrassed? Do you think the staff knows what it's really for? Does it depend on the type of implement and/or the kind of store?

Leave your thoughts here as a comment, and I will publish a summary of our discussion once everyone has had a chance to speak.



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7 comments:

Barrel said...

Interesting that I look for spanking implements in many places, including antique stores, garage sales, hardware stores, adult stores and the like. And I look for more than just the implement such as gloves my wife might wear to protect against a lash rebound, mirror that I might be asked to use to watch the thrashing, pillows, fetish attire, restraints, etc. I admit to being kind of embarrassed. But I met a sales lady in an adult store several years ago who, over a lengthy conversation about what I was looking for, helped me accept who I am, I like impact play and TTWD. So, if a clerk smiles at me or nods, I acknowledge it with a wink and look to get home as soon as I can to put my purchase to work. All good!

Barrel said...

I forgot to mention that the pie looks really good!!!

Dan - A Disciplined Hubby said...

A couple of times. When we first started domestic discipline spanking, my wife sent me to the mall on a mission to find a good quality, heavy wooden hairbrush. I was convinced that every employee in the stores I went into knew why I was there. (And, I never did find a truly heavy brush.)

The only other time it's happened is when I bought a bath brush at The Body Shop. I'm convinced that no one ever uses their brushes for anything BUT spanking, so my embarrassment at that purchase seems to me to be perfectly legitimate.

Anonymous said...

My wife/mommy this question, she said how would they know, she saids they want to make a sell, don't think spankings cross their mind. I reminded her of a trip to the store, oh that one she said. I had just been spanked, it was a store where mostly older women work. Ask if she looking for anything in particular, she said a long handle bath brush. I looked away, and was walking to see something, I'm almost done Dear, which meant get back here. At the check-out the lady smiled, the long handle makes the difference, my wife/mommy said she hopes it does. Just when we were about to leave the lady said, my husband can tell you it does. My wife/mommy looked at her, she said the way he is walking he must have gotten a good spanking prior to coming. My wife/mommy smiled and said he did and getting a bedtime spankings, husbands can be very naughty little boys. Jack

WendelJones said...

The Misses is always a little embarrassed when we buy wooden hair and bath brushes. She will toss in a towel just to cover it up while we continue shopping.
At the Paula Dean restaurant and shop we got some odd looks from the clerk that checked us out as well as shoppers. Then again we did buy one of each design of spatula. BTW Paul Dean must be a spanko. There were over a dozen different designed spatulas.

Wendel

Roz said...

I have definitely felt embarrassed and uncomfortable on the couple of occasions we have gone to a adult store. Not so much in vanilla stores looking at wooden spoons etc but I can't help wondering what the staff think.

Hugs
Roz

Norse Cavalier said...

The first implement I bought was a clothes brush. The girl behind the counter gave me a smirk, as if she suspected I didn't buy it for its intended purpose, but neither of us said anything, and I didn't feel particularly embarrassed. Let her think what she will, it doesn't bother me.

If this was a story or a movie, there would have been some back and forth, and it would probably have ended up with me asking her whether she'd been a naughty girl, and whether she'd like to volunteer and let me test my purchase on her, but those things rarely happen in real life.

I've never had any other reactions when buying pervertables, and I'm never particularly embarrassed about it.