Thursday, March 30, 2023

It takes a licking...

and keeps on ticking. That was an old advertising slogan for Timex watches, and I can vouch for its accuracy. Last month I told you about losing a watch the day after Ron gave it to me.

Yesterday, I was out with one of our dogs who was exploring a flower bed. I was keeping a close eye on him in case he deposited something I needed to pick up, when a sparkle caught my eye.

The sun was glinting on something gold and shiny. Could it be my long-lost watch?  I bent over to look more closely, and sure enough, it was! I picked it up. brushed it off, and brought it and the dog inside, where I proudly showed the watch to Ron. It was a little dirty, but still showed the correct time after being exposed to the elements for half a year. The little light even came on when I pressed the stem. I wore it proudly the next day, with a strip of electrical tape over the clasp to be sure it wouldn't go wandering again.


 But that wasn't the only watch to be lost and found. Pictured above is another watch Ron gave me. I loved it and wore it often until one day it disappeared. I searched everywhere but was unsuccessful, so I ordered another one just like it. 

About a year later, I was tidying the area around my desk. I moved a stack of saved bubble wrap next to the wastebasket and lo and behold, there was my watch! Now that was very odd, because I only take a watch off in the bedroom and store it in the dresser. What was it doing on the floor in another room? 

Fast forward a year or so. That particular watch suddenly went AWOL again. Some weeks later Ron discovered it in the drawer of a bookcase in the living room, where we store greeting cards, batteries and other miscellany. How did that watch get there? We'll never know. Perhaps it just likes to go walkabout.


Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Monday, March 27, 2023

Recap: Spanko Brunch 2.0 for March 26

Do you ever engage in self-spanking?

Mark: I have a number of times. In each case I hadn't been spanked for a while. How did it go - variable! I find it is difficult to spank hard enough and that finding the right implement is important. I've used wood paddles which are ok, and I have a new short leather paddle that may work.
Definitely prefer to be spanked by someone else.

Dan: I have, mostly just to see whether it would be at all effective. The results were odd. Based on the markings it left, I apparently was able to generate force similar to a real spanking from my wife. Yet, it somehow didn't hurt nearly as much. And, emotionally it met none of the needs that a real spanking apparently meets.

Roz: I have tried it a couple of times. I found it difficult to get much force behind it so it was less effective and less satisfying. No emotional connection to a spanker leaves a big piece of the spanking experience missing also.

Bonnie: Yes, but it was not satisfying. How can I possibly let go when I am supposed to be in charge? I like to keep the roles separate and I know which one is mine.

Rosco: I tried it. Didn’t work. Physics not there, no lecture of course.

Fortunately I have a wonderfully willing strict wife. - for an hour or so a day.

Prefectdt: I do self spank, a lot sometimes, but I never enjoy it, not impact spanking anyway. I sometimes cane myself as a disciplinary method, usually when I am trying to lose weight. That is effective, just because I don't enjoy it and it is just painful and annoying and I do not want it to happen again next week, when the numbers are totted up. The other times that I self spank is when I will have a long time between real spankings. This is not for fun, but just to keep my butt in shape and not to lose pain tolerance. I don't want to turn up for a real spanking with a butt that cannot handle the fun. I do have a TENS device, with which a sort of electro spanking can be administered. It is not as good as a real spanking, but does give me a small Spanko high and helps me keep my mind on track during long dry spells.

Jack: Tried several times, even looking at F/m pictures, nothing. My wife, while dating once she knew I wanted to be spanked, ask if I had try spanking myself, I told her I did, and told her it was a waste of time.

Wendel: The Misses and myself both tried it. It lacks the emotional connection and angles and self preservation prevents from getting a really good one.
We did put a spin on it a couple of times by self spanking when the other was present. For the first we each took a turn while the other stood outside the bedroom listening. It was arousing hearing the smacks on the Misses’ bottom and for my turn, knowing she was just outside the door giggling.
The second was self spanking while the other was in the room. I did enjoy watching her whack her bottom and being critiqued by The Misses while I spanked myself was a turn on.
Still nothing beats a sound paddling from the one you love.

A.J.: "Have you ever self-spanked?

Yes, but only a couple of times, 'couple' as in three of four times.

"How did it go?"

Meh! I'm with Roz in that is difficult to do it properly, and totally missing the connection to a real, live spanker.

What got you to do it?

Bored. Had not been spanked in a LONG time and wanted to try it and find out what it was like. The last time I attempted it - 15-years ago...?

PS: Loved Wendel's comment about his wife outside the bedroom door and giggling as he self-administered. That had to be a funny moment!

Ronnie: Tried it a couple of times a while back and found it hard to do. Couldn't get much force behind it. 

JJ Rose: I have done quite a bit of self-spanking over the years, although I haven't done it since... 2013? The reason I did it was simple: I wanted to get spanked, and it was difficult to make that happen.

How did it go? Fine, I guess. The best self-spanking scenes I ever did were when I was on the phone or on video chat and I "had no choice" but to do what I was told.

KDPierre: I've done it a lot, especially when I was fairly young. I think the first times were when I was in 5th or 6th grade, and the last being a few years ago as the result of a blog dare.

When I was more flexible, I found it very effective and if I wanted to feel like the spanking was 'out of my control' I used to use all sorts of chance items, like dice or cards, to determine the amount. After I was married I only did it once for a video for my ex who was away. Later still, when my marriage was rapidly deteriorating, I resumed the activity, only then at the request or instruction of people online.

Once I was physically engaged with real people again, the desire or need to do it alone again waned.

Yes, spanking is always better with another person, even self-spanking, but in the absence of another, I did find it a worthy substitute and still found the activity restorative and calming. 

Hermione: I might do it the odd time to test the effectiveness of a new toy, but nothing beats the real thing (pun intended).

Thanks, everyone, for sharing!

Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Spanko Brunch 2.0 #480

Sticker Yellow crocus - PIXERS.CA

I saw the first crocus of the season yesterday. Those little yellow beauties are experts at popping up in a sunny spot, in spite of the cold.

Faithful brunch attendee Rich Person asked me this question, and I'm passing it along to you.

Have you ever self-spanked? How did it go? What got you to do it?

Please leave your response as a comment. Once everyone has had a chance to respond, I will publish an edited summary of our conversation.

Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Tra la, 'tis Spring!


Ron saw the first robin of the season yesterday, and early this morning I heard it -- or one of its brothers --  singing its heart out. The snow is fast disappearing from our garden and seeds have been started indoors.

This is also a time when road repairs and home renovations start because outdoor work is again possible. But things don't always go as planned.











 

Spankings for all, amirite?



Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Monday, March 20, 2023

Recap: Spanko Brunch 2.0 for March 19

Our discussion was about our first spanking fantasies, and whether they have changed over time.

A.J.: The reason I asked this question was because of a question posed by Bonnie back in January, who related a conversation with a friend where she told the friend she was spanked - and loved it. It was a nice story. And the friend was not judgmental.

In an email back and forth with a female reader of Hermione's, I mentioned a conversation I had with a DEFINITELY non-spanko former GF of mine, and the topic of kinky sex came up. When I told her that a former GF got off (Like A VOLCANO!!) from being spanked, she was shocked and a bit disgusted. What I didn't mention was my defence of the former GF (who had tricked me into spanking her) saying that what she had was a fulfillment of fantasies that she had since she was a young pre-pubescent girl.

And I pointed out: what she had was a fulfillment of one of her sexual fantasies! And that everyone has fantasies! Social, economic, and definitely sexual; i.e., the pirate and the princess, the school teacher and the cowboy, teacher-student, lover, and - naughty/tease of a GF.

Because the GF trusted me, she took a chance and got lucky. She got a nice, fun spanking and got to live out one of her fantasies in real life! She let herself go - and Jesus was it ever wild!

And good for her.

In my email back and forth with a female reader of Hermione's, she said she had similar fantasies. So do I, and that's why the question.

One of my first? I was in 9th grade social studies and next to me were, maybe, the two cutest girls in the class on whom I had severe crushes, one a blonde and the other a brunette. We all get in trouble and have to report to the teacher after school. The teacher, in real life - imagine a call to central-casting to send up a middle-age, kindly school teacher; a wonderful woman in all ways, but one who had a very "traditional cure" for disrespect, dishonesty, and bad behavior, if-you-know-what-I-mean-and-I-think-you-do.

And so say hello to Mrs. P! Our social studies teacher.

OTK bare-bottom spankings for the three of us!! Followed by Mrs. P telling us, "Let this be a reminder for the three of you! The next time - it will be worse!" as she left us alone to recover.

In my fantasy, my blonde and a brunette crushes, the truly guilty ones, nursing their sore bottoms, apologize to me and decide to make it up to me. And well, our underwear is still on the floor so....! Yes. They managed to find a way.

How's that for logic??? Cuz' that's how a 14-year old rolls!!

Do I still have those fantasies? Hell, yeah!

Graham: I have had fantasies of being spanked by strong women ever since I can remember. Nothing has changed in that regard. I'm also open to switching, but my strong preference is F/M.

Mark: Spanking has been large in my thoughts since pre-teens. At that stage it was more about fear of getting spanked. By teens I was caned and knew of many friends caned and I was definitely still very fearful but also fascinated and probably obsessed. Through out my whole life it has been about me being spanked rather than spanking. I am happy to help others by providing a spanking for them - its just not my side of the kink.

Bonnie: I was a small kid so my fantasies were very simple and definitely not sexual. I imagined a big anonymous man of authority taking me over his lap and spanking me. There wasn't much more to it.

Rosco: Initially I had fantasies about both spanking and being spanked. I spanked a girl when we were 13, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. The first experience of any kind for me.

At 16, I asked a girl to spank me and she reacted poorly.

At 23 I spanked a girl and she said “I don’t think I like that.”

At 24 I told Irene I was a spanko. She said she didn’t want to be spanked but she’d be happy to spank me. She’s been doing it (and more) for 43 years. Any desire I once had to spank someone is long gone, but I still love round bottoms on women and love pictures and stories of women spanking women.

Wendel: I have been fascinated with spanking for as long as I can remember. Mom always spanked in the kitchen and always on the bare bottom. To this day it is my favorite place to give and get spankings. The first spanking that I ever gave out was to a lady I worked with. After one of our dates, I gave her a birthday spanking, in the kitchen of course. Skirt up, panties down. It was fun and exciting. When I met the Misses and discovered she enjoyed spanking I tried to always make them fun. The Misses felt the same way and we have been enjoying spanking each other ever since. 

Rich Person: When I was in grade school, a bunch of kids came over and we were playing in the back yard. The penalty if you lost some bit of a game (I don't remember the game) was to crawl through the "spanking machine". The kids lined up and the person to be spanked was supposed to crawl between our legs while we spanked them.

I got all lined up with the others, legs apart, for them to crawl through. And here they came, crawling right through the line, between all the legs.

They crawled so fast I couldn't land a blow.

Boy, was I disappointed!

My later spanking experiences were much more satisfactory. But they never involved someone losing a game or crawling past me for swats.

Roz: Like Bonnie, my fascination with spanking started from a young age also so fantasies were fairly simple and non-sexual. Naughty girl gets spanked. Of course, the fantasies have since progressed from there.

Prefectdt: I have been fantasizing about spanking ever since I can remember. We are talking pre-school days. It was always me on the receiving end, in my mind.

Mostly, these fantasies were kept very deep and I was very worried about them. I did not realize that I was not alone until, as a teenager, a friend and I made a trip to an adults-only shop, in order to buy vanilla magazines, with more graphic content than the soft porn mags at our local newsagents. It was sort of a rite of passage thing when I was young. But there, as we perused the magazines, I spent more time looking, out of the corner of my eye, at the small collection of spanking magazines available. I returned at a later date, alone, to get one of those glittering prizes. It was then that I discovered that I was not alone in the world and discovered that like-minded, consensual Spankos existed and I was one of them. This was early in my 15th year on this planet, although it would be another 3 years until I actually got to play with anyone.

Jack: I can't peg when the interest was first noticed, I just enjoyed movies where the female were spanked, or their bottoms swatted. I had a best friend whose mother would spank him. When I was dating, it was in the back of my mind; I dated women who enjoyed being in charge. I dated a woman ten years older, Bea, and after couple of months knowing her, she said there were times she wanted to give me a spanking. Lying in bed one morning after a great evening, while playing with her breast I asked about the spanking. She smiled and said you wish for me to spank you, I said yes. Well she gave me a spanking then and there, it hurt, and when she asked how I liked it, I just said I need a woman to be in charge.

Sore is More: Definitely since pre-school, and I was a voracious reader, had this recurring dream/fantasy that involved birching/switching 19th century style and nettles, also needle play (because of injections in the bottom), belt (heard stories), enema. Like different rooms in the house for different pain activities. No, never been spanked as a child. I guess I was a complete opposite of a late bloomer. 

Forgot one more, sore bottom getting wrapped in some hot wet fabric/towel to intensify the pain. I guess in my mind I've always been a bona fide masochist and any shrink's wet dream.  

Ron S.: I grew up in the 60s when spanking was routine especially in my small hometown. I had a circle of maybe ten friends, about half boys and half girls. We all were spanked by our parents and the paddle was used in school. My fantasy started in elementary school but was enhanced in Jr high school when girls began to develop physically. I fantasized about spanking some of those nice rear ends. About 7th grade I gave my first spanking to a girl at a youth function. I took her off to a room and put her OTK. She didn't resist and I gave her several smacks on a pleated skirt. She said ouch but I suspect it didn't hurt too bad. My favorite was later--maybe 10th grade--when I spanked a girl who I liked at a church youth meeting. It was after the meeting and she "bratted" so I spanked her. I then walked her home and she said that I spanked almost as hard as her dad and mom.

Barrel: My first recollection of wanting to be spanked was in college, maybe due to all those fraternity paddles where I lived. I lightly spanked my girlfriend, and when she resisted, that probably flipped me to the other side of our kink. I do recall being told I needed a spanking by a dorm coed but being too drunk, I failed to capture that moment. 45 years later, I still regret it. When my wife and I started dating, I had strong thoughts but she was far too vanilla to indulge until we got married and I could drag her into my kink. Our spankings have matured into heavy sessions several times a year, which we both look forward to. I opened another door a few months ago, buying a single tail whip, which my wife really enjoys. Surgery will force a pause for several months, but assuming I come out of it as expected, our journey will continue.

Great topic this week! Thanks A.J.

Hermione: I discovered I was aroused by spanking very early in life, and loved the colour comics in the weekly newspaper supplement. There was often a picture of someone being spanked over someone else's knee. Even though I couldn't read the dialogue, I knew it was for me. My fantasies then involved me being the spanker, usually a stern teacher of very naughty pupils. Once I reached adulthood and realized I wanted to be on the receiving end, my fantasies changed to either me being spanked, or watching someone else getting it.

Who's hot and bothered now, besides me?

Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Spanko Brunch 2.0 #479

Welcome everyone! Please sample some colcannon from yesterday's St. Patrick's Day festival. Our good friend A.J. came up with this week's discussion topic, and I think you'll enjoy it.

We all have fantasies about sex, our lives, and yes - spanking.  Around the time in your life when you found out you were a spanko, what were your spanking fantasies (as spanker/spankee/both)?  Are they the same today?

Please leave your response as a comment. Once everyone has had a chance to weigh in, I will publish an edited summary of our conversation.

Slava Ukraini
Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart

Friday, March 17, 2023

Happy St. Paddles Day

 

Everyone's Irish today!

 




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Glory to Ukraine

From Hermione's Heart