Spanking lessons in Cambridge

Here is the link to Rowan Pelling's article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/10336913/How-we-British-love-a-bit-of-naughty-sl ap-and-tickle.html

Well, wouldn't that be the effect of something like a ball gag?

I'm not much for being gagged while being walloped (or doing the walloping either) though, since IMHO verbal reactions are a considerable part of the fun for both spanker and spankee.

Still, if the right woman from here were to be my 'testing partner,' so to speak, I might be willing to discover how well such a gag would actually function.

It would allow for some sweet teasing anyway:

"Now, my dear test subject, I'm going to finish up with fifty more all-out swats of the Spencer paddle followed by twenty extra-hard swishes with the nylon cane. If that's too much, or if you even wish to terminate the experiment right now, just tell me before I resume."

"Mmmmph!"

"Silence means assent, I take it then..." --C.K.

For the benefit of non-francophones I would just like to point out that 'le vice anglais' translates into English as "the French vice."

Sex, violence, dark secrets, strange perversions...sounds like a normal village hall meeting to me.

I wonder if that's not a figment of your imagination! I have never ever come across that so-called translation.

Perhaps it is, Ordalie. I thought there was a time in the past when the French called flagellation the English vice, and the English called it the French vice, but I can't find any reference to it on the net so I might be wrong. Anyway, we English are very proud indeed that it's now known as the English vice!

And the Scots just get on with it, whether thanks to the Union or the Auld Alliance, who can say. Perhaps they spread it through both.

Well, I've always thought that 'the French vice' refers to oral sex, while it's been fairly common knowledge that 'the English vice' refers to flagellation/caning/spanking.

In Larry McMurtry's four-novel "Berrybender" series set in the American West in the early-to-mid-1830s, there's a young English woman who's described fiercely switching her lover, a Dutch biologist, on his naked buttocks. She later comments on it by stating that "the Europeans like a good spanking," presumably implying that Americans aren't 'kinked' that way--at least back then perhaps, via her thinking... --C.K.

Of course not!