For the Cute Little Deer with the Bear Behind

The paddle sounds much more like a "stinger" rather than a "thumper". It's less than a quarter of an inch thick so it doesn't sound much like a serious spanker. A "real" spanking paddle, IMO, should be at least a half of an inch thick, if not five-eighths and made of some kind of hard wood (i.e. not something like cedar) with some weight to it, (ash, hickory, oak, etc., or even walnut or maple if you want to spend the money). It is indeed a souvenir paddle, probably made rather cheaply and intended more for display as opposed to serious discipline. Still, it may have had some real usage on some real naughty bottom(s) and it's quite titillating to think so. Its advantage, if you regard it as an advantage, is the relatively light weight leaving less possibility for any real bruising or any tissue damage, making it more suitable for punishment for youngsters without leaving a "lasting impression" the next day. Depending on how hard you like it, you might consider that any real enthusiastic use might result in it being broken or damaged so if you really value it, exercise some caution. Or you could just make your own...

It's probably apocryphal, but I heard somewhere that the original model for the "Coppertone" girl was Jodie Foster (she did commercial work before becoming an actress at a very young age). I don't recall seeing that particular one though. As far as the ad being retired, well political correctness strikes again. The image itself became quite iconic though, although usually with a far more "grown up" girl displaying her bare white bottom. I do recall one with "Mother's Helper" or "Mother's Little Helper" on it and a cartoon image of a young boy with short pants standing in a corner, rubbing his presumably sore bottom with a bunch of stars emanating from it.

I'm sure I saw one with the deer and bear with reddened bottoms somewhere, but I can't remember whether it was in person, so to speak, or something I saw illustrated in a book or an online image. Too many years have passed.

Jodie Foster was not yet born when the original advertisement came out. She appeared with her family in a later Coppertone commercial, albeit without a puppy tugging down her pants.

Oh my goodness...just how old am I?? I thought everyone alive over the age of .... oh never mind. It must of been in one of my previous lives when I first saw that particular advert. Maybe ..say..two life times ago at least.

CS

Maybe there's a marketting opportunity for an updated version of one of the paddles?

Never hit a fully consenting adult in the face
Nature provides a better place

The version I've always heard goes:

"Oh, never smack a woman's face -
Nature provides a better place."


Personally, I always prefer sting to thud, so for me the ideal thickness is about 3/8" - the exact thickness of my much-prized (but now very hard to find) 'Cracker Barrel' paddle. It's seven-ply birchwood, so pretty well unbreakable - and, as quite a few young ladies will ruefully attest, very much a 'real' spanking paddle.

Well, ideally my paddlings start out with 'sting' (a lighter wooden implement) then eventually produce more 'thud' (via the spanker switching to a thicker, heavier one), but of course I'm on the opposite side of the (wife-administered) swats.

Anyway, I also possess a "Cracker Barrel" paddle, purchased close to two decades ago at a novelty/souvenir shop in Arcade, New York, purportedly the town where such paddles are (or at least were) produced--it was originally attached by an elastic string to a small rubber ball, as a single-user paddywhacking exercise testing and presumably improving hand-to-eye coordination.

Its dimensions are about 11 1/4" x 5 3/8" x 1/4" with a mildly oval-shaped head and a round-tipped handle, somewhat like a smaller, lighter version of a Jokari paddle, but a bit less oval-headed, apparently made out of tightly-compressed plywood. It is indeed overwhelmingly 'sting' in its impact, and quite effective when employed with enthusiasm. (Given its relative lightness, obviously the less protection the targeted behind has the more convincing the smacks will be--it's pretty much pointless to deploy it atop a bluejean-covered rear end.)

I'm imagining a game with two such paddles, one of them detached from the flexible string and ball but the second one not. The spanker assigns the spankee a certain amount of bare-bottom swats with the first paddle (let's say an even one hundred), minus the number of times the spankee can bounce the ball off the second one before missing, for a chosen number of attempts (let's say three).

So if the spankee were to manage six consecutive hits the first time, ten the next time and eighteen the third time (assuming practice resulting in improvement), he/she would have reduced his/her walloping with the first paddle to 76 smacks (100-34). To help the spanker also improve his/her coordination though, he/she could be allowed a set number of consecutive-hit attempts to lengthen the spankee's paddling.

For switches, both could start at zero and take turns with a specified number of attempts, with the winner, i.e. whoever ends up with more overall hits, giving the loser the difference in whacks. So if one person gets say 12+15+24 (51 total) over three attempts, while the other gets say 7+13+17 (37 total), the first one would end up giving the second person 14 spanks with the other paddle--or possibly a multiplied number thereof, by mutual agreement.

"I'm just spitballing here" (to quote Colonel Nathan Jessip) about spankophile-style possibilities with "Cracker Barrel" seat-smackers... --C.K.

P.S. : "Never strike a child across his face, Mother Nature provides a more suitable place," that's the version of that paddle-inscription saying which I'm most familiar with.

Just to continue in the same vein as my previous post:

Spare the rod and spoil the consenting adult

There's a pic of the "little deer" paddle (or at least a "little deer" paddle on today's page (Oct 13th) of Consensual Spanking. Is this the one you remember?

http://consensualspanking.blogspot.com/?zx=22f304142b9da989

In some cases it might be "Spare the rod and piss off the consenting adult."