Spanking in Movies, TV, and Books

I read the first Gor novel and liked it, even though it had some lose ends and had quite some unused potential for further development. The second book was okay, but already here Norman was growing repetitive and got lost in endless circular descriptions, over and over returning to the same statement. Halfway into the third book, I died as it was so incredibly overloaded with adjectives that I didn't manage to finish reading it. Every second sentence was like “she was totally, completely, ultimately, finally, in body and soul, his.” Sure, it works once or twice in a book, but page up and page down? I skipped to the 27th book or something like that, only to discover that it was an endless bondage fantasy without a hint of a plot and the lead character went through the same chain of thought about a dozen times, coming to the same conclusion every time. It made me wonder if he got paid per page or if it was only bad editing. Cutting it down to one third would have done it a world of good. It was a bit sad because I quite liked the original idea and the first two books were rather decent.

Question: Someone here posted a link to an old foreign B&W movie about a boy's boarding school. The clip had a bunch of boys being lined up for the cane. The clip was interesting & I wanted to watch the whole movie. Whoever posted the original link, could you please repost it. BTW, not breaking kid rules here. It's a fictional movie; nothing real nor am I pushing anything. I'm interested, not just because I love CP but because I also love movies.

That sounds interesting. There have finally been some decent fantasy movies after successfully bringing Lord of the Rings to the screen again proved that after all it is possible to make fantasy which takes itself seriously, so hopefully this will be good. Sadly, I wouldn't get my hopes up on the spanking references though... I just hope it's not another of those disasters as the MTV adaption of Terry Brooks's Shannara series. I really liked that one when I was young, so seeing it butchered like that broke my heart. Well, who am I to talk, I actually liked the Deathstalker movies...

Okay, this will probably get red flagged for too obscure a reference as it isn't a spanking, but sort of a spanking pose, in Antman and the Wasp, when Antman and Wasp go into Cassie's school, then he ducks in a closet, and grows humongus, Hope/The Wasp has to bend over his knee to work on his regulator. Meanwhile she was just teasing him for his size, and laughing at him. Prime reason for giant Antman to pin her down and give some smacks to her tights-covered butt, if you ask me.

A small story about WoT: I had been given a gift certificate to a local book store and was looking for a new fantasy series in which to immerse myself. I had been through all of the Xanth series (up to that point) and had read another series somewhere in there, but I wanted something new. I spied the WoT series which, up to that time, had 5 books. I figured I'd buy them all (I had just enough to get all five) and enjoy that for a while. I eagerly opened book #1 and became so bored in the prologue that I just shoved them all in a box and forgot about them.

Flash forward about 4 months and I'm working at an amusement park where this guy on the ride next to me is going on and on about this great fantasy series he's reading. He hooked me in and it sounded great. Then he mentioned the main character being reborn from Lews Therin Telamon and it hit me that this was the fantasy series I had packed away. I dug it out again and forced myself through the prologue and then got into the real meat of the story. He was right, it was incredible. I was so disappointed when I got to the end of the 5th book and realized that the story wasn't yet done. I asked around and found out that there was a 6th book just out in hardcover. I went right out and bought it. I couldn't wait for the paperback and wanted to read this 6th and final book.. I came to the end of that book and realized that yet another book was to come. I sighed and had to wait for a year to get the next book in hardcover only to discover...guess what? I started to become frustrated and told friends of mine that were into the same series that I knew exactly how it was going to end. "There's going to be a newspaper article saying 'Robert Jordan died today. That's how it's going to end." Holy crap, talk about prophetic words. It actually happened. Thankfully they decided before his death on who they were going to choose to finish that last book (which then became 3 books) or I might have never found out how it all ended.

I think I picked up the first volume of WoT when it first came out. I followed it from then on, although had lost interest due to inertia before Sanderson completed it. I've never been a fan of Sanderson, so haven't read the final 3 books. Jordan initially pitched it as a trilogy to Tom Doherty, and even then Doherty told him that he thought it would go for more than 3 books. When Sanderson took over he had believed that it would take one book to finish it (it wound up taking 3) and Doherty had a chuckle over that. Jordan had every intention of completing the series, and would have, but for a rare and serious blood disease. Before that he didn't have a real outline, but the illness prompted him to set it up for someone else to complete if he couldn't. George Martin could take a leaf out of his book, but I doubt that he will.

I have read two of Sanderson's. One was just boring as all hell and the other was really good, so I had mixed feelings after hearing that he was taking it over. But I am happy with the ending trilogy. It probably wasn't as tight as Jordan would have made it, but over all, it went pretty well. I think he did best with the Mat scenes.

If he does well with Mat, I may have to consider them. Mat's my favourite character.

I vividly remember the spanking references in Wheel of Time as a kid. Especially the one where the Aiel (sp?) wise women and Aes Sedai are trying to figure out how to get Rand out of his funk, and start questioning (one of) his girlfriends, Min. There's a moment where she's thinking about these interrogations, and how when she tried not to answer questions from a particularly strict Wise Woman, said Wise Women "pulled out a switch, and bundled her over a table."

Even just thinking about that bit now gets me all goosepimply.

That being said, the later stuff was just...too much for a mainstream novel. There is a scene where they literally break one of the Big Bad Evil Women (a woman who loves torture by the way) by spanking her. I'm sorry, that's just stupid. It's awesome in a spanking story, *not* in a mainstream novel.

And Egwen's storyline was just one giant Schoolgirl spanking fantasy. A very well written schoolgirl spanking fantasy, but one that frankly doesn't belong in an epic world spanning fantasy series on the cusp of the final battle with the Dark Lord.

Basically, a lot of the spanking references got so in your face near the end that it felt like the literary equivalent of walking down the street and seeing some guy just start spanking some girl in the middle of the street. I like my spanking porn to remain firmly in the realm of spanking porn, thank you very much.

The punishments in WoT made sense early on, but they did start to become ridiculous later on. Cadsuane in particular made threats that had her sounding like one of the characters in a spanking novel, rather than an epic fantasy.