I wasn't going to weigh in on this, because I have no interest in paddles. In a story, that's fine, because it's dramatic. You HAVE to emphasize in stories, or it comes across as limp-wristed. In my private life, erotically speaking, I use either my hand, a belt or a slapper. Slappers are nice because it's basically a belt, but with a weight attached to a secondary piece of leather, which causes a loud slapping sound, without causing harm to the spankee.
Some of us spankers, recognize that we are audiophiles (not saying all are). We get off on the SOUND associated with a spanking. I honestly don't feel like I'm doing a good job unless I hear a satisfying "thwack." Granted, it's nice to see the spankees butt showing impact ripples too (redness too). The other sayisfying aspect is HEARING the spankee registering the spanking. Again, audiophile. Some spankees though try to "take it like a man" (being hushed mouthed about it). To an audiophile, that's bad because you might as well be waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Leather is the closest replacement of a human hand in that it impacts and bends yet has some mass. This is why I like leather.
Wood, from my growing up and from LISTENING to spankees, is harsh, because it is extremely stiff (exceptions being switches and it's British like), it has mad amounts of mass so when it is in the hands of an amature, the spanker do mad amounts of untold damage. An example of this is that the impact of a paddle can go down to the bone and literally bruise the bones. Bruised bones don't heal as quickly as bruised skin or muscle, and can take almost a year to heal. Repeated bone bruises may never heal which is more serious than you think. Bones are where the human immune system is MADE. if the bones are busy healing the bones, the immune sustem gets put on the back burner. Not literally, but pretty close to it. I've learned from a friend who makes paddles for the kinky set, that paddles with holes are more likely to cause blisters. It has to do with the wave motion of the human skin, and holes, regardless of how much you radius the edge, will cause blisters. It's like this; the skin waves away from the impact. Okay, but a hole make the skin wave away from the edge, which is a circle, meaning the wave crests and impacts with itself, in the center. Regardless how flexible the skin might seem, it's not THAT flexible, and therefore blisters occurs. Even for lighter smacks with the paddle. In reality, most experienced spankee's thoughts on paddles is "the best place for wood, is in a fireplace" and after feeling your paddle on their naked nates, will place your prized paddle in the fireplace, risking the inevitable unholy shellacking they will receive for that. These are reasons I don't prefer paddles in my personal erotic life.
That said, I appreciate a well carved piece of wood. The friend who makes paddles, made a cocobolo paddle, no holes, with a radiused edge and sanded ultra fine for me. She isn't THAT good a friend and charged me (appropriately) quite a penny for it. It's more for ornament than usage. It's called a "frat-man" as it's shaped as a frat style paddle (only thinner).
I remember a porn movie where a young actress held a frat style paddle in her hands like she was presenting it to you while she wore a sundress on the cover. An image is worth a thousand words, and most of the words in myhead was thinking the same thing "pretty young actress was going to get paddled!" This was decades before I learned about paddles, so it held a lot of mystique for me. Needless to say, the porno had a lot of clever innuendoes, where the pretty young actress would break the 4th wall, and look at the camera like she was saying "this is where you'd expect me to get paddled" but it naturally didn't happen. I like reading stories about paddlings, much like I like reading erotic stories about rape, virgins first times, and anal sex where it easily goes straight up the girl's ass. Lube, blood, patience and law have no place in fiction which is where paddles belong for me.
To touch on what aka said, and to explain for our foreign writers and readers, America is divided on certain concepts which we will label Red and Blue. Red believes in traditional values and since they live majorily in rural locations where you can hunt, and still see the odd bear, badger, mountain lion or croci-gator walking up your driveway, believe in guns, and disciplining kids because they firmly believe in rules, yet some also live in the cities where they have to deal with the human animal. Blues are serene, "make love, not war" types which makes a ton of sense when you live in exceedingly crowded cities and they believe in "there's an exception to every rule." They also believe that children always respond better to a carrot, than a stick (no exceptions there). Each doesn't understand the other's setting, and preferences and typically see the other as frothing extremists (which they aren't (although there are always exceptions to that rule)). 'nuff said. |