LawrenceKinden:
I suppose I think that a story with spanking is of more merit as it's about character rather than spanking,
I recently read two stories in this library which I like to recommend as examples how both approaches can be combined perfectly .
The first one is from Miss Lizzy. All 76 released parts belong to one big novel, despite the different titles. (To find the beginning you have to look for the date of loading.) The main characters are Jason, who is described as a tattooed 200 pds. „big bully" Italian macho, security guard, owner of a security company, quite wealthy and Valerie, an intelligent, independent and successfull business-woman, who is working for an event company. The two fall in love and there are of course many conflicts in this constellation, which - no surprise – leads to many spankings. The „about-spanking"-part includes the whole life story of the protagonists and gives a lot of psychological and sociological reasons to make their kink and actions understandable. The setting in the world of night-clubs, security service and social event-management allows the adding of some criminal acts, which makes the story even more interesting to read. The Italian-chinese family background of Jason is a fine extra and reminds me a little bit of the detective stories from Janet Evanovich. There are two other couples described, all friends of Jason and Valerie and all reflecting some resulting difficulties of a spanking life-style. F.e. Jason considers his spankings as sign of his power and dominance and denies any consent. His friend, the sunny-boy River, who is involved in the spanking scene and has quite a few spanking-partners get's jealous when he find's his girl-friend over the knee of a friend. Valeries friend Kylee is prepared to play, but will not accept domestic discipline, yet always provokes her boyfriend to do just so. So it's really a clever constructed, tempting, emotional and humorous story about and with spankings in a completely realistic setting. I wonder that it has only so little views so far.
The second is the Victorian Adventure from TheEnglishMaster, who recently released the last part of his story. The story is about a young (aristocratic?) lady who performed over a decade in London's flagellation clubs. The story is told in letters and gives in retrospective the reasons which led to this early career as a spanking model. The main characters are Lydia, who clearly is a spankee and her aunt Julia, a spankee too, who has a relationship to the historical William Lazenby, later a publisher of erotic spanking magazines. Lydias predisposition leads her to arrange situations in which she will be spanked, f.e. entering a strict boys boarding school, but in the course of the story things escalates and she endures more problems (and pain) than she bargained for. Finally she is loosing her family, her fiancé and her child. In this story the „about spanking"-part contains many interesting and surprising aspects of a young spankee, who's character is described in great detail and seems to be a convincing mixture of a caring woman (for others), pain-gaining (for herself) and accident-prone, all in all the typical masochist as described in any textbook of psychology. So this story is all about spanking, but would also be interesting to read without any spankings at all. But fortunately there are a lot of very hot spanking scenes included!