Forms of Humiliation In Spanking Stories

My concern is that humiliation has no part in a spanking. Embarrassment can be a consideration when the spanking is given in front of an audience.

Humiliation and embarrassment are an integral part of spanking stories for me. In fact I specifically look for stories where the person being spanked receives his or her spanking from someone that they either hate or dislike or have an (unrequited) crush on. Because of some of the ways that gender influences relationship dynamics (in Western/American society) this is usually a girl spanking a boy or a girl spanking a girl, though it doesn't have to be. A protagonist who's spanking is watched is also effective as are situations which reverse traditional social hierarchies (an older girl spanked by a group of younger girls, two former equals where one is forced to spank the other, etc). I prize reality in spanking literature, but I recognize that this is an unrealistic scenario. This is why I truly respect authors who can get inside the head of a protagonist being spanked (by a rival, an ex girlfriend, a hated enemy) because they have to create something believable yet demonstrably false. I think, hope (or I am a weirdo), that the difficulty in accomplishing this is why this type of story is so rare.

That's a pretty tall order, especially if we take into account that you also

but it's definitely an interesting challenge. The easiest part to deal with, would probably be the unrequited crush, but also the rest should be possible...

Oh god! I didn't mean it to be an order! Elements of the type things I was talking about are in a lot of stories on this site. I was just pointing out an extreme which I think illustrates how hard it is to write a good spanking story (probably why I don't write myself - also lack of talent).

Sorry! I didn't take it as an order, rather as an interesting challenge well worth thinking about

Patty, if you're a weirdo, then so am I. I wish Alef would take it as an order and get cracking on it. The stories I write almost always head in the direction Patty describes. And judging from the quality of her writing in her posts, I'd be very interested to see her execute her idea of a spanking story.

Well, as I've stated earlier in this topic thread, I make a distinction between humiliation, which I consider close to degradation, and embarrassment, which I believe is a natural and normal result of a person being spanked--especially should it involve some degree of nudity by the spankee, notably in the presence of opposite-gender spankers and/or witnesses.

Since in the stories I read (and occasionally write), I tend to identify with the primary punishment recipient (usually but not always male) who is spanked by a feminine chastiser, for the most part I prefer there to be a caring and/or friendly, or at least not point-blank unfriendly, relationship between the characters on the opposite sides of the hairbrush, paddle, strap, etc. In my imagination, I'd much rather be bare-bottom blistered by a female whom I get along with as opposed to one whom I don't care for personally.

Still, on infrequent occasion I do find the exact reverse to be appealing in a spanking account, probably because of the refreshingly blunt starkness of a spankee being walloped by someone he/she has strongly negative feelings toward; it's simply a 'change of pace' in spanking-oriented writing, something which I appreciate only once in a while.

However, I'm not referring to the length and/or intensity of the corporal correction, I've enjoyed reading (and sometimes writing) about extremely severe punishments delivered by disciplinarians who truly love the individuals whom they're chastising so thoroughly.

Perhaps there will be a Library writing Challenge dealing with "Unfriendly Spankings" someday, that could be rather intriguing--or even one dealing with "Unrequited Love," that would be truly challenging...

--C.K.

Good idea for a Story Challenge, Kid.

By now, it should be obvious from this thread that different people have different definitions of what constitutes humiliation and embarrassment. Maybe it's a matter of degree. Maybe humiliation is a form of deliberately imposed embarrassment. There are lots of places to draw the line and everybody has their own internal rules. And I have to say that, even though I much prefer to have women on the receiving end of spankings, one of the things I especially admire in CK's F/M fiction is the ostensibly malicious glee with which his dominant women punish his submissive men. What makes his stories work so well even for me is all the gloating and goading (however loving) expressed by his disciplinarians.

Thank you for the compliment, I'd agree that different readers obviously value varied approaches to spanking stories, I myself greatly enjoy the embarrassment of the spankee (in my writing usually a male) being enhanced at the hands of (in my writing always feminine) spankers, punishment facilitators and witnesses, in terms of their teasing or even taunting questions and remarks, plus their gleefully grinning and giggling reactions to the blushing victim's punitive predicament.

(I'm not certain that their "glee" is "ostensibly malicious," unless the term is interpreted rather light-heartedly, as I tend to playfully use and apply the words "devilish," "diabolical" and "impish" in my descriptions of those feminine comments, attitudes and behaviors toward the outnumbered, effectively helpless and very soundly spanked male.)

Several of the recent (F/M) Challenge's entries excellently portray this type of extremely embarrassing situation, featuring numerous females not only corporally correcting (quite thoroughly) but also psychologically 'ganging up' on a single hapless young man--"The Circle of Pain" (kyle1248), "Afternoon Tea" (Seegee), "Red Bottom Blues" (Smeple) and especially "One Fateful Night" (tfs)...

--C.K.