Exaggerations

@ BashfulBob

The movie "If" was a screenplay and therefore I don't think it was ever published as a novel.

On a similar vein David Niven describes a severe flogging he claims to have received in his "The Moon's a balloon." memoire.

His description is certainly very unpleasant, though I have read claims that both his memories were heavily embellished. That being said there is plenty of evidence that English Public School floggings were often brutal and bloody.

My 'two pennyworth' on the matter is personally for me as a reader a level of realism is essential, as a good story draws me into it and yes i like to feel almost part of the story, to feel the emotion etc, so a statement of can't sit down after a moderate hand spank does put me off reading it.

However horses for courses, and we humans are a varied bunch and so such dramatic statements after a pitty patty spanking might be what some folk like to read.
Folk pay for spanking videos of hand spanks on derrieres clad in thick demin and enjoy that as spanking, with all the facial grimaces and ouches etc, so guess in written form over exageration might well be liked to by some too.

That is very true RosieCheeks though I would add that my darling wife has always shrieked, howled and even cried when I have given her a hand spanking over clothes, even when the smacks were very tame. It is more to do with her revelling in the little girl humiliation that does it, rather than any actual pain.

Context absolutely matters and in what you describe here, I would tend to agree with you. "Can't sit" is not a credible statement after any hand spanking I've experienced or could imagine. There probably are some people who have made that sort of statement after such a spanking, but unless the story is focused around a character who is humorously overstating everything that happens, I can't imagine it to be much of a good read. I do think there is a middle ground between this and a devastating beating where the "can't sit" statement has an acceptable place in a realistic story.

There is a wide range in the potential severity of a spanking involving an implement such as a paddle, strap or cane. When my sisters and I were teens our dad would on occasion use an oak paddle to discipline us. He typically gave us twice our age in swats which meant somewhere between 26 and 36 swats. Those spankings were some of the worst we got at home. For me the discomfort was completely gone within a couple of hours. My sisters often complained their bottoms felt bruised for as much as a couple of days after. None of us had any visible marks beyond a few hours after the paddling occurred.

We were also subjected to paddling at school with a nearly identical paddle. Dad bought his from the high school wood shop when my oldest sister started high school. The spankings we got at school were less swats than we would get from our dad, but the results were significantly more severe. The swat count was usually between 10 and 15 depending on the offense and our disciplinary record at the time. I think I got the worst of the three of us when I was paddled with 25 swats for fighting.

For me, the discomfort lasted several hours after the spanking while my sisters complained for several days. We had visible marks and bruises that remained for anywhere between a few days and a couple of weeks, depending on the severity. It took around 10 days for my bruises to disappear from that 25 swat paddling.

In this way it's clear to me that there can be a wide range of interpretation for the severity and results of some spankings. I've read stories where 50 swats with a paddle are given. In comments about those stories I've noticed some think the number of swats and consequential severity is beyond anything reasonable or realistic.

In the context of a spanking from my high school principal, I would agree the severity of that spanking would be beyond reasonable and, while still technically possible, it would fall outside the realm of anything I want to read about. On the other hand, in the context of the spankings my dad would deliver, it wouldn't cross over into that abusive amount of severity. He simply didn't wield the paddle in such a way that it was going to leave any long lasting bruises or marks. I suspect he could have delivered 100 swats and still not matched the severity of 10 from our high school principal.

Every story I've read has some room for subjective interpretation. Our life experiences often have a significant influence on what we consider realistic versus fantastical. When it comes to exaggerations and non-literal statements like "can't sit" I find the context is all important. In some stories it feels natural and works and in others it sounds out of place and destroys any sense of realism. It's all in eye of the beholder and no one's opinion on the subject is wrong.

This put a smile on my face reminding me of my wife. She loved to throw a tantrum over my lap and put up a pretty good struggle in her faux attempts to escape. It was all in good fun.

"If" was published as a screenplay. It is a small paperback. The last copy I saw was a tenner so it may be fairly rare.

Spanking stories benefit from exaggeration. If you are my age how many times did you hear as a child, if you do that again you won't sit down for a week or month of Sundays? The comics of the sixties would show juvenile recipients of a slippering or caning sitting on piles of cushions or blocks of ice which were fast melting. Bums would be as red as a bowl of ripe cherries or pillar box red! Its all a matter of taste but I think exaggeration has its place.

I agree, blimp. If anything, I am turned off by stories that describe what appears to be a long,severe punishment, but then the recipient acts as if not anything is wrong, no description of any aftereffects, as it were.
As for the issue of discomfort afterwards, sitting and so forth, I recall years ago when the World Spanking Forum had an active chat, and Bailey, one of RealSpankings models who frequently visited was asked about that. She said that the problem after her severe sessions was not sitting, but it was moving around. In other words, stiffness and soreness in the muscles. I noted that it sounded a lot like the rear end soreness people got from horseback riding, when they were not accustomed to it or rode too long, or wore unsuitable pants.
If anyone does not think severe spankings or paddlings or canings do not leave vivid marks
that undoubtedly last for some time, look at some of the pictures from RealSpankings or similar sites, to say nothing of the severe ones like Lupus. There's a reason spanking models make use of arnica in various forms to mitigate bruising and other lasting discomfort.

How much of RealSpankings footage is real though? It is easy enough to fake, balsa wood paddles. cushion backed hairbrushes and CGI to create the marks and bruises.

Probably much like professional wrestling in that it is all orchestrated but accidents do occur.

Brosse6
Speaking as someone who has been both sides of the camera, Brosse, I can assure you that there is no make-up involved these days.
The stories and role-play might be far-fetched and often transparent, but these girls (and boys sometimes) are not professional actors, but genuine spankees. For example, Danielle Hunt, Kami Robertson, Pandora Blake, Catherine Corbett to name just a few.
I have met Kami Robertson a few times and she tells me that she used to immerse herself in the scenario and what happened was very real, right down to the tears.
It is far cheaper to leave cane-marks on a spankees bum than pay someone to professionally edit bruises onto them!