Fascination with the Paddle

BashfulBob




Not really though. Speaking as an American who supports neither guns nor paddling children, the same Americans who support keeping guns in the house are almost exclusively the same Americans who support spanking their children. It's not so much that we have weird priorities, as there are two very different dominant cultures with very different priorities. In some cases (like the taboo against spanking) people outside our country hear about the priorities of one culture, in other cases (like the American gun fetish), people outside our country hear about the priorities of the other culture.

Back to the main topic, paddles are one of my favorite implements, right up there with wooden spoons and hairbrushes. They make a nice, satisfying sound, they're easy to use in a variety of positions (especially my favorite, OTK) and "paddle" is a fun word. In fact, the paddle is really the only spanking-only implement that I like. I tend to prefer "pervertables" like hairbrushes, spoons, etc.

I was going to make the same point. I really like the word "paddle", especially as a verb. I quite like the implement too, but I've always been wary of ones with holes because they remind me of cheese graters!

My 4th grade teacher, Sr. Mary Rita, was infamous for her ability to paddle. The school did not have a policy for or against corporal punishment, which means it was left up to the teachers. Sister's reputation preceded her and my year with her did nothing to diminish it. This was over 50 years ago but I still remember her grabbing me and twisting me around and giving me a few short sharp hand swats over my uniform skirt. I also remember one day she literally broke a paddle over the behind of one of the boys who was a frequent target of her wrath. The next day she came in to the classroom and quietly took a new paddle out of her briefcase and put it in her desk drawer.

Maybe the fact that she never used one on me is a factor in my dread of, but fascination with, a school paddling. My first punishment "scene" with my HOH involved his Spencer paddle. Ping pong paddles are handy too!

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.

Interesting points, and I agree about the danger of serious injury like bone bruises. But that would only be the case with paddles tbat are too heavy and thick, that are more like clubs you might use to fend off an attacking animal rather than to spank someone. They should be avoided.



And hairbrushes often are wooden(the spanking side) but I don't think I have seen anyone point out their dangers(which would be present in the case of a small framed body, or if used too severely or excessively).
Most any instrument could inflict injury if used improperly. I recall reading on the British Spanking forum about flesh being sliced open by canes in the hands of someone who did not know how to use one correctly.

That's a good point I was going to mention, but thought meh... Instead it seems I should have. Yes, ANY implement can do harm if wielded improperly. The hand is probably the least offensive, but if you hit in the same place repeated, that's about the only way you can hurt the spankee with that implement.I think my point was, of all spanking implements, the paddle might be have the most potential to do more harm than good, quite easily.

Frankly hand spanking is more likely where the spanker gets hurt and the phrase "this is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you" applies. I've walked away from a play party where I spanked about 5 girls and besides one towards the end who said I spanked her too much in one place, the rest had no complaints and sat down just fine, while my hand was black and blue through to the other side of my hand for several weeks. No pain, but I probably had bone bruises in my hand. That's when I started looking into slappers and belts.

True, I forgot to mention hair brushes and in effect, some of those can do long lasting harm because like paddles, they can be quite thick and thereby have a large masa. That is the issue with paddles, they can have the most mass, and with very little effort, they can do harm. The paddle I have isn't that long, about half the length of a true frat paddle, and it's 3/8" thick, so it carries very little mass.

Now, here's the thing I was told, spankees like the sting, but not the thud or throb. Paddles with a lot of mass tend to have little sting, and cause huge thud and throb. There are some that like it, and like to feel a large coverage, instead of the thin cane stripes those cause. As a spanker, I like to use a whole arsenal of implements, but me being me, I want a true spankee taking it, but if she doesn't like or prefer certain implements, then I don't want to drive her away.

Sorry for being the "Safe, Sane, and conSensual" reminder.

Safe, San, and Consensual are words to live by. But fantasies, including those written up as stories, don't have to be that way. Non-consensual or semi-consensual themes can be very exciting. The outraged teacher and the naughty child, the teenage babysitter who screws up, the sorority initiation that the girl can't refuse without ruining her social life - those are great themes. Many of them make great paddling stories. None of them should exist in real life.

I grew up in Mississippi in the 60s and 70s. Most teachers had a paddle in their drawer and they were not shy about using them. I got paddled in 5th grade. I think that's where my interest in the paddle came from.

Not all paddles. Jokari paddles, after all, are presumably primarily intended for playing Jokari - and ditto paddle-ball paddles, usually with a piece of elastic and a rubber ball attached. But both make excellent spanking implements, or so I've found.

Then, of course, you have boating paddles - but they're perhaps a little too large and substantial for spanking purposes. Or maybe not - anyone ever tried?

PhilKThen, of course, you have boating paddles - but they're perhaps a little too large and substantial for spanking purposes. Or maybe not - anyone ever tried?

My Dad threatened to a few times.