Spanking Stories and Themes? (Club meeting - 559)

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. - Ben Okri

 Hello all. Welcome back to The Disciplinary Wives Club – Tribute blog.  Our weekly on-line gathering of women and men who are in, or would like to be in, a Domestic Discipline relationship of the type advocated by the former Disciplinary Wives Club (archived copy in the “Links I Like” list, below right).

 

I hope you all had a great week.  We got out of the heat and up into the mountains, mainly as a way to get our dogs away from fireworks.  I used to love fireworks displays, and I still mostly do, but one of our dogs gets extremely wigged out.

 

Unfortunately, getting up to the mountains is a mixed bag right now.  The views and getting out of the summer heat are great, but the altitude also causes my injured limb to blow up like a balloon and, while my mobility is improved a bit, I kind of overdid it and am now paying the price.  That, combined with having family around, almost led me not to post this week, but I decided to do a short, lazy one instead.

 

It was prompted by starting to reassess some parts of retirement life in light of this extended convalescence.  I’ve known I’d start some of that introspection at some point, as even in retirement I’m a chronic planner, goal-setter, and maker of to-do lists.  But, I’ve done surprisingly little of it so far, probably because my mobility is still such that most goals involving activities outside the house still seem a little ambitious, so why dangle them in front of myself?

 

But, after being bored to tears for weeks and whittling away way too much time consuming streaming series, it has been on my mind that I’d originally planned to do a lot more writing after retirement, but I’d kind of let it slip.  In an ideal world, I’d write something more ambitious than spanking stories but, sort of like how Stephen King’s imagination naturally runs to horror even though he can write in other genres, when I think about writing fiction, my creative energy often runs to spanking stories. Therefore, I thought maybe I’d put down some concrete goals around developing a more regular writing habit by initially focusing on spanking stories, with a goal of publishing some compilations.

 

While thinking about coming up with some concrete goals around that, it occurred to me that, while I know the various story themes that I gravitate to, it would be interesting to explore with this group the kind of spanking stories that get your motors running. It might have the collateral result of helping each other compile a summer reading list. I suspect this group collectively expends more than a few hours a year reading spanking fiction.  So, let’s have some fun with this.

 

What themes predominate in the spanking stories that you’ve found yourself gravitating toward the most over the years? Are there particular settings that grab you?  Particular kinds of relationships? Or, are you more of a spanking fiction omnivore who gets turned on by any spanking scenario? Are there particular spanking stories or authors you recommend?

 

 

The spanking fiction themes I gravitate to may be obvious in light of the topics I come back to over and over again, though the correlation is probably more loose than one might think, because I realize that some of my tastes probably aren’t shared by others, so I don't do many topics on them.  However, to get things started, here are a few themes that come up in spanking stories I’ve liked over the years.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been good at bookmarking or cataloguing the stories that really got my attention, so I have only a few specific examples to link to.

 

Woodsheds and barns - I’ve always had “a thing” for stories involving woodsheds and barns. For me, the reason is fairly obvious.  I grew up in rural areas, including on farms and ranches, so I spent a lot of time in barns at the time I was going through puberty and my sexual urges were developing. I wasn’t into spanking at all at that point, but I recall keeping a cache of dirty magazines hidden in one of our barns, and today as an adult, barns and woodsheds have a generalized erotic overtone for me.

 

Interestingly, although in real life my spanking experience is all F/m, several of the woodshed and barn stories I’ve read and gravitated toward have involved male spankers.  Though, it's the setting and the hierarchy involved that turn me on, not the gender of the spanker.  One that I’ve liked a lot and returned to several times is titled My Trip to the Woodshed by Dave Christopher.  I’ve found it in multiple places over the years, and it’s currently available at the Library of Spanking Fiction. I'll put links in the comments, in order to avoid triggering Blogger's over-active spam filters.   The plot involves a teenager who has been giving his single mother a lot of trouble and ends up suggesting that she take him to an uncle who had spanked his own sons in front of the teenager, leaving him with a fascination with the prospect of receiving a real disciplinary spanking.  It has some elements that don’t resonate with me, including that the teenager initiates the spanking scenario himself; the whole thing is a little too cooperative for my tastes.  But, it does involve being walked out to the barn for the spanking and witnesses overhearing, both of which strike chords with me.

 

“Iffy” consent - We’ve talked a lot over the years about “consensual non-consent”, and my tastes in both fiction and real life gravitate strongly toward scenarios in which consent is iffy, at best.  Discipline to me, in real life and in stories, seems the most real when it is imposed regardless of the recipient’s wishes.  I don’t have a really good example to recommend, in part because so many authors get very hung up on showing express consent. 

 

I do recall one story that was probably one of the first I reacted strongly to after I discovered my own interest in disciplinary spankings. I don’t remember where I came across it, or the title, or the author.  But, it involved a situation in which a couple had invited a dominant male into their relationship, though I don’t recall the exact circumstances.  The husband had been acting up, and the wife had asked the more dominant male to spank him.  But, she then failed to respond to messages from him to schedule it. So, he shows up while the couple is hosting another couple for dinner.  The wife is furious, but he makes clear that spanking is going to happen and that he’ll create a scene otherwise, which leads the husband to make an excuse for accompanying the dominant male to a horse barn on their property.  He is made to take down his pants and is whipped to tears with a belt. 

 

So, yeah, all sorts of elements that get to me in that one story – imposed discipline, iffy to non-existent consent and, of course, barns.

 

“Unfair” discipline and embarrassment -  I have a thing for stories that involve being subjected to “unfair” spankings in embarrassing situations, especially if there is an element of real humbling involved. One example of brought up before is KD Pierre’s Pride, in which a husband has a difficult relationship with his wife’s friend, and his obstinate refusal to apologize for a recent fight leads to him getting spanked by both the wife and the friend. The spin is the friend confides to him that she knows she is just as responsible for their arguments as he is, but she is going to spank him anyway to take away his pride and humble him.  She is so blatant about spanking him in order to humble him even though she’s at least partially at fault; something about that casual exercise of asymmetric power really appeals to me.  The only thing that doesn’t resonate with me is how he comes to accept it all gracefully in the end; a scenario that cuts against my need for spankings to feel imposed almost against one’s will.

 

Being sent somewhere for a spanking/surrogates -  Although I am attracted to the idea of being spanked in front of a witness in real life, I haven’t come across that many stories with that scenario that appeal strongly to me. What I do tend to get off on are stories that involve being taken or sent to someone else for a spanking.  One example is the second part of the Pretty Legs story on the DWC.  In part one, the husband is initiated into a DD relationship when his wife spanks him for ogling her friend’s legs.  In part two, his wife takes him to the friend’s house to be spanked by the friend.  Although I don’t think the story is all that well-executed, I empathized with the husband’s sense of dread when getting ready to drive to her house so he can be spanked by her.  

 

Another story on the DWC website with a “surrogate” theme is Military Duty Calls, in which a military wife recruits her mother to manage her husband’s discipline while she is on deployment.  He avoids a spanking for a while but eventually screws up.  His wife tells him to call the mother and request a spanking.  That scenario doesn’t have to involve much more than that—being told to call someone to request a spanking pursuant to some pre-existing arrangement—for me to get a stirring “butterflies” feeling in my stomach and loins.

 

A somewhat similar story scenario involves being sent home from school with a note or a college student coming home to a spanking after getting bad grades his first semester away.  In both cases, I think it's the anticipation of earning a spanking in one place, then having to go to another, knowing a spanking is coming, that gets to me.  There's also something about scenarios in which you get spanked by one person while another is aware it is happening or that it is going to happen.

 

Police and semi-public spankings – While I don’t typically gravitate toward “judicial” spanking scenarios, I have read a few that I liked in which someone was given a spanking for speeding or some other traffic violation.  When I first became interested in DD, I didn’t realize how big a role the combination of authority figures and unwanted, embarrassing spankings played in my drives, but they definitely trigger something for me.

 

“More than he bargained for” scenarios -  Although I gravitate strongly toward stories in which the spanking relationship is imposed by the wife, I also have a thing for stories in which the husband thinks he wants a DD lifestyle but is made to doubt that decision once he receives a real disciplinary spanking. I especially like stories in which the “more than he bargained for” applies not only to the spankings he receives but to the reality of being in a relationship in which he is no longer in control.

 

I recently came across a series of stories on the Library of Spanking Fiction, by an author calling himself Noah, titled The Art of the Deal, which involves a husband who pesters his wife relentlessly for a spanking but then has to live with that reality once she gives in and gives him exactly what he thinks he wants. 

 

How about you? Do you have specific spanking stories you recommend? What kinds of scenarios do you find most appealing?  Are there particular settings that you gravitate to?  Particular relationships?  Give us the details!