Erica – Makes categorizing simple then! All implements = M/Erica.

T – Yes. Wooden spoons fall on my mental list of more feminine implements.

Radagast – That’s part of what I love about the belt. Easily portable, doesn’t raise an eyebrow in the vanilla world, and always right at hand when needed.

funbun – Sort of off topic, but thinking about spanking with the bare hand, I think there is a bit of variation from person to person. Even within the same gender, the hand can feel different depending on size, technique, and power behind each smack. I suppose the very same can be said about one using any implement (hand included) though!

Dr. Ken – Sounds like a wonderful time!! With party fever in the air lately, I’m getting all the more bummed not to be able to attend any this season. Hopefully I’ll be able to attend one next time around and see you there.

tim – Juliet is a doll and was in top form the day we shot with Clare. They were both wonderful.

Eric – I didn’t even realize that a hairbrush was a common spanking implement until I was an adult and read stories about its use online. Maybe part of the association was from reading these stories that often featured females using hairbrushes more so than men.

Pandora – I think of the big paddles as slightly more male for the school principal reason, but occasionally used by females in sororities or cheerleading. Other than that, I’d agree that it seems that most harsher implements are male and there is that funny connection in shape as well! Very insightful.

Dreams of Horses – No, there is no reflection on the spanker due to choice of implement. I think these associations simply date back to olden times like you described. And I absolutely agree that the razor strop is a “male” implement. I picture the naughty one being dragged out to the woodshed for a dose of the strop from dad. Eeeep.

SpankerGuy – One of the models we worked with told us that her mom would also order her to pick her own switch when she misbehaved as a girl. She said she knew not to pick one that was really light and wimpy because her mom would then go out and pick a wayyy more suitable one. I can’t imagine how scary that must have been for her and even worse when you had to pick three!

Steve(UK) – Hmmm. Yes, I imagine it would be very odd for a man to spank with a woman’s shoe. Well, unless that woman was the one over his lap and the shoe was plucked freshly from her foot. Or perhaps one that she made the huge mistake of trying to throw at his head.

Oh, and I hate the clothesbrush. Richard Windsor has one and there is nothing dainty about it.

Serial Spanker – I can see the appeal of both the belt and the brush (though it’s often hard to remember those feelings when I’m in the middle of being on the receiving end). I can’t say I feel the same about switches to the thighs. :-/ Oh how I fear that.

Linde – Good lists. If you were to experience a spanking or more now with a “maternal” implement from a male or a “paternal implement from a female, would your lists change or do you think once they are categorized one way in your mind they stay that way?

T – That does seem traditionally maternal too.

Winchester – The hand is always great and wonderfully gender neutral. And even more so than a man’s belt, the hand is always … errrmmm … handy.

Mike – Well, if a bald gentleman were to walk up to the store clerk with four or five hairbrushes, I’d say that would definitely be reason to wonder what’s going on! And I suppose it could be for either for him to use on a bottom or purchased in the hopes that someone will use them on his. Interesting point. I always envisioned the one giving the spankings as being most likely to provide the implements unless he/she orders the spankee to purchase his own as part of the punishment.

Jeff – A whipping is such a scary and harsh word. One of the few implements with its own term for its use (most implements = spanking, cane = caning, paddle = paddling, but belt = whipping? scary)

Brad D – “an item used to make a woman more beautiful to a male can be used to punish as well” Neat observation! And never let the implements have all the fun. They don’t seem to appreciate it as much as the hand or the person said hand is attached to.

Kevin D – Oh a designated spanking implement on display sends shivers down my spine. If I lived in that house, I’d try to usher my friends past as quickly as possibly so that they wouldn’t by chance ask why a man’s belt was hanging in the stairway.

dani – Just how my mind sorts things. I am always making lists and sorting things in and out of groups. You should have seen my sticker collection as a kid.

Brushstrokes – Teehehe. Certainly no offense intended, Brushstrokes. It’s all in how they are used more so than their traditional domestic purpsoses anyway. And I have no doubt that if ever I had the chance to go over your lap for a dose of the brush, you’d have me regretting ever considering the hairbrush a feminine implement.

2Good – I know! It was a lucky google find!

I take offense to that!

I’m not so sure I really identify with the idea of categorizing implements..gender is sometimes a confusing issue for me.

But I do know for certain that, whatever the theme of your blog, you are my very favorite spankee.

Roses are the wedding cake, violets are the rice..no one has to doubt that Pixie is very nice!

Happiness…….:)

Conversely, I think a belt or strap is often what women think of when they fear a spanking. Many think it is romantic for a guy to use a supple, well-conditioned leather strap or belt on their innocent, but wily female bottoms.

Oh, I think that a man’s palm is maybe the best spanking implement as it often provides great coverage, and the guy gets to touch the rear view, not just watch the object of his appreciation. Why let an implement have all the fun?

Brad D.

In any case, regardless of reputations, my own (adult) bottom can bear (bare?) witness to the testimony of many other child and adult spanking recipients: The hairbrush can be just as bad as the belt, and often worse.

Jeff

doubt sale clerk will be thinking or wondering why the guy buying a hairbrush
also a guy may have a hairbrush on hand in case it is need for his bottom and when girlfriend /wife going use it for spanking heck that why i have lot of hairbrushes in cased it needed when time come for my own spanking

guys like me can just hand the hairbrush to the female when they going be punish for something

belt i seen male and female wear them when i see female wearing one i wonder if she ever has it for other reason and has she use it for other thing then just wearing it

But of course the hand is gender neutral:-)