How much does cultural influence play a role in what implements you enjoy (watching, using, experiencing) most? For example, the cane and the slipper are very commonly used disciplinary implements from the UK whereas the large wooden school paddle tends to be thought of as an American implement.
We rarely use the cane in Punished Brats videos, not because we are unable to or that our girls are unwilling (hey, I like the cane!) but more so because of the member feedback we receive. For every positive email we receive in response to a caning scene, we will receive three or more stating they wished a different implement had been used. US members are not as familiar with the cane growing up and so they don’t have as strong of an emotional connection to it, and European members will sometimes balk at an American using a traditionally UK implement. I totally get that.
It’s likewise with the tawse, the slipper, and even the carpet beater. I hadn’t heard of any of those implements being used for a spanking until I became more heavily involved in the world of adult consensual spanking. Perhaps that’s just my naivety though? With the world seeming to forever becoming more and more of a cultural melting pot, are implements being introduced around the world whereas they once were only traditionally used in one country or another?
Is the wooden spoon a southern US implement? Or is it European (both my German grandmother and my husband’s grandmother were quite fond of the wooden spoon!). Is the hairbrush universal? It sure does seem to be everywhere I look, the dreaded thing.
So tell me. How much does your own cultural background influence your preference today as far as implements? Are you drawn towards those that you experienced or heard about most when you were growing up? Or now that you are aware of the wide variety of spanking toys available, are you open to more?
I’ll kick it off by answering my own question first. Personally, I experienced, witnessed, or heard about spankings being given by hand, belt, and small OTK paddle. I also once heard about a girl getting spanked by her mom with a phone, but I think that was much more a matter of what was at hand rather than a true implement. That could get expensive and my goodness, what did the person on the other end of the line think???
Anyway, looking at it now, I’d say that those are indeed the implements I hold dearest. I’m certainly happy to feel the sting of many, many others, but I don’t have the close emotional connection to say the hairbrush or the spoon or even the formal strap that many others do. The slipper is totally foreign to me as is the carpet beater. However, when I was at an antique shop recently, I spied a rattan carpet beater for sale and considered purchasing it … just to satisfy my curiosity. I quickly decided against that and my bottom thanked me. 
February 4th, 2010 - 11:28 am
In germany the wooden spoon used grow up by the most! For older often cane and belt are used. I think is not cane,belt,paddle or brush its more the story and more the fantasie whats told: I like the movie or I like the movie not!
February 4th, 2010 - 11:30 am
Interestingly, I went in quite the different direction when it came to using implements. For many, many, many years I simply REFUSED to use either a belt or a cane due to my own emotional trauma associated with those implements.
The canings at school were vicious and without aim or control, it wasn’t unusual at all to get the cane striking the top of the butt near the back, or way down on the thigh. The belt on the other hand was an implement that I would be beaten with from the back of my neck down to my ankles and anywhere in between.
Amazing what a few decades will do because I now love to use those implements, especially the belt. Egotistically speaking I have developed a method with using the belt that has maximum effect, and I have yet to see anyone else on film use it the way that I do. Just watch the video I did with Leia to get an understanding of how I use a belt.
Bottom line though, neither implement was influenced by where I grew up, and neither would an electrical cord be if I ever decided to use one of them either.
Clothing on the other hand, that is a different story
But not implements for me.
February 4th, 2010 - 11:49 am
The martinet is a punitive device traditionally used in France. The martinet I describe here is the instrument traditionally used for domestic punishments in France. It is also called fouet d’enfant, child’s whip. It is a light multitailed whip, with a wooden handle about 10 inches long, with 6 to 12 flat leather thongs slightly longer. The thongs could be also of soap-stiffened cord.
February 4th, 2010 - 11:53 am
The tawse (also known as taws) was the traditional punishment instrument in the schools in Scotland from the final of the 19th century until the gradual banning of corporal punishment in the schools between 1994 and 1998. It was also used as a domestic punishment instrument at Scottish homes.
The tawse is basically a strap (and in Scotland the word ” tawse ” was used only on the laws , the instrument was known , in everyday conversation as “the belt” or “the strap”), in which the last 10 inches were split, leaving two to four narrow “tails”.
February 4th, 2010 - 12:35 pm
I (Todd) grew up with a paddle equaling a spanking… and for Suzy it was the belt. We both were drawn to those implements when we first got involved in consensual adult spanking, and they both still are at the top of the list. Through the years though, we’ve both become more and more open and interested in other implements. Suzy for example really likes to play with the cane.
We both enjoy getting to see a wide range of different implements in videos too. Part of the fun is seeing how others do it.
Like you mentioned though, the emotional connection is limited to the couple of implements we grew up with. Seems like most of our friends are the same too.
~Todd & Suzy
February 4th, 2010 - 12:56 pm
Your subjects always inspire my imagination! I’d love to go to sleep and wake up as the British schoolgirl. I’m put over the knee, then handed a telephone with a stranger on the other end.
While I’m being punished, I have to describe my feelings to this person.
I’m not sure what cultural elements play a part in this, but I always think your posts are interesting..
Thanks!
February 4th, 2010 - 1:11 pm
bot me and my wife grew up in norway in the 60s and 70s and recived the birch rod at home we were naughty. now we use it bed for naughty things =D
February 4th, 2010 - 1:17 pm
Pixie, my answer is similar to yours. If you’d asked me when I was in my teens or 20′s, I’d have said I wasn’t nearly as interested in spankings that were much different than what I knew growing up. I remember seeing canes used in British magazines and thinking, so close yet so far. I liked that it was corporal punishment on the bottom, but something was lacking. I couldn’t relate to it on some level, and I believe it’s the emotional connection you refer to. A carpet beater is completely foreign to me. I’ve opened up a bit over the years. I guess just by the exposure to other things. Now I like certain implements over others because of different qualities like the kind of sensation they impart, the sound they make, the color or marks they leave, etc. On that emotional level, though, my preference for implements is still very strongly attached to what was used in our home, and then followed by other implements used on those I knew around me. Small paddles are first. The belt and strap were common around where I lived. Good, though I prefer wood to leather. If I imagine a story involving spanking, I’m still always drawn to those familiar implements I knew growing up. The drama is somehow weaker without them.
February 4th, 2010 - 2:30 pm
I was dumb enough as a child to think there were only a few implements that people used for spanking. Those included the belt, flyswatter, paddle, wooden spoon, spatula, hanger, and a yard stick, or tree branch. I’ve since broadened my horizons and imagined the possibilities. I think it is sometimes regional because we all associate spanking with what we have known our whole lives, until we learn what a huge variety of implements are out there. I don’t mind being spanked with the belt now as an adult, even though I was beaten pretty hard with the belt as a child on a regular basis. It doesn’t seem to trigger anything within me to be hit with it, but oddly enough I have issues using it on someone else. I mostly top these days, and I never use the belt when I top. I’ve tried it out briefly a couple of times, but I don’t use it. However, “thinking” about the belt always triggers a strong and what I would term erotic response in me now as an adult. It’s a core and somewhat programmed response in me and if I ever need some visual stimulation to get me over the hump sexually, so to speak, then I think of the belt, and it always gets me there. Sorry if that’s a bit tmi.
February 4th, 2010 - 3:13 pm
In China, the most common implement was the wooden or rattan ruler. Everybody seemed to have one at home when I was growing up. Luckily my folks did not believe in physical punishment so I have YET to experience it firsthand! I also saw shoes, the handle of a feather dust or a floor sweep being used, but never hair brush, strap belt, or anything like that.
This is a great topic. How did you always manage to come up with these fascinating subjects??!! This is the best and most intelligent spanking blog I’ve come across so far. Congrats and thanks a million!
Lily
February 4th, 2010 - 3:29 pm
Really sorry to hear that Richard. Glad to hear, you were able to still enjoy using that implement later on.
I do think that some implements have a cultural connotation.
“Switches”, and I mean, switches, taken off a tree, to me, are def. southern…
February 4th, 2010 - 3:42 pm
An interesting question. As an Englishman myself, I am familiar with the slipper and cane as ‘traditional’ spanking implements, although my initial exposure to the scene were pictorials and stories featuring paddles, straps and birches. The birch seems to be a European implement too and I have heard that the tawse is traditional up in Scotland. Maybe you should try to get in touch with that part of your Celtic roots next Irish Day. I’m sure some rich red would set off your kilt marvelously! Of course, anything is useful on a bad girl’s bottom except the whip. Although a fantasy implement a whip can generate literally supersonic speeds in the hands of an expert and would be capable of damaging even the hardiest of buns! The crop is probably the safest tool of that sort and, if memory serves, one you are all too familiar with! Now where does that tradition originate. Possibly the upper classes of Europe who would have the money to keep horses and perhaps the craftsmen who could fashion such an implement.
How about a PB ‘Spankings around the World’ with different implements and discourses on their ‘impact’? What do you think?
February 4th, 2010 - 4:41 pm
In England when i was growing up the cane was used.so the saying six of the best. i Agree with Pixie american do not use the cane as the uk do not use the padlle in there dvds.i have found some but thay hard to find. i like the cane the tram lines it leaves. but each to there own. the first spanking mag i saw way back .not only did they use the cane the Scottish Tawse was used as well.
Mike Cane
February 4th, 2010 - 5:00 pm
Growing up in the Southern US, I often observed or heard of paddles and switches being used. Paddles were the weapon of choice in schools back then when corporal punishment was allowed to a much greater extent than it is now (although paddles continue to be used in schools where they can be). Some houses had a paddle hanging in the kitchen, and I often wondered to what extent it was used. A freshly cut switch was used by the parents, especially Mom’s, of several friends. One neighbor boy even had to go cut his own switch as is often a fantasy, and yes, he said a weak switch meant additional spanking.
February 4th, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Maybe I could add the BIRCH as typical for Sweden. In a bundled way.
The TAWSE is considered typical Scottish. Multi tongued strap
And in Csecho Slowakia people used a rod made by WILLOW branches.
The KNOUT for Russia. A very heavy whip with knots in it.
The BAMBOO for Korea/China and Japan. They used to split a bamboo and use the flat side on the back or buttocks. (Like a ruler).
However, I do NOT want to see you spanked with any of these attributes as you’re way too precious to me.
To me it’s enough to see you otk for a long and firm hand spanking on your bare bottom…
((((Hugs)))) Funbun
February 4th, 2010 - 5:09 pm
[...] Amber Pixie Wells is a spanking model at Punished Brats, and other producers, and also writes an excellent blog entitled Spanking Pixie. Today, she comments upon a topic that has often interested me , specifically, what implements ar eused now or in the past at various locales around the world. Follow the title link in Pixie’s quote (below) to read her comments, and the responses from a number of her readers. Favorite Implements Around the World [...]
February 4th, 2010 - 8:40 pm
I’m with you, Pixie, both in terms of the childhood implements used and how they’ve been retained as my adult preferences now. Growing up in the mid-Atlantic, the typical implements were hand, paddle (usually one of those kitschy novelty paddles bought while on vacation), and belt. Sometimes kitchen implements (nasty metal perforated spatulas!) were brought into play, but those were usually more ‘grab whatever’s lying around on the counter’ swats than formal spankings. Occasionally someone would move in from a more southern state, and there’d be talk about switchings for a while – but I lived in the city so there weren’t a lot of suitable trees around. I don’t think the southern kids missed them much – trees or switchings.
Pretty much every house in the neighborhood had a paddle though, some displayed on the wall and some tucked away in a handy drawer. They were typically moms’ implement for OTK spankings, while dads were usually the belt-wielders while you were bent over something. Although both genders seemed happy to use either implement in a grabbing the upper arm/dancing around in a circle type of spanking, come to think of it.
So now, I still tend to gravitate to one of those more familiar implements for unscripted adult spankings. Now, as an adult, I also enjoy other implements, but find that I’m more comfortable using them within role-playing spankings. Does anyone else feel this way?
It’s as if in my mind, caning is something that happens to Brits, so a caning requires that we adopt at least some portion of a classic British caning scenario. Not that I start spouting Etonian prose, but I want to set up a schoolgirl roleplay, or at least talk about lowering knickers as opposed to panties, or something like that. It’s as if I’m the classic bad actor, needing to know my character’s motivation before I can do the scene.
But a hand spanking, or an OTK paddling, is something that can naturally happen with no role playing whatsover. I am that character already/I already know my motivation in those instances. So those implements tend to get used more often because it’s more straightforward.
You go with what you know, I guess.
Great question, as usual – thanks!
-JeffS
P.S. And I can’t believe that someone who “like(s) the cane!” hesitated over a carpet beater – it’s nowhere _near_ as bad as the cane, IMHO.
February 4th, 2010 - 9:55 pm
hi punkin,
the hand was universal when & where i grew up. i heard of two cases where girls got the belt/strap but even the hairbrush was not mentioned.
anyone heard from chica???
best
ddon
February 4th, 2010 - 10:51 pm
I suppose my Southern US culture affects my preferences. The paddle, belt, fly swatter, yard stick, or just about anything at hand was used. In my household, in the hands of my grandmother it was the “hickory”, a single switch that as far as I know never came from a hickory tree. But it wasn’t used on the buttocks. No, it was simple played across your legs while you danced to its tune. My sister particularly disliked the hickory. She was of the mind that my thin pants provided some protection not afforded her bare legs extending from her dress. I never really found much difference outside of jeans which were eventually ordered off.
Being sent to cut a new hickory was a disorienting project. Old enough to carry a paring knife out into the yard but somehow it didn’t lend itself to feeling all grown up. I remember a particularly involved internal dissertation on the selection of an acceptable hickory while minimizing additional pain potential. All done under intense time pressure with the need to strip off the foliage taking some of your time. Buds being a particular feature to minimize.
It seemed every gift shop had a “Board of Education” paddle as “novelty. Still it had to be fondled and was frequently purchased for the trip. Paddle Ball was another love/hate toy. You wanted one but knew sooner or later how it would be used. Either as a consequence of the rubber band breaking sending the rubber ball crashing or being ripped off to clear it for action. It was one toy that was properly stowed after play, out of sight, out of mind was one rule we learned early.
The hand is my first preference. Probably due to witnessing a girl getting one in front of the class about 2 weeks into first grade. A tiny but annoying girl over a large lap spanked over thin shapeless dress. A quick hard punishment that impressed upon the rest of us a need to avoid the same.
February 5th, 2010 - 2:30 am
The paddle was used a lot in schools down here. I grew up in the 90s, and I still remember seeing kids ‘getting it’ in the hallway. In our school, many of the teachers had their own paddles in their classrooms, especially in the earlier grades (first and second grade, particularly). Some were painted in school colors, and others were just plain. One particular incident that stuck out in my mind a lot was walking back to my classroom after the annual ear/eye exam and seeing a boy being paddled in the hallway by his teacher. She told him to bend over, gave him a swat, made him stand up, and made him bend over again. She actually used a wooden paint stirrer for this spanking. I remember that almost like it was yesterday, and I had to have only been six or seven at the time.
Other than that, I know kids would talk about getting the belt for bad grades. One boy had a father who would take a belt to him for a ‘B’. I don’t think switches were common here, but I know my cousin got the switch a few times. One time, I remember having to fetch a switch for my uncle to use on him. My eyes had to have been wide as saucers.
My Mom has told me stories about being spanked by her parents when she was a child. I don’t know if I can believe some of them, though she has no reason to lie. But she mentioned once that they had a paddle with bottle caps nailed into the wood. I haven’t the faintest idea how that would work, but it sounds terrifying.
As far as how those implements have affected what I like and dislike to watch/experience…honestly, I’m neutral. I pretty much like anything. I’ve only experienced the belt a few times, thanks to a very loving girlfriend who didn’t mind playing with me, but I don’t have any more attachment to it than something I did not grow up knowing about. It’s more about ‘why’ the implement is being used, rather than ‘what’ implement is being used, if that makes sense.
February 5th, 2010 - 5:36 am
I cvan at least speak for myself that I am strongly influenced by the implements I personally experienced when I was a kid but am able to adapt to things that strike my heart. In my school, they used the belt and a small paddle, and I love those two implements now, on the giving side:). Moreover, this carries over beyond the implement, to the way that they spanked, how they expressed themselves during the punishment, etc. That being said, I clearly came to love certain things that I never saw (hairbrush), am fond but lukewarm to others (tawse), and don’t care for a whole other bunch (slipper, carpet beater). On the other hand there are certaing things I saw or heard as a child that I have not adapted. I had a friend whose mom used to spank him with a hanger. I would agree with you that a it’s best used to hang up your dresses.
February 5th, 2010 - 8:22 am
Pixie very good post as usual ,at my schoo l in England all the teachers had a slipper in their desks or drawere to use if needed and it was not on me though i was a good little boy lol the cane was the headmasters instrument in his study i was shown it once and that was enough for me to behave ,but only boys were slippered on their seats not girls unfair lol .Wow pixie you had big hairbrush spanks you play a naughty little girl very well indeed ,love and spanks ,tim xxxxxx
February 5th, 2010 - 11:01 am
I’m too much of a traditionalist the good old hairbrush says “SPANKING” to me, followed by a thin paddle.
My uncle said his dad used a razor strap, which I saw once in Grandpa house (shudder)
My Mom said that worse than a spanking was being forced to kneel on dried corn kernels and pray for forgiveness, after being spanked.
Lee (I guess there are two of us, so I will say Lee R. in the future.)
February 5th, 2010 - 11:02 am
I forgot, they were Hungarians, so that may have come from there.
Lee R
February 5th, 2010 - 11:40 am
I grew up on the East Coast and OTK spankings were HUGE in my family. There were the occassional bouts with a belt and wooden spoon, but my most memorable (and painful) was a light weight, hollow plastic baseball bat…talk about something having one hec of a WHACK!
My preference is and will continue to be OTK hand spankings, but I am open to trying the hairbrush, but no bats for me!
February 5th, 2010 - 1:18 pm
The idea of children being punished makes me kinda queasy, to be honest, and I like to think only of how genuinely sexy a spanking is without any sort of psychological overlay.
The cane and the crop are like bondage (handcuffs, being strapped down, etc) to me–in the right mood and with the right top the formal vibe of the thing can be mind-blowing. But mostly I just love OTK with hand or hairbrush, simply because of the intimacy of the impact.
February 5th, 2010 - 1:25 pm
I grew up in the south and attended a school where the paddle was used frequently. I moved to this school when I was in seventh grade from a school that did not use corporal punishment. It seems that my exposure to this coincided with the onset of puberty and I have been fascinated every since. In my personal spanking life the wooden paddle has always been my favorite. In order to make things tolerable for my partner I use one that is thinner and lighter than those used in school. I also enjoy using hairbrushes, belts, and of course my hand. I think ones choice in implements is undoubtedly culturally related. I have never used a cane but would if that was something that a partner wanted. I only became familiar with the carpet beater via the internet. It just does not look like a proper implement to me. I think the same about the slipper. The tawse, now that seems like fun. I need to get one.
February 5th, 2010 - 6:20 pm
I grew up in Scotland where the tawse, or belt as we knew it at school, is the most well known implement and most normally in schools it was used on the hands. I think because of my heritage I am drawn to the tawse as my favourite implement, including on the hands, and it makes very regular appearances in the stories that I write. But I also have a real love of the cane as an implement which was something that we only ever heard about, or saw in comics, when I was growing up in Scotland although I’m sure it was used in some instances. Since becoming more active in terms of receiving punishment I have developed feelings for many different implements including the wooden paddle which I love and hate in almost equal measure.
February 5th, 2010 - 6:42 pm
For me growing up almost everyone got spanked, just a fact of life.
Dad used his belt and Mom had a paddle. My Aunt used a heavy old wooden spatula she used on my cousins and my Uncle just used his hand, but then that bear of a man did not need an impliment. There were a few razor strap or horse harness straps hanging in closets in a few of my friends houses.
While I love to use the paddles I make the belt or strap is among my favorites.
February 5th, 2010 - 7:34 pm
I’m not sure, but I feel like the carpet beater is more popular (as in popularly dreaded) in Italy. However, I don’t know if it is the first implement that comes to mind in association with spanking, because the belt also seems to be quite common.
I have yet to try the carpet beater, so I can’t talk from experience, but to me it’s both a dreadful and fascinating implement, cause it’s pretty big and it should be lighter than a paddle, so I’ve always wondered either how you can wield it properly and/or if really hurts so badly as they say.
At the moment, my first favourite is (hand aside) the tawse, I love leather. I have to admit, though, that after discovering the whole *spanking world*, I’ve become more interested in trying everything out. Every implement is different and interesting in their own way.
Anyways, I’ve also heard of Chinese using feather duster handles. Do those work like canes?
February 5th, 2010 - 9:14 pm
To add yet another Southern example, I was spanked all of these ways growing up (early 1980s). Each had its own ritual that had to be followed exactly:
- With a belt, by my father, on the buttocks
- With a wooden spoon, by my mother, on the open hand
- With a switch, by my grandmother, on the bare legs
- And almost once with a paddle, by the school principal. She just showed me the paddle then put it away, promising to use it the next time.
I disagree that Americans don’t use the cane; they just call it a switch or rod. This is especially true among biblical fundamentalists, who prefer to use this implement since it is specified in the Bible.
February 5th, 2010 - 9:51 pm
Well, I’m Norwegian by ancestry, but the notion of a lutefisk spanking just doesn’t cut it. Yes, I’m being intentionally ludicrous. Ancestry aside, I’m an American and, as I’ve stated before, rather a traditionalist when the topic turns to disciplinary spankings. So I’ll stick with my hand, belt and wooden hairbrush.
February 5th, 2010 - 9:51 pm
I don’t think my parents were aware that anything besides a belt could be used for spanking. My mother kept one rolled up in her purse. I recall many times when she stealthily and one-handedly pulled it out while driving, looped it over, and swung it around the back seat with her right hand while keeping her left on the wheel.
The mother of one of my childhood friends once threatened a group up us with the hairbrush if anyone dared touch any of the boxes she was packing… then she looked me in the eye and said, “no matter HOW old they are” (I was four years older than all of the others and probably a little old to be spanked… like about 14). This was the first time I had ever heard of using a hairbrush for a spanking. Another friend told me that when his mother used the hairbrush, she used the bristle side… I never found out if that was true.
Once when I was babysitting the children of my cousin, she told us not to play with the basketball in the house while she was gone. If we did, everyone would get the belt when they returned… she looked right at me when she said this. I was 22 years old at the time. It *was* tempting.
I went to a Christian high school that used corporal punishment. Although I was deserving a few times (one of which became a PB video… thank you Pixie!), I never did receive it. At the time I would have done anything to avoid it; now I wish I had recieved it just once so that I would have the memories to relive.
So the belt, school paddle, and hairbrush are the only implements that have ever infiltrated my fantasies.
Kim
Kim
February 6th, 2010 - 1:36 am
For me, a bare, firm hand on my bare bottom is best implement of all. It makes me really feel like someone else is in control, and the skin on skin contact is so intimate and authoritative. That’s what being spanked is all about! And for the spanker, don’t you want to feel that bare, bouncing butt? You can smack hard, and then rub while the spankee whimpers, and then whack again. Nothing gets in the way.
But as I’ve experienced other implements, I’ve come to like all of them except the bath brush – and I can even take that if I’m warmed up and need a good short hard finish. I love the hair brush, the belt, and the new wood paddle that my husband made for me. Isn’t he great?
As far as culture, I grew up only hearing about the hand, the school “board of education”, and occasionally a belt, nothing exotic. So maybe that’s part of why I prefer simple traditional styles. I don’t like seeing the results of a caning – from the nasty stripes and bruises I can’t imagine the recipient getting any pleasure out of it.
One thing I do want to try some day: a flogger!
February 6th, 2010 - 1:56 am
I’m USA and in love with the paddle. Not for nationalistic reasons. But I like the fact that the paddle does give more of a spank sensation. More area covered.
Cane, more of a whipping mentality. Not to say it doesn’t serve it’s purpose well, it does !
Lighter wood paddles. You can go the distance, if used right ( long sessions ). Canes go into the flesh fast, I can’t see a 15 minute caning session. I’ve personally been part of paddlings ( depending on the paddle ), that went at least that long.
Rich
February 6th, 2010 - 6:45 am
brunofromAntwerp
Actually I can’t agree more with Luvinit’s statement. A handspanking is (speaking for myself, of course) the most sexy form of foreplay. And if or when I have been really naughty, a hairbrush will do to top it off.
February 6th, 2010 - 7:08 am
I live in southern England. At junior school it was the ruler on the hand or the gymnshoe on the bottom – or the cane on he bottom for bad infringemnets. At senior school it was almost univerallly the cane on the bottom. At other schools it seems that the cane was used on the hand and the bottom was rarely the target! In his autobiography, Dyllan Thomas wrote of how as a schoolbloy in Wales he was sent outside to cut a switch from the hedge to be used on his hand. The Tawse was generally used in Scotland, and for some reason, in Walsall. And of course at many top public schools and in the penal system, the birch was the favoured one.
I remember my peers talking of the belt, the slipper and the carpet-beater at home – and of course the hand: and I remember my mother using (once but threatening often) the wooden-spoon. One father I know kept (whether he used in or not I do not know) a horse-whip.
So it seems there were a huge variety of implements in use in all sorts of places. But I had never come across the paddle so beloved in the USA till I discovered adult consensual spanking via the internet. (Although a friend of mine did use a miniature cricket bat!) Nor had I come across the martinet – which seems very similar to the dreaded Naval Cat-o-nine-tails.
For me I still favour the cane most of all.
February 6th, 2010 - 7:27 am
In Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia, traditional instrument of domestic punishment was almost exclusively wooded spoon (kitchen spatula) of various dimensions. Sometimes leather belt has been used. Sometimes it is said that wooden spoon was used on girls and belt on boys – but I do not know, when I was a kid and adolescent, I got it with wooden spoon sometimes.
February 6th, 2010 - 12:26 pm
Hi Pixie: I am one of your lurkers, reading your blog with great pleasure. In Sweden where I live, the birch (‘riset’) was the standard home implement as long as spanking of children was permitted. It was outlawed 1979. I tasted it myself, as did my sisters, but it was not such a great sensation. Didn’t give us any mental scars.
For really serious offences, the cane (‘rottingen’) might be used. Very rarely on girls, I would say.
For erotic spanking the birch is really a great instrument. Especially in spring when the culprit can be ordered to cut it herself. The fresh twigs and buds break during use and give a lovely smell to the bed. (Recommended.) The cane in my relations has always been an ominous threat, which nevertheless every girl sooner or later has wanted to taste. Initially as a challenge, later as an acquired taste.
The belt is handy during travel since it is always there. And the sound of impact is lovely to send out through an open hotel window down to the pool area.
All the best. / Max
February 6th, 2010 - 2:47 pm
This is a very good subject. I don’t think that I have had this much fun reading the comments on a post in many a month.
My answer is yes, I do think that the cultural influences of England have effected my implement preferences.
I come from one of the areas of England (and there where a few) that had the Tawse in use in schools rather than the cane. It was never used as more than a threat but my parents kept a short (28″) cane at home. Although I never experienced either, growing up, They both are favorites of mine in play.
The comic books of my childhood (The Dandy, The Beano etc, etc) featured the slipper a lot and this has left me with a fascination with this implement. The modern synthetic soul of a slipper can cause a lot of DMT (Deep Muscle Trauma), you can still feel this weeks after the marks have faded, sometimes but I did manage to purchase a pair of more traditional slippers, with stiffened leather souls, in the souq in Fez, Morocco, and these where amazing, if you can get hold of something similar I recommend that you go for it. Unfortunately I wore these out a long time ago, though they only ever got put on my feet once, when I was trying them on in the souq and I have been looking for another pair like that for years now.
I noticed that you talked about buying a carpet beater, in the post. If you like the cane I think that you will like these, I do, they feel like a sort of squiggly cane variant, these implements are both made of rattan after all. And the carpet beater is one of those ubiquitous sort of implements, used in many parts of the world.
Prefectdt
February 6th, 2010 - 7:00 pm
As a kid my parents didn’t believe in using anything besides a hand for spanking me. I was told this by my mom after a play date when we heard my friend threatened with a paddle and the 4 of us girls were threatened with a belt earlier that day for running indoors. As an adult I was hesitant to try implements. I could be getting braver or maybe is it more curious? I like everyday objects so far and my collection is slowly growing.
February 7th, 2010 - 12:23 am
Interesting question. I’m not sure if culture really plays a role for me or not. In my house only the hand was used. I witnessed neighbors getting the wooden spoon and cousins getting the paddle. There was no corporal punishment at the schools where I lived. I saw other implements being used on TV, especially older sitcoms that showed in reruns during the afternoon. I tend to prefer really domestic implements like the hairbrush, wooden spoon or spatula, ruler, belt. Things you could have around the house anyway, even it you weren’t about to spank someone. Things that would be readily at hand when someone does need/want a spanking. I don’t like the cane or carpet beater because they leave nasty looking marks which make me feel uncomfortable. I prefer a nice even rosy glow. Different implements seem to inspire different feelings in me. A hairbrush seems nurturing, perhaps because I remember having someone brush my hair when I was young. A belt seems erotic, I don’t know why. Maybe because it is mentioned in alot of sexually explicit songs on the radio. The hand, ofcourse, seems the most intimate because of the direct body contact. I used to like playing with paddles when I was a kid, playing “private school” with my friends and making ourselves get sent to the pricipal to get paddled. We must have seen that on TV and thought it would be fun to try. I remember often reenacting spanking scenes from movies or sitcoms that we watched. So I guess TV had more influence on me than culture at that time.
February 7th, 2010 - 12:32 am
My Italian friends tell me a wooden spoon was a part of growing up. In fact, there’s a group on Facebook called, “My Italian parents used to hit me with a wooden spoon!!” I also understand that that “tradition” carries on through the generations.
February 7th, 2010 - 1:06 pm
I have a very clear preference for the birch rod (a bundle of birch twigs) as my favorite spanking implement.This depend both of own experience and culture.In both countries of the Scandinavian Peninsula(Sweden and Norway) the birch rod has been the very much prefered implement for corporal punishment as long as there written sources.
February 7th, 2010 - 1:58 pm
For me, the wooden school paddle is tops. I grew up in Kentucky, and my district didn’t ban the paddle until I was in high school. (Some districts still paddle.) They would take the young miscreant out to the stairwells and let the swats ring through the hallways. I never was on the receiving end myself, but I always got a strange feeling inside whenever someone else got it.
February 7th, 2010 - 3:33 pm
Forgot to mention the French MARTINET, a multi-tongued small whip. Still commonly used in France. You can buy them at most super markets as “Cloth dusters”.
February 7th, 2010 - 5:25 pm
Dear Ms. Wonderful Pixie
As others have already said, you have a wonderful blog and always ask great questions thus giving your fans the opportunity to express themselves and read your thoughts and those of others – thank you so much.
As I said in a post on another forum recently, I like tings that are specifically made for spanking, with the only improvised items being a switch or a hair brush. I like implements that clearly say “this is for whacking your butt, so you better get used to the idea and learn to live with it”. Maybe being an American explains why paddles are number one for me – its what I heard about in schools (and say used) when I was a kid, and going into road side shops or to the country fair and seeing paddles that had the phrases “heat for the seat”, “board of education”, “for the little dear with the bare behind” and such made my throat dry, my heart beat fast and gave me a thrill that I did not understand from the time I was very young.
I have never had much experience getting or giving the English style cane, but would love to find a playmate that wanted to both give and get it.
Belts aren’t my thing, they seem like “slum spanking” devices, and just have no charm. However I do like how nice and red a London Tanner strap or leather paddle makes a girl, and I think very highly of the effectiveness of London Tanner reproduction Scottish tawses (for use on the bottom, NOT THE HAND!!!! – there is a proper and safe place to spank and it is the lower half one ones bottom and only there for me)
In terms of paddles I like the small otk type to be either thick or thin (1/2 inch to 3/8 inch), and the stand up double cheek versions to be thin – 3/8 inch Baltic birch 18 inch paddle from Hanson Paddle Werkes is my “favorite” – lots of sting but not a lot of bruising.
Paddles with holes – “Spencer Paddles” really turn me on psychologically, but I know that used on the bare they cause too much skin damage. Therefore I only like them for “over the pants” paddling.
hair brush or a bath brush are also big turn ons for me, not plastic ones, but nice thick wood ones that cover a large enough area so that they don’t bruise.
Lexan paddles I have come to love also – for their GREAT STING and also in photo sets as one can see perfectly the girls “pan caked” bottom cheeks through the paddle!
But if I could spank wonderful Miss Pixie or beautiful Charlie Sykes (I adore her also!) or Pretty Lilly Page or Darling Lily Anna (ok, I like blondes and redheads best), the instrument of choice would be my hand, first my left hand then turn you around the other direction for my right hand – that way I could make the spanking last the longest……..,
PS – I just reupped my membership at Punished Brats, the great photos and video clips of Charlie and Lilly hooked me – could not resist.
PSS – there is a picture of you (Dear Ms. amber) being paddled laying on your bed with your PJs and bloomers down and your mouth is WIDE OPEN and your head is up and back – this would be a perfect cover photo and logo photo for “The Bawling Baby Paddle Company” web site and products
Love you all
AzSpanks
February 7th, 2010 - 6:41 pm
Hi adorable Pixie,
I have never received a “real” spanking, just several playful,erotic ones. But growing up I witnessed many bare bottomed hand/wooden paddle spankings played out on my lucky friends’ bottoms. I was nearly paddled in school about a dozen times and must say I get very excited by the sight of large heavy wooden paddles followed by large hairbrushes and a strong heavy palm. I am wide open to other implements if they can make a several days lasting impression on my very bratty rear!
February 8th, 2010 - 7:32 am
The favorite implement to spanking in Brazil varies from small whips to slipper.
But, since 1962, the favorite implement is a flip flop called Havaianas.
Very painful but it does not injure the skin.
February 8th, 2010 - 8:02 am
Pixie great to have Beverly back at P.B.being spanked,like Veronicas new hairstyle too,hope you had a nice weekend rest ,love and spanks from tim xxxxxx
February 8th, 2010 - 8:30 am
Dear Pixie
Excellent discussion. Real French martinets sometimes have multi-coloured rubber thongs rather than leather, cord etc. I like these a lot. This is an example of an adult appreciation of what just feels good.
But for fantasy the cultural associations do win out. As English spankers will explain ad nauseam, “the slipper” bent over at school also featured rubber – being a large rubber-soled gym shoe (tennis shoe). I also like ordinary type slippers being used otk as they featured in English children’s comics a huge amount in my childhood – a lot more than in reality, most likely. (Strangely the school type slipper didn’t.)
But they aren’t half loud in use! That’s a large part of the attraction of slippering but can be very inconvenient! Martinets are quite silent (apart from the authentic French cries of “aie!”!)
They’re also a minor feature in Germany, (klopfpeitsche) as are slippers and lots of other things – eg clothes hangers but wooden ones, not like nasty Mommy Dearest and Ike Turner, my personal rule is no hitting with metal, sorry McLintock! – but Germans (Danes etc) really go all wobbly over canes at home.
I guess a cane doesn’t have a lot of other uses but I like the idea of having something improvised in between “whatever you can grab” and a specialised implement. Perhaps there’s a process – they start off improvised but are so effective they then become a “special” slipper, hairbrush or carpet beater just for whackings.
Famous American gals who have been soundly spanked with slippers: Margaret Mitchell (her mother had ‘the no. 3 slipper’ just for her), Dr Ruth (school type whacking, orphanage in Switzerland), Lucie Arnaz by Andy Griffith (clip you can probably find, it’s great!).
Spanish and Brazilian culture also finds a slipper very evocative.
February 9th, 2010 - 12:41 am
BTW, little Miss Web designer (and I mean that in a teasing way), has anyone spoken to you about optimizing graphics for the Web? The graphic in this thread is 358KB in size and appears to have been scaled down from 2051px by 1991px to 300px by 291px, but it appears to have been made to fit by shrinking it without actually resizing it. As a result, it’s slow to download on some computers. This isn’t meant to be hostile, pixie, just a gentle jab. I love your blog.
February 10th, 2010 - 3:54 pm
Fascinating topic. I’m always fascinated by the cultural implications of corporal punishment. Implements and numbers of strokes are two of my favorite topics.
I’m from SE U.S. and grew up in the 70′s so seeing the paddle used at school was a very familiar site. Perhaps unexpectedly in earlier grades, the teachers sometimes used a strap. I recall being fascinated by the fact that sometimes the girls were taken into the restroom for punishment with the implication that dresses would be pulled up or pants taken down.
At home, most of the people I knew got the belt at home, although there were times when other implements were improvised. I had a friend who told me that she once had a choice of punishments at age 17 – a month grounding or 100 strokes with a belt.
February 11th, 2010 - 6:40 am
Hi Pixie!
In the Norway the birch is traditionally an often used implement. That being said, it’s been quite a long time since spankings was allowed here, so at least officially it’s not very common anymore. Beign quite young I haven’t grown up in “the norwegian spanking age” myself, but for those who grew up one generation above me the birch was quite common. At least in the “less progressive” households. For spankers/spankees it’s something one should really try out. It’s a wonderful implement, at least from a spankers point of view.;-) My favourite by far!
- Spankman (the masked vigilante who appears in the middle of the night to smack naughty girls bottoms…)
February 12th, 2010 - 5:07 am
My mother would use the carpet beater, but this one was made of white synthetic material and worked petty well, as after usage my backside burned like hell. Very often she gave me a simple handspanking.
Other boys and girls were punished with the wooden spoon indeed and with a hazelnu switch, which was also very popular in germany in the early sixties. But I never saw the cane in action, for me usage of the cane or the belt was just hearsay, when I was young.
On one single occasion a stick was used on me, which was unfixed from the bathbrush, but I received this punishment not on my bare behind like other spankings, but on leather shorts, but hurt pretty much too. And once my mother used a girdle, with six garters.
February 13th, 2010 - 5:00 am
In my culture – the Netherlands – tradionally spanking is almost always (on the bare) by hand, and indeed this is by far my preferred “instrument”.
February 13th, 2010 - 5:35 am
In Italy, some few years ago, 99% of child were spanked by mom’s wooden spoon or carpet beater! The belt was not often.
I think italian moms didn’t think an hairbrush could be used to give a spanking!
February 13th, 2010 - 8:48 am
I’m from Finland and hand, belt and birch twigs were the most common implements here and those are now also my favourites. I’ve never heard that somebody would have got hairbrush here when growing up, so it’s not that universal.
February 13th, 2010 - 6:20 pm
I say the same that my compatriot seys.
I still remember when i whose once beated by 4 other women with hand, with belt, with cane, with frying pan for something like two hours. Still remember that pain in my ass….
February 25th, 2010 - 1:20 pm
In Cuba the belt and the switch may be used, but the real traditional implement is La Chancleta.
Watch this (funny):
http://www.spike.com/video/la-chancleta-flip/2723604
March 2nd, 2010 - 6:53 am
The cane has always featured prominently in my life, both at school and domestically as a child and an adult. Of course the slipper was also used. I like watching a nude female lying on a bench being strapped. We were also lined up and strapped on the bare at school, both boys and girls. My foster sister used to use a bath brush on me and that really stung. However, the words cane and spank seem to act as a code word for producing an erection. Have yet to feel the delights of a carpet beater, My friend John Burch was actually birched on the Isle of Mann and said it hurt like hell.
Keep up the good work.
April 18th, 2010 - 5:54 am
Most Chinese spanking funs will love bamboo paddle at the first place. That tradition comes from the old times judicial punishment with big bamboo paddle.
However, nowadays, I see many chinese spanko loves cane and ruler as well.