Spanks for Everything!
by Lacy Stahl, a Review
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 Who would have known getting a spanking could get your rocks off in so many different ways? There's the stimulation, since the derriere and genitals are connected to the same nerve bundles. There's the humiliation -- of being buns up and burnished. There's the association with D/s and punishment. Not to mention endorphins that kick in after a good one. And not all spanking enthusiasts like it for all reasons. Some like it because it feels good, some because it feels bad. Go figure. This is the first lesson you learn in Lady Green's "The Compleat Spanker" (the spelling "compleat" being a humorous reference to the most famous how-to fishing book, The Compleat Angler.)
Maybe you did know all this, and if so, much of The Compleat Spanker may not be news to you. Its author Lady Green wrote the book in the mid-nineties to fill a need at that time: though spanking had often been included as a chapter of books on S/M, no one had done a book strictly on spanking itself. "I recognize that many people who enjoy erotic spanking don't consider themselves to be 'into S/M,'" Green wrote, "and thus may never look at the many excellent books on that topic" (2).
If you're new to the scene, curious, or trying to learn all you can, The Compleat Spanker should be in your library. It is both a classic and a very thorough primer on this specific niche -- specific, but not small. As Green puts it, "I was one of thousands, maybe tens or even hundreds of thousands of people who had erotic connections with the act of spanking or being spanked" (1).
In The Compleat Spanker you get an anatomy lesson that warns about the proximity of the coccyx to your spanking playground, the power and wonder of the gluteus maximus, and the difference between welts and bruises, both in how to give them and how to care for them afterwards. In short, the book gives newbies to the sport of spank enough tools to spank safely. It is true that many beginners have accidentally broken all the rules as they explored and experimented with spanking for the first time -- with no harm done. And many experienced players intentionally ignore the rules when it suits them. But, as with most primer-type books, this book must also err on the side of caution. The Compleat Spanker gives you a baseline, a good handful of things to avoid, and why, and the reader is then free to weigh their goals against safety and to know when they've jumped off into the Land of Luck. Along these lines, in the Compleat Spanker we learn, for instance, that an implement many beginning spankers have cut their teeth on, the hair brush, is actually not the best choice for first-time spanking scenes. Nor is that other favorite standby, the leather belt. The belt is hard to control and lets itself into all wrong places uninvited (unless the spanker is really skilled). The brush is often too severe for beginner spankees.
Anyone for whom spanking will be their first experience with activities involving pain will find the chapter called "Afterwards" enlightening. As Lady Green tells us: "Although you don't often read about it in spanking porn, the time after the spanking is one of the most important parts of your play" (52). In this chapter, she talks about making the shift from "the alternate reality of your spanking universe," and what partners can do for each other during this time. Together with the troubleshooting chapter, Lady Green is able not only to familiarize newbies with some of the unforseeables that might come up in the aftermath of a spanking, but to offer very specific solutions, remedies and even products to turn to. The book ends by offering some resources (reflecting what was available in 1996, when the book was written) and tips to help people find like-minded others. Even after almost a decade, the Compleat Spanker is still the definitive book on the art. It comes at spanking from all the directions spanking enthusiasts may come from, in all their variety, painting the broadest canvas for a very popular sport.
submetido em 23/07/2005 |
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