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A good spanking impact photo is hard to find and (I’m told) also quite hard to make, because capturing the moment of impact is not necessarily easy. Pandora Blake recently published a series of never-before-seen spanking photos from photographer Jon Garrett. They are all quite nice, but the first of them is easily the best spanking impact pic I’ve seen in a very long time.
I won’t ruin Pandora’s exclusive by putting the pic here. Go look, ya bums!
It’s no surprise to anybody on the adult web that people don’t pay for porn as much as they used to. With so much free stuff out there (and piracy making most of the rest available to anybody with a larcenous turn of mind) it takes a special product and/or tremendous fan enthusiasm to convert a potential customer into an actual paying one.
I’ve also had the vague notion that women are less likely to buy porn than men are. But Pandora Blake, who produces Dreams Of Spanking, has confirmed it from her business experience of making female-gaze spanking porn:
I was surprised to find that that female fans are much more likely to compliment my porn, leave comments, write blogposts and retweet links than they are to pay for it. In other words, women will promote my work, but they’re much less likely to actually buy it. This surprises me because I’m making films expressly for a female audience, based on my market research and on what I myself want to watch. My female membership has grown over the last year, but it’s never gone above 25%.
Ladies, if you enjoy watching porn from time to time, why not treat yourselves and pay for it? You’ll get better porn, you’ll be supporting the producers you like, and you’ll send a message to producers that you are a market share worth catering to. It’s a positive feedback loop that will result in more sites making the sort of porn you want to see. What’s not to love?
That quote comes from her Top 10 Things I’ve Learned Since Starting a Spanking Site as seen at The Cherry Red Report.
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Have you noticed all the awesome reviews Pandora Blake has been racking up for her Dreams Of Spanking website? She is officially doing it right!
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If you have been following Pandora Blake’s recent frustrations with her billing services provider over some very petty objections to the content on her Dreams Of Spanking site, here’s her official announcement of the free site called Darker Dreams she’s created to give away the spanking porn the credit card companies won’t let her sell. Apparently you can’t talk about consent on the website where you sell porn, and you can’t fight with rubber swords in your porn, either:
Many commenters have remarked on how tame the scenes CCBill objected to are compared to porn you can find elsewhere on the web. Our silly sword-fighting scenes, for instance, all use fake weapons, such as rubber toy swords or capped fencil foils – and yet CCBill still found the “threat to life” implied by these duelling scenes too “realistic” to be allowed.
I purely love Pandora’s response to this:
Fuck capitalism: I’ll give it all away. Full length video downloads, image galleries, behind the scenes documentaries, associated writings, everything. Plus the comments, the blog posts, the performer bios, all the surrounding context that demonstrates the ethical production and enthusiastic content that went into the making of those scenes, because without that, it’s not representative of what I’m doing.
Free range porn, released into the wild! It’s an exhilarating, liberating prospect. Free economics: the last line of defence against the capitalist censors. If I’m not charging, there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
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Although Bethie and I have never been into attending spanking parties (public play not being a thing for us) I know they’re a vital part of the scene for many people. I’ve not heard much about Boardwalk Badness, but here’s a fun report from first-time attendee Jade. Her clever strategy for meeting people (room with Pandora Blake) paid off, but she also made new friends on her own, including one gentleman she calls Buzz:
Eventually Buzz took me by the hand and led me to a table of implements set out for people to try. He encouraged me to pick one out. In a little bit of a test, I chose a beautiful, dense wooden paddle with holes in it. Why was it a test? Because we had talked earlier about implements, and he has talked every intelligently about the care one must take when using a wooden paddle on someone of my size and frame – being thin, a paddle can hurt quite a bit, and even be dangerous. So I wanted to see how he would use it.
He “passed” the test with flying colors, delivering a hand spanking that was absolutely perfect, and even managed to make my rings jiggle and sway in just the right way (making me squirm and pant over his knee.) ;-) And then he used the paddle, giving me several – but not too many – swats with it, before running his hand gently over my bottom and turning me around to perch in his lap for a cuddle. “You’re delicious,” he said, and I had to admit that I was just a bit smitten!
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I am blaming Pandora Blake for destroying the productivity of my morning. Only, not really; because I got a blog post out of it.
So there I was, lying in my bed with my phone at my face, catching up on the night’s Twittering (as one does) as an alternative to actually getting out of the bed and commencing serious work like a grown-up. And I saw that Pandora had tweeted this rather awesome image sequence of two biker women spanking a female traffic cop with her own leather belt (don’t forget to click to make larger):
On my tiny little phone screen, it looked an awful lot like the work of famous gay artist Tom Of Finland. I’ve seen spanking art by Tom of Finland, but I’d never seen any that didn’t feature exclusively male subjects. Could this possibly be?
Of course it was not. But the web searching and blogging to sort it all out consumed my entire morning. {Shakes fist at Pandora}
Technically speaking, we are looking at a Tom of Finland homage by queer post-punk Canadian artist G.B. Jones, who has been called (it turns out) “the female Tom Of Finland” for her Tom Girls series of drawings. Originally appearing in various editions of her zine, J.D.s, the Tom Girls drawings were also printed in a book (title: G.B. Jones); it’s a scan of the book pages from here (I believe) that Pandora tweeted this morning.
According to the artist, the G.B. Jones book got banned in Canada because of this bondage cop imagery:
WB: Why exactly was your book G.B. Jones banned in Canada?
GB: You can see on the Customs form that they’ve typed in “Bondage” as the reason they seized the books. There are only two drawings of people who are in bondage in the book; one is of a police officer, who gets tied up and spanked for giving two girls a ticket for parking their motorcycle in the wrong place, and the other is of a prison guard, who is trying to make it with one of the prisoners, but gets tricked and tied up instead. I wouldn’t want to speculate too much about their thinking at the border, but I suspect it may have something to do with the occupations of the women in bondage, more than the fact that these two women are bound. After all, lots of mainstream pornography gets into the country that’s a lot worse than my drawings.
So, that’s the history. But I was finding myself frustrated by the reduced size of the first two images on Pandora’s tweeted scan. Surely I could find bigger, better, scans on the web?
You’d think. And, eventually, I did. Sort of. But only sort of.
The images in question have titles; they are called “I Am A Fascist Pig” and numbered 1 through 3. Unfortunately, the scans of I Am A Fascist Pig #1 and #2 are just 230 pixels wide. Not good enough! The scan we have (via Pandora) of I Am A Fascist Pig #3 is fine:
The click-through image on that is to a much larger and more satisfactory version found here.
At the same place we find a highly satisfactory (although somewhat dithered) version of I Am A Fascist Pig #2:
Unfortunately, all the versions of I Am A Fascist Pig #1 that I could find on the web were as tiny and/or muddled as the one at the top of this post. More futile curses! Plus, what to do?
Well, when in doubt, one never goes wrong by following the advice found in classic movies. Inigo Montoya knew how to solve a problem like this even when he was staggeringly blind drunk:
“You told me to go back to the beginning. So I have. When the job went wrong you went back to the beginning. Well, this is where we got the job, so this is the beginning.”
OK, so it’s back to the beginning we go! This artwork first saw the light of day in the J.D.s zine, right? So maybe I can find the zine somewhere on the web?
Sure enough! There’s a downloadable .pdf here of J.D.s #1, and though the textures are much washed-out due to too much photocopying, the size and detail is better than anything else we have for #1:
For completeness, here are #2 and #3 in the same style:
So there you have it. Was this triptych of manic pixie lesbian bicker-chick spanking dream girls really worth obsessively blowing an entire morning of web searching and blogging time on? As to that, my dear reader, only you can say…
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This is complicated stuff, especially to find here at my paleolithic caveman “man spanks the woman, everything is very simple” spanking blog. But Pandora Blake always was a bit more sophisticated in her spanking tastes. Thus:
One of the stories I’ve been trying to tell in a lot of my recent films is that of active submission, self-determined submission, submission that’s sought out by an empowered, self-aware individual because it brings them happiness. Submission doesn’t have to be imposed from outside; consensual submission is the free choice of an independent agent, who benefits enough from it to continually re-make that choice.
Likewise, I’m passionate about re-modelling dominant and submissive as roles that are detached from physical sex and gender identity. Dominance can be feminine, and it doesn’t have to look like the latex-clad stereotype, either. Submission can be masculine, and honourable, and brave, whatever your gender. And both roles can be complex, layered, interleaved. The same person can be both, and do both at different times, or at the same time in different ways.
Yes!
One of the frustrating things to me about spanking porn is that the memes (the stories, the hackneyed plots, the scenarios, call ’em whatever you want) mostly tend to be way more primitive than the scenarios we spankos play out in our actual lives. Schoolgirls and naughty wards and careless cat burglars and obnoxious fiancees are all good fun, but they don’t begin to mirror all the complexities of how grownups play in the twenty-first century. Although I haven’t yet had the chance to see any of the movies Pandora has been making (and selling at Dreams Of Spanking if I’m not mistaken) I gather she’s working to improve that.
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