Long ago in 2005 I published a much smaller version of this orientalist bastinado scene, which I imagined to be some sort of Turkish judicial punishment fantasy:
Although I did not know it at the time, the artist is Gottfried Seiben, also known as the “Archibald Smith” responsible for the luridly-pornographic anti-Ottoman propaganda series Balkangreuel.
Gottfried seems also to have painted another series called Sultanslaunen (Sultan’s Whim, perhaps?) of which I only have a few examples from a presumed-larger set. It features heavy punishments under the supervision of a cruel sultan and his minions:
For completeness only I will also link (but not display inline, as a matter of editorial compassion) a companion image to the above. There’s blood on the furniture in the scene (by implication, from the person being whipped) so view it at your own peril, or — my advice — don’t.
And finally, I have this lower-quality whipping bench scene that very much appears as if it might be part of the same portfolio:
Judging by the forensic evidence left behind, it looks as if our two rude gentlemen took the less common route of slaking their considerable lusts before commencing to whip the hell out of the lady captive they’ve got tied over their punishment horse:
She went to a consciousness-raising meeting run by the local womyn’s collective, which meets every Thursday in a classroom at the high school. Apparently she said some things that were ideologically unacceptable, so they asked her to stay after class for “a friendly chat.” She found out that their actual approach to reeducation was more hands-on and direct than she ever imagined!
Vicki Palmer is somewhat famous as a 1950s pinup model, but she never did fetish work that I’m aware of. However, it doesn’t take much of a spanko imagination to imagine that in this photo, her hands are tied and her caning is imminent:
If one spanking is good, two spankings are better. (Of course I say say this from the “it’s better to give than to receive” camp.) If one bare bottom is the invitation to a snack, then two or three or four bare bottoms are your invitation to a feast. This is the basic credo of all hedonists: if a little bit’s good, more is even better! This is why orgies and swing parties are popular. This is why (well, not the only reason, but among them) people go to spanking parties. We may be pair-bonding apes who are mostly monogamous most of the time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy lots of choice when it comes to looking, fondling, and smacking.
The better sorts of spanking porn are pretty good at acknowledging this truth. That’s why it’s not hard to find arrays of spanked bottoms and lines of sore asses in the Spanking Blog archives. But this is not a phenomenon unique to spanking porn! We like choice in all of our light-hearted sexual affairs. Why do you think camsites are so popular? If you’re feeling a little bit lonely and a little bit horny and you decide to go look at some adult live sex cams in order to solve those problems in a sane and sexy way from the comfort of your couch, what you want to see when you click through is a vast wall of attractive cams performers, each waiting in their little thumbnail box for you to select and play with them. Choice, my friends, is what makes us happy.
In the world of BDSM, having a broad choice of partners and playthings is fairly rare, given the issues of stigma and the practical logistical difficulties of putting enough like-minded kinksters into the same safe space at the same time. It does happen, of course, especially in the sex clubs and play spaces sometimes to be found in our most modern and progressive cities. But it’s more common in porn, and especially in BDSM art, where most of the practical and economic difficulties melt away, except for the challenge each artist faces in putting his or her fantasies down in inky lines on blank paper. So that’s where you’ll most commonly find bondage orgies, kinky group sex, and depraved foursomes-and-moresomes of every kind.
Image credits, top to bottom: The 8-person spanking orgy at the top is by Makise Kurisu NTR. The fellow so ambitiously and thoroughly enjoying three bound women from the rear is drawn by Makinaru (γΎγγͺγ). The foursome with the hard-used but very happy bondage babes is by Baalbuddy, as is the four-on-two bondage gangbang.
