Input: Prompt: Write an appendix for a book about consensual erotic spanking. Discuss the use of canes, including their history, different types, and techniques. Include personal anecdotes and advice for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Mention different materials that canes can be made from and their unique characteristics. Also, provide safety tips and precautions to take when using canes.

Response:
Appendix D:
Some Special Notes on Caning

**GROWING UP AS I DID IN THE WHITE-BREAD** American suburbs of the 50s and 60s, the furthest my spanking imagination extended was to the implements Id heard described by my friends: hairbrushes, paddles, belts. Id read about kids whose folks cut switches from trees, but that was in the South – although I was certainly titillated by the idea. Id never heard of a cane.

I cant remember now when I first did, or what I imagined at the time: probably, like many with no exposure to caning-rich British culture, the thick clumsy implements used for walking in the U.S. How graceless! How horrifying! I certainly wanted no part of striking anybody with anything as likely to break a bone as to impel a wail of pain/pleasure.

So it wasnt until the late 1980s, when I was well into adulthood and over the threshold of the kink world, that I first saw a photograph of a slim, graceful, lovely rattan cane. The moment I saw it, I experienced a thrill of desire and I knew, raw novice that I was, that I had to have one of those.

It wasnt easy. I was living at the time in a small California city with no BDSM community and no stores. I prowled antique stores looking for something comparable, but no dice. A few books did exist which could have helped me,1 but they were targeted to gay and lesbian players and I did not know of their existence.

Fast forward a year or two. Id attended my first BDSM club meeeting and met there the man who was to become my partner of thirteen years. He, wonder of wonders, owned a rattan cane – a shortish, thickish one (still my personal preference). While Id tried it on him a time or two, impact play was not a bottoming activity he enjoyed much, although just the feeling of the rattan in my hand thrilled me. However, one night he tried it on me in what Ive heard called the "California style" of caning – brisk moderate taps rained down quickly over a broad area of my butt. The fast-building sting was exciting but hard for me to process as anything but pure pain. I, never the stoic, had been happily thrashing and shrieking all over the bed as the fiery rain built its sensation over my reddening buttocks.

He turned to return the cane to its toybag and I raised my head. "Hon?" I queried. "Can I ask for something?"1

"Sure," he replied. "What?"

"Could you try hitting me with that one time, as hard as you can?"

He looked at me as though Id gone insane (a look I was to see many times in the years to come). "Um, I guess. Are you sure?"

I gave an answer that was also to recur many times: "As sure as Ill ever be."

He came back to the bed and took his stance: standing over me, legs spread, with the cane in both hands raised high over and behind his head. After a test swing or two to get his range, he brought it down with that unmistakable whir, with his full weight behind it. I felt a searing line of white heat across my ass that blossomed immediately, then ebbed for a moment, then whooshed from its central line like the breath of a dragon expanding outward from its core to every centimeter of my body – including, but not exclusively, my genitals. The yell I let out came from the deepest place in my solar plexus and vibrated every cell in my body and didnt stop until I had exhaled every molecule of oxygen I had.

I inhaled, and the next breath that came out was a gale of laughter. "Oh my god, that was _amazing_ ," I howled. "Do that again."

Ever since then, Ive caned and been caned every chance Ive gotten. If I could only pack one toy, it would be a shortish, thickish, medium-rigid rattan cane.

The Glamor of the Cane

The influence of the cane comes to us from two parts of the globe: the United Kingdom, where its origin is the classroom, and the Far East, where its origin is the courtroom. The two are quite different.

While both canes are these days made of rattan, the British whipping cane is typically less than three feet long, less than one-third of an inch in diameter, and designed to raise welts – essentially, to be used on children as a correctional implement.

The judicial cane, of the type used in Singapore and other countries in Asia and Africa, is typically four feet long, one-half inch in diameter, and intended to break the skin. The man who wields such a cane must be specially trained to do so accurately. (I have owned such a cane and eventually cut it down by a foot; it wavered too much as I swung it for me to feel okay about using it, even relatively lightly.) It is expected that the adult who receives such a judicial caning will be permanently physically scarred by the experience.

The British schoolchild is typically bent over a desk, without restraint, and required to maintain that position for a set number of strokes, depending on the severity of the offense – typically three to six. The caning is typically administered with a snap of the forearm and wrist, by a teacher or headmaster.

The criminal is strapped into a frame that bends him over into a much harsher position. The number of strokes is similar to that of the British caning, also depending on the nature of the offense. The caning is administered by a full-body stroke from a trained martial artist.

Fantasize about either type of caning, as you prefer, but understand that they are very different.

Canes are used in a variety of ways in actual play, and offer a far broader range of sensation than many novices believe – I know one "sensuous caning" specialist who claims, and I believe him, that bottoms have fallen into blissful sleep under his cane. However, the romance and glamour of the cane generally stems from its association with the strict British schoolmistresses and schoolmasters of the Victorian era, as immortalized in "Victorian" classics such as _Harriet Marwood, Governess_ and _Frank and I_. (These books were generally actually published in the early twentieth century, although set in the Victorian era.)

Hence, the accoutrements that we associate with caning most often have a Victorian or Edwardian flavor: for the top, the long skirt and high-necked blouse for a woman or tweedy suit for a man; for the bottom, the schoolgirl or schoolboy uniform; for setting, the schoolroom or dormitory or nursery; for language, a formally worded reproach from the top, and humble words of penitence from the bottom. This is the stuff of fantasy, and its glamour is undeniable to those of us who love canes.

As we move into reality, though, accommodations must usually be made. Not only can few of us afford full costumes and sets – that is the least of our problems; humans are imaginative creatures. More to the point, only the rarest of bottoms can find pleasure in the searing cut of rattan against flesh without the grace of warmup or the tenderness of aftercare. This sensation is not intended to carry any kind of pleasure – it is meant to punish, and to punish only, with no love or joy implied or meant. When those of us who are new to caning try to enact such fantasies, we may find the harsh brakes of reality applied to our personal asphalt in an extremely jarring manner, with subsequent real-world harm: such Monday mornings are no fun at all (and may last for much longer than Monday).

I urge you to cherish your fantasies – they are the stuff from which you will build your scenes – but to understand that they are conceptual drawings and not blueprints.

The Craft of Caning

To the uninitiated, a cane looks like, well, a stick. And to be sure, there is something to be said for their point of view: it _is_ a stick. While canes may be made of a variety of different materials, they all have in common their basic stick-ness. They range from being whippy enough to be able to be bent tip-to-tip, to being almost entirely rigid; most are somewhere in between. For the purposes of this discussion, Ill assume moderate rigidity, but you can extrapolate greater or lesser rigidity depending on the cane youre using. (I suggest that before using any cane, you test its rigidity by bending it slightly between your hands. Actually, I suggest that before using any cane, you try at least a few test whacks on your own body – I usually use the outside of my right calf and/or the front of my right thigh, depending on the length of the cane – and/or have a knowledgeable friend give you a few test whacks on your butt. But Im not your mommy; I just think that this is what responsible tops do. Let your conscience be your guide.)

Symmetry

Unless youre trying to achieve a special effect, it is gracious and artistic to achieve symmetry in your caning. Thus, unless youre fortunate enough to be ambidextrous, you will have to learn some way to reach the cheek that is not reachable with your dominant hand. The easy way is to put your bottom face-down on a table or bed and simply walk back and forth. Nothing wrong with this option: a great many bottoms can accept a more intense caning in this position anyway. But if you want your bottom in a standing or bent-over position, you will need to learn one of three options: you can learn to cane with your "off" hand, you can learn to cane with your dominant hand while crouching, or you can learn to cane backhanded.

I am hopeless with my left hand, so Ive discarded that option, but Ive watched other caners who are very good – as with all caning, I suggest you practice on inanimate objects before trying it on a human being.

The crouching option is hard to describe, but can be done well if your balance is good. Assuming youre righthanded, you crouch to your bottoms right, facing them. Raise the cane to your left shoulder, parallel to the ground, with your palm facing their body, and swing it smoothly at their butt, aiming slightly upward.

In general, though, I prefer the backhand. Through the years, Ive come to the point where my backhand stroke is actually slightly stronger and more accurate than my forehand (I have a weak shoulder and the backhand is less affected by it). If you dont know how to do a backhand swing, have a tennis-playing friend show you; not just your caning, but all your flagellatory activities, will be improved by this important stroke. Big Hint: I like to start the stroke by grasping the striking end of the cane in my left hand, thus adding "snap" to its stroke as it swings.

Sting/Thud

We discussed sting and thud back in Chapter 9, "Implements." All canes are stingy to some degree, because theyre all narrow and relatively lightweight. I have a rattan cane thats really more of a club – about 27′ long and 1′ across – and even it packs a significant edge of sting along with its clublike thud. And the slenderest of canes is nearly pure sting.

But heavier and more rigid canes can definitely have thud along with sting, and some achieve a lovely thud/sting balance that I like to call "bite" – sinking deep down through every layer of tissue with an intensity achieved by no other pain toy. Its this kind of bite, in my opinion, that makes the cane truly the queen of flagellation implements.

It is possible to control thud and sting levels with your caning technique. If you are using a heavy, thuddy cane and want it to feel stingier, swing it nearly parallel to the skin so that it strikes a glancing blow that skims along the surface of the skin – it will sting like a bee. Similarly, snapping the cane onto the skin as though it were going to go only an inch or two beneath the surface and then snatching it back will give a stingier stroke.

Contrariwise, sending a cane firmly and perpendicularly directly down onto the skin, with no snap and lots of follow-through, will maximize whatever thud it may have. (If its a slender, whippy cane, nothing on earth will make it feel thuddy, except maybe wrapping it in duct tape. Sorry.) If your bottom has a hard time processing sting, you can help by "rubbing away the sting" – see Chapter 13 for details.

Pacing

To explain the pacing of caning, first I have to explain a bit about what happens when a cane strikes skin; its not exactly like any other implement. Oddly enough, canes have more in common in at least one way with an implement you wouldnt expect than they do with other flagellation implements like floggers, paddles and straps. Please refer back to the beginning of this chapter, where I described the sensations of my first hard cane stroke – the immediate jolt of pain, the momentary ebbing, then the slow secondary blossoming. This is very typical. Now look at the picture of the classic "two track" cane welt on page 149. So here we have two cane-related phenomena that are not like other flagellation implements: a two-phase sensation, and a two-track welt. On the other hand, the adult toy store offers us one other pain implement that also has a two-phase sensation: the lowly clamp, that notoriously "hurts for a moment going on, then calms down, and then hurts worse coming off."

Obviously, I have no scientific data to back me up on this. (If any reader is willing to fund a study, write to me care of Greenery Press.) But it seems likely to me that what happens when cane strikes skin is essentially the same as what happens when clamp meets skin, compressed into a much smaller time frame, as follows: The cane descends rapidly and forcefully onto the skin. (Look closely and you can see a momentary flash of pure white, like a lightning strike, as the skin is compressed and the blood forced out of it.) The pain is instantaneous. The skin on either side of the cane stroke is suddenly and dramatically stretched, hence creating the "two tracks" of the classic cane welt. This phase of the sensation is comparable to the sensation of the clamp going on, and fades almost instantaneously.

One to ten seconds later, depending on the force of the strike, the blood flows back into the compressed tissue – comparable to the sensation of the clamp coming off. A second, slower, more intense wave of pain washes over the recipient, often followed by a flood of endorphins (and, sometimes, by a corresponding flood of giggles).

_No other spanking implement but the cane leaves a two-track "tramline."_

What this means to you, the caner, is that pacing is essential to crafting a caning. If you want your caning to go on for a long time, at a majestic pace, you wait until the second wave has subsided before you start your next stroke. If you want to build to a crescendo, you challenge your bottom by building wave on top of wave. Learn to watch your bottom with the utmost of care; you will see these waves travel over the skin like ripples on a lake.

Types of Canes

Most of us, when we think of canes, think immediately of rattan. And for good reason: I believe rattan offers overall the liveliest action and most vibrant sensation of all cane materials. But when I lay out all the canes and cane-type toys in my toy box, rattan proliferates but is far from alone – my canes range from a delicate conductors baton of fiberglass to a heavy club of Teflon. And Ive seen and coveted canes of many other shapes and materials. So, herewith, a highly idiosyncratic and opinionated guide to cane shapes, sizes and materials.

Natural Materials

_Rattan_ is to canes as wood is to chairs: its possible to make perfectly nice ones out of other materials, but rattan just seems somehow _right_. Rattan is a flexible natural reed that grows in marshy areas in Indonesia and similar climates, and is available cheaply all over the U.S. While it is easy to make your own canes of rattan, I strongly recommend that your first few rattan canes be purchased from a professional, so you can learn your preferences regarding length, thickness, springiness, balance, varnish and handle finish before you go to the trouble of making canes.

Many who do not know much about canes refer to the material of which they are made as "bamboo." Rattan and bamboo are different materials. While they are both reeds, you can tell which is which by looking at the joints. The joint in a piece of rattan looks like a telescope, with one piece fitting slightly inside the next. The joint in a piece of bamboo looks more as if youd taken a tube of cloth in your hands and moved your hands closer together so that the cloth formed a ridge, with neither piece "inside" the other.

The reason this is an important difference is that the two reeds break differently. If rattan breaks, it is likely to break cleanly across – your cane will be broken but your bottom will be intact. Bamboo, on the other hand, can break lengthwise, leaving an edge of knifelike sharpness. If you dont notice the break before striking your bottom, you can cut or pinch the bottoms flesh badly. Thus, I dont recommend bamboo for caning, except perhaps for very light taps. This includes the cheap bamboo garden stakes that are many peoples first experiment with caning – if you must buy these, please use them very lightly as an experiment, and if you like the way they feel, invest in rattan or one of the other materials described here before going further.

Some people prefer their rattan canes varnished, some unvarnished. The advantage to varnish is that it looks cooler and that very minor amounts of body fluids can be cleaned off it with disinfectant. However, if you want to soak or steam your cane to keep it supple, you will have to either leave an end unvarnished or sand a bit of the varnish away.

The advantage to unvarnished rattan is that maintenance is easier, but if you get fluids on an unvarnished cane its best to give it to the person whose fluids are on it. Your choice. (I prefer varnished, for whatever thats worth.)

I owned one rattan cane that had been entirely dipped in tool dip, which was great insofar as it was terrifically easy to keep clean. However, it was impossible to keep supple and eventually broke under hard use. Life is full of tradeoffs.

When buying a rattan cane, look for:

•joints and a tip that have been sanded smooth

•a nice straight shaft – however, rattan is a natural material, and no rattan cane is going to be perfectly straight

•a good sensation – try it on yourself, or have a friend try it on you, so you can see how it feels

•a handle that feels comfortable in your hand

•a length and width that seem well suited to your body and the way you swing (generally, the shorter you are, the shorter your canes should be – Im 5‱4′ and I like my canes about 2½‱ long)

•a nice balance that doesnt make you want to choke up on the handle

•your preferred type of finish – if varnish, no blobs, sags or drips

Rattan also requires some maintenance. Rattan canes should never be kept leaning against a wall! Theyll get a curve in their length that is nearly impossible to remove. Store them flat, or hang them up by the crook in the handle (if you like crook-handled canes; I dont), or by a hanging loop either built into the cane or made by wrapping a rubber band tightly around the handle.

Also, rattan canes must be kept moist – if you hear a faint rattling noise when your cane strikes flesh, thats a warning sign that your cane is drying and may break soon. To refresh it, you can keep it hanging in a bathroom or other humid area, or drop it in a bathtub or wallpaper tray with enough water to cover it well. Some cane aficionadoes add salt to the water, claiming that it prevents the cane from mildewing, but I personally have never encountered a mildewed cane. A well-moistened cane is relatively heavy, springy and lively, and far likelier to give a nice bitey sensation.

Ive seen a couple of very nice canes that are standard rattan canes with smooth, tight leather coverings – the leather mitigates a bit of the sting and imparts the "bite" quality that cane-lovers adore, besides giving the cane a fabulously Erich Von Stroheim fetish look. These are more of an investment than a standard rattan cane, but they impress me quite a bit.

_Reed_ is a bit like rattan, but its the core of a generic reed and has no joints. Its outside sometimes has a slightly serrated or "toothed" appearance, a bit like the spline that is used to keep window screens in their frames but not nearly so extreme. It tends to be very flexible and to make very light, whippy canes. It is not typically varnished.

Im not a huge fan of reed canes, but for sting fans theyre a dream come true, and reed is very inexpensive so you can buy or make plenty of them for your collection. The end of a reed cane should be sanded nice and round, just like a rattan one. Check the shaft to make sure there are no splintery parts.

Ive had _wood_ dowels used on me as canes, and while theyre not the equal of rattan, they havent been half bad. Wood doesnt have the spring or bite of rattan; its rigid and a bit unforgiving. But in many parts of the country, rattan canes can be hard to find, particularly for beginners who are just beginning to experiment with caning. And Id certainly rather see someone experiment with a dowel than with a bamboo garden stake – its safer (less likelihood of lateral splitting) and more controllable. On the other hand, its tough to achieve that fabulous "bite" with a dowel, and Id hate to see someone decide that they just werent into caning on the basis of their experience with a hunk of wood. Still, if you promise to keep an open mind, you might give it a try if a dowel is the best you can do for now. Id start with something about ⅜ thick and 30′ long, at least to start – you can try something thinner, thicker, longer or shorter later.

I was also recently given an absolutely stunning inlaid wooden cane, as beautiful as handmade furniture. Its not terribly flexible but its easy to control, and it makes me feel wealthy to use it.

_Switches._ If you have a tree in your back yard with relatively long, straight branches – willows are great, and many fruit trees as well – you have a very intense caning implement as near as your penknife. Start gently with switches – Id try them on your own hide before you use one on your partner; they can be both extremely painful and more damaging to skin than you might think. Be especially careful about small buds, twigs and bits of bark, which can leave small wounds, welts and scrapes (and which will scatter all over your clean floors). Not a lightweight toy, but intense, fun, and well suited to various role-plays.

Manmade Materials

Its probably impossible to describe every manmade material anyones ever crafted a cane from, but here are a few of the most common.

The commonest type of manmade cane I see is _fiberglass_. Fiberglass is usually white in color, opaque, and lightweight; it tends to be fairly flexible and whippy. My big concern about fiberglass is that some less expensive fiberglass canes may shed fibers which can embed themselves in skin – this may or may not be dangerous, but it worries me. Given that I consider my hide more disposable than that of my bottoms, I always run a fiberglass cane through my fingers in each direction before applying it to anyone else. If I feel any rough edges or if a sliver comes off in my hand, I discard the cane for good. (Fortunately, fiberglass canes are usually quite inexpensive.)

One significant exception thats worth mentioning here is one of my favorite toys – a conductors baton from a music store, a small, light cane with a bulb-shaped cork handle. Ive carried the baton loose in my toybag for years and its never shed a single sliver, so I know that high-quality fiberglass is not necessarily prone to the same problems as its less expensive counterparts.

_Delrin_ is a black substance that feels like hard rubber and is quite heavy in weight; Im told its real-world use is for bumpers on boats. Canes of Delrin are extremely thuddy – Im a bit choosy about who Ill let use a Delrin cane on me, as a missed stroke could potentially break a tailbone. Still, Delrin delivers a deep-down jolt that its hard to get with any other cane material, and any thud slut is likely to want a Delrin cane or two.

_Lucite_ canes crystal-clear gleam makes them exceptionally pretty to look at, and they are available in a variety of colors. They are quite rigid and have some tendency to break (careful how you store them if your toybag is subject to rough handling). Ive seen canes of twisted Lucite whose harsh edges give me pause; I wouldnt let a beginner use such an item on me.

I own a cane of _Teflon_ , but its dimensions and weight really place it more genuinely in the "club" class – its about >′ across, 20′ long and weighs almost a pound, and its sensation has almost none of the characteristic sting of a cane, so I mention it here only for the sake of completeness.

Ive also seen canes of burnished _aluminum_ , which are as completely rigid as its possible for a cane to be.

Some Special Caning Techniques

Theres a lot more to caning than simply winding up and letting fly: a cane can be one of the most versatile toys in your toybag, offering anything from a sensuous massage to a tantric journey to a Herculean ordeal. Here are a few of my favorite caning tricks, some sweet and some sneaky.

• _The scary swish._ The sound of a cane whirring through the air is a terrifying, yet very erotic, stimulus for a lot of bottoms. Let them thrill to the sound effects a time or two before you actually land a stroke. (Of course, unless youre doing a punishment caning, your first stroke will be nowhere near that hard – but the swish plants the fantasy in their brain before you begin, and builds a nice sense of dread.)

• _Rubbing away the sting._ I was taught this technique by my coauthor Dossie Easton, who learned it in turn many years ago from the scene elder Patrick Califia. It is especially helpful with bottoms who have a hard time processing canes in specific or sting in general. Land your cane stroke, and then as quickly as possible – a fraction of a second later – place the heel of your hand on the canestroke and rub the area quite firmly, as though you were erasing the memory of the stroke from the skin. It feels wonderful and literally does seem to "erase" the sting.

• _Unpredictable._ One of the mindsets that can cause a bottom to panic and safeword is getting stuck in the future – worrying about whats going to happen next, and whether theyre going to be able to deal with it, instead of staying in the moment. Sometimes, I like to prevent a bottom from freaking out about the future by using two different implements, one stingy, one thuddy. I keep one toy tucked under my arm while I use the other.

Typically, I give the bottom just enough strokes that I notice them starting to struggle with the sensation – then switch to the other one to give them a break. They cant get freaked out about whats going to happen next, because the minute they start to anticipate whats coming, you switch and give them what theyre not expecting. Bottoms can get very tranced out with this steady but unpredictable rain of sensation.

• _"Tap tap tap whack."_ This is a particularly useful technique if youre relying primarily on the cane in your scene, without any other warmup implements…or if youre trying to ramp up a scene fairly quickly without spending as much time as usual on warmup (not recommended unless you and your bottom are both experienced players). Start with quick, rhythmic taps covering the whole caning area, using only your wrist, without letup. These should feel about like being out in a brisk rainstorm, just barely stinging the skin, not enough to build any resistance in the bottom at first. Keep that up as you watch carefully to see them relax and settle into the sensation. Gradually, start tapping just a tiny bit harder, so it stings just a little bit more and they start to tense up a bit, then relax again as they get used to it…then a little bit more. When theyre handling a reasonable, consistent level of sting, surprise them with a quick moderate "whack" that doesnt break the rhythm at all, and go back to the quick taps at the previous level. Let them relax from the surprise. Then another whack, then back. Relax again. Next time, maybe two whacks – but dont break the rhythm. Next time, one really hard whack, and back to the rhythm. Then two hard whacks, and back. You can probably figure this out from here.

When you have them up to being able to take three or four fairly hard whacks, they are Officially Warmed Up, and you can keep that up indefinitely, or go on to a more intense stroke-by-stroke caning.

After the caning is over, of course, there will be plenty of time for compliments ("you took that so well," "Im so proud of you," "that turned me on so much," et al), cuddling, warm blankets, snacks, lots of drinks of water for both of you, and so on. Caning, like all spanking, is an act of profound intimacy – use this time of lowered barriers to show your affection and trust for one another and to bask in that endorphin-y glow.

1"Coming to Power" by Samois and Larry Townsends "The Leathermans Handbook."

1No, Im not terribly submissive - why do you ask?


Input: Prompt: Write a resource guide for a book about consensual erotic spanking. Include sections on where to find non-judgmental professionals, help for those being spanked against their will, and resources for minor injuries related to spanking. Also, provide a list of spanking groups and general BDSM clubs in various cities. Include a list of recommended nonfiction and fiction books about spanking, as well as mainstream media that features spanking scenes.

Response:
Resource Guide

In Case of Problems

For a list of physicans, chiropractors, therapists and other professionals who will not be judgmental about your spanking interest, check:

www.ncsfreedom.org/resources/kink-aware-professionals.html

If you are being spanked against your will and want help in preventing it, or if you are spanking someone against their will and want help in stopping:

National Domestic Violence Hotline
(800) 799-SAFE
or check the front of your phone book for local resources.

For help with care of minor spanking-related injuries, this is a good reference book:

_Sports Medicine for Coaches & Trainers_
Edward J. Shahady, M.D., & Michael J. Petrizzi, M.D.
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC

If you have general questions about spanking or other forms of erotic behavior:

San Francisco Sex Information
www.sfsi.org
(415) 989-7374

Spanking Groups

This is far from an exhaustive list of the spanking groups throughout the U.S. Many are small, local, and do not widely publicize their activities. Your local BDSM club or alternative newspaper may be able to put you in touch with a group near you…or try entering the search terms _spanking, group_ and the name of your city into your favorite search engine.

Crimson Moon (Chicago)
www.chicagocrimsonmoon.net

Florida Moonshine
www.floridamoonshine.net

Shadow Lane (Los Angeles and Las Vegas)
www.shadowlane.com

Spanking Club of New York
www.scony.com

Strictly Spanking New York
parties.strictlyspankingnetwork.com

General BDSM Clubs

Again, this is a list which is far from complete – hundreds if not thousands of BDSM clubs have sprung up across the U.S. and worldwide. These, however, are some of the largest, and may be able to put you in touch with a club nearer you, or with a male-only or female-only club if that is your preference. Please remember that while BDSM may include many activities besides spanking, many BDSM folks are also avid spanking fans.

National Leather Association
Pansexual but membership is primarily gay & lesbian. Chapters in many cities.
www.nla-international.com

TES (New York)
The oldest pansexual BDSM club in the U.S. In addition to its regular programs, it also maintains a Spanking special interest group.

The Society of Janus (San Francisco)
www.soj.org

Black Rose (Washington DC)
www.br.org

Books

Nonfiction

This is, as far as I know, the only widely distributed how-to book entirely about spanking. However, several of the more general BDSM books out there contain excellent spanking material. Greenery Press publishes several of the best (if I do say so myself); check the back page of this book for listings. In addition, I recommend:

_Consensual Sadomasochism: How to Talk About It and How to Do It Safely_
William A. Henkin, Ph.D., and Sybil Holiday, CCSSE, Daedalus Press, Los Angeles.

_Different Loving: An Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission_
Brame, Brame & Jacobs, Villard Books, NY.

_Learning The Ropes_
Race Bannon. Daedalus Press, Los Angeles.

_Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns_
Philip Miller & Molly Devon. Mystic Rose Books, Fairfield, CT.

_The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge_
Tristan Taormino. Cleis Press, San Francisco.

Fiction

There are about three zillion hot erotic novels that are either entirely or mostly about spanking, and I wouldnt dream of trying to list even a fraction of them here. The recent flowering of e-book publishing has increased the amount of available spanking literature by a factor of at least a hundred – entering the keyword "spanking" into Amazons Kindle Books page turns up well over 12,000 books! I do, however, want to mention a couple of erotic spanking classics that have been widely enjoyed by many spanking fans. (Please consider all these books as erotica, not instruction. Many of them model behavior and play that is emotionally and/or physically dangerous or even impossible.)

Eve Howard, the doyenne of Shadow Lane, has been writing and publishing romantic boy-spanks-girl erotica since the 1980s, under the _Shadow Lane_ title. Volumes 1-12 are available as of this writing. Her magazine, _Stand Corrected,_ has also recently re-emerged after a long hiatus, featuring short fiction plus photography and interviews. Shadow Lane, www.shadowlane.com.

_The Art of Spanking_ (graphic novel)
Enard, illustrated by Milo Manara, NBM Press, NY.

The Beauty Trilogy _(The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beautys Punishment, Beautys Release)._ A fourth novel _, Beautys Kingdom_ , has recently been added to the series.
Anne Rice, Dutton Books, NY.

_Harriet Marwood, Governess_
Anonymous, Grove Press, NY.

And, of course:
The Fifty Shades Trilogy _(Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed)._ Also _Grey,_ a recent addition told from the dominants point of view.

Spanking in the Mainstream Media

There are so many mainstream movies which include spanking that a complete list would almost be a book of its own. However, some favorites of spanking fans include _Secretary,_ starring Maggie Gyllenhal and James Spader, as well as John Wayne and Maureen OHaras _McClintock!_ and James Garners _Tank._ Watch for robot spanking in _Class of 2000,_ public school caning in _If…_ and _Flirting,_ and a deeply bizarre spanking scene with Christopher Lloyd and Sandra Bernhard (!) in _Track 29._

Television programs that have included spanking scenes are almost too numerous to count these days. However, Id cite the spanking scenes in _Ally McBeal_ (3:2, "Buried Pleasures"), _Community_ (1:18, "Basic Genealogy"), _Outlander_ (1:9, "The Reckoning") and multiple instances on _Weeds_ (notably 1:7, "Yes I Can"). Sadly, nearly all movie and TV spankings are given to women, so if you like to watch men getting spanked, you may have to resort to spanking porn – or do it yourself!

Romance novels that contain some spanking scenes include Diana Gabaldons _Outlander_ novels, Heather Grahams _Love Not a Rebel_ , Catherine Creels _Texas Torment_ , _Captive Flame_ and _Texas Spitfire,_ Lane Harriss _Devils Love,_ Judith McNaughts _Whitney, My Love_ , several novels by Karen Robards, and many more. (Thanks to the online folks who provided this information.)

Science fiction and fantasy novels that have spanking scenes include almost everything by Sharon Green or John Norman, many novels by Robert Heinlein, and Johanna Lindseys _Warrior Woman_. Also, watch especially for John Varleys novella "The Persistence of Vision," which contains one of the most moving spanking scenes ever written.