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There are 494 pages below. The A to Z is the biggest section by a distance, because most of it is short definitions rather than articles. If you are new and have no idea where to start, the honest answer is why people want this first and the first time second.
Why we want this 30
- Am I normal?
- Anticipation and dread: why the waiting works
- Being in charge all week
- Being looked after
- Dominance is a service
- Embarrassment, and the thrill of it
- Faith, guilt and wanting this
- Fifty Shades, and why I am not a fan
- Headspace: subspace and topspace
- How common is spanking?
- Myths about spanking, corrected
- Older men, authority and why it works
- Power exchange
- Shame and arousal
- Stress relief
- The need for humiliation
- Wanting it when you are low
- What is masochism?
- What it is actually for
- What your kink test result actually means
- When did you know?
- When your kink and your sexuality do not match
- Why do I like pain?
- Why the attachment is so strong
- Why the crying is often the point
- Why we want this
- Your result said brat
- Your result said masochist
- Your result said submissive
- Your result said switch
Safety and practice 90
- Aftercare
- Agreeing how hard: intensity and expectations
- Arousal, and who can hide it
- Asking your partner
- Autism, ADHD and how this lands differently
- Being bared, exposed and inspected
- Being made to ask for a spanking
- Being seen when you hate how you look
- Being watched while you are spanked
- Bodies of different sizes
- Body hair, shaving and expectations
- Breathing through a spanking
- Building humiliation into a scene
- Buying implements discreetly in the UK
- Caning from cold, and why people want it
- Choosing the words for humiliation
- Chronic pain, disability and adapting
- Cleaning and caring for implements
- Clothes kept only for spanking
- Confidence, worth and settling for less
- Counting and ritual
- Couples and existing relationships
- Degrees of undress: over, down or off
- Do knickers protect you from a spanking?
- Does it hurt?
- Does spanking have to be sexual?
- Drink, drugs and why not
- Erotic spanking and how it differs from discipline
- First aid for a spanking session
- First session checklist
- Frequency and escalation
- Getting home afterwards
- Hands and the tawse: what the palm can take
- Health conditions and medication
- How to spank: the whole sequence
- Implements and what each one does
- Long distance dynamics
- Losing the person you did this with
- Marks and bruising
- Meeting safely
- Men who play with men
- Mental health and spanking
- More than one partner
- Negotiation
- Noise and neighbours
- Pacing a scene
- Periods, menopause and what changes
- Photographs and video: what to agree first
- Playing with a trauma history
- Positions: angle, stability and the body
- Reading your partner
- Red flags
- Restraint, cuffs and being held
- Roleplay, uniforms and what to wear
- Safe words
- Safety and practice
- Scams, sextortion and blackmail
- Scolding, and being made to answer
- Self-imposed rules and doing it alone
- Setting and space
- Skin conditions, tattoos, scars and stretch marks
- Smacked bottom or spanking: the words you share
- Spanking a wet bottom, and why it stings
- Spanking benches and other furniture
- Stockings, suspenders and heels
- Sub drop, and why it is delayed
- Subspace or dissociation: floaty or gone?
- Switching, and how to ask for the other side
- The top's own body
- Top drop
- Topping for the first time
- Trans and non-binary people
- Travelling with implements
- Trust, both ways
- Turning down a session
- Using a cane: aim, wrap-around and spacing
- Vetting a partner
- Warm-up: the part everyone skips
- When it goes wrong
- When it stops being play
- When she spanks him
- When the fantasy and reality do not match
- When the interest fades
- When the skin breaks
- Where it is safe to strike
- Women who play with women
- Writing a first message
- Yes, no, maybe list: a printable checklist
- Your first time, start to finish
- Your partner has asked to be spanked
Positions 10
Implements 17
Scenes 28
- 90 spanking scene ideas
- A domestic discipline evening
- A house rules weekend
- Accountability and habit scenes
- Balancing books and set tasks
- Corner time: standing, waiting, being left
- Domestic and household scenes
- Formal and judicial scenes
- Fun things to try when you are new
- Games, bets and forfeits
- Inspection
- Office and workplace scenes
- Period and historical scenes
- Plain sessions with no scenario
- Playing with no scenario at all
- Rituals and occasions
- Running a lines scene
- Six scolding scripts you can use
- Spanking scenes: running a scenario
- The apology
- The interview or appraisal scene
- The maintenance session
- The reckoning: when the offence is real
- The wager: consequences decided by chance
- The written review: being assessed on paper
- Tribunal and formal sentence scenes
- Uniform and service scenes
- Uniforms and occupational frames
Discipline 18
- Accountability and check-ins
- Attitude adjustments and motivation
- Consent and coercive control
- Consequences when a rule is broken
- Discipline, structure and accountability
- Domestic discipline, secularly
- Ending an arrangement well
- Impositions you can actually set tonight
- Lines, corner time and impositions
- Maintenance and punishment
- Mouth soaping, and how to keep it token
- Permission rules, and the one that carries risk
- Protocol, obedience and the curtsey
- Rewards and praise in a discipline dynamic
- Rules and agreements
- Setting up a discipline dynamic
- The punishment book
- Why structure appeals
Questions 45
- Am I hurting someone I love?
- Am I too sensitive for this?
- Can I change my mind?
- Can I do this without anyone knowing?
- Can I do this without getting attached?
- Can I stop once it has started?
- Can you do this alone?
- Do I have to call him sir?
- Do I need a safe word?
- Do women do this too?
- Do you have to fancy each other?
- Does everyone cry?
- Does everyone take more than me?
- Does wanting this mean I was abused?
- How do I bring it up?
- How do I find someone?
- How do I hide the marks?
- How do I know I am ready?
- How do I know if someone is safe?
- How hard is too hard?
- How long does a session last?
- Is it cheating?
- Is it normal to want to be punished?
- Is it safe to be spanked?
- Is spanking abuse?
- Is there something wrong with me?
- Is this a fetish or a relationship?
- Questions
- Should I tell my friends?
- Should I tell my GP or therapist?
- Should I tell my partner?
- What age is too old to start?
- What do I wear?
- What if I am a feminist?
- What if I cry?
- What if I enjoy it too much?
- What if I get aroused?
- What if I get emotional?
- What if I hated it?
- What if I have a bad back?
- What if I laugh?
- What if I only want it sometimes?
- What if I say stop and they do not?
- What if my partner is not interested?
- Why do I want to be punished?
UK 12
- A history of corporal punishment in Britain
- Finding a partner in the UK
- If the law gets involved
- Is consensual spanking legal in the UK?
- Play parties and clubs
- Public and outdoor play: the UK law
- Seeing a professional disciplinarian in the UK
- Spanking in the UK
- The London Alternative Market (LAM) and Torture Garden
- The London spanking scene
- The scene outside London
- What happens at a munch
Fiction and fantasies 124
- After the operation
- Alone on a Thursday
- Believing her
- Bibliography and further reading: spanking in fiction
- Books on her head
- Both sides, twenty hours apart
- Buying it
- Counting to twelve
- Doing that to you
- Down or off
- Green wood
- He did not stop
- Her and her
- His list
- Hot flush
- I expected better of you
- I said yes
- It was not like that at first
- Kit inspection
- Learning the wrist
- Lucky to be asked
- No words for it
- Nobody believes us
- Not foreplay
- Not that kind of want
- Not tonight
- One line at lunchtime
- Quieter than that
- Reading her
- Say it out loud
- Sixty-one
- Spanking fiction and fantasies
- Straight out of the bath
- Telling him after nine years
- That was a four
- The apology I needed
- The appointment
- The appointment I nearly cancelled
- The appraisal
- The bet
- The blanket
- The book on the train
- The bruise that frightened me
- The care of things
- The changing room
- The check-up
- The credit page
- The curtsey
- The cushion
- The deadline
- The dictionary
- The drawer
- The drink
- The email I did not send
- The entry
- The first cane
- The first Sunday
- The first time I said no
- The flare
- The flat below
- The friend who knew
- The graze
- The grey dress
- The hour I paid for
- The last Sunday
- The last train
- The light off
- The line
- The line check
- The list
- The list of medications
- The locked drawer
- The man who was not there
- The message at midnight
- The mirror
- The monthly review
- The night I put it down
- The one I walked away from
- The one who checks on him
- The one who decides
- The one who is supposed to be fine
- The one who said no
- The only chair
- The other chair
- The parcel
- The party
- The photograph
- The professor
- The quiet signal
- The repair
- The row underneath
- The rule about the phone
- The safe word
- The search history
- The second date
- The shoulder
- The third of us
- The third Thursday
- The tribunal
- The undressing
- The warm-up
- The week I was unbearable
- The weekend rules
- The witness
- The woman at the munch
- The woman who asked me
- The word that landed
- Thirty-one years
- Tied
- Too much, too soon
- Tuesday afternoon
- Twenty minutes facing a wall
- Two copies
- Two hundred lines
- Two men
- Unhurried
- Wednesday, the third year
- What he could not say
- What I was taught
- What my hands will not do
- What my sister saw
- When it stopped working
- Where it goes
- Why it helps
A–Z 113
- A–Z of spanking and discipline terms
- Aftercare: the term explained
- Arousal
- Attitude adjustment
- Bare bottom
- Birching
- Bottom
- Brat
- Brat taming
- Bruising
- Cane
- Caning
- Chastisement
- Check-in
- Clamps and clothes pegs
- Cold
- Collar
- Consensual non-consent
- Consent
- Consent withdrawal
- Contract
- Cool-down
- Corner time
- Corporal punishment
- Counting
- CP: corporal punishment between adults
- Crop
- Cross over the knee
- Cuffs
- Discipline
- Discipline dynamic
- Domestic discipline
- Dominance and submission
- Drop
- Dungeon monitor
- Edge play
- Endorphins
- Escalation
- Etiquette
- Fetish
- FetLife
- Figging
- Flogger
- Funishment
- Gag rule
- Grounding
- Hairbrush
- Hand position
- Hand spanking
- Hard limit
- Hard stop
- Headspace
- HoH, head of household
- House rules
- Humiliation
- Impact play
- Imposition
- Informed consent
- Inspection: the term explained
- Kink
- Kink orientation
- Limit
- Lines
- Maintenance
- Marks
- Masking
- Masochism
- Mercy stroke
- Mixed signals
- Motivational spanking
- Munch
- Negotiation: the term explained
- No scenario
- On the spot
- OTK
- Over the arm
- Paddle
- Palm
- Pet name
- Play party
- Position
- Power exchange: the term explained
- Presenting
- Protocol
- Punishment
- Punishment book
- RACK: risk aware consensual kink
- Red, amber, green
- Restraint
- Ritual
- Role
- Rules
- Sadism
- Safe word
- Scene
- Session
- Slipper
- SSC: safe, sane and consensual
- Strap
- Sub drop
- Submissive
- Subspace
- Switch
- Tawse
- Top
- Top drop: the term explained
- Topping from the bottom
- TTWD
- Vanilla
- Warm-up
- Welt
- Witness
- Wooden spoon