This is Lion’s bottom after I cleaned up the blood. Click the image to view it larger. If you would like to see it before I cleaned up the blood, click here.

Apparently, 4.0 is a mean, mean spanker. Lion was squirming a lot. I didn’t tie his legs together. Maybe I’ll have to in the future. He was a bloody, potentially bruised, swollen mess when I was done.

To be fair, he was tired and snoozing while I did the dishes. I’ve been spanking him before my shower, so he has time to recover before we play. That didn’t happen last night. He was awake when I came out of the bathroom, so I gave him an option. He could get spanked last night or get spanked Thursday and Friday for ten minutes each night. He didn’t want to get spanked two days in a row. He chose his fifteen-minute beating.

[Lion — Mrs. Lion didn’t give me exactly that choice. She just said, “I can spank you tonight, or you can put it off, and I will spank you tomorrow and the next day. She didn’t tell me that the two-day spankings would be shorter.]

I didn’t ask, but I assumed he wasn’t up for anything after the spanking. His buns were on fire. He was having trouble finding a comfortable position on the soft bed. Just before we went to sleep, he said his butt hurt. I would think so. The only respite he got was when I wiped the blood off, assuming you don’t count the few seconds it took the change paddles.

Before I started, I grabbed the spoon-shaped paddle, the non-bloodwood ferule, and a hairbrush paddle. I didn’t use the hairbrush too much. It doesn’t have a long handle, so it took more effort to create the same effect as the others. Work smarter, not harder. So I concentrated on the longer-handled paddles.

Our goal, eventually, is to make it so Lion doesn’t bleed while I spank him. He got some goop to put on, but we haven’t spent any time figuring out how to use it. Does it go on before the spanking to prevent bleeding, or does it go on afterward to stop the bleeding? I think he bled more profusely last night, but that could have been because I was hitting harder and longer. Once I stopped hitting him and wiped him off, there was no more blood. That’s encouraging, but we’d both prefer if there was no blood at all.

Of course, if he didn’t keep breaking the rules so close to his last spanking, he might not get whomped as hard or as long. Come on, Lion, you can do it.

I really hate that coffee pot. It isn’t hard to set up. I can’t seem to remember to set it up consistently. On Tuesday, I missed it again. Mrs. Lion took me to the eye doctor in the morning and worked from home the rest of the day. She made lunch and dinner, so I had no reason to go into the kitchen. After dinner, she reminded me that I needed to “do something in the kitchen.” I got the hint, but at the time, she was about to suck my cock. I told her I would do it later.

We were interrupted mid-oral when the dog pooped on the carpet. She is ten years old and never, ever has accidents. It wasn’t diarrhea. Mrs. Lion said that the dog wanted to keep going out. There is some construction going on nearby. It could be that she was scared by the noise and never got to find the right spot to poop. I was very worried that she might be sick. With all that confusion, I never got in to set up morning coffee.

Mrs. Lion gave me the bad news when she brought in breakfast. I explained that the dog issue diverted my attention. She didn’t comment. Later in the morning, I sent her an email asking if I was in trouble. She replied,

“Shouldn’t you be? I was nice and gave you a hint. I know you were worried about the dog, but it’s still your job.”

I replied that was true. Her reply,

“Poor Lion butt.”

What a sweetheart! It was only three days ago that she spanked me for the same offense. No, I didn’t do it on purpose. One spanking every two or three weeks is plenty. I do not doubt that consistent enforcement will eventually improve my memory. At least, I hope so. It’s my misfortune that this is the one rule with absolutely 100 percent enforcement.

Last night Mrs. Lion said that it’s too bad I can’t go a long time without a spanking. I reminded her that if I go more than a couple of weeks, I get a “just because” spanking. I can’t completely escape. That got me thinking. Maybe we should schedule “just because” spankings, and Mrs. Lion should deliver them regardless of when Mrs. Lion punished me last. That way, there is always a strong incentive to be extra careful when it comes close to the scheduled spanking. That way, if I’m good, I’ll get my fortnightly paddling and nothing more. If I am naughty, I will be punished and still have the scheduled meeting with the paddle.

This arrangement encourages good behavior all of the time. If 4.0 begins consistent enforcement of other rules, I will have to watch myself *very* carefully. In case you are wondering, I do not forget the coffee pot on purpose. I’m not that crazy. I’m not looking forward to Mrs. Lion punishing me. She is probably going to be harsher than she was on Sunday. Poor lion butt, indeed!

You would think that a spanking on Sunday would make Lion remember the damn coffee pot on Tuesday. Not so! And…and…AND…I gave him a hint that he should wander into the kitchen. He knew exactly what I meant, but we were both worried about how the dog was acting, so I can understand his forgetting at that moment. He tried to say his morning routine was interrupted because I was working from home yesterday. I think it was interrupted more by his doctor appointment, but no one asked me.

Regardless, his buns will be blistered again tonight. And, because I’m annoyed that I have to whomp him again so soon, it will be at least a fifteen-minute spanking. At least. If he’s going to continue misbehaving, I’ll have to eat my Wheaties. (Remember those commercials? I’m dating myself.) Maybe I should take up tennis or another racket sport to build up my muscles.

I’ll have to make sure I use the spoon-shaped paddle. I may add one or two others in the mix, but his second spanking in such a short time warrants the spoon-shaped paddle. He says it’s the meanest one we have. That will be put to the test tonight. Poor Lion butt. He brought it on himself.

Stay tuned for pretty red pictures of a repentant Lion tushy. At least I think he’ll be repentant. He should be. How annoying to have to spank him twice in less than a week!

Most people say that men prefer porn more than women. I’m not sure about that. I do wonder what women who enjoy seeing naked men like looking at. Some time ago, I did an informal Twitter poll to find out if women prefer seeing men with or without erections. About three-quarters preferred a hard cock. Mrs. Lion said there is no doubt that she prefers seeing erect penises. As far as I know, she doesn’t seek out images of naked men. Since I’m naked all the time we are home, she has one to see anytime she wants. Of course, she has to do some work if she wants to see me hard.

More recently, I asked if women liked to see a man masturbate. I was referring to images online. A surprising 62% said they do, 25% said they do only if the guy in the picture is a friend. 13% said they don’t. Since I am not allowed to masturbate, and as far as I know, Mrs. Lion doesn’t look online, I don’t know how she feels about it. If she decides to let me do it under her supervision, we’ll find out if she likes that visual. [Mrs. Lion — Does Lion not remember masturbating on camera for me before we moved in together? It was fun then, but that was before I forbid him from masturbating. It might be nice to see his technique again, especially after his recent critique of my hand job.]

I think it’s significant that so many women enjoy watching. Every woman I’ve had a long-term relationship with asked me to masturbate for them. Some of the time, I’m sure it was a way to avoid the work of getting me off. Mostly, I believe it was arousing to them. I was always told that visual stimuli don’t arouse women. By that, I mean seeing male genitals or watching people have sex. It appears that isn’t true now if it ever was in the past.

The flip side of my question is how many men like being watched when they jerk off. I put another poll on Twitter to try to find out. I’ve had some experience with being jerked off in a semi-public setting, a BDSM play party. Usually, after a scene when I bottomed (not very often), part of the action would be my top jerking me off. I switched with a few women over the years. One, a rather well-known author, was a regular play partner. We alternated topping duties. When I topped her, I would masturbate her until she had several orgasms at the end of the scene. When she topped, she returned the favor. There were usually onlookers during our scenes.

When I  was the bottom and was jerked off, I had a sense of humiliation. I’m not accustomed to being naked and having an erection in the middle of a large (several hundred people) play party. It was a naughty feeling of excitement. Obviously, they all weren’t watching. I doubt many took notice at all. Still, there I was, tied spread-eagle to a table in the middle of the room. The woman topping me was playing with my penis and making no effort to conceal her success. She would go on to jerk me off. That was definitely an uncommon event for me.

I admit it. I had fun. Come to think of it, that was obvious, wasn’t it? That isn’t quite the same as me doing it myself in front of others. I’ve never done that. I think it would be difficult. I would probably have to close my eyes and pretend I’m alone. I suppose if it were part of a scene, I would do it. It isn’t something I would ever ask to do. And, no, it isn’t a fantasy of mine either.