There’s a retail practice known as “BOGO” — Buy One Get One. Generally, it means that if you buy one of something at regular price, you get another for free or for a reduced price. It’s a time-honored way to induce more business. All the cyber Monday ads got me thinking about this gimmick. It gave me an idea.

Mrs. Lion and I have been under the weather and spent the entire four-day weekend in bed. I had absolutely no interest in sex. We watched a lot of football. As we’ve written before, we have a football spanking game. Every time a point is scored by either side, I get two swats. If there is a foul (yellow flag), Mrs. Lion zaps me with my shock collar. We’ve been doing this for a number of weeks.

Since I was sick, we didn’t play our game this past weekend. But, each time a ref called a foul, I felt a twitch between my legs. I’ve been conditioned to associate yellow flags with shocks from the shock collar. This conditioning happened very quickly. I shouldn’t be surprised. Mrs. Lion has been 100% consistent zapping me every time a foul was called. Now, I associate a foul with a shock between my legs.

I didn’t expect that outcome. It means that I can be conditioned to associate unrelated events on a subconscious level. Realizing this is what got me thinking. Does it mean that if Mrs. Lion ties two activities together, like the shock and yellow flags, will I be conditioned to associate other, unrelated physical events? Will it work if the connection is pleasurable?

We males have a rather narrow sexual focus. Essentially, serious sexual pleasure is restricted to a small area on our penises. Yes, other things can turn us on, but we want the focus to move to the penis as quickly as possible. Is it possible to connect sexual arousal with a combination of stimuli? While my sexual focus would remain with my penis — nothing is likely to change that — could I be conditioned to require another stimulus before I can fully enjoy the arousal?

Most of us have experienced this sort of dual stimulation. Occasionally, a finger will find its way up my ass while I receive oral sex. The first time this happened, I was surprised and lost some of my arousal. It didn’t take long for me to enjoy a finger up there while being sucked. I imagine many guys share this experience.

What if, like the shock collar during football, something is always in my ass if my penis is being stimulated. I don’t mean pegging or butt plugs. Just something inserted and left in place during stimulation. Would I learn to associate sexual arousal with anal stimulation? Would arousal be more difficult if my anus isn’t stimulated? Would I become aroused if I’m stimulated anally alone?

I’m not suggesting that I will learn to ejaculate with anal stimulation alone; or, even get hard when my ass is penetrated. I think I will learn to expect my penis to be stimulated if my ass is. I will also expect my ass to be stimulated if my penis is touched. In other words, I imagine from a sexual perspective my anus and penis will be linked the same way football yellow flags and shocks are.

I’m not suggesting anything major. Just that something, a finger, small butt plug, dildo, etc. be in my butt every time my penis is stimulated. As we learned with other conditioning exercises, consistency is critical. I suspect it won’t take very long for me to make the connection.

What’s the benefit? Other than satisfying my scientific curiosity, the exercise also opens up a new primary sexual arousal zone on my body. A finger gently rubbing my anus will send shivers through me if this works. Of course this is just a theory. If it works, Mrs. Lion has a sexual BOGO.

Lion said he wished the Giants hadn’t scored so much yesterday. I think Tampa Bay shouldn’t have scored as much. I’m glad the Giants are scoring more. I just wish they could limit their opponents to fewer points. Lucky for Lion, there weren’t too many penalties. But he did get swats for Eli Manning getting sacked a few times.

I used a combination of a new paddle and the newer tenderizer. I needed the tenderizer side for fumbles and sacks, but I also used it a few times for scores (on the non-tenderizer side, of course). The new paddle isn’t much of a paddle. It’s more of a stick. It’s about two inches wide and I haven’t decided if I like using it across both cheeks at a time or just one. It’s certainly long enough to swat both cheeks at once. I asked Lion if he feels it more on one cheek than the other. He said, generally, the furthest cheek feels it more but I was very even-handed with the new one yesterday.

When I had given him fourteen swats for the first score, Lion asked how I like the new paddle. How can I tell with fourteen swats? I’m not even sure after a hundred=forty-some swats between the two paddles. A few times it felt too long. Other times it was fine. Confusing the issue was the fact that the dog decided she needed to be right where I needed to be while I spanked Lion. My angle was off at times. I’ll need more research.

I do know that Lion’s buns were sore. He even said he had a sore spot a few hours later although there was nothing evident. I don’t think I bruised him. I wasn’t trying. I suppose the thin paddle/stick would be just the thing to give a bruise. If I could concentrate its tiny head on one spot, I’m sure poor Lion’s butt would be bruised.

tenderizer paddle
My scorekeeper. Lion got to meet it over 100 times during the game.

Lion’s buns were unhappy with him last night. He suggested two swats for each point scored in the football game. He had over 100 swats. It’s true that they were in bursts of six or fourteen and they weren’t really that close together, but it’s still over 100 swats with no warm up. And that’s in addition to the zaps that launched Lion off the bed despite the fact that I kept turning the “volume” down. The best part about the whole thing is that the Giants actually won. I know! I’m shocked too.

I did something different yesterday. I forgot to have Lion pick from the Box O’Fun on Sunday night so I took four pieces of paper and wrote things on them like butt plug, clothespins, etc. along with the numbers one through four. When Lion sent me an email, I told him to pick a number between one and four without telling him why. He obediently chose number three. Lucky Lion picked a play spanking. Since we were doing the football swats last night and I’m off to a work function tonight, he’ll have to wait until Wednesday for his play spanking anyway but it’s the thought that counts. It also gives Lion something nice to look forward to.

I’m very proud of Lion for just picking a number without asking why he was picking. It’s not like I spring things on him, but he does like to know what’s going on. It’s impressive that he would go with the flow. Good job, my pet!

Yesterday the Seahawks played the Rams. Our Giants don’t play until tonight so Lion suggested playing our football game for both games. Silly boy. I guess he really wanted to give me an opportunity to test out my new paddles.

I brought out both tenderizers and the new spoon. I can’t really tell which I like better. I started out with the spoon. It’s longer and gives more leverage, but the larger tenderizer has more weight to it. I think it would depend what my intention was. Am I trying to bruise or at least target one specific area? I’d use the spoon. Am I trying for overall coverage and “bigger” swats? I’d use the larger tenderizer.

Actually, they can both be used for a general play spanking. I might end with the spoon if I was looking for a bruise. In truth, I only look for a bruise when Lion mentions it. I know he likes to feel the whomps for a long time. I don’t know that bruises are the only way to feel it for a long time, but Lion thinks it is.

In order to get the feel of the paddles I’ll need more research. I don’t think I can tell by swatting three or seven times and then stopping until the next score. I’ll either have to use them during a punishment or play spanking.

Speaking of punishments, I decided yesterday to up the ante. Lion has to alert me to punishment day by 8:30 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. If he fails to do so, he gets punished. He gets tripped up when we’re on vacation and he doesn’t have to send me an email since he usually tells me by email. In order to to add to the possibility of punishments, I added Saturday as a new punishment day. It’s a day he normally wouldn’t be sending me an email. I wonder if he’ll forget Saturdays more often than the other days. I wonder if I’ll forget Saturdays too since I’m often the forgetful one. We shall see.