effective bare bottom spanking method
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The blue line is around the area of the bottom that should be spanked. The pink lines are the main areas that need attention. A pattern of two swats on the outer or upper left cheek followed by four to the pink strike zone, then four to the right pink zone and finally two more to the right area. This will provide a good spanking experience. Repeat!

Spanking for misdeeds is an important part of our disciplinary relationship. It is for many couples like us. Since 2016, Mrs. Lion has been my disciplinary wife. We’ve both learned a lot about spankings, particularly punishment spankings over that time. To be completely transparent, for many years before I met Mrs. Lion, I was a sex instructor teaching BDSM techniques. One popular subject was spanking. Here is a combination of how-to and what really happened to us as we evolved. I suggest that both spanker and spankee read this post. It may help you.

When she started spanking me, I could hardly feel Mrs. Lion’s swats. She was being cautious to say the least. Over time (years!), her confidence grew and now she is comfortable making my butt a bright red. One important takeaway from this is that spankers are made, not born. Have patience, with lots of practice, you will spank with the best of them.

Spanking is easy to do, but there is a technique to give a good one. It’s a lot like pitching a baseball. First, the area above the center of the butt (see image — the blue oval is the safe zone) can be injured during a vigorous spanking. What other kind is there? So your spanking zone is inside the red box.

The “sweet spot”, the area most tender and sensitive, is in the lower third of his rear. Eight out of every dozen swats should be bestowed there. Those swats should also be significantly more intense to the ones outside the strike zone. More about this later.

As we learned the hard way, you can’t just start out full force. I rolled over and headed for the hills when Mrs. Lion did that. We learned that even a punishment spanking starts slowly. She always uses a paddle. You can use a hairbrush or other implement, but even in the beginning, hands off! Hand spankings are for BDSM play.

Follow the pattern in the picture. Two swats to the outside or top of the red box, the four much harder swats to the left sweet spot, then four more just as hard to the right sweet spot. Last, two softer to the outside area. Rinse and repeat, a lot. You may be wondering why we have an even number of swats to each area. The idea is to hit the same exact spot at least twice in a row. Repetition intensifies the sensation. If you focus all four of your sweet spot swats to the same place, you will have a strong effect on your partner. In fact, if your rhythm is two fast swats, slight pause, two more, slight pause, etc. you will set up a comfortable beat for your beating.

In the beginning, the harder sweet-spot swats won’t be all that hard, but as you go, make them more intense.  You want to build to the point that he wriggles a bit and maybe kicks his feet, just on the edge of rolling away. As you go on, he will remain reasonably still for harder swats. Keep up the pattern and rhythm. You may be going fairly slowly at first, but as the intensity grows, so should the speed.

The reason to hold to the pattern is that he will start to anticipate what is coming next. His sweet spots will be much sorer than the outer area. So as you go on, he will dread when you move to your strike zones. In my case, the right green zone usually hurts more than the left. I brace for the blows that land there. The pattern helps build that dread.

He will tell you to stop. A calm, “No, not yet,” will remind him who is in charge. The whole point of this spanking is to cause controlled pain. You may see visual signs that your task is nearly finished when you see bruising or white spots on his bottom. Avoid hitting the bruises if you can.

When you feel he has had enough to learn his lesson, then stop. Chances are good that you will want to stop too soon. Mrs. Lion says that maybe she is done and then decides she isn’t and goes on for a while longer. I hate that!

You can speed up the rhythm as you go. Just try to avoid pausing or slowing down. If he really can’t handle the level of swatting you are dishing out, then back off, but don’t stop! Less intense swats are fine if needed, but to make the strongest impression, keep that paddle swinging until you are done.

punishment stoolOnce the swatting is over, it’s a good idea to give him time to think about what just happened. Five or ten minutes in a corner with his hands behind his head gives him a nice chance to appreciate your work. You can make it longer if you wish, but less isn’t effective. Mrs. Lion will make me sit in the corner on my punishment stool. This is a wooden stool with the seat covered in a rough fabric cut from a boot-cleaning welcome mat. That really digs into my sweet spots and hurts a lot.

She will sometimes follow that with a mouth soaping. More about that in another post. I’m sure you get the idea.

When we first started out, Mrs. Lion made rules that I was sure to break often. One was that I am not allowed to spill food on my shirt. I was a pretty messy eater and had to be punished at least a couple of times a week for spilling. This gave us both a chance to learn spanking. Interestingly, as we no longer needed those “training spankings”, I stopped spilling on my shirt.

Spanking works as an educational tool once it is taken seriously. Happy teaching and learning!

small blue apanking paddle
This is Mrs. Lion’s little blue paddle. It’s lightweight and a perfect size for close work. Click the image for a link to purchase this item (No, we don’t get a commission!).

Wednesday night’s pick from the Box O’Fun was a play spanking. It was interesting and exciting. Mrs. Lion used a small, flexible , rubbery paddle that she prefers for close work. After some nice hand spanking, she used this toy to spank some hard-to-reach spots like the sensitive skin inside my crack. She also focused closely on my “sit spot”. I didn’t yelp once!

She systematically pulled each cheek back and gave me several swats on that tender skin. Then she focused on the “sit spot” where my butt always meets a chair. Each swat was carefully placed to have the maximum effect. It was a bit like when she puts clothespins on my balls. She carefully locates the spots where she knows the pinch hurts the most. 2.0 is a methodical lioness.

The spanking turned me on. I was nearly fully erect by the time Mrs. Lion had me turn over for some teasing. It had only been four days since my last orgasm. Nevertheless, I was ready for another. Mrs. Lion didn’t disappoint me. She gave me a beautiful orgasm. What a sweetie!

That’s one more card out of the Box O’Fun. A lot of unpleasant activities lurk inside waiting for the poor, unsuspecting lion to pick.

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I often read “I’m Hers” a femdom blog by the husband in a marriage not too different from ours. I enjoy his take on FLR’s. In a recent post he complained about the lack of comments to his posts. He threatened to stop blogging because he felt that he was essentially talking to himself. I understand that feeling. We get very few comments here as well.

For a long time it bothered me that our blog  isn’t very interactive. Some loyal readers click the “Like” button after each post to let us know we are being heard. I like that a lot. But not very many bother to do even that. When I read other blogs with much smaller audiences, I see long rows of “likes” and many comments. You can get an idea of the relative popularity of a blog on alexa.com. The link shows our current rating. If you type in the domain of any site you want, you can see how it stacks up.

We have other tools that actually count how many people visit and what pages are read. So I know we have readers. We just don’t have many contributors. That’s too bad. I love learning how others see things. That’s why I read all those blogs. Each one has a different take on the subject it covers. The ones that are explicit, sexual reads tend to get the most comments. Spanking blogs get lots of comments.

The number of comments is not an indicator of readership. Some of the blogs I read have a small, loyal reader base that actively comments on each post. That’s truly cool! I know that we have loyal readers who slog through what we write every day. I’m grateful to them. They are like invisible friends. I know they are there; I just can’t manage to see many of them.

Over the years I’ve struggled with this lack of regular feedback. We’ve written over 3,100 posts and have published 3,400 comments. Most of our posts garner no comments at all. I choose to believe the lack of comments is not a measure of our quality. It may be that our posts feel like an ongoing story and our readers follow each chapter but don’t want to insert themselves in the narrative. How’s that for putting a spin on things?

Since we have no commercial stake in The Journal, the only logical reason for putting in the time to produce it has to be getting emotional satisfaction out of producing this daily opus. Mrs. Lion and I like to write. Our blog gives us the opportunity to chronicle our adventures in male chastity and our FLRD (Female Led Relationship with Discipline).  Are we writing for ourselves? Of course we are. But we both love the opportunity to open a dialogue with our readers.

A decent percentage of our readers use their phones to peruse The Journal each day. A phone is a lousy tool for writing comments. Could that be the reason our audience is often mute? A more disturbing possibility is that our writing is exclusionary. Perhaps one or both of our writing styles precludes input from our readers. A long time ago, one of our readers commented that my posts don’t invite comments. That hurt.  If it’s true, it has never been my intention to shut you out. The lack of “Likes” and feedback don’t make me want to stop. There are too many reasons why people who actually like what we say wouldn’t respond.

For one thing, the “Like” button isn’t particularly user friendly. You have to be logged into your WordPress account before your “Like” will work. That’s how WordPress set it up. Annoying! Comments require time and a keyboard to contribute. I get it. Still, if you get the chance please drop us a line or log into your WordPress account and give us a “Like”.

Thank you.

Lion’s choice from the Box O’Fun was spanking. I know he was dreading making a painful pick, but he was lucky. Not all of the selections are as wanted as that one. Next time will probably involve more pain.

The last time I gave Lion a play spanking, I started out kneeling and then moved to a seated position. I leaned on him while I swatted. Lat night I started out sitting. We both liked that I leaned on him. It may not be the best position for a “good” spanking but I like how close we are. Besides, I had a slapper that didn’t require long strokes. I even parted his cheeks so I could slap between them. It’s a very sensitive area.

I usually swat all over his buns and I did that last night as well. But I also concentrated quite a few swats on the sweet spot where he sits. Not that he really sits while we watch TV in bed. I just wanted to do it. I called it his “sit spot”. By concentrating the swats I knew the soreness would last a little longer. It wasn’t a very vigorous session. I just got him rosy. But Mr. Weenie was at attention when he rolled over.

He was nice and hard. Maybe not as hard as he’s ever been but certainly hard enough to tease. And tease I did. I know it was only a few days since his last orgasm but I don’t care. I like to give him orgasms. I don’t think it has anything to do with his being wild or not. There are times he’s very horny and almost begging to come that I don’t give in. Other times he’s not necessarily all that horny and I’ll let him come. There’s really no rhyme or reason. Something just makes me want to give him an orgasm more than other times.

Lion, wisely, doesn’t argue with my decision. Sure, he used to ask why I gave in so soon. He’s stopped asking. Smart boy!

Last night I had to punish Lion for being a know-it-all. When he was in spanking position I asked him why I was punishing him. He told me and I started out slowly. When his cheeks were rosy I asked how it felt. He said it hurt. Good. I started in on the punishment phase.

He did better at holding still. He wiggled a little and I had to pause to let him get back in position but it was nowhere near as bad as when he rolled completely away. Then I stopped and asked if he was done. He thought he was. Nope. I whacked him harder for a little bit. But even then he wasn’t done.

I called him into the bathroom where I had a mouth-sized piece of soap all lathered up for him. It was one of the remnants of the soap we use in the shower. I knew it would come in handy for something. I didn’t time it so I don’t know exactly how long he held it in his mouth, but he rinsed and made funny faces for a while afterwards.

A while later I edged him. I didn’t want to do a ruined orgasm this time. He hadn’t been horny for a few days after the last one. I don’t know if there’s really a direct correlation or if he just wasn’t interested. No big deal. I can repeat the experiment in the future.

What I did want to do is leave him as frustrated as possible. Mission accomplished! He was not a happy boy. He said he really wanted to come. Perfect! For me, that is. Not so perfect for Lion.