Room 2D

A Richard Manton story from Janus 51 Where were you at 8.50am on 19 November 1985? If you were listening to Radio 4, you will have heard a spokesman for the Anti-Slavery Society talking of the new dangers which threaten the young and the beautiful. At first it sounded like a spoof, recalling all those old jokes about girls who accept sweets from strange gentlemen and end up ‘dancing on the tables in Port Said’. It is no spoof. Unemployment and recession in Western Europe have given a new glamour, for many girls, to the promise of well-paid and usually tax-free jobs as secretaries, dancers, club hostesses in parts of the world where the harem is a centuries-old part of culture. In an alarming revelation, quoted hereafter, the  Daily Telegraph estimated that a staggering 20% to 30% of all girls attracted by the bright lights and easy life of showbiz in such areas disappear into the sexual captivity of the harem. More asto...

From Uniform Girls 14 ‘I’ve warned you before, young lady. As the eldest member of the Marshland Majorettes, you’re expected to set an example.’ Christine Smith, tall, slim and eighteen, stood sulking in the centre of the small office. She had never wanted to join the Marshland Majorettes, but her parents had insisted. They had seen them perform at a village fair shortly after the Smith family had come to the area. ‘Just the thing for our Christine,’ her father had said. ‘Teach her a little discipline and poise.’ The poise was all very well; the discipline was another matter, especially when it was handed out by the troupe’s leaders, Mr and Mrs Jackson. ‘This time, I think, the hairbrush is called for,’ said Alice Jackson. Her husband, sitting beside her, nodded. Christine tried to think of something else. It wasn’t so much the music or the marching she so disliked; it was that silly uniform. A frilly little skirt which afford...

  …or ‘tails’, if the reader prefers. An original, illustrated story by Culver, in two parts. For this botanically-themed fantasy of spanked tail ends, some imaginary casting of bare-bot models from spanking magazines is suggested: Emily Larken is played by Sheena Steele (aka Amanda Dawkins) of Janus 128; Lucy Valewood is played by Sandra of Local Politics in Blushes 4 (and of miscellaneous other Blushes publications, under different names; Lucy, in Half-Term Punishments); and Becky Fernley, in Part Two, is played by Natalie (aka Andrea Spinks) of Janus 133 (also of Janus 132, 137 and 144). Becky meets a Mrs Hamberley-Bower, who is based on one of Natalie’s nemeses, Mrs Hanbury-Boyce (Janus 132), another recurring Janus character. The illustrations are in most cases created using AI. They offer different stylisations of the models, riffing on their likenesses but sometimes — and on purpose — only loosely. Alf Mos...