Room 2D

Five more illustrations by Hardcastle from the Contents pages of Janus magazine. From Janus 53. Introducing the newest member of the Club. From Janus 54. It’s important to keep your tie done up properly at all times. From Janus 55. Brandy, cigars and other post-prandial delights. From Janus 56. That’ll teach her not to burn the dinner. From Janus 57. ‘You two better still be in the positions I left you in…’

From Blushes Supplement 6 with Belinda Laine The ‘Hall,’ as Sanderson called it was impeccably clean. Spartan, yes, by which I mean no fitted carpets (except in the Principal’s study and in an adjoining small sitting room thereto which was joyously and optimistically styled a ‘rest room’). The floorboards had a patina of age on them, but were highly polished and with a scattering of mats and thinnish rugs. The windows were large and latticed. Those in my temporary-study-to-be, and in the ‘rest room,’ had venetian blinds. So much quicker wherewith to veil the glass than by drawing curtains. I had six weeks in which — as Sanderson had put it — I could expand my interests. I was down from lecturing in Oxford for that period, anyway, and he was already en route to the Canaries for a holiday, thus leaving me in charge of what he cautiously — but not entirely untruthfully — called a ‘Secretarial Training School.’ The large front doo...

Three cases of the illicit thrill A historical piece from Janus 20 by Richard Manton. Read these two confessions from blushing brides and one from a young married couple. Then decide if the statements are: (a) Fantasies of deluded readers (b) Stories made up in the  Janus  office (c) Cases cited by a medical authority ‘I found I could bear any number of strokes with the cane on my buttocks. Although my heart beats with fear whenever I have to strip and lie over the table, it has also made my married life complete and happy.’ ‘ I’ve been aware of this streak in me ever since school, where I actually began to enjoy my punishments. My husband would be terribly shocked if he knew about this.’ ‘ We keep a thin cane in the wardrobe and she bends over the chair… It leaves us eager to get to bed.’ If you opted for (a) or (b), go at once to the bottom of the class. The cases are quoted verbatim in  Sexual Stimulation in Marriage  (1971) by S. J. Tuffill, Fello...