Moral Welfare – video
From Janus 28
JANUS deals in
superlatives. Probably the best way to introduce the new MORAL WELFARE video,
which we release this month, would be to intimate that this very special
two-part production was conceived, scripted and directed by the Editor of Janus,
and designed, lit and shot under the photographic direction of the Janus photographer,
using broadcast quality equipment and top flight video engineers, backed by the
largest budget ever for a video of this kind. The result is what might be
expected: simply superlative. It represents the greatest breakthrough so far in
CP video art.
The magic quality so evident in the last dozen or more issues of Janus magazine reaches a new peak in the MORAL WELFARE video, which is closely based on the photo fantasy in Janus 26. It features three completely new, extremely attractive girls who all deserve and receive stern lectures and really strict, exacting corporal punishments — together with two professional actors of high calibre who project the subtly altered, futuristic world of the Moral Welfare Service absolutely convincingly.
The performance of the Medical Officer, Dr Matthew
Handley, whose task is to examine girls sentenced to a course of Moral Welfare
Training at each visit and, if possible, pass them ‘A.1. fit for severe
punishment’, is a masterpiece of urbane sadistic lechery. Dr Handley is
obviously well aware that he has been handed the best and most coveted position
in the entire medical profession on a plate by fate and he fulfils his duties
with genius. Wearing an unassailable mask of professional plausibility, Dr
Handley manages to derive, constant erotic enjoyment from his work whilst
functioning as an effective and committed member of the Moral Welfare team. Few
indeed are the girls who pass through his hands — the phrase is an
understatement — without feeling that they have already been punished more than
enough… long before they have been ushered in terror into the Moral Welfare
Officer’s cell-like black punishment room for the real business to begin.
Readers unfamiliar with the scenario are advised to refer to Janus 26 for a full explanation of the purpose and procedures of the Moral Welfare Service, an official institution established as an adjunct to existent punitive judicial methods and equating, in the last analysis, to a super-powered probation service with CP. However, the imagination can only stretch so far and words cannot convey the magnificence of this powerful TV drama. All video viewers should order it straight away to avoid frustration and deprivation.
The MORAL WELFARE video is a
perfectionist’s production in every particular, yet before one can dwell on the
details one is overwhelmed by the spellbinding breadth and brilliance of this
highly original, though totally believable, vision. The very concept of the
Moral Welfare Service, brought to such vivid life, is breath-taking. The
reality of the drama, and the authenticity of the varied and elaborate
punishments, is beyond doubt. The video is a giant step forward in the genre,
and unlike any previous CP video. Each of the two parts is complete in itself;
together they are longer than twice the average length of a single CP video and
show one continuous drama of rigorous psychological and physical discipline and
chastisement within the essential context of reforming female miscreants.
The three offenders — a blonde teenage shoplifter, a delinquent Asian schoolgirl, and a real punkette in full regalia — are all beautiful and all are subjected to long, uncomfortable waits to be seen by the doctor, followed by painstaking and salacious medical examinations and finally the fateful trip to the punishment room where we see seven separate chastisements carried out. After being lectured and groped and lectured again, the poor beauties are spanked and strapped and caned until the tears pour copiously… and then the doctor has the exquisite satisfaction of examining them again after punishment. Anyone who may be offended by the erotic aspects of severe discipline should think twice before viewing, although the subject matter is handled artistically and in very good taste, without crudeness.
The dinner-jacketed Moral Welfare Officer, clearly a very
unpleasant gentleman to fall foul of, is authorised to apply unlimited corporal
punishment to the bare and knickered behinds of young ladies sent to him by the
justices, and in one case by a school headmistress, for thorough-going moral
reformation. He has the air of a highly elevated sergeant major and his barked
reprimands prior to and during the beating of their bottoms possess a reforming
power founded in his cruel moralistic zeal. ‘I am going to enjoy making you
cry, girl!’ he shouts at Stella Castle, the shoplifter, as he starts to
lash into her bare bottom with what must be the whippiest, swishiest cane ever
shown in a CP video. ‘My cane will give you no rest until we both have seen
the miracle of your transformation — into the kind of girl you should have been
in the first place!’ he promises the bewildered, pleading girl at her first
punishment.
The dialogue is electrifying throughout and the pace never lets up but continuously intensifies. In contrast to the cold, harsh arch-disciplinarian of a Moral Welfare Officer, the doctor is smooth to the point of perversity and he is a sheer master at softening-up the punishees for his superior, using different tactics in every case. His lecherous, lugubrious and at times very sarcastic personality, placed in a position of great power, automatically inspires paranoia in every girl he examines. The girls are always nervous before being punished, some are petrified, but he never fails to amplify their fears, flatten their hopes, contradict their entire outlook on life, and physically disturb them, so that they will be helpless putty for the Moral Welfare Officer to re-mould according to his own rigid and uncompromising values, into what he terms ‘a perfect product of the Moral Welfare Service’. And this high official is not above gloating over the imminent prospect of exercising his infallible expertise upon a particularly charming bottom.
The three miscreants sentenced to punishment — Stella
Castle, the blonde shoplifter, Jassi Hafeez, an 18-year-old schoolgirl, and
Lorraine Simmonds, the punk — are very different cases in all respects — in
body and mind, offence, punishment, and reaction to punishment. Stella, who
pleads her innocence right up to the moment of truth, submits to the inevitable
agony and humiliation with the best grace she can muster, although clearly this
is anything but easy for her. Perhaps her severe thrashing comes as something
of a release for Stella, for before we witness her caning and strapping we
share with her the fear and apprehension of her long wait to be examined. Then,
trembling, she tells the doctor she is ‘so frightened of being caned’
and she certainly looks scared. When the doctor goes too far in examining her,
Stella Castle slyly offers to do anything… if only he will get her
off the scheduled punishment.
Continuing to fondle her as if she were the daintiest
morsel to have come his way all day, the doctor expostulates: ‘But that is
precisely why you have been sent for Moral Welfare Training! You think you can
buy your way out of any problem with your body. But this time, Stella, you’ve
met your match. Your body is going to suffer; and what’s more I’m going to make
sure that you receive extra punishment for trying to bribe an officer of the
Moral Welfare Service in this most immoral manner!’ Appalled he may be, and
he’s certainly true to his word, but that doesn’t stop the doctor’s hands from
wandering at will…
The rather delicate, very school-girlish Jassi Hafeez, who has been referred to the Moral Welfare Officer by the Headmistress of Courtlands Girls School for ‘persistent truancy, failure to do homework, inattention and persistent misbehaviour and lack of any response to authority’ receives a more decorous examination but finds herself trapped in one of the doctor’s whimsical domination games. She learns a humiliating lesson in obedience from him before the Moral Welfare Officer awards her the hard, crisp, tear-jerking hand spanking over her chocolate brown school knickers that terminates Part One.
The girl is crying hysterically, the spanking seeming to
have hurt her pride even more painfully than her bottom. The Moral Welfare
Officer is typically unpitying and masterful. His attitude is precisely
appropriate in view of the problem to be solved. He shouts: ‘Stop
whimpering! Stop fidgeting! Prepare yourself for caning!’
In the second part of the video, we witness this caning. The punishment from the maestro is obviously fully deserved, and a necessary corrective step in the right direction for the bitterly chastened schoolgirl. She seems to suffer so much, however, that we expect there will be those who will feel sympathy for her and hold their breath as Jassi endures her full quota of cane strokes over her tightly-knickered small bottom. There is nerve-tingling poignancy in her having to thank the Moral Welfare Officer repeatedly for punishing her, until he is satisfied that her gratitude is sincere. In the next scene she is still sobbing, as the doctor again makes her stand with her hands on her head while he stares her up and down — only this time, she’s had to raise her skirt hem so that her pretty bare legs are on display…
The third girl, Lorraine Simmonds, is an arrogant punk
with a tall and curvaceous figure and a gorgeously tempting bottom. After she
too has waited ages, the doctor confronts her in a state of amusement,
commenting with menacing jocularity upon her failure to comply with the Moral
Welfare Officer’s orders to ‘get your hair cut and burn those ridiculous
clothes!’ This is Lorraine’s second appointment and one would have expected her
to know better than to present herself again with the same appearance that caused
her to be sent for Moral Welfare Training initially. Lorraine is belligerent
and answers the doctor back, but such is his self-righteousness and assurance
that this only increases the tolerant amusement with which he interrupts her
protests. He completely negates the punk’s claim to self-expression and
proceeds to give her the devil’s own examination, during which he has immense
difficulty in removing her insanely tight jeans from her bottom.
Lorraine has spirit — she calls the doctor a pervert and a lecher whilst he is mauling her breasts — but this insult is merely music to his ears for he knows that when he reports it to the Moral Welfare Officer he will be granted special permission to give her additional punishment himself. The Officer takes a very stern and moralistic line with Lorraine Simmonds and after the doctor has spanked her bare bottom the girl receives an almighty strapping and caning which makes her shriek and swear with pain. It is only afterwards that we discover that this punky beauty is just the kind of girl Dr Matthew Handley likes to get his hands on! But with a bottom like hers, it’s fully understandable. Her post-thrashing examination is aided by magnifying glass and instant camera, and just before the final blitzing sequence the doctor informs her that he is going to take some photos of her scorched bare bottom for his personal… personal records. If this isn’t invasion of her privacy, nothing could be.
Whilst we do not feel that it is possible to do even
partial justice to the MORAL WELFARE video in a written
article — the video simply must be seen — we can at least indicate that it is
the most advanced and ambitious CP video Janus have produced.
It is difficult to describe because there is nothing to compare it with. Tremendous
care has been taken to create a video that is superlative in all aspects. Much
inspiration and expertise have gone into this highly professional production,
and the atmospheres and dialogue, the action and the discipline sessions are
all superb, as is the camera work. Oh, and one other thing. Hilarity — for the
viewer, though not for the participants — cannot altogether be ruled out.
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The Janus people were keen on blowing their own trumpet in this write-up and it's true that the video had wow factor in its day (and still does have). I'm fascinated by the claim that the two officers were played by "professional actors". I wonder what vanilla productions they may have been cast in.
ReplyDeletePunk was a particularly egregious manifestation of the free and easy rebellious spirit which has promoted so much indiscipline and lawlessness in our youth in recent decades. It was most gratifying, therefore, to see a young woman of that ilk firmly dealt with (although she could have done with a few more cane strokes in my opinion). An especially pleasing conclusion would have been to see her shorn of all that ugly regalia, make up and ludicrous hairstyle etc. and instead dressed in a lovely yoked blue and white gingham dress, white knee length socks and single strap flat-heeled 'mary jane' sandals as per official state recommendations for young women in the 16-21 age range. What a wonderful, heart-warming transformation that would have been!
ReplyDeleteJanus's write-up describes Lorraine as "a real punkette". This seems credible. Her regalia certainly looks authentic as punk fashion of the period, much as Jassi's uniform is an example of the realism Janus achieved on the school uniform front during this, the magazine's golden era. I like to imagine a world in which Janus was still going strong and riffing on the spectrum of girls' fashions today.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if 'Moral Welfare' had a punk stylist on hand in Soho or from the Kings Road. In fact, pitching punks against dinner-jacketed establishment figures was very much typical of punk film and art at the time. Although the video is ostensibly about the establishment cracking down, the purpose of 'Moral Welfare' as spanking erotica is transgressive. Spanking videos like this were to became caught up in a wider moral panic about videocassettes during the 80s, meaning that for many years the tapes were only available under the counter.
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