Actually Spanked

As trailed in the letters pages of Blushes 18 and Uniform Girls 9, Blushes ran a series of seven “Actually Spanked” articles of pictures and accompanying notes which purported to be undercover pictures of a real-life spanking relationship by “R.M.A.”. These have a very realistic and credible look and feel, but I would have thought that Blushes would, at a minimum, have obtained the consent of “Debbie” before publishing.

Blushes ran these articles across all four of their magazines, numbering the updates presumably in order to encourage readers to buy more than one magazine a month and thereby catch all the instalments. Shortly thereafter they stopped publishing Whispers, a recognition perhaps that four mags a month was pushing it a bit even for the most hardened enthusiast. The publishing of four separate magazines by one publisher, if only for a short while, marks out 1985 as the apogee of the golden age of spanking magazines. It was all downhill from there, culminating in the extinction event that was the internet.

All seven articles are here, so be warned it is a lengthy post.

Actually Spanked 1

From Blushes 19

Dear Sirs,

These photos are the results of my efforts to capture on film certain interesting events which took place during the period May/October 1985, at the home of an acquaintance — Brian, the man in the pictures — which I was not invited to witness first hand but was allowed to record, in my absence, through the lens of a camera. On one occasion I was permitted, even encouraged, to take photos in person of the girl in the pictures, Debbie, although not while she was being spanked, unfortunately. Brian has been aware all along that I intended my photos for possible publication (‘Brian’ is a pseudonym); Debbie had and still has no idea that they were taken. I rely upon Brian’s assurance that there will be no repercussions should Debbie find out; I believe besides that since I was recording actual events, Debbie would have no claim on me for damages, nor would Brian. May I point out that I wish to retain all copyrights on all material supplied.

About Brian

I met Brian when he came to resurface a path at my home. He is a builder with leanings towards property development. He presently lives in a house which he bought semi-derelict and which he is restoring and converting with a view to making a profit when he eventually sells. Debbie occupies a flat in this large house; she has been here, I believe, some eighteen months.

About Debbie

Debbie works in a baker’s shop and goes to evening classes where she claims to be studying for ‘A’ levels, with a view to getting a university place. She will read either sociology (!) or anthropology (!!) which will no doubt be very useful. Frankly I think she is unlikely to make it, as she seems never to do any work.

The Situation

The relationship between Brian and Debbie is unclear to me; I am told that Debbie’s flat is provided rent-free in return for cooking occasional meals and paying the milkman — things like that. Although Debbie never speaks of ‘home’, I have gleaned the information that Brian and Debbie’s parents know each other. Whether this indicates a familial relationship I can’t be sure, but I have suspicions.

Debbie, says Brian, is ‘used to a good smacked bottom.’ Certainly she ought to be, living with him, but I think he means that that is how she was when he ‘got her’. I have never been allowed to see Debbie being spanked, but Brian teases me with regular accounts, on the strict condition that I never divulge my knowledge of Debbie’s spankings to her. Presumably any breach of secrecy between them would in some way injure whatever relationship it is that allows Debbie to live with the ever-present threat of palm on bare bum.

The suggestion that I might rig up a hidden camera to record Debbie’s punishments was Brian’s. I am aware that it is partly to humiliate the girl, and partly Brian’s sheer exhibitionism. I am not complaining however.

The Photography

I used an old Yashica camera with the mirror removed to quieten the mechanism, pre-focussed on the spot where the action was to take place. This I hid on a shelf, with a motor drive attached and wired to a time switch, which would release the shutter and advance the film every 30 seconds. With 36 exposures on a roll, this allows a period of 18 minutes to be covered. The only things which aren’t foolproof are Debbie and Brian, Debbie when she wanders about and goes out of focus, and Brian when he forgets to switch the timer on, or more often, turns it on and then forgets about it, which leaves me with pictures of Debbie simply waiting about in the junk room where the pictures used to be taken, or the spare room upstairs where they were taken later, sometimes in just knickers and bra but usually just out of focus and fully dressed!

Anyway, these are a few from the early days just to start the ball rolling and then we must decide which others you will want to publish.

R.M.A.

Actually Spanked 2

From Blushes Supplement 13

Background

These few photos are from the beginnings of rolls of film, with Brian waiting for timer No. 1 — which starts off timer No. 2 — to initiate the camera sequence. Timer No. 1, an old electronic darkroom timer, can be set for any delay between 30 seconds and an hour. Brian would set it, in another room, then would usually forget how long it was before timer No. 2 set off the camera. In consequence I have dozens of pictures showing Brian ‘filling in time’ until he thinks the camera has begun it’s 30 seconds between frames cycle. Others show Debbie undressing (undressing prior to spankings was a later development) or waiting, unknowing, for Brian to appear and start smacking her bottom!

Pictures A and B

These would have been taken sometime in May 1985. They show Debbie standing around with her skirt up and knickers down, not understanding why Brian suddenly wants to make her feel embarrassed by having to show him her bottom and then stand there like a lemon while he ‘tells her off.’ Of course, it is all for the benefit of the hidden camera. They also show Brian forgetting to turn on the Anglepoise lamp, which is supposed to be part of the lighting set up; the photos are somewhat flat, therefore!

Picture C

Taken a few days later, this is Debbie sulking about having to take her knickers down. Brian has remembered the Anglepoise but doesn’t seem to have noticed that it illuminates only a bit of the wall! The camera has been moved fractionally, after being reloaded with film by me.

Picture D

This is in the upstairs room across the landing from Debbie’s room, resorted to sometime in July when Brian parked an electric cement mixer in the junk room! Since neither I nor Brian was there when the picture was taken, only supposition suggests that this must be the moment when Debbie, who is supposed to be ‘ready’, i.e. in her knickers and waiting for her spanking, hears Brian ascending the stairs… (the door is just to the right, off camera.) She seems to have her tights on still, so perhaps she’s going to be spanked for not being ready, besides whatever else!

Picture E

This is the upstairs room, and Debbie has got her knickers down and is waiting for her bum to catch it from Brian! Brian explains the rather distant look on his face as being concentration; he is hoping to catch the very faint ‘click’ of the shutter (the camera’s mirror was removed, you’ll recall, to minimise the sound it makes when it goes off), having lost track of how long he set the first timer for! What Debbie is thinking I’m afraid I have no idea. You will notice that the Anglepoise has been pressed into service again!

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From Whispers 6

This sequence results from a suggestion put forward by ‘Brian’ — the man in the pictures — that Debbie should be coaxed into a ‘Modelling’ session with R.M.A.

From the photographer, R.M.A.

When considering these photos, you need to remember that Debbie hardly knows me — behind the camera — and it certainly hasn’t even crossed her mind that anyone will suggest that she takes her clothes off! All she knows is that Brian’s friend is a keen amateur photographer who thinks she has an ‘interesting’ face. The shorts and tee-shirt are Brian’s idea, and she is quite ‘iffy’ about even that, but lets herself be persuaded.

The first two pictures are included just to demonstrate that Debbie hasn’t a clue when it comes to modelling! She giggles and hides behind her hand, and only after several ‘False Starts’ does she begin to get the hang of it — sort of! And then comes the bombshell; Brian says it’s a pity she can’t just take her top off — ‘she’s got lovely tits, you know.’ Debbie blushes furiously (really!), and then comes the real sting in the tail. What about everything off?

Debbie ‘goes on strike’. She sits down and won’t do anything more until the whole thing is ‘got straight’. In between embarrassed giggles, she steadfastly refuses to take even her top off, but Brian is insistent. Quite an atmosphere develops between the two, with me coming in for the odd glare, but then Brian puts his foot down. Debbie will ‘do as she’s told,’ ‘or else!’. ‘Or else’ is left unqualified, obviously because I’m there, but Debbie’s attitude changes markedly. No more giggles, but apprehensive attention to Brian’s lecture on ‘stop being silly, you stupid child!’. Debbie has no idea that I know she’s in line for a good spanking if she doesn’t toe the line, but it is absolutely enthralling to watch her nervousness grow and listen to her answers fade almost to whispers as Brian delivers that ultimatum one more time. ‘Or else!’

I click away, Debbie’s resentful glances notwithstanding, until she is quite naked. Brian then asks me to suggest poses, and Debbie does her best, though near to mutiny, threat of a smacked bottom or not! At last we let her off the hook.

She sits down, clothes clutched in front of her, and eyes me warily, beginning to suspect that it was my idea all along (which it wasn’t, it was Brian’s). Then I begin to pack up my things and Brian says something about a cup of tea. Debbie flounces out of the room, tee-shirt hiding her tits but bare-bottomed still, and at the door she turns and spits out ‘Pig! Bloody Pig!’ at Brian. Brian laughs, and I laugh too, to be polite. No tea comes and eventually I leave, wishing I’d had the hidden camera rigged up for the spanking I feel sure Debbie’s lovely little bottom is bound to be in for!

Next day, Sunday, I am ignored by Debbie when I come round to fix up the camera which she doesn’t know about. Brian says he spanked her, naked over the end of her bed, ‘until she was sorry she’d been so silly’, the previous evening. I am, of course, consumed with jealousy, and I haven’t even got a photo of it!

Photo A

Debbie blinking at the precise moment the flash goes off. This takes practise, as the flash only lasts 1/1000 of a second!

Photo B

Feeling awkward and rather shy; she doesn’t meet anyone’s eyes.

Photo C

That’s better; the coy look is for real though!

Photo D

Relaxing; smiling at something Brian says.

Photo E

Laughing again, as Brian suggests: ‘What about nude?’

Photo F

Withheld

Photo G

Debbie giggling; what a ridiculous idea. He’s here. (Me, behind the camera).

Photo H

It sinks in; he means it! Everything? Knickers too? She stares worriedly at Brian — luckily not at me, since my excitement must surely show on my face, if nowhere else! Brian pretends to get cross and Debbie gets nervous — and that’s no pretence!

Photo I

Persuaded at last! Or was it bullied? Anyway, she stands up and shoves her shorts down petulantly — I believe I remember hearing the zip break.

Photo J

Debbie pulls her knickers back up, having yanked them down accidentally along with her shorts. Her face tells the story as she glares at Brian.

Photo K

Now it’s my turn for the glare. Embarrassed, I fiddle with my camera.

Photo L

Debbie turns her back, a deliberate act of protest. Brian (bottom left) grins wickedly at me; he’s really enjoying this!

Photo M

‘These too?’ Yes — of course!’ Bravado gone now, Debbie slips her knickers down and I catch sight of that lovely bum which I’ve only seen before at the bottom of a developing tray! (That mysterious dark line is the shadow of a thread dangling from the hem of her top).

Photo N

I’d never realised what nice tits she has! Her look is one half of defiance and half of resentful obedience. ‘Satisfied? Now what am I supposed to do?’

Photo O

Pose — that’s what. And stop being silly — we’ve seen it all before! (Not strictly accurate, in my case, although Debbie’s little secrets must be no secret to Brian!)

Photo P

Isn’t she lovely? Just to think of that sweet little bottom being spanked by Brian! Lucky sod!!

Photo Q

The reaction. Somehow she’d braved it out while the photos were being taken, but now it’s just her and Brian and me, a virtual stranger. She feels embarrassed and furious at the same time, and now it’s me she’s really cross with!

Next issue: A really good spanking for Debbie — all on camera, as it happened, and she never suspected a thing!

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From Uniform Girls 10

This is a spanking which Debbie was given in early August ‘85. The room is one upstairs, normally unused, which offered facilities for the camera to be hidden amongst a litter of cardboard boxes on a shelf. The time was about half past nine on a Sunday evening, after Debbie had spent the afternoon and early evening barefoot in the garden in a pair of pink shorts. I remember it well, having called ostensibly to see Brian about some work on my house, but actually to reload the camera and set it up, Brian having ‘phoned to say that Debbie would be getting her knickers taken down later if I wanted to get pictures!

As you can perhaps imagine, finding Debbie in the garden in her shorts and a half-mast (cut off in the length so that it stopped short just below her tits) sports vest was guaranteed to get the pulses racing, especially as I could plainly see the outline of her knickers (the ones that she would be ‘getting taken down’ later) beneath the shorts.

Presumably she changed when she came in from the garden; personally I would have kept her in the shorts and vest, but I have to admit that she does look delicious, just kneeling there with ‘those knickers’ pulled down and her bottom just waiting for it!

Photo A

As mentioned previously, this is Debbie ‘waiting for it’, while Brian tries to hear the camera shutter click so that he knows he set the timer right! The spanking is punishment for a ‘disagreeable attitude’ (Debbie generally flouncing about and slamming doors, etc) when she was asked to mow the grass while the man next door was out in his garden ‘staving’, or so Debbie said. (She did mow the grass, by the way, which was what she was doing when I came round to load the camera.) I should add that Brian said he ‘spanked her upstairs’, (on the stairs, on the way up) which would probably account for the faint spank-blush on her bottom to begin with!

Photos B, C and D

No commentary needed, really, except to note that between Photo B and Photo D there are seven other frames, which at one frame per 30 seconds means that Debbie’s bum has been stinging for a minimum of 4 minutes in photo D. Brian has had trouble keeping her still, presumably, hence the ‘step-over’ hold in the last picture!

Photo E

Debbie sulking apres spanking; perhaps she is still crying, but it’s hard to tell, isn’t it.

More of Debbie and her well-spanked bottom in future issues of the Blushes magazines.

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From Blushes 20

Background

This is a Monday evening in June 1985. Having called round to fix up the camera, I find Debbie flouncing around with a sulky look on her face and Brian secretly enjoying her ill-temper and grinning widely every time she’s out of ear shot. He says she’s pretty bloody-minded at the moment because she’s just had her bum ‘caned’ — having no cane, Brian has used a long, narrow, flat piece of lath instead — and the good bit is that he is going to ‘cane’ her again, pre-bedtime, because she’s making such a song and dance about it!

I fix up the camera and retire, reluctantly, but looking forward very much indeed to getting my hands on the roll of film. So eager am I that I say I’ll come back later on and take the film home for processing that night.

Picture A

This is frame 7: Debbie, it would seem, is taking either her shoes or her tights off. Brian’s casual gesture of the thumb says everything, doesn’t it? The all-important Anglepoise has, for once, been directed where it is supposed to be directed!

Picture B

This is frame eleven. Two minutes have elapsed since frame seven, and the three intervening frames have shown a half-hearted tug of war with a pair of tights and a couple of sulky faces from Debbie. Now she at least has her knickers down! I imagine she is tucking her skirt up prior to getting herself over the ‘whipping bench’, which is plainly a ‘workmate’. Do you think Black and Decker would be interested?

Picture C

This is where I discover that trying to get ‘action’ pictures of a girl being caned, with an automatically timed camera, is frustrating in the extreme! What you chiefly get is the bits in between the actual contact of cane and bum, where the girl is lying about on her tummy and no doubt snivelling and wriggling and saying interesting things; these bits, however, do not make for exciting photographs.

Picture D

One of the two pictures where anything exciting is happening! I’d love to have heard the crack! of that stroke across Debbie’s bottom, wouldn’t you? I think it must be a stroke just arriving, but I suppose it might just as well be one ‘on the way back.’

Picture E

Another picture of comparative inactivity, except that Debbie’s position does indicate the possibility that we have caught her in mid-wriggle, don’t you think?

Picture F

This is the one that makes the whole roll worthwhile. Plainly a stroke just about to be delivered, with some marked reaction from Debbie too! Has the camera caught her just between two closely spaced strokes, or is that just Debbie performing her characteristic violent shaking of her head when she is disagreeing vehemently with what’s being said or what’s going on? I prefer to think that she’s yelling ‘No, no, no!’ or some such thing, and that Brian is going to whack her anyway!

Picture G

This is the last frame with any ‘action’ about it — the rest is simply out of focus stuff and bits of blank wall. What I really like about this picture is Debbie’s characteristic ‘little-girlishness’, instantly recognisable if you know her, which is so evident in the way she looks over her shoulder at her bottom, which must of course, be tender in the extreme! If she’s got any fight left in her, I know exactly what she’s about to say. ‘Bloody hell!’, which is her favourite expletive and covers any extreme eventuality.

A foretaste of the next Actually Spanked article, to be published in Supplement 14.

Picture A

Another spanking for Debbie in the upstairs room. This time more or less totally naked. (All for my benefit, I’m sure, since Debbie certainly never was punished naked earlier on. I think Brian enjoyed picturing my delight as I developed the films and saw Debbie quite bare!)

Picture B

This is the moment where I thought all had at last been revealed. Debbie stares straight at the camera; looking down into the developing dish I had the sudden awful feeling that we had been rumbled! Incredibly though, Debbie hadn’t seen the camera! Perhaps she was too busy thinking about her bottom to notice it, or if she had seen the camera, perhaps it simply didn’t occur to her that it was taking pictures of her rather than merely sitting on the shelf!

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From Blushes Supplement 14

Background

I think this was early in August ‘85; the upstairs room across the landing from Debbie’s bedroom, and this must have been the one time I tried setting the camera timer to go off every fifteen seconds, so that the whole roll spans nine minutes.

Picture A

Debbie getting her tights off; apart from these she only has her knickers on, and those not for long! This nakedness prior to spanking was an innovation of Brian’s which was, I am sure, designed to humiliate Debbie and to tantalise me, who only ever saw the pictures!

Picture B

A few frames later, and Brian is getting Debbie’s knickers down without wasting any time at all!

Picture C

Debbie’s bottom ‘copping it’ while she and Brian seem to be squabbling over Debbie’s attempts to pull her knickers back up!

Pictures D and E

Debbie’s knickers have now been abandoned, and her bottom looks rather sore don’t you think!

Picture E

Almost done, and she looks exhausted, doesn’t she! Brian still looks as fresh and eager as ever though!

Picture F

This is Debbie doing her ‘Joan of Arc’ impression; note the faraway look in her eyes and the symbolic covering of the right breast. What is actually going on I don’t know, but I suspect Brian is lecturing and Debbie is pretending to be contrite so that she doesn’t get her bum smacked any more. Or perhaps not…

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From Whispers 7

This is the last of the present series from R.M.A. There may be more but that, presumably, depends upon Brian and/or Debbie. We hope you have enjoyed those photographs we have been privileged to publish from R.M.A.’s unique collection. The photo adjacent is an out of focus snap taken by R.M.A. of Debbie, which he sent us first to stimulate our interest.

Background

This is June 1985, on a Sunday afternoon, and Debbie is being spanked for ‘blood-mindedness and an unhelpful attitude,’ according to Brian.

Picture A

Debbie up on a chair; how I love that firm, saucy little bum of hers! I am insanely jealous of Brian and his opportunities!

Picture B

More spanking, and Debbie struggling and trying to get down from the chair!

Picture C

Brian maintains control; I hope Debbie’s arms up her back aren’t too uncomfortable!

Picture D

Debbie finally struggles free, and doesn’t Brian look put out!

Picture E

Back in the double-arm grip. I can’t help thinking —indeed I am sure — that Brian wouldn’t be able to keep her upon that chair with her bottom sticking out for a spanking if Debbie wasn’t actually co-operating, at least to some extent. It’s an interesting side light on the psychology of the girl, or any girl who gets spanked, don’t you think?

R.M.A.