Room 2D

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From Roué 23 The Gallery, back again in this issue, concerns itself this time with a particular theme; girls punished in groups. Illustrators interested in the punished female sit-upon frequently depict their girls in situations where several stages of a disciplinary encounter can be shown in the same drawing. The illustration which we have included this time where the girl is being tugged by her shorts through a doorway makes this point very well. Though she herself is yet to be punished, the probable outcome of her interview with the person utilising the cane in that novel way is not in doubt. There in the middle distance is, in effect, another picture of the self-same girl as she will be when the cane has done its work. Every picture therefore can indeed tell a story, and doesn’t necessarily fail in this objective by leaving out the actual application of the disciplinary instrument to the girl’s bottom. The other drawings in this section approach the matter in another way, lea...

From Blushes 37 ‘Are you fit, Miss Brayfield? I wonder. Our German girls keep their bodies fit but I have the idea English girls are more slothful. Am I correct perhaps?’ Dr Leibnitz spoke good English though with an obvious accent. He was Head of the Social History Department, a large man of perhaps fifty. He did not look particularly fit himself — his considerable waistline was usually concealed in a double-breasted jacket — but Penny was not likely to make this point. He was her tutor and at a German university a tutor was a very important person; perhaps even more so for a foreign student on a short exchange. If her tutor wasn’t happy with her conduct she could simply be sent home, and without any questions. German universities it seemed were much more authoritarian than English ones. ‘Uh… I’m reasonably fit,’ was Penny’s answer. The question had come out of the blue but it was perhaps sensible to be cautious. In the one wee...