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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...

A true story documented by Michael Bryant in Janus 138 In 1972 I was 12 years old, an age which, generally speaking, heralds the beginnings of the gradual metamorphosis from boy to man. Body hair had started to sprout, my voice was becoming deeper, and my thoughts were becoming stranger. Like most twelve-year-olds, I was confused by these sudden alterations to my physical and mental states. Why was it that girls were now becoming attractive to me? Especially older girls, like those in the fifth and sixth forms at my school. Why was it that I now derived great satisfaction at looking at the posteriors of the more curvaceous females who surrounded me in great numbers? Why was it — and this was the biggest question — that I continually imagined the aforementioned fifth and sixth form girls, having their perfectly rounded bottoms well and truly spanked? I concluded, after hours of considered intellectual argument with myself, that I...