The tipping point

Often in the course of a spanking there comes a tipping point. Let’s say you start with a slow build-up. You put her over your knee, skirt up, knickers down, and you use your hand until her bottom feels pleasingly warm to the touch and has turned a pretty shade of pink. Now you wish to apply something more forceful. You have her kneel or maybe lie face-down, and you select your implement. Let’s imagine that first up is the flogger, which is capable of being wielding with a gentle caress, but can also sting if you use it hard enough. Now she’s really getting into it. Her breath is shorter, there are gasps or moans, even an occasional wriggle, which needs to be steadied with a hand on the back of the neck or the small of the back.

Now it’s time for the next stage. It’s at this point I’d probably want to introduce my tawse. It delivers a very pronounced sting, and a satisfyingly loud crack as the heavy leather strap slaps again the bare bottom. By now she’s a darker shade of pink, even bright red, and her bottom is so warm you can almost feel the glow.

If she really needs a good thrashing, and you are doing it right, it’s after the sustained application of the tawse that you may get to the tipping point. For some girls all of the time, or for some girls some of the time, it may be enough already. The beating has done its work, pushed them nicely into sub-space, where you can do pretty much anything you like with them, but further pain may not be what they want most. But sometimes, it’s just at that moment you become aware that everything up till now has been but a preliminary, the overture to the opera, as it were. The spanking so far endured is not, for some girls, the end in itself, but merely a stage that prepares them for something more. The pain inflicted has merely made them more sensitive and responsive to what is to come. It’s the moment when pain and pleasure truly merge.

What exact form the next stage will take will of course depend on the dom’s preferred method, and on his reading of her state of mind, his feeling about just what she needs now. It’s possible the dom may choose to ask her, but in my experience girls are often not fully coherent at this point. Either they don’t really know what they want, or they can’t articulate it, so it’s your responsibility to take the decision. Having ascertained, as you believe, that she has indeed reached the tipping point, you embark on an escalation designed eventually to bring her to the moment when she has taken as much as she can, or as much as you think is good for her.

What exactly you do to achieve that is, as I say, up to the individual dom. We all have our preferences. In the past I favoured the cane as the most effective means of bringing matters to a satisfactory conclusion. But just recently I’ve discovered the potential of an implement which was not actually designed for the use I put it to. I discovered it in the wardrobe of a rather swanky hotel I was staying in, and it immediately took my fancy, so I brought it home with me. It’s a length of highly polished wood, about an inch wide and eighteen inches long, slightly grooved and curved. Clearly it was designed as a rather elegant shoe-horn, but it’s well-balanced and weighted and makes a perfect spanking tool, delivering a firm stroke, a little wider than that of the cane but still nicely focussed and producing a good, strong mark. I have found that rightly administered it brings a girl without too much delay to the point you wish her to arrive at, where she is struggling to take any more, squirming and squealing, coaxed only with difficulty to take a few more strokes ‘just to please me’ and earn the encomium of ‘good girl’.