Maintenance

He likes to make sure she gets a thorough spanking every week. He’d prefer if it could always be at the same time, like six o’clock on a Friday evening, but their lives are not regular enough for that. Even so, each week he sets a time, and informs her an hour or two in advance. At the allotted hour she knocks on his study door and waits for the call to enter. He likes there to be a certain formality about proceedings; a bit of ritual helps to give the occasion more significance. She has to walk over to where he is seated on an upright chair and stand just in front of him, legs slightly apart, hands behind her back, and wait for him to speak.

At this point he will ask her if she has anything she wants to say to him concerning their sexual relationship. If she has important matters to raise, he will make a note and they will talk things over later. It’s also an opportunity for her to confess if there is anything she needs to own up to. The weekly spanking session is not intended as punishment, but if some degree of correction is needed he will incorporate it into proceedings.

Spanking begins with him putting her across his knee. The skirt is lifted (trousers are not acceptable clothing for these occasions) and the knickers lowered. He starts by stroking her bottom. He never ceases to admire its smoothness and whiteness and invitingly round, firm shape. But the whiteness will not last for long. He begins to spank her with his hand, alternating from one cheek to the other, pausing every now and again to soothe the smarting skin, and to feel its warmth. After several such pauses he will feel between her legs, which is always a reliable guide to her state of mind.

A maintenance spanking is intended to make her feel grounded, centred, to reacquaint her with the feel of his firm hand upon her. His lap beneath her, offering support, and his hand imparting such bracing stimulation to her bottom, provide her with reassurance that all is right with the world. There may be other spankings in the course of the week, spontaneous ones born from a need for instant correction or mere gratification, but the regular spanking is a fixed point on which she can depend, which puts her in the place she needs to be.

Sometimes the spanking will go no further than the use of the hand. But often there is a progression. In the drawer of his desk is a selection of implements: a flogger, a tawse, a heavy leather belt, a crop, a wooden paddle, a braided leather whip. Any (or on rare occasions all) of these may be employed as means of providing reinforcement to the beneficial effect. If he is going to administer any of them, he will require her to bend over his desk, gripping the sides with her hands.

Standing in the corner of the room is a long, thin bamboo cane. Every time she comes into the study she eyes it nervously, unable to ignore its threatening presence. It is unusual that the cane will be wielded during a maintenance spanking; its effects are too pronounced, almost guaranteed to reduce her to tears, and emotional meltdown is not the object of the exercise. All the same, it is hard for her to keep her eyes off it while bent over his knee or over the desk. And there have been one or two occasions when it has been brought in play, occasions which she can well remember, when it seemed to him that something extra was required to bring home to her the lesson that he wished always to teach her, that his authority is supreme.