The Punishment Book

--- Noto Bene: This is a repost from my blog. I posted it over there first, because I wasn't sure it would be welcome over here, but I have been assured it's okay, so I'm delighted to share it here, which was the first place I thought of posting it! I hope all my fellow PB-ers and our dear readers enjoy it, and it provokes good thought and discussion. ---

I've been organizing the books in our apartment, as they are threatening to take over the place, and I found this gem among Papa Otter's erotica collection.

The cover is more funny than arousing (to me, anyway) but what is lovely and even in it's own way arousing is the innocence of the image. No worries about feminism, here, no angst about if spanking your wife is okay, no confusion about whether discipline should have sex involved (the author thinks it should, if you can't tell by the spanker's humongous erection!) -- these are some happy '60s swingers who explore their desires with an almost child-like innocence.

The book cheerfully merges domestic discipline with sex (and swinging, because once you find out the neighbours like spanking, too, the obvious next step is to spank and fuck the neighbour's wife, non?) in a way that is very heartening for me, because Papa Otter and I find they mingle very well indeed, and I was very surprised when I came across the DD [Domestic Discipline] community and found out that I wasn't supposed to want to mix those things!

My favourite example of this (and I really need to carry the URL for this site around with me, because when I tell people about it they just can't believe me) is this fabulous article, Thanking the HOH -- The "Formal Thank You" as a Non-Sexual Act. I don't know how I found it, but once I realized what I'd come across, I had a reaction that combined all the best aspects of shooting my drink out my nose and punching the air and shouting, "Yes!"