We recently received a lovely email from Duncan H. enthusing about ‘The Bottom Man’, the new novel by Stephen Sims. We asked Duncan if he wouldn’t mind reviewing the novel for us and he has kindly obliged, so we’re pleased to publish his review here:

I have just finished reading ‘The Bottom Man’ novel by Stephen Sims. I admit I’d been unaware of Stephen’s input into our favourite magazine over the years, so I hesitated about consigning myself to the time it would take to plough through what I imagined might be an overly elongated short story similar to what we’ve already seen. Instead, damn the man, I couldn’t stop reading till I reached the end, by which time I was entirely caught up in the worlds of the two heroes, Jed and Tamar.

This book has the lot – a thundering good narrative with a background of the spanking world and a magazine clearly based on Janus. I’d encourage others to read this bitter-sweet insightful evocation of the lives of a man who wants to spank and a woman who wants to be spanked, but neither knows quite how to go about it. It’s not overloaded with spanking action, the needs we all understand are internalised and explored in ways that are utterly compelling to read. I won’t spoil it for others by revealing the end, but it must surely lead to an action packed sequel. Intriguing, humorous, erotic and always entertaining, the story is also strangely moving in that it’s a love story too.

As if that weren’t enough, the pages are interleaved with something like forty previously unpublished photos from what I assume is the unused archive of Privilege Plus/Club magazines, in black and white and colour, some of which look so intimate and personal to the model concerned that it no doubt explains why they couldn’t previously be shown, but all of which delights the eye and makes each return to its pages an excitingly novel experience. Highly recommended.

Duncan is correct in identifying the many photos as coming from the Privilege archive. There are some wonderful unseen images of Christina Winchester and Lucy Bailey included in the novel (see below).  You’ll find high quality scans of these images from the original negatives and a lot more besides in the pages of ‘The Bottom Man’.

Don’t forget you can still read a free chapter from the novel and Jon Rayworth’s revealing interview with Stephen by clicking on the highlighted links.

We’ve added two new spanking magazines to the Janus Online Shop this weekend. Janus Vol.2 No.4 and Uniform Girls Vol.2 No.18 are available to download by clicking on the highlighted links.

Uniform Girls Vol.2 No.18 features a superb cover shot and unusually for Blushes more from this classic photo shoot can be found inside the magazine – see below.

Also this week our friend Cliff James published some memories of Janus in his spanking blog – you can read his recollections here. Scroll down to the entry on the 19th February 2014.

Free Spanking Photos from Janus 59.

Madeleine Bishop was puzzled and a little apprehensive at the unscheduled visit by the Managing Director to the London office. Denzil Cairns, the Scottish electronics wizard, owned the company for which she worked. Not only did he own it, he had created it, inspired it’s growth from a tiny workshop above an Edinburgh bakery ten years ago to the nationwide giant it was today.

But why had the great man suddenly decided to fly down from Head Office in Scotland with a demand that the company apartment in Mayfair be prepared for a stay of several days – and that she, Madeleine, should make herself exclusively available to him throughout? 

Madeleine felt uneasy. She knew that the brilliant Scot had unorthodox methods of tackling problems. What is more, the shrewd young woman had been shaken to discover only a couple of days ago that her immediate boss, Bill Watson, had privately been investing company receipts into secure shares for weeks. The scheme was virtually undetectable – but Madeleine had spotted it, and was anxious to warn Bill off on his return from a business trip. 

It seemed impossible that even as canny a man as Denzil Cairns could suspect anything at this stage. Yet she felt wary…

We hope you enjoy seeing this selection of photos from Madeleine’s punishment, scanned from the original negatives. If you’d like to read and see more of this photo story then you can download a copy of Janus 59 by clicking on the highlighted link.

Five new spanking magazines have been added to the Janus Online Shop in the last week. Janus Vol.2 No.5, Blushes 56, Uniform Girls 22, Justice 45 and Justice 46 are all available to download by clicking on the highlighted links.

It’s worth remembering at this time of year that Valentine’s Day has a special connection to our favourite subject. We particularly liked this piece Valentine’s Day: from Pagan spanking to romantic ornithology. 

It’s not often you find the words ‘spanking’ and ‘ornithology’ in the same sentence so this article is worth a read for the novelty factor alone.

We hope all our visitors have plans to celebrate today in true pagan fashion!