We’ve just added four new spanking magazines to the Janus Online Shop.

Available to download now are Janus Vol.1 No.12, the Janus Correspondence Special, Roue 57 and Roue58.

To download any of these magazines just click on the highlighted links.

Continuing Fiona Lewison’s commentary on the six spanking images that resonated for her. You can read Part 1 here.

Crime and punishment

We now move on from domestic and school punishments to a young woman who’s left all that behind her and is fending for herself in the big city. She’s got a job as a secretary, but she’s finding it difficult to make ends meet. She sees a chance to supplement her meagre income, and grabs it. She thinks she’s got away with it, but we know it’s the biggest mistake of her life. The character’s name is Tracy Wilkes and the photo, from a shoot for Janus 27, didn’t make it to the published edition. But I think it sums up not only this particular photo-story, but the whole Janus ethos. Here is the crime actually being committed, a crime which we all know is going to result in a very sore bottom. And now we can anticipate the punishment she will receive. The girl is wide-eyed with fear, and we can feel it too.

I also think this young secretary knows that, if her boss catches her out, he won’t simply fire her. It’s an old-fashioned office in an old-fashioned company, and she’ll be subjected to a dose of traditional discipline. He’ll put her over his knee and smack her bottom. And if the thefts have been going on for some time, she can expect something a lot more serious. What I like about this is that it’s entirely fair, even though we can guess that the boss is going to enjoy himself. And who can blame him?

The picture also resonates with me because I worked in a similar office, with that exact same Brother typewriter. My youthful dreams of being spanked by my boss all those years ago came flooding back as soon as I saw it.

Fear and loathing in suburbia

This photo really intrigues me. I like it very much, but I don’t know quite what to make of it. The character is Serena James and it’s from a photo-shoot in Janus 16 published in 1982, which is about the time when I first became fully conscious of my own feelings on this subject. It’s obviously a domestic scene, and it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that the extended male arm belongs to the woman’s husband. But the expression on her face suggests that she is not as comfortable being punished by this man as she might be by her husband. There is a lack of conjugal trust in her features. She’s uncomfortable, and not just because she’s about to be caned. I think she doesn’t know this man. He’s an unknown factor, and that’s what scares her. If it were her husband she would presumably know what to expect. Her face would show resignation, perhaps even anger, but not fear. She would not stare at the cane as if it’s an unknown threat. She would not hand it over inch by reluctant inch, as she is in this picture.

So I think the man is a stranger, or at least a stranger to her bottom. He could be her boss at work, who has elected to administer some much needed discipline in the privacy of his employee’s home. Or, and this seems to be a fairly common theme, he is a professional disciplinarian called in by an outsider, or even the woman herself. But what’s obvious is that she doesn’t want to be caned by this man. We know she will be, and so does she, which makes it a thrilling, and quite scary, picture.

My only complaint is that the director and photographer should have taken greater care over the model’s comfort. It’s obviously freezing cold in that room.

You can read the final part of Fiona’s ‘Six of the Best Spanking Images’ on the news page next week. You can download the magazines in which both these photo fantasies appear by clicking on the highlighted links.

21-year-old Joanna received a caning in her one and only Janus appearance in Janus 35. She featured in the photo fantasy ‘The Chair’ and also gave an interview about her real life experiences of corporal punishment in the same issue. ‘The Chair’ is a delightfully simple scenario featuring just Joanna, the chair and the cane. She is caned in every conceivable position across this single piece of furniture. Only a few words accompany this photo fantasy – ‘The Chair is not for sitting on – well, not for the moment anyway…’

We hope you enjoy seeing these high quality images of Joanna. To see more of her caning and read her interview you can download a copy of Janus 35 by clicking on the highlighted link.

A large selection of free spanking and caning photos from the Janus archive can be found on our Free Spanking Photos page.

This week we’ve added four new digital spanking magazines to the Janus Online Shop.

Janus Vol.3 No.7, Janus Vol.3 No.8, Cul d’Or Vol.1 No.8 and Martinet Vol.1 No.8 are available to download by clicking on the highlighted links.

Also available to download is ‘A Spanking Good Life’ in which AG Van Okker, editor of Janus during the 1970s, provides readers with a glimpse into his own colourful world.

It has been images, rather than words, that have captured my disciplinary imagination over the years. I’m a prolific reader of words on other subjects, and I have a typically girlish passion for 19th century literature, but when it comes to spanking, photographs rise above everything else. This community has mostly moved on from still to moving images, for obvious reasons, but the photography in this field, particularly the work of Vic Barnes and his contemporaries at magazines like Roué and Blushes, seems to me more persuasive and atmospheric than anything committed to film. There is a greater subtlety in a photograph – a greater amount left to the imagination – that allows the viewer to decide for themselves what is going on in terms of the fiction and of the reality. It allows them to impose a personal and often cherished view, whether it’s the erotic or the mundane.

So here’s six photos that have sent me into a flutter since I bought my first spanking magazine, Janus 12, in a scruffy newsagents in south London in the early 1980s. My choice won’t be everyone’s, but if an appreciation of this subject isn’t personal and representative of your own nature I don’t know what is. Maybe it’s just a woman’s view, in which case you’ll have to forgive me.

The Girl At The Window

This is, for me, one of the finest spanking photos ever taken. It’s from Roué 22, which was one of the first magazines of this type that I bought. The first thing that strikes you is the girl’s face. She’s young and she’s pretty, but she’s also ordinary and from ‘next door’. And her expression isn’t one of fear, it’s one of sadness. She’s in her knickers, which would be embarrassing if there’s a man around, but that’s not the principal reason why she’s unhappy. Perhaps she wishes she’d worn a nicer pair. They’re early 1980s Marks & Spencer, and probably cost as much as her, or her mum, could afford. I thought at first that she was wearing the top half of a pair of pyjamas, but a closer look reveals that it’s a collarless shirt. We used to call them ‘granddad shirts’, and I’ll bet it’s made of cheesecloth.

The girl is holding an old-fashioned cane, but I don’t think she’s yet felt it across her bottom. She’s been sent to fetch it, and is having a quiet little moment to herself. Perhaps she imagines that a passing stranger might intervene and save her from this dreadful fate. Surely a spanking would be sufficient for a girl of such tender years? It’s a forlorn hope, because she is most certainly going to be caned, but she clings to it, as a young girl would. I feel sorry for her, even though she must have been very naughty indeed.

The view through the window on a rainy day makes us outsiders. We could easily have been walking down the street outside, and turned our heads at just the right moment. And now that we have seen it, we’ve become voyeurs. We want to know more. We want to know what she did, we want to know who is going to punish her, and most of all we want to see it happen. We know it is inappropriate for us to watch a young girl being caned on her bare bottom. It is a private domestic affair, and we should simply pass on down the street. But we cannot. The scene is too compelling, and we are rooted to the spot. We must, and will, watch. It’s powerful stuff.

A Naughty Schoolgirl

And now for something completely different. There are dozens of photos of the lovely Tara Duncan I could have chosen for this list, but I had to pick one and this is it. It’s from Janus 139, and it’s a classic school scene. As ever with this model, the uniform is smart and authentic, and we know the chap must be a teacher because he’s wearing a tweed jacket with a load of pens stuck in the top pocket. It’s a dead giveaway. It also adds a slightly comic touch that lightens the whole tone of the picture. It’s not a terribly serious punishment, and I don’t think our errant schoolgirl is particularly put out even if it is the dreaded hairbrush. It’s just something to be got through before she can skip off and continue gossiping with the other girls. She’ll show off her reddened bottom as a badge of honour. So, for me, this is quite a happy photo: a routine spanking that will persuade the girl to behave for a week at the outside. She’ll be back over this teacher’s lap again quite soon, and she won’t be all that bothered about it.

What really makes the photo is Tara’s performance. She’s gorgeous, for one thing, and surely has one of the prettiest bottoms ever to grace the pages of Janus or any other spanking magazine. She’s cheeky and girlish, and has the most delicious pout. I also get the feeling that a smile was never far from her lips, and that she probably giggled her way through most of the shoot. It’s just charming.

We’ll be featuring two more of Fiona’s ‘Six of the Best’ next week. You can download copies of Roue 22 and Janus 139 by clicking on the highlighted links above or the magazine covers below. If you’d like to see more of Tara Duncan she also appeared in Janus 132, 155 and 156 and Februs 41.