Admission Proceedings (Postponed) and Some More Useful Bondage/Spanking Artwork Links

Today's posting was going to be on 'admission procedures' and it will probably still develop that way eventually, when I add more, later today. But first of all there are more urgent issues to deal with: the spanking and bondage artwork section of the resource link list in the sidebar has become sadly denuded, as I have mentioned at the last couple of posts. Today I spotted that the link to the artwork of Thorn no longer works and so I have now removed it also. This is a real shame because I've noted several folks coming here searching for his work and in addition he is one of my favourite artists of the genre - it's all to do with the implied innocence of his victim's and the way that he manages to capture the humiliation and suffering in their expressions; all very exciting and most inspiring, he really manages to bring out all those darkest cruellest fantasies that lurk in the dark corners of the subconscious. Unfortunately, although I've had a little search around on the web (I'm a little short of time as I'm trying to complete volume 2 and get well into volume 3, so I can't afford to spend too long on this) I have yet to locate a satisfactorily complete grouping of his work on any one site. Because I'm so time-impoverished at the moment I have decided that the easiest and quickest thing for me to do is to upload the collection I have obvious work into one of my online albums. This I expect to be doing roughly mid-evening today, after I return from the gym (its legs-night tonight), and the link will then become available in the sidebar under the section labelled Spanking Artwork Album Links.

Meanwhile as an emergency stopgap, here is a list of links to the work of various artists available on that Russian website I spoke about in an earlier post. It's pretty difficult website to negotiate unless you really are we all going or understand Cyrillic script and the links to various artist’s work that appear at the tops of the pages tend to do so randomly and without any discernible pattern. I think I've pretty much trawled all I can from that particular site at the moment and one great thing that I did come across was that Paula Meadows (Lynn Paula Russell) illustration that I talked about in the last posting - it's at the top of this entry, click on it to go to a couple of pages of her work. Have a read through my previous posting about it and see if you share my sentiment - I think it is the presence of the nurse that ultimately cements it altogether and tells the story.

When I have a little more time I will be putting all of these links, properly labelled and categorised, into the sidebar resource list - probably later today - and when I do I shall remove those links from this posting. It will free up a little for me to have a bit of a ramble about admission procedures later on this evening. Meanwhile I've got me some careful detailing and styling work to do on Lavinia's home uniform (figuratively speaking of course; it's a piece of quite difficult descriptive writing). It's a bittersweet confection of her aunt's own devising - and that woman is a stickler for all those tiny little details.

http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_pichard1.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_coco.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_sardax.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_stanton.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_jito1.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_tarsis1.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_paula.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_loic1.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_voge.htm (Art by Remy)
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_3d1.htm (3 D rendered bondage)
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_serajat.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_willie1.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_bish1.htm (Robert Bishop)
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_alaz1.htm (Paul Alazar)
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_bilbrew.htm
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_steel.htm (Ferdinand Vogel Steel)
http://www.bdsmonline.ru/g_sorayama1.htm

See you all later,

Garth

Inspiring Illustrations; I Search for a Paula Meadows Pic and Find a Source of Fine Bondage

Hi folks

I've at last again been visited by my muse, after an extended period of lacklustre drive during which my writing pretty much stagnated for while INSTITUTIONALISED volume 2 is coming along apace. I have to transcribe onto the computer the stuff I wrote while out yesterday but I have so many new ideas buzzing around inside my head at the moment that I can't wait to again put pen to paper. What this all means is that I am fairly loath to interrupt the creative process while all is going so well so as far the blog is concerned, for while I'm going to restrict myself to updating links to various picture resources. Although this does mean of course that I will have to take time out to search the net I can do so in very short bursts, particularly as I've yet to fully trawl through the Russian website I reported earlier. But having said all that, part of what has reinvigorated my writing is having revisited the work of some of those great artists out there many of which were responsible in one way or another for inspiring to write in the first place; you know the sort of thing, you see a picture or a series of pictures and wonder…what is going on there, really? What is really been said?

In terms of the crystallisation of the ideas that eventually became INSTITUTIONALISED volume 1, at least in so far as the institutional scenarios depicted, one of the most informative works for me was an illustration by the great Paula Meadows, as was, that I had in my collection as a scan but have somehow mislaid. Basically it involve a young girl being punished in a very sparsely furnished, spot-lit and very institutional looking chamber - one just knew by looking at it that even after the miscreant is finally removed from that very secure-looking room she will be no less under lock and key. There is no ‘outside’ here for her, just layers of security nested matryoshka*-like. Unseen, but written into the atmosphere of the picture, as least as far as I was concerned, the feeling that here was a secure chamber residing within a high security area, itself residing within some high walled secure institution… it's all in that feeling of hopelessness again.

Anyway, thinking back to that image has got the creative juices working again and since I feel I have to dredge up some artwork links any way, I am hoping to rediscover the aforementioned illustration on one of my, necessarily short, exploratory expeditions… be assured that you will see it here just as soon as I can get my hands on it.

Meanwhile I've come across in a source of bondage images should bondage be your thing as it is mine, albeit not as an end in itself. I'm not really a bondage fetishist per se, you see; all those complicated arrangements of ropes, chains and things, taken in isolation, do little for me.

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For me there has to be some story to it, there has to be some purpose; it might be that it has become necessary to secure a young lady for her caning. Then again perhaps she is in diapers; there is a first time for everything and what better way can there be to get a young lady over this personal barrier. None of this is to deny, of course, that there is a place for bondage as a punishment in itself… perhaps the miscreant, detained in a secure ward in any case, has earned herself a few days restricted to her hospital bed, lying in silence in nice comfortable padded medical restraints, the heavy white curtain kept drawn around 24 hours a day.

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You see, to me bondage is something I equate more with an institutional environment; it seems more plausible there and to me plausibility is everything. It rarely works for me if depicted in a domestic situation, although under certain circumstances it might be plausible for a set of medical (humane) restraints to be seen fitted to a bed - but even then I would imagine it to be a hospital style bed brought in for the purpose and kept in a room suitably adapted and decorated, perhaps then the miscreant, if money is no object, even benefiting from having her own live-in nurse to minister to her care. Anyway, I've chosen an image that works for me from the aforementioned site... as usual just click on the picture to link to it and check out what they've got (and it is quite a lot - around 120 pages I think; blimey O'Reilly!!!).

An INSTITUTIONALISED 2 Update, Some Problems with My Spanking Artwork Links and a Solution

Hi again, folks:

Most of yesterday (Tuesday) was spent chopping backwards and forwards between the final two chapters of volume 2 - provisionally entitled Police Camera Action and An Imposition Of Uniform - working simultaneously on both as the ideas came. They're not the final two chapters as will appear in the book, you must understand - those are both virtually completed and have been for some time, although they don't even have provisional titles at the moment. An Imposition of Uniform, in actuality, comes somewhere in the centre of the work, while Police Camera Action fits in between that chapter and the last two chapters. An Imposition Of Uniform is not really a full, standalone chapter as such but rather is the centrepiece of a chapter and it is told in flashback, relating the life of one of my characters, Lavinia Vitesse, before she got talked (coerced would perhaps be more accurate) into volunteering to reside in a private hospital’s secure psychiatric wing as clinical research subject.

Moving on, I have been back in the gym and an beginning the process of fighting back to full fitness and also put aside a little time to search around the Internet for things to inspire me. Talking of the latter, I came across a nice little site that appeared to be Russian but was chock-full of all sorts of corporal punishment, discipline and bondage artworks and drawings by such as John Willie, Bishop, Paula Meadows, Ashley et al. I will be posting links to each artist's work in the resource list in the sidebar in the very near future and I may add a couple of pictures to this posting later in the day with links to the relevant pages.

All of which turns out to be very timely because when I went to check my list of art resources in said sidebar - to compare the content (I try not to duplicate resources and content) - I found that many of the links that connected via a common site no longer worked as that site appears to be down or no longer exists. I have just this minute removed all the broken links from the resource list and I shall endeavour to find sources for any artist whose work I cannot find on the aforementioned Russian language site. For starters and to get you into the site here is a typically cruel Ashley illustration - there are three pages of 'em there (a lot of his stuff used to appear in the old Justice Magazine in the 1970s/80s, incidentally). Simply click on the drawing on the left to view Ashley's work or the one on the right to view Cato's drawings and then you can find your way around the rest of the site when you get there, although I will be posting up individual links to each artist's work that is featured there because quite a lot of it has inspired my ideas in the past and undoubtedly will continue to do so in future. Keep your eye on the sidebar. Incidentally, the site is called bdsm on line and has a Russian URL (the home page address is http://www.bdsmonline.ru) but I can't help wondering if there is an English-language version out there somewhere hidden away. But who cares anyway - pictures paint a thousand words whatever language and there is a wealth of art work there...free, gratis and for nothing - grab 'em while they're hot!

Another Little Bit of Inspiration, Some Plans...and Some Excuses

Hi folks
More apologies are due for the sparsity of posts but I'm still been plagued by intermittent computer problems, my scanner/printer is down (I bought a new one about six weeks ago but have yet to connect it up) and I have been lumbered throughout most of the past weekend with helping the ‘other half’ with some desk research for an article on bridal wear. In between, what little time as has been left has pretty much been used up grinding away at a sticking point in volume 2, a particularly crucial but difficult to write chapter with several twists and turns and that in all honesty is all that stands between me and the completion of the work. The trouble is I keep coming across things while researching the part that I am supposed to be finishing that inspire new ideas and of course I try to get these down on paper while the enthusiasm is burning. Consequently volume 3 is coming along apace even as volume 2 stagnates somewhat. Meanwhile I'm back in the gym after various layoffs due to my surgical improvements, fighting to regain my aerobic fitness even though my strength seems to have been unimpaired and in fact has actually increased somewhat - probably due to the fact that one or two niggling injuries have had time to heal. Drinking is down to an all-time low due to the aforementioned surgical restrictions but then again so is creativity - I'll have to do something about that… and Wetherspoon's have a beer festival on at the moment…Hmm, say no more!

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Talking of inspirations I've just come across a few more scans of pages from a long ago sold spanking magazine. I can't remember at all what magazine it is from and from the looks of things the first page or so is missing but I do remember that it was one of those pieces that was partly responsible for encouraging the inclusion both of the institutional setting in my writings and also of some of the medical fetish interest that I later included. So, for those of you who are interested, here they are in order; the first three are arranged down the left-hand side of this post from top to bottom - the last page is on the right. As always; click to enlarge and read.

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For my next post I will be turning to a subject that was once so popular at one point in time in the letters pages of magazines such as Janus, Whispers, Blushes, New Uniform Girls et al and that plays a large part of setting the scene and building the atmosphere in the institutional settings I attempt to evoke in the INSTITUTIONALISED series: admission procedures. So, if any of you out there have any ideas of how you would prepare your lucky young ladies upon admission now is the time to post them up - imagine, if you will, that you are in charge of your own private and secure little institution with carte blanche over half a dozen young fillies and today is the day that a fresh faced pert blond young thing is delivered to your door… what next?… Dig out your old dog-eared copies of Janus and look through those well thumbed letters pages… any ideas? Incidentally if you are a fan of the above magazines and Roue as well (or even if you are not) you really must visit the yahoo group: Blushing Paddled Cuties (just click). I just did ... I nearly went blind! And I thought I was by now impervious to such things! Seriously though; there are some rare things there...download 'em, or post more up if you have some suitable stuff, before yahoo wipes them out - as they have so many fine groups in the past.

A Very Short Post and a Link to a Story

A contributor (PaulH666) has written a short story around the three pictures of a rather dominant looking nurse that graced the bottom of my previous post. The details were left as a comment on that post but for some reason comments don't always show up on this site so I tend to repost them in one form or another as otherwise they tend to get overlooked. Anyway, the story resides on the ‘Tan Her Hide’ blog. Click here to read.

More apologies are required for the sparsity of posts again, but for the last couple of days I've been unable to access either my blog or any other of the blogspot blogs that I know. I have no idea why this has been so but everything seems to be in order now (other than for my computer which still sounds like a tractor and that I daren't turn off for fear that it won't boot up again if I do) but unfortunately I now committed to carrying out some desk research work for my ‘other half’ (she is a fashion journalist and this week subject is bridal wear). But more posts will be coming soon and I am also gradually grinding towards the end of INSTITUTIONALISED: volume 2.

Nurses, Excuses, and a Dying Machine's Last Gasp

Hi folks, I'm sorry it hasn't been any posts for a while but all being well I'll make up for it in the very near future. I don't ordinarily plan to post at the weekends in any case but this last weekend was mostly taken up with dealing with my mother who has been taken poorly. Monday I spent working on volume 2, sitting here at my desk and writing de novo straight to the screen which is something I that don't usually do; as those of you who are regular visitors will know, I usually work with pen and paper outdoors and then dictate to the computer by voice of recognition at a later date. Anyway, new ideas were coming thick and fast and so I kept putting off going out and eventually I realised that it was the wee small hours, and that my laser augmented eyesight (for which I am still paying in terms of occasionally dry eyes) was fast blurring and my speech stumbling (no I wasn't drinking - honest). My intention was to be up bright and early yesterday morning and hit the blog running before going out with an old schoolmate; the restrictions on life caused by my Barnet (Barnet fair, get it? hair) transplant having been lifted as of yesterday, I had decided to celebrate in a pleasant old alehouse in Camden Town. I can imagine what you're thinking; lazy old bastard. But I did actually get a bit of writing done and another couple of small steps closer to the publication of volume 2. This morning as is typical for the after a hard day's boozing I was indeed up bright and early am raring to set to work - unfortunately my computer had other ideas. It greeted me with a reluctant graunching and grinding on startup, the screen flickered momentarily into life and then went blank as the whole thing went ‘tits up’ and shut down. Several more start-up attempts were greeted with the same response before finally it relented and booted up. I'm sitting here now presiding over a piece of junk that quite honestly is sounding like an old arthritic farmyard tractor. I expect it to pack at any moment - especially now that I've slagged it off! Typicaly, today I have received several very interesting e-mails so I think to be on the safe side I'll turn my attention to answering those, dictate in a bit of the stuff that I wrote yesterday and then return to the blog entry if, and it's a big if, the machine is still running by then. It would seem to be a power supply fan fault and it will take some time for me to acquire a new power supply and change it over. My backup machine, my laptop, lives over at my fiancee's place and I expect to be seen her until Thursday night so if this machine does finally give up the ghost then my next post probably won't be until sometime Friday but if so I will make up for it by adding some stuff over the weekend. I'm going to risk loading up one picture though, that might be of interest to some of you: after weeks of searching through an enormous database of vintage glamour pics (for my own collection and inspiration purposes) I was just thinking how odd it was that although schoolgirl uniforms seem to feature quite a lot and there are even one or two maid’s uniform to be found I hadn't come across much from the 1950s to 1970s featuring a nurse's uniform or even something that could possibly be taken as one. Then today, some kind soul who must remain anonymous posted me the picture that now graces the top of this entry. All right, so it may or may not be a nurse’s dress but it's close enough and it's nice nevertheless so my thanks go out to anonymous-3 as I shall call him (or her - I do have some female correspondents). Your pictorial contributions are always welcome and right at this moment I am particularly looking for illustrations featuring nurses carrying or wielding a cane or tawse or similar. Yes I know there are a few out there on the net but I'm talking about authentic nurse’s uniforms here - true I have attempted one or two photo manipulations that I have featured here in the past but I'm not that good at it and also you can't beat the real thing I don't think. I am I'm going to go now as I am pushing my luck with this machine as it is -it is groaning and complaining even as I write this.

Incredibly I've just returned to my e-mail only to find that someone, who for now I shall call anonymous-4, has been reading my mind and has sent the three pics above.

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Okay, so they don't feature the above mentioned implements of discipline but taken in sequence they do seem to be telling a story... don't you think? I'm not sure what it is (you fill in the gaps, it's more fun that way) but there's definitely something going on there but its a shame it is not in a more institutional setting - perhaps it's a waiting room and full admission to the institution awaits behind an innocent looking wood panelled door.

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Why not write up your version and I'll post it prominently here next time. I really am going to have to go now this thing is going to pop it clogs any moment, I'm sure!!!

Back to the Reformatory and Some Suitable Story Links (more text to be added later)

I think its time to get back on track, as it were…

Today’s subject is the reformatory and all the scope for imaginative discipline that conjures up once a young lady has been successfully detained behind its walls…particularly if the establishment should be remote, discreet, suitably secure and privately owned and run. The subject is best viewed in that way in my humble opinion – The detainee need not commit any crime, her sentence need not breach guidelines nor come with the possibility of repeal or even be of any set length. Nor need there be any particular end in mind to justify the means…for some, the fact that she has been denied her freedom, is being held under the strictest discipline and under the constant threat of punishment simply on a whim is an end in itself.

The pics are two scans fro my collect and taken from an early 90s Blushes (Although it could be Whispers or The New Supplement).

I’m going to be adding more to this post tomorrow, hopefully…Watch this space

I have found a site full of BDSM and discipline stories. You will have to dig through them when you get there to find something matching your particular taste but its an eclectic mix including enemas, mouth soaping, strict governesses and nurses and all sorts…you name it and its probably there somewhere…and all for free, too

Main Library

A review of victorian discipline

Discipline stories menu

Mouth soaping

Experimental prison wing urethral stimulation

Classroom enema and dormitory anal abuse
Incidentally the following passage, taken from the above story, is probably the best I have ever read of its type in the way that it subtly captures the effects that the disciplinary regime she is being kept been under is having on the girl herself - one of my interests in such literature, it must be said. Its all in that part where she folds her arms into the small of her back. She is about to be abused anally - a humiliation that is unlikely to leave any young woman without her fair share of mental scaring - and yet no command needs be uttered and no rope or other restraint brought forth...her hands are restrained by the sheer weight of the subjugation and the domination of her will.

...Then the whisper of cotton as her night smock was rucked up beyond her waist. Without being told Angela drew up her her knees at either side until she adopted the frog position. Her hands automatically gravitated to the small of her back, where she folded them in submission. Hips lifted as a pillow was positioned beneath her belly. Her warm mouth accepted the bit she was to bite on. The lid popping on a jar of lubricant. The creak of springs at an increased load...