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A Bit of News, a Comment and Two New YahooGroups

Hi folks, most of today I've spent rummaging through some yahoo groups for inspiration while recovering from yesterday's rather serious bender in the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead and the Turnpike Lane branch of Wetherspoon's (where I am assured I am single-handedly keeping their share price buoyant). I got a bit of writing done too, so rest assured: volume 2 is once again on the move.

The first of the YahooGroups I have been visiting today is:

Arrested And Handcuffed Girls in Jail - some nice behind bars pics, reform school, straitjacket, medical restraints and of course handcuff pics. Around 38 folders full.

The second group goes under the rather odd title of Coffled And Cuffed Cuties (I can't help thinking there is a spelling error in there somewhere) and is an incredible source of bondage photos and drawings and other artwork covering all sorts of eclectic subjects such as brides and bridesmaids in bondage or example. Incredibly this group seems to have over a hundred folders of pictures but I have barely had enough time to scratch the surface. As usual you can click on the group name here to go to the group and join or you can look in the resource list for yahoogroups in the right-hand sidebar where the links will appear shortly (I hope).

I have had a couple of e-mailed contributions with some interesting ideas and my apologies go out to the writers, because I just haven't had enough time (sober time that is) to reply at the moment but will do so later this evening.

I do have to throw my hands and admit to having wasted a large chunk of Saturday (perhaps wasted isn't the right term, in that it was so enjoyable) dipping into Richard Manton’s marvellous tome: Elaine Cox (see my last posting). I just love the way that the heroine having really only committed a most minor offense and having been entrusted to the reformatory’s care initially for only a very short period, finds herself, through various nefarious machinations of the governor, having more and more time added to her sentence until end up being incarcerated for five years (and it is implied that another girl has been similarly set up and is destined to spend an incredible seven years under the governor's tender care - and not-so-tender cane of course - for practically nothing other than for being the possessor of a rather overplump and attractive behind. That of course is the beauty of the Victorian reform school or workhouse setting - it was quite easy to get a young lady admitted to their care, and once there they would only be the word of the staff as to any other crimes and misdemeanours she might commit and thus earn her an extension of her sentence. Clearly the miscreant’s word would count for nothing in such an institution and the nearest I guess we can come in the more contemporary world is the asylum, where with the correct diagnosis the young lady can become a nonperson, whose words and accusations amount to nothing more than psychotic rambling and whose strap-blistered or cane-striped buttocks can be kept securely locked beyond the prying eyes of concerned do-gooders and ethics committees and the like.

Not to say that I haven't done a bit of work on volume 2 today; I've been working on the part provisionally entitled An Imposition of Uniform wherein, amongst other things, we learn in flashback something of Lavinia's aunts gradual introduction of school uniform for her near-on 18-year-old ‘niece’. The girl having finished with school quite sometime previously and taking a gap year prior to going on to university and her aunt in addition being very much a traditionalist and disillusioned with the school discipline and uniforms (where worn) of the modern era, the finished product, as it were, is very much a product of the woman's own devising (with the help of a seamstress friend) and not at all to her young charge’s liking. In fact, as the girl’s ‘aunt’ is fond of remarking, her design is a veritable “ confection of discipline” and although introduced gradually and piecemeal - overcoming objection one step at a time is, I feel always the best way - you can gauge our young heroine’s likely reaction from that remark well enough, I would imagine, without me giving away too much more.

Anyway, enough rambling for now, I will try and find a couple of suitable sample pics later and also add more yahoogroups to the YahooGroup resource list.

The Effects of the Regime: Some Pics From a Great Yahoo Group

Today I am going to have even less time than yesterday but I have had time to have a little nose through a Yahoo Group that I’ve recently joined while having my morning cuppa (tea of course – I’m a Brit). Called spankingdaughters2 (presumably there is a spankingdaughters1 group somewhere), I really can’t praise this group enough – I’ve only barely scratched the surface but already I can safely say that I have never come across so many pics in a group’s photo albums that I haven’t seen before (and I’ve seen a lot, believe me). I urge you – if you join no other group ever, join this one – and contribute some pics if you have any that aren’t there yet, so many groups have been promising but have fallen by the wayside through a combination of inactivity and spam postings. I couldn’t resist these three that I came across. I like to think of them as being titled as (1) Stepmother Climbs the Stair. (2) Stern Stepmum. (3) The Effect of the Regime. And as for these panties, what a great idea they would be - and it looks as if they might accommodate a diaper, latex knicker liner or absorbent towel if toilet retraining was the aim.

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By the way, The link can be found in the Yahoo Group section of the Resource List in the sidebar over on the right.

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…See you later, I'm off to the pub to try finish INSTITUTIONALISED volume 2 although I'll probably get sidetracked on to volume 3 again - I always though teeth braces were a good idea for an over-confident, vain and pretty young miss...but this notion of deliberately induced stammering that I have been going on about recently is just too exciting to put down - what do you think?

A Couple of Scans and a Loft Rummige

Just a quickie (no, not a hand shandy) today I am afraid: I finally got round to going up into the roof space and sorting out all my old boxes and junk and as a consequence I now have my entire collection of magazines and books to hand and will shortly be working my way through and scanning covers, pictures and interesting articles for your delectation and undoubted delight. Pretty much the first pass or a one wrapped contained two of my favourite ever books. The first is the well-known Elaine Cox by Richard Manton over which I have many times enthused; easily the best novel of its genre in my opinion and still available today over on Richard Manton’s site - it's all I can do to resist re-reading it right at this moment but there is a sale on at Woolworths and I want to have a few pints and is not really the kind of book one can sit in the pub reading.

The second came from the Delectus books (I think they are still going but I'm not sure) and purports to be a reprint of a 1930s original although I have my doubts I certainly haven't come across sight or sound of a genuine 1930s version. The blurb on the back says it all really - it is very nearly, but not quite perfectly up my tree. If you combine the two then you have a large chunk of the inspiration behind my book, in some ways I am merely continuing where those authors left off (or where they fear to tread, possibly), pursuing their ideas to the ultimate extent and introducing new ideas, interests and of course my own imagination.

Earlier this morning I was investigating and exploring a couple of new Yahoo groups that I have recently joined and of which I will speak more later - and update the Yahoo groups link section of the blogs sidebar accordingly (it is rather sparse at the moment but over the weekend you can expect to see it rapidly filling). I'm off now to the sales and then a few beers down at the local Wetherspoon's Sir So if you are in the Palmers Green area, stick your head in the local Wetherspoon and buy me a pint. By for now.

New Album Opened, Future Blog Plans and a Couple of Pics

Having run out of hand-written work to dictate into the computer, by far the most efficient way for me to work, volume 2 is very much on the backburner today. I don't have a lot of time today but what I do have is going to be dedicated to improving and updating the blog layout. I've made a start by creating an album dedicated to spanking magazine covers (see the sidebar).

A lot of these I've actually pinched from an online second-hand sales site where somebody is apparently selling off their entire 40 years worth of collecting, but quite a few I have in my collection and so it has saved me a hell of a lot of time scanning them myself. In terms of the covers shown so far I don't think I have anything in my collection that is not displayed. However I do have quite a few issues of Blushes, Whispers, New Uniform Girls, Strictly Uniforms and Uniforms International in my collection, as well as quite a few books, not yet shown but that I will be scanning and uploading at a later date.

This sort of thing I see as conserving for posterity as these old magazines and books are becoming rarer and rarer and so the more people that download and save them to their hard drives and other places the less chance there is of them disappearing forever - the seems little in the modern world that comes up to their standard, particularly when it comes to their often very imaginative and inspired letters pages. When ever I go to antiques fairs or boot fairs I am forever searching for old magazines and even newspaper articles pertaining to our interest.

It doesn't even stop there, my first working incarnation was as an electronics engineer and I have interests in amateur radio and vintage equipment so I have quite a few old radio and television magazines lined up ready to be scanned in. For example, I have some television and radio enthusiast magazines that amongst other things outline how to build your own equipment and that date back to the 1930s, almost to the dawn of television itself. Obviously these are destined for another blog and/or website.

Going back to this blog for a moment, I'm going to split up the resource list in the sidebar to provide for a separate list of interesting and relevant Yahoo! groups that I've come across in my travels - a good example is one that I found only yesterday and that deals with impositions and the writing of lines as a form of discipline. Unfortunately the latter requires certain profile information and a few lines about why one wishes to join the group (I really hate that sort of thing, why do they bother). I have a couple of profiles that I use and I inadvertently entered the wrong one, so I'm probably going to be rejected. But the groups out there are not restricted simply to spanking / caning; they can be quite imaginative and eclectic while still being relevant to the stuff I write and the general issue of discipline, with little thought anyway.

I intend to list them by name and / or content rather than the full URL as I think that is more informative and useful and one only has to click on the link to go straight to the YahooGroup concerned in any case.

The picture at the top left is a something that I picked up from the blog that I outlined yesterday; you will have seen it before from a different angle (from one on my magazine scans in fact) but what I love here is the little school desk and the suitably browbeaten expression that the young lady wears – as well she might given her age juxtaposed with the way she is dressed and obviously treated (that little desk says it all - clearly sweated over through many, many hours of tedious and repetitive line writing).

As regards to the designs of physical exercise school leotards that I was discussing a right about yesterday; some kind contributor (who wants to remain anonymous) has send me the picture on the right. One had to exercise a little imagination but I think you can understand the advantages of adapting this to the design of a leotard gusset - the problem lies in retaining the otherwise modest styling of the rest of the garment. I envisage the thing as being absolutely traditional, give or take the use of modern fibre types perhaps, other than that single feature (it is that juxtaposition between modesty and exposure that I think makes it so exciting – and humiliating to the wearer). Therein, of course, lies the problem; if the whole thing was devised as some sort of fetish wear and manufactured in perhaps PVC or latex in its entirety it will be self solving but as envisaged one has to deal with the problem of combining the qualities of these materials (or others with these same qualities) with more traditional fabrics - it comes down to the problem of bonding one material to another but I have at least one solution in mind I can't tell you much more without giving away too much of the plot.

Tomorrow I will be back to work in on completing volume 2 of INSTITUTIONALISED; hopefully the day will be as sunny as today is (we have clear blue skies in London at the moment) and I intend to visit several hostelries (pubs), pint, notebook and pen in hand - I'm hoping to fit in the Spaniards in,, in Hampstead at some point; it is wood panelled and historic and conducive to the imagination.

Enforced Physical Education, School Leotards, Spanking Magazine Covers and a New Blog to Check Out

Today before starting writing I have been doing a little research, looking for material on traditional school leotards, enforced exercise regimes and the like. As usual I have gotten sidetracked from time to time and although I am being strict with myself today I feel can alocate a small amount of time to following up leads if they look promising. One such led to a new Blog find: called The Aproved school, Uniform Discipline, Spanking and Caning. The content all seems to have originated from a magazine called Strictly Uniforms or one of its sisters from the mid to late 1990s so I can't help wondering if there is perhaps some connection with the publishers (click title to go take a look or peruse the blog list in the sidebar) - top left is an example cover for any that have not come across this title. Talking of magazine covers; I shall shortly be adding an album of scans of the covers of magazines I have in my collection, or have had in the past, and some I have come across in my travels across the web.


As for today's bit of research; well, so far it is a spanking magazine cover that has proved the most inspiring - this nice little offering from Janus (see right)...very atmospheric...very evocative, one wonders what strict training awaits her in that room. Then there were the training pics I found on the above mentioned blog. Lovely PE kit (see left) but the outdoor setting smacks of too much freedom, I prefer to envisage a somewhat more secure setting - away from prying eyes and well-meaning intervention. What I am really after now right now are some examples of the more traditional PE kit, that from that lost golden age of strict private boarding schools and reformatories, to guide my descriptive work.

Victor Bruno describes a suitable leotard-based PE uniform in his novel; Madame Vorge's Finishing School. It works, for me at least, so much better than straight nudity - nude PE undoubtedly has its place but will tend to desensitise the young lady to exposure, when what we are after, what we want to play on, is shame. We need to build on her natural reluctance to expose herself, encourage shyness - we are not trying to create a blatant exhibitionist here, proud to show off her body, quite the opposite. She should feel shame - and in spades. I am thinking along the lines of the traditional school leotard, quite conservative in its way; the sheer fabric I would select would do little to ameliorate the sting of an encouraging cane stroke across the full swell of the buttocks and of course there is nothing like a riding crop applied across the back of the thighs to discourage slacking (I always think the riding crop equates better to enforced PE than the cane or the strap, don't you?).

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However, saying that, I am investigating the plausibility of a transparent or semi-transparent gusset panel - the question is whether a suitable fabric combination would be realistic. A polythene gusset in a pair of PVC or rubber knickers or bloomers is realisable (as in INSTITUTIONALISED volume 1) but seems unlikely in the context of the type of fabric likely to be encountered in the traditional leotard...work goes on, I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, how about some thoughts and ideas?

A Nice Yahoo Group to Try and Some More of Hardcastle's Work Added to His Album

Having lost most of the weekend bogged down with attempting to book a Christmas holiday (it was going to be five nights in Rome now looks like being more like three nights in Windsor, albeit white opposite the castle) today has been completely dedicated to filling in the gaps in volume 2. I'm currently working on a series of flashbacks that illustrate something of Lavinia's life with the woman that she calls her aunt prior to her semi-voluntarily incarceration in the experimental research unit. It had been quite hard work because I have quite a lot of time to make up on, what with my recent computer problems etc, but it has not been without compensation in the form of some interesting discoveries made on the Internet while researching one or two details - the most fruitful, strangely enough, coming to light while researching some aspects of dress design and fabric handling (don't ask). Anyway, as a result of all this I come across a really quite excellent YahooGroup:

The Academy for Difficult Girls (just click to access and join) or click on link in the resource list in the sidebar. The best part is actually the files section of which I can particularly recommend the stories in Adventures at the Academy (I) and (I I) but is worth perusing all of the folders for stories: subjects covered include enforced diaper use, enforced age regression, orgasm denial (lots) supervised potty training for young adults and even what I would describe as de-education (i.e. young women learning to forget how to read and write for example). And, of course there are lots and lots humiliation ideas and possibilities - there was a lot to explore, and I've probably spent far too long this evening doing exactly that, I don't think I have ever spent so long on one group.

On another tack, I've just this minute added a whole bunch of Hardcastle illustrations, that I came across this afternoon on one of the Yahoo groups I was perusing, to the Hardcastle scans and downloads section of Spanking ArtWork Albums (see sidebar) - the most interesting of which to my mind is the story from Janus about the 22 year-old woman forced back to school and to take the role of a 17-year-old (see top left, click to enlarge - the rest is in the spanking artwork album for Hardcastle). While I was at it I just couldn't resist posting up another example of the great man's work; the deportment training he illustrates here always gets me going and one can easily imagine some suitable adaptation of it taking place as part of the regime imposed on one of the three small groups that constitute the institution's residential experimental psychology section - the Schoolroom Group regime would seem to be the most accommodating for this sort of training, I would think. One that I've added has had a particularly interesting caption added to it. (Click here) very much up my tree.

As for the photo I posted in my last entry; I had intended to begin to relate the real life story of a girl that my wife of the time and I had staying with us in the mid to late 1980s and the pic was to have been an attempt to illustrate something approximating to an early incarnation of what my came to call the girl's house uniform (sometimes, home uniform). I'm a bit too hard pressed to do it justice at the moment (although I have alluded to the relationship once or twice previously) and so when I get around to it I'll remove the pic and reuse it as and when (it's a 1960s Sainsbury's uniform by the way). As for the immediate future; I'll be tackling the stutter / stammer induction theme soon - I can think of little that would undermine a young woman's self esteem more thoroughly...so, so demoralising. Of course, having never been tried in an adult (and never likely to be in peer reviewed, ethics committee-monitored mainstream research) it is experimentally irresistible and a project perfectly suited to the more discreet (not to mention secure) environs of the institutions research unit. I have some nice ideas (one of which I am surreptitiously testing with my partner) but more are always welcome - how would you go about it?