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Why Blogging Is A Good Thing For Models
You know how last week we discussed whether blogging by models was going to advance the cause of feminism?
Just a few days after that I read this post by the writer Elizabeth Bear (read her books!), and I’m going to usefully quote it for you. She writes:
The internet is not just going to change the nature of entertainment. It’s already changed it. … But the internets are interactive and remixive and discursive, and moreover, you can walk right up to me and talk to me on them. … If I really needed to, for any reason, I know where to find musicians, television producers, actors, writers, game designers, programmers, essayists, artists, graphic designers, architects–and talk to them in person.
The reason that works, of course, is because the celebrities (loosely so termed) that one knows on the internet are suddenly real people.
You can see how this works for the spanking industry if you compare the experience of watching your old tapes (say, my personal favourite Room 2D) to what it’s like to watch films by the people you can chat to online.
You can go onto a forum and talk to Tony and Eve of Shadow Lane, or even the Lupus people, who try their hardest to speak English to you. If you can’t contact the producers, who may have way too much correspondence to deal with, you can read their responses to other people, their interviews, reports of the people who’d met them at parties and exhibitions.
This concerns, of course, the models as well. In this regard, it doesn’t make any difference whether a spanking model’s blog is personal or strictly commercial: even if she posts nothing but pictures and rates, you still have somewhere to talk to her. The woman behind the blog is suddenly alive.
Bear continues:
…Fame, the kind of fame that separates famous people from the hoi polloi, as it were, is a funny thing. Not only does it turn the famous person into a construct, it turns them into a slate that the fan can project all sorts of things into. How often have you gotten disappointed at a celebrity because her political views weren’t what you thought they should be? I know I have. And damn, you know. Why do I think I get to do that? I don’t pay Claudia Black to have her politics match mine. I pay her to kick ass in tight pants. Let’s be honest here.
But that’s the thing: that’s this weird psychological trick of displacement and transference, where you take somebody you don’t know and you attach all this emotion to them. And it’s harder to do that with somebody who’s just this guy you know on the internets than somebody who is a princess in a tower.
And voila. To return to last week’s discussion and Pandora’s point: it’s much harder to make a case for spanking videos being abusive, when you have the writing by kinky models, saying how much they enjoy being tied to a bench and whipped, while pretending they don’t want to be there. It’s also much harder to keep thinking that fetish is all about the male participant, when there are women everywhere writing about their own kinks and turn-ons.
If you happen to catch a spanking model, chain her up in your cellar and make her blog. ‘Cause that’s what a real feminist would do.
Punk Rockers on Domination
“Dominated Love Slave” by Green Day is a pretty old song, but I haven’t heard it before. They sure do have some interesting ideas about SM…
Or are they just taking a mickey out of masochist wannabes?
Decide for yourself.
A Fictional Spanking Model
As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, I’m having some computer troubles, which means I can’t upload the usual Friday picture. Ah, well… Extra photos next week, I think.
In the meantime, I’d like to talk about a fantasy of mine that I don’t know if anybody shares.
See, I like blogs written by fictional characters. Not, I’ll hasten to add, fake blogs by people who pretend to be something they’re not, but those that are honestly introduced as a work of fiction. Like Lowewood, the blog written by students and staff of a fictional school, or Shadow Unit, a site for a non-existent TV show.
For a long time I’ve wondered whether it wouldn’t be a lot of fun to create a site for a fictional spanking model, chronicling what’s going on in her fictional life. Obviously, it would be an endlessly kinky existence, complete with incredibly steamy shoots, hot parties and gossip-fests with fellow models. There’d be some photos (the role of the fake model and her friends being played by some real actresses, obviously), and maybe a home video or two…
Am I the only pervert who thinks such a site would be really hot, or does somebody else like the idea?
Anybody want to sponsor its creation? Anybody want to play the fake girl? ;)
Feminist, Model, Blogger
Pandora Blake has posted an interesting treatise on feminist porn, spanking movies, and the role of blogs in advancing the cause of feminism.
While I recommend that you read the whole thing and engage in discussion on her blog, I’d like to go off on a tangent, and do some thinking out loud.
Pandora writes that sexual equality in spanking porn can be reflected in a spanking model’s experience of a shoot, and suggests that it is through blogs that progressive porn-makers can make themselves heard:
It’s okay for porn to feature women being hurt and degraded - but in material this edgy, it’s crucially important that everyone involved in the film’s production explicitly and actively consents to the content of the film. The desires of the models, not the desires of the characters, becomes the crucial factor…
…And that’s where blogging comes in. A lot of spanking models have started keeping blogs writing about their experiences and explaining what they get out of it. It’s not just a good way of finding out more about your favourite spankee. It’s absolutely essential if we want to promote spanking porn that is progressive, focussed on real-life sexual equality and not only on male agency and desire.
And here’s me, going off on a tangent: Just any model blog a feminist platform does not make A model’s (or any sex worker’s) blog may very well be an extension of the on-screen act. While it makes business sense for a girl to keep portraying herself in writing as a cum-loving nympho whore a naughty girl who needs her bottom smacking all the time, hard, by you personally - it hardly advances the cause of feminism.
There are two types of model blogs. There are the “See the Girl, Not Just the Bottom” bloggers: those of us who use our writing to impose our opinions on the unwilling world, and then there are “shopfront” blogs, used purely for the model’s marketing purposes and communication with clients. (And then there’re blogs that are a bit of both, but even a tiny feminist platform is a platform nonetheless.)
And that’s OK. Telling people how they should use their blogging and what they should write is rude and pointless. If we made a swift poll of how many models wanted to carry the banner of feminist porn, the majority wouldn’t be in favour of agenda-driven blogging, and hey, nobody could make them risk their carefully created image for political ends.
All the same, I wish there were more models’ blogs that are personal rather than commercial; sincere rather than self-serving. It’s the former that help build up an image of women who make informed choices about their spankings and acting.
I believe that in the long run, even the women who couldn’t care less about the politics of spanking and porn can benefit from the visibility of strong, sincere bloggers. It would be nice if there were more of blogs like that.
Sailor Moon Spanking
I can’t decide if this little spanking is cute or creepy.
Cute? Creepy? Indifferent? What do you think?
P.S. According to the original YouTube poster this has been cut out of the English version of Sailor Moon. Now that’s definitely creepy.
One of My First Spankings
In a fit of nostalgia I was going through my archive of spanking photos, and I’ve come across this ancient picture, from when I was a newbie. Not my first spanking, for my first partner didn’t take naughty pictures of me, but it’s from one of the earliest spankings I got.
In fact, I’m pretty certain this was taken during my first birching.
Oh dear, all downhill from here :)
Russell Brand’s Two Schoolgirls
While I was away, a news story has been doing rounds about the comedian Russell Brand spanking two 16-year-old girls in his hotel. Here’s Sunday Mirror:
As Flash Harry in the new St Trinian’s movie, he loves to surround himself with gorgeous, pouting schoolgirls. And as a real-life self-confessed sex-addict, Russell Brand has never been over-fussy about who climbs into his bed.
So when two beautiful teenage fans turned up at a book-signing session in sexy Santa outfits, Brand wasted no time inviting them back to his luxury hotel for a night of fun.
As soon as they got back to his £800- a-night suite, he lured them into the bedroom, lifted their skirts - and spanked them.
Russell Brand doesn’t often make me laugh, so I’m not a big fan, but as far as tabloid spanking exposes go, I have rarely seen anybody come out of one so well.
Let’s see: the girls, judging by their own words, were out to catch his attention. They were the first to bring up the idea of spanking. He had the right idea to check their ages, and looked at their IDs to make sure they were legal. (Granted, by the time he did it he might have been in trouble already, but at least he did check.) When they didn’t want sex, he stopped and cuddled them all night.
And after all this, the spanking didn’t even hurt.
I’d like to know where the scandalous tabloid scoop is in all that. OMG, celebrity takes groupies back to hotel. Big deal.
Maybe next time he should spank them harder.
P.S. I may be the last person in the UK to have not seen the new St Trinian’s yet, but that’s fine: I’m going to see it with a friend in London today. (She’s seen it twice already.) I’ll report next week.
Paddled by the Principal
Mr Haze keeps telling me to watch the film “Dead Poets’ Society”, and now I understand why he thinks I may like it…
I think I’ll get that DVD.
Tan Lines: Yes or No?
I’m back from holiday, munchkins.* I’ve had a peaceful, restful time, which involved plenty of tanning, though for the most part not of my bottom. Not with implements, anyway.
Although I have had plenty of opportunities for nude sunbathing, I have chosen to keep my swimsuit bottoms on for two reasons.
Firstly, I like to have a reference point of how my colour is changing. And secondly, results of a spanking are so much more noticeable on clear untanned skin; I wouldn’t want to confuse Mr Haze by not reddening as much as usual. Just in case he decided to spank me harder. We wouldn’t want that, would we?
However, I haven’t been back for that long, and already two people have expressed their dislike of tan lines. Not my tan lines in particular (I mean, who would be rude enough to say “Hey Adele, you’re looking so much worse than before you went away, mate, what’s with the tan lines?”), but in a general sort of “tan lines are so unattractive on a naked girl” way.
Me, I’ve just never thought about it.** How about you? Do you have a preference - in spanking films, or when you play in real life?
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* I’m jet-lagged off my head.
** The only thing I can’t stand is orange fake tan. Ewwww.
Holiday Spanking Gallery - 6
(The picture comes from this free spanking gallery)
