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The ‘Starship Troopers’ whipping
This is one of my favourite mainstream movie whipping scenes of all time: Johnny Rico’s military flogging in Starship Troopers.
It got to be my favourite because it was one of the best scenes I saw “in the wild” – that is, watching the movie with my friends, not knowing there was a whipping to come. I was in my early teens, still off-line, still hungry for any glimpse of a spanking on the screen.
And this scene provided, hoo boy, did it ever. I loved everything about it, and I still do: the tribunal beforehand, the fact that he undeniably deserves it, and that, in fact, the flogging is a merciful option.
The fact that the hitherto evil sergeant gives him something to bite on, with a hint that he too knows what the lash feels like. The fact that you see the reaction of his mates forced to watch the punishment – and also that it cuts away to the scene of his girlfriend having a riotous good time in her flight school.
It’s a goldmine of good stuff, and you only ever see a few strokes. A full spanking film has never had the same effect on me.
I couldn’t find a clip with the full tribunal, but here’s one I did find:
By the way, the ‘Starship Troopers’ book has even more corporal punishment stuff, but then it’s Heinlein; he can always be relied on to provide a good spanking scene.
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Perhaps I need to read Heinlein again -must have missed all those CP bits. Did you ever read the ‘Dancers at the End of Time’ series by Michael Moorcock? I can still remember my surprise when I read the scene in the last book where Miss Mavis Ming gets thrashed with a riding crop.
You can always rely on crazy Dutchman Verhoeven to make the best of a gratuitous corporal punishment scene. This is after all the director who gave us Rutger Hauer spanking Monique van de Ven in “Turks fruit”.
I agree that the whipping scene in “Starship Troopers” is great (pretty much the only good thing you can say about the movie, really). Too bad that it’s not a woman dishing out the punishment. I’m not so homophobic that I find MM action “repulsive”, but as a hetero male, I still can’t get into it like I could into watching an FM scene.
I wonder what it’s like for you, Adele. You obviously like seeing men as the victims of corporal punishment, which is nice – I’m starting to like you more and more. But does it make any difference for you who holds the lash, or cane, or whatever? Would you rather watch a man, a woman, or doesn’t it really matter as long as the scene itself is good?