#548 - Spanking Quarterly No 2 Spanker's Quarterly 5 2
Spanking Quarterly, Number 2
Bilife Publications, Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1968
digital replica
Spanker's Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 2
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1974
digital replica
Spanking Quarterly, Number 2
Although it may have been printed in the US as stated on the title page, Spanking Quarterly was probably conceived in Canada. Spelling and rhetoric reflect British styles. Also, retailer A. Brooks, who advertises on two pages, has offices in Toronto. Bilife Publications are associated with Gordon McCausland, who collaborated with Leonard Burtman during the 1960s.
The booklet consists mostly of letters that describe experiences, preferences and beliefs about spanking. Most stories tell of women getting spanked but men also endure the benefits of palm or hairbrush. Accounts claim that spanking brings people closer together. It's all friendly and polite.
The back cover provides this summary:
SPANKING QUARTERLY is a collection of selected excerpts on spanking, whipping, corporal punishment as a means of effective discipline. Includes many, many case histories —
TEACHER TURNS TABLES
CONVENTION SPANKING
MASOCHISTS ARE NICE PEOPLE (novelette)
A PROXY SPANKING
CIVIL RIGHTS
CANING WIFE SPANKER
SPANKING PROPOSAL
HUBBY'S HARD TIME
SYMBOLIC SADISM
The last 30 pages consist of an essay about feminine sadism by Dr. Magnus Hirschfield. He quotes Virginia Woolf, Krafft-Ebbing, the wife of Sacher-Masoch, Havelock Ellis and others and illustrates his ideas with case histories.
Dr. Hirschfield opines —
The symbolic sadism of women constitutes one of the most remarkable aspects of sexual pathology. No other perversion is so firmly rooted in the individual’s general character or pervades all the ordinary activities in like measure as the mental sadism of women. Feminine sadism is invariably totalitarian.
We have seen that in many cases perversion in men and women affects character to an inconsiderable extent or not at all and is, in fact, a comparatively isolated phenomenon. But the woman sadist is a sadist through and through and her sadism is the dominant factor in her professional, as well as in her social and sexual life.
It follows from this totalitarian attitude that purely symbolic sadism must be far rarer in women than in men. The psychological urge to dominate and subjugate is, in women, rarely satisfied with symbolic acts alone, and generally manifests itself in physical maltreatment and torture.
The text has been re-set for the ebook iteration. Few changes were made to the text, but spellings were changed to American. 16,000 words.
The ebook contains all content of the booklet in the original sequence. This includes covers, a policy statement and advertising.
The publication presents five ink illustrations that picture scenes in the prose. In the ebook, these are placed near corresponding text. Brightness and contrast of illustrations were adjusted. Pictures appear clear in the ebook, with smooth edges.
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Spanker's Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 2
A magazine of 64 pages, this Eros Goldstripe publication presents six pictorials showing spanking between women and men. In two of these “Foto-Features,” women spank men.
As most models wear underpants, little nudity is revealed. Pretty posers appear in panties, garter belts, hosiery and knee-high socks.
Many hairbrushes accomplish discipline tasks, but palm, leather slappers and a wood paddle are also used.
A short story involving caning and sex has a Victorian setting. Introduced by a Bill Ward illustration, signed as Satana.
A lengthy essay titled “Love Spankings: A Better and More Satisfying Love Life?” explores the history and psychology of spanking. The writer quotes Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex, A. S. Neill's Summerhill, Krafft-Ebbing, and others. Illustrated with photographs.
This obscure reference discloses a surprising moment of punishment implement retail history:
There are certain "spanking aids" that have been developed to heighten erotic responses. In the book, The Sexual Extremities of the World, Dr. Iwan Bloch relates the story of Theresa Berkley and her invention in 1828 of a device known as the "Chevalet." She ran a house that was famous for flagellation and Dr. Bloch tells us about her supplies:
". . . Her arsenal was much richer and better equipped than her competitors' and her stock of rods was unusually large. They were always kept in water to insure their suppleness. She had whips of a dozen lashes, a dozen cat-o-nine-tails equipped with nail heads, various sorts of lithe switches, leather straps as thick as wheel spokes, horse curry combs, oxhide straps grown stiff from long service in flagellation and studded with nails, prickly holly and an evergreen prickly bush, called butcher's brush.
During the summer, she always had on hand glasses and Chinese vases filled with green nettles, by the aid of which she would revive those who had lost consciousness . . . ”
The ebook contains all content of the magazine, including advertising. Page sequence was revised to obtain continuity of the two prose pieces.
Some walls, floors, empty margins and borders were cropped out. A few page layouts were revised.
Pictorials were photographed in studios set to look likes apartments. Professional photography presents sharp images with few unpleasant shadows.
Brightness, contrast, and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. Pictures transposed to ebook format with clarity.
All new scans.
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