The paddle has an already established reputation as a tool of punishment in schools, and brings to mind immediately crime and punishment, and the authority figure who will wield it. The paddle is also a common instrument in marital spanking, and one of the ones you’d least like to meet. There are husbands who use the paddle as their common instrument of discipline. Others like myself, acquire one to use only for the severe punishments, due to its severe reputation, weight, and heaviness. Unlike some tools, such as the belt or the hairbrush, the paddle is specifically designed to deliver punishment to the bottom, and does so with tremendous success. A hard paddling definitely deserves its reputation as the harsher end of punishment.
The smaller paddles, such as the one I own, are used alternately well with a wife over the knee, or bent over. It is easy to control, and aim, but carries the hardness and heaviness that makes it a fearful tool of correction. I can use it quite hard with the shorter swing of otk, or deliver a wide stroke which is well-controlled if my wife is receiving it bent over the bed. Larger paddles are more easily used of you are standing, and would be awkward if used otk. You also have to exercise more control with your swing, to avoid the possible dangers of hitting the tailbone, or anywhere else undesirable. This is not hard to avoid, and I’ve never had problems with it, but it’s good to note that being a harder tool than others, the paddle requires focus and attention to use safely.
The traditional paddle is wooden, and can be made of a variety of different woods, including bamboo. Today you’ll see a number of synthetic materials used in paddles, and even a few that are soft and flexible. I don’t have much interest in these. Maybe I am attracted to the tradition behind it, or to the classy look of the wood grain. Most paddles you see used or sold for spanking purposes are still wooden. The paddle also comes with the option of being made with holes through it, which are to increase the airflow, and allow it to move more smoothly and quickly. I don’t think you’ll find the difference between a paddle with holes and one without is great, but you may still have a preference. I think of some extra nasty marks of the one with holes in it. Whichever you choose, it is a solid piece of polished wood.
Unlike the belt, which I’ve written about for its aura and its efficiency, the paddle immediately communicates punishment to anyone who sees it. No one has to guess what that’s for. In that way, it may help prepare a wife for her correction. The sight of it lets her know formal discipline is coming, and she is under the correction process. Although it’s less popular today, the popular psyche remembers the paddle as an instrument of school punishment, and the formalities involved in going to an authority figure to be corrected. In some schools, students are still paddled, often by the principal. Remembering this spirit of correction can help a woman receive what is coming, since like other things a husband does during discipline, it helps establish authority and submission. The paddle reminds her what the setting is. It helps her get in the mood.
Along with a establishing a spirit of formal discipline, the paddle also carries a certain fear factor with it. This may help soften a wife’s resistance, and help her to be contrite in accepting her punishment. It reminds her that she is fully in her husband’s hands. He wields the paddle with her. A healthy sense of fear can be very good, as we do not speak of abject terror here. Only knowing that this instrument is powerful, and very undesirable to feel. It is harder and stronger than she is. She is going to have to answer for her wrongs now. There is no way to fight it.
When my wife sees the paddle sitting out, or when I tell her to fetch it, she knows the matter is serious. She likely already knew that, but she knows much more deeply when she knows she will receive it. Like with other instruments, I will have her hold it for me as I lecture her. She can feel its thickness, weight, and strength as she prepares herself for her coming correction. I do not use it often, as I keep it for the most serious offenses, but it is one she actively wants to avoid. Its power helps her know the seriousness of her wrong, and helps her as a deterrent, to remember to listen to her husband.
One thing that I like about the paddle — and it’s not my first choice instrument — is how it contrasts with the woman I am correcting. You might call it the antithesis. It is very different from her, and when she runs into it, she has met her match. Where a lady is soft, and curved, the paddle which corrects her is as hard as could be, and perfectly straight. Her backside gets flattened by it right away, from the first stroke onward. You might say it will straighten her out, or put her back on the straight path. It also contrasts with her character. Where a woman tries to get what she wants with making excuses, or being imaginative with words, the paddle is simple, plain, and blunt. it speaks as plainly as a man usually does, and tells her like it is. A woman might try and get attention to herself by being flashy, but the paddle is without adornment or articles of attraction. It is the blunt truth. I find the harsh contrast of the paddle and the lady a part of its success in changing her. Like with her husband, if she thinks to misbehave, she run up against her match.
I remember one of the first times I used the paddle. I was disciplining my wife for putting the children in harm’s way. That’s something that always earns the paddle, along with direct disobedience. We had sent the children to play at a family member’s house, so I had her to myself for a good, productive session. She stripped and went naked over my knee. There is always something startling in seeing the contrast between a wife’s soft, tender flesh and the paddle. In seeing the bottom you usually caress and squeeze upturned next to a hard block of oak or maple wood. There is a minor shock in knowing that her beautifully curved body that lies limp over you is going to taste a solid, square paddle. You strike to a loud thwack on her backside, and continue to apply the wood — thwack, thwack — as you lecture. It is an instrument that makes her gasp from the first stroke. It applies searing heat on her soft bottom — not only on the surface but well underneath — and sends shockwaves up and down her body with it. She comes quickly to tears. Some instruments swing, or are soft, or bend when you swing them. This is far from the case with a wooden paddle. It does not bend to a woman. She will bend to it.
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