When my Aunty finally let me get up she made me stand in front of her holding my skirt up to my waist, so she could look at my reddened bottom. “Yes,” she declared, “that should teach you to behave like a lady when next we go out with you dressed as Bryony. Well, young lady, are you going to say sorry for your behaviour or not?” When she went to catch the bus now, it was wiggle of a young woman. Even the man with the bowler hat who sat in the same seat every day started to smile, and greet her with a tipping of the hat. She had no idea that he began to see her differently, she just assumed it was cordial familiarity with a regular person he saw on the bus. It had not been long before that wonderful occasion that we had played the exciting game “Show me yours and I’ll show you mine”.

That said, women expect their panties to come down. It’s not a big deal for them. Men seem to think taking panties down is like getting to third base in HS. When I got home from school that day, my mother questioned me about the matter and it did not take long for her to obtain a confession to, in her opinion, a misdemeanour worthy of ‘six of the very best!’So I did a slow turn around so that they could both have a good look at me in my outfit. “Well, Bryony, I must say that you do look the part. You could pass for a girl anytime, ”said Joan. “Do you like wearing girl’s clothes and have you enjoyed wearing them in town today?”

Over the next half hour I see her look over four times, and catch her every time. Poor girl, she is feeling all nice ‘down there’ and is dying to come over, but daren’t. I put three magazines in a brown paper bag, with my business card, and service card.I know that is a bare faced lie, your punishment has increased AGAIN!!” Think carefully, if I have to prove it is a lie, I will cane you before the whole school, you will receive twelve strokes on the bare, in the theatre. I ask you again…was it you young lady?” Karen liked the strange feeling she felt (in a certain in a certain intimate area) at being exposed. My mother was a schoolmistress in a small village primary school in Scotland in the 1950s, when the tawse was considered a piece of equipment essential in the maintenance of classroom discipline. It was not surprising, therefore, that she was an enthusiastic practitioner of corporal punishment not only in school, but also in the home.

Within three days my parcel arrives by courier, and she takes it to her summer house, which has a very private room. The most common comment these men make on a picture of a woman being spanked, it that they would make her bottom much redder. The second place comment is that her panties need to come down for the spanking to be effective. Both comments stem from viewing spankings as a punishment. OBB readers well know that we don’t spank for any reason other than it turns us on. So when any element of punishment is introduced we may not be interested. I can think of at least two other examples of a spanking scene shown on British television where the girl had her skirt deliberately raised to be spanked on her panties. They were both transmissions of the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée, where the heroine's pantomime dame mother (played by a man) puts her across 'her' knee, turns up her skirt and petticoats and, in some performances, gets a few slaps in before the punishment is interrupted. This was broadcast in 1962 with the original cast of Stanley Holden and Nadia Nerina, and another version with Ronald Emblen and Lesley Collier was shown in 1981; the latter is currently available in Britain on video and DVD. Of course, this was high culture rather than 7.30 lowbrow sitcom, but it does show that panties spankings were not completely unbroadcastable!To which my Aunty replied with a wink and a knowing smile, “Starting tomorrow your Aunty Enid is going to teach you some grown up games to play. Now off to bed with you, it’s late and past your bedtime. I will be up in a while. I have to clear up a few things before I come up. You can sleep in Sheila’s bed tonight, don’t forget to go to the bathroom before you go to bed.” With that she gave me a big kiss and a hug and made me go to bed. Sir John tells us, in very enjoyable detail, that the spanking scene happens right at the start of the second episode of the series, that Roberta Rex lies across his knee herself for other purposes (rather than being put there for a spanking), and that Jewel seizes the opportunity to spank her with his hand. The sobbing didn’t as the heat sank in, and pain exploded, she just wailed and wailed.”Now up you get… and straight to bed young lady, AND stay there… Once you have stopped crying I don’t want to hear another peep out of you…do you hear? Or you will be going over my knee again… Okay it’s done!” I hear nervous breathing. I have the hook baited, I know it is dangling tantalisingly in her mind. People say I have a nice, soothing, calm voice. Karen got out and some involuntary action told her to stand to attention. Anything good right now, might stop the severity of what was to come.