Friday 8 January 2021

Horrible Histories: A Pennyworth of Salade Oil (Jonathan art manips)

I've been fascinated by corporal punishment for almost as long as I can remember. So needless to say, when as a boy I came across references to spanking/whipping/The Belt/The Cane in books or other media, it excited me in ways I didn't quite understand...
And there were A LOT of references. History books in particular seemed to delight in recounting what used to happen to naughty children (and adults) in the 'good old days'.
One of my most spanktastic sources of historical kink was the Horrible Histories, a series of children's history books that attempted to make history fun and accessible through jokes, cartoons and dark humour. They're actually very good, and they are also choc full of references to corporal punishment – so much so that I suspect the author or editor may have had an erotic interest in such things (or maybe they just knew many of their readers would have!)
The most interesting stories were usually tucked away in sections with names like 'Terrible Schools' or 'Vile Childhoods', with tales of young unfortunates being caned/strapped/whipped/birched and more by their sadistic elders... and I lapped it up!
I still find many of the fantasies these books produce to be arousing today, so as a tribute to the kinkiest set of history books in, well, history, here is a series of manips based on some of my favourite Horrible Histories:




The first Horrible Histories book I read was 'The Terrible Tudors', and on reaching the section on sixteenth-century schooling I was greeted by this glorious description:

Needless to say, after reading this, I lay awake many a night thinking of those innocent schoolboys having their bare bottoms roasted (and before too long, imagining myself in their place...)
This scene provides part of the inspiration for my first manip. You'll notice that I haven't attempted to give these manips a Tudor/medieval setting. Sometimes it's nice to imagine what it would be like if this sort of thing was still going on... perhaps society has decided corporal punishment is a good idea after all and it has been brought back (or never went away, and, like the amazing alternate universes of the classic British Spanking Magazines, is much more severe than it ever was in the recent past!)
I'm sure you're aware of (and maybe even attended) educational historical establishments where modern-day children get to sit in old-fashioned classrooms while their teachers strut about in caps and gowns swishing canes and trying to act menacing (I know my teachers did!) Perhaps a Finishing School trip to one of these such establishments has got out of hand, and the schoolmaster can't resist actually using the birch on one of the bottom-formers, much to the amusement (and arousal) of the bigger boys. Or perhaps the first manip shows an actual Finishing School, where the Master has decided to quite literally Bring Back the Birch!
I actually did some research into this Henry Peachum source, and it turns out that it was probably the prefects who whipped boys to warm themselves up, rather than the teachers. While this makes a little more sense, I certainly prefer the image of the sadistic schoolmaster towering over his unfortunate charges as he roasts their bare backsides for no reason whatsoever! (Though the original wording 'to get himself in heat' certainly conjures up some possibilities...)

After 'The Terrible Tudors' my education continued with 'The Vile Victorians', which contained a charming account of a family who did all their washing on a Sunday, so the children were always strapped by the priest at school on Monday morning for missing church!
And then there was this 'traditional Victorian motto': 'For bad boys, a yard of strap is worth a mile of talk!' Needless to say, reading such words had this particular boy squirming on my pampered bottom as I imagined it being repeatedly stung with a yard of broad leather strap!
The book 'Cruel Kings and Mean Queens' was absolutely packed with spanking stories, such as how the boy king Edward VI was thrashed by his tutor, and how the families of the German King Georges considered their English subjects to be a light touch, and how their palaces were filled with the sounds of weeping, well-whipped children locked in cupboards. The book also repeated the (apparently apocrypal) words of King George V, referring to a long line of harsh royal discipline (complete with an illustration of him holding a whip!):
'I was frightened of my father [King Edward VII]. He was frightened of his mother [Queen Victoria]. I'm damn well going to make sure that my children are frightened of me!'
I quite like the idea of Queen Victoria (a BBW domme if there ever was one) birching the living daylights out of all those poor little princes and princesses!
There was hardly a Horrible Histories text without some reference to spanking. Just look at these scenes from 'The Measly Middle Ages' (which showed it wasn't just the boys who had all the fun!)



Then there was this rather more fleshed-out story from the same book:


I just loved the unfairness of it... it turns out later that the schoolmaster was interrupted in fetching the birch twigs and does not punish anyone else in the class, so I always used to think of the unfortunate Thomas Abbot getting thrashed by his enraged schoolmaster for a crime he did not commit, getting it so hard the birch split and couldn't be used on any of his (no doubt smirking) classmates. Perhaps this could even be the setting of the first manip, though no doubt if that were the case the other boys would be looking a lot more nervous!
There's something so hot about undeserved punishments, and I came very close to using the Thomas Abbot story as the basis for my tribute (who knows what the bigger boys did to his poor ravaged bottom while the Master was out hunting for birch twigs... )

But there's still a whole lot that's unfair about the extract on which I did base my tribute. It actually comes not from Horrible Histories but from 'Wicked Words', a spinoff in the same style:

I love the casualness of the references: 'schoolboys were bent over a saddle and flogged', 'instead they'd get a beating from the saddle-maker'. They sound just like everyday occurrences... which hopefully they were!
It includes so many of my kinks – clearly, even as a boy I found the idea that a random working man could just thrash me for no reason to be extremely titillating.
It must have been a terrifying (and thrilling) time to be a youth. Literally any adult could bare your bottom for the harshest punishment on the slightest pretext – remember that these are BIRCHINGS that these (un)fortunate boys are subjected to!
And it raises the question of who exactly is sending these unwitting young men off to the saddle-makers? Their fathers? Stepdads? Big brothers? Schoolmasters? Wicked uncles? Neighbours? Men of the church?
Though perhaps a few of them aren't sent by anyone at all... I can well imagine myself as a curious, trembling teen, voluntarily visiting the saddle-masker and asking him for a pennyworth of salade oil...

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  1. Those were the heavenly days when any adult could bare your bottom for the harshest punishment on the slightest pretext.
    At the saddle maker' shop, one silly child expects to get some oil to pour over their salad. He not only gets a beating but is made to toss his salad, deep tongue penetration AND circular movements with his mouth. The fella then packs his fudge. :-)

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    1. Oooh yes! In fact I wonder if this is also where the phrase 'Toss the salad' comes from...?

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    2. According to UD, "tossing the salad" is a prison thing.
      Lower inmates are forced to lick the assholes of the leading inmates, but they put salad dressing (a process involving the ejaculation of semen on, in, or near a waiting rectum) on it to hide the taste.
      Hence, "tossing the salad".
      For instance : "Bend over and toss my salad, bitch."

      I read somewhere that "Toss my salad" came from an HBO speacial on prison. The seasoned convict was explaining what he would do to a new inmate in prison as sort of an initiation. He would get a packet of grape jelly and make the new inmate or "fish" smear the jelly in his asswhole and lick it out while he masturbated.

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    3. Mmm yes I have heard the prison definition (and have fantasized about being subjected to it many times).
      I hadn't heard the salad dressing thing though. Is it actual salad dressing, or semen? (though the idea of either is hot!)

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  2. What a shame they didn't use any of this source material in the TV Show adaptions of the Horrible Histories books... Sure would have loved seeing Mathew Baynton playing the role of Thomas Abbot receiving a most unfair spanking. ;)

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    1. Having googled the TV show, I can confirm that this would be a spectacular sight :D
      And I wouldn't mind seeing the lovely Sarah Hadland having her knickers taken down for re-enactments of birchings, beltings etc as well!

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  3. I can still remember having to take back nails and paint we stole from a house that was being built and I had to take it back to the builder, a hulk of a man that looked like he could tie horseshoes into knots. I stood there and explained why we stole the fort-fodder, and asked for forgiveness, all the while picturing myself across his knee while he wore out his thick leather belt on my bared behind. Which,in my day was entirely possible. What would have made it worse was my own father was cutting the lawn just three houses down, but wouldn't have heard my crying as I got it. Of course, it didn't happen. He gave us the guilt trip saying all we had to do was ask, and sent us guiltily on our way! I was probably twelve when this happened, but I imagined my well-deserved ass-beating across his knee for years after.

    When in the seventh grade, I read aloud a section of a story in our literature book. It dealt with life of the riverboaters on the Ohio canals in America. There was a fabled riverboater that had nales through his boots and he would stamp his boot onto the face of his rivals. The boy in the story comes up against the boat-boy of the fabled bully man. The boat boy tells our young hero to take down his pants for a spanking across his knee. I had to read this aloud, in front of all my classmates and I swear I turned ten shades of red as I imagined the poor boy's humiliation and fear! Unfortunately, the younger and smaller boy punches the startled bully-boy and actually beats him in the fight, as does his father to the bully-boater. That scene has always stuck in my brain and still fuels my imagination where humiliation is concerned, both the story and my reading it aloud to my class. I always wished the boy, out of fear, threw an ineffectual punch and then got his bare fanny shelacked while the bully-boater stuck his boot into the boy's father's behind, rather than his face, so father and son were left unable to sit a lick.

    The bully-boater would tie both father and son over a nearby horse rail and finish their punishment with a good application of strap oil to their bared behinds, leaving the well-thrashed hapless two to the imagination and lust of the next boat crew that comes along! How many boats would come by, stop and use the offered bottoms as a welcome pit stop. How many captains would add a touch of their belts to the offered two?

    Alas, you can't change history, but, my way would have been so much more humiliating and painful and so much more humiliating to read aloud in front of the girls!

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  4. Sounds like you got off lightly!
    And I think you should have 'updated' the page in that book so whichever boy got to read it next year had to regale the class with your excellent descriptions of 'strap oil' etc :D
    Love the idea of being tied up, belted and buggered by trains of burly boat crews, especially alongside a male relation!

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  5. BTW, I looked up pics of Miss Hadland, and I agree!

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  6. Oh man if only this were happening when i was a teen (and even now). Get sent off by parents to a workingmans shop where I'm roughly stripped naked for a sound spanking that leaves me a limp puddle of tears. Then the man/men of the place grip my swollen sore cheeks spreading them so that they can use my hole roughly. Not just as payment for the service, but to discipline me more and show me my place. I get sent home bare from the waist down red bottom out fr the world to see, cum dripping from my hole. Once home, parents inspect the handiwork, then satisfied just say, "Let that be a lessen too you."
    Alex

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    1. I know, even as a boy I used to imagine these sound birchings and more happening to me... I'm sure it had a big effect on my sexual psyche!

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    2. For me it's always been the strap or paddle. I for sure have an obsession with woodshed strappings (and sodomy), especially with being made t walk to the shed naked in plain view of the neighborhood or road so everyone will know whats happening.
      Alex

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    3. Presumably the walls of the woodshed would be thin and all the neighbours could hear your ordeal :D
      There's a pic by Jonathan I'm sure you enjoy featuring three guys being spanked in the woodshed as friends/neighbours watch through the window:
      https://spankingcuckoldandbi.blogspot.com/2017/10/jonathan-art-manips-staying-with-uncle.html

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    4. of course! then having to walk back to the house still stripped. sore bottom dripping cum on display for anyone to see.
      Alex

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