The Punished Princess

Chapter One-2

Then the teacher administering the punishment would select an implement and prescribe a dose of painful medicine. Standard teachers’ desks had a hook on each side from which hung paddles, a leather one on the left and a wooden one on the right. These devices were widely distributed throughout the kingdom, and consisted of oval business ends the size of a large man’s hand tapering down to round wooden handles eight inches long. The strictest teachers chose to have a hundred holes drilled in each of their paddles, which enabled trapped air to flow through the device so that atmospheric molecules would not in any way cushion the impact between punishing leather or wood and tender buttock flesh.

Classroom spankings were doled out in doses of a hundred swats per buttock. Aliquots were prescribed based on the severity of the infraction, such that talking in class would be a single century, failing to do homework a double, and talking back to the teacher a triple. Students generally started out their spanking with legs pressed tight together in a vain attempt to restrict the private regions between them from classroom display. But inevitably, within a dozen or two brisk encounters between punishing wood or leather and rapidly reddening skin, such concerns would be hijacked away. Miscreant minds would then be intensely focused on the painful intersection of implement and target of chastisement, where all concentration would remain throughout the course of the spanking. Thus, youthful reproductive equipment, including its state of arousal, would be prominently displayed between clenching and trembling bottom cheeks for all to see.

And this was where the mating dance was enacted. When young women openly misbehaved, usually by talking back in order to earn the longest spanking possible, all involved knew that the real purpose of the trip over the desk was a s****l display. For in Absynthia, women who became aroused in the course of their regular punishments were deemed to be particularly desirable as partners. And so in the final years of education as young people were pairing off, teachers cheerfully participated in the competitive display of mature female backsides for the elucidation and inspection of desirable local swains.

And the young men, on the other hand, would at times ‘volunteer’ for their version of erotic display by misbehaving. In their case, it was by showing off a cute manly rear end that barely wriggled while enduring treatment that every female avidly observing knew would have her shouting and flagrantly displaying her charms. Of course, a peep at a substantial ball sac between those clenching moons could not hurt the case of the young man, though his c**k was usually not on display. The exception to this rule would be gay youth. They behaved much as the females did, including requiring restraint and flagrantly demonstrating (though by erection rather than engorgement and lubrication) arousal from their plight just as Absynthian women. And their intended gay male audience could be counted on to find a way to get closer to sissies who put on the best shows.

All of this flirtation culminated in the final year of compulsory education for Absynthian youth, so it was the last time when all of the local young people would have regular contact with each other. All of the boys, of course, would be undergoing basic military training the summer after graduating upper school. There they would be inducted into the militia units, they would do drills one week end a month for the next twenty years. This afforded the kingdom a well-trained army of over a million men instantaneously available in the rare cases when need arose.

The cultural celebration of sexuality of all forms had a few iron-clad limitations drilled into all Absynthians in their required catechism from earliest memory. “Love as Thou Wouldst” was very firmly taught to imply overt willingness on the part of all involved in any erotic act. That meant that rape was considered a capital crime, and those convicted of it were summarily executed. The Priests and Priestesses of the Holy God were adamant about this, that there was no place in civil society for those who would force s*x upon an unwilling other. Before Absynthians came of age, there was tacit encouragement to release s****l energy through m**********n. And after coming of age, as we will see there were ample opportunities provided in the venues of public punishment for any sexually starved citizen to get his or her needs met.

The other hard and fast limit about s****l expression ceaselessly taught every Sunday was that no citizen was mature enough to willingly consent to any form of s*x until he or she entered adulthood. This belief was repeated from earliest memory in every Absynthian’s weekly moral education until it was deeply implanted in young people’s minds to restrict their erotic forays to that which could be accomplished without the removal of clothing. The Priests and Priestesses of the Holy God who administered this rule in their flocks were not simple minded; they knew that in a highly eroticized environment, adolescents were going to be strongly tempted to have s*x no matter how powerful the interdict. So there was an unspoken understanding that young people who were willing participants could satisfy each other’s genital needs through clothing.

And the penalties for violating this rule were severe: public spankings ten times as long and hard as any classroom punishment. Violators of the rule could count on being bruised for over a month after their ordeal. These sessions were one of the venues where the reasons were demonstrated for Absynthians to have faith in the reality of their Holy God. For He had granted to his acolytes special powers that were incontrovertible proof of his power and direct willingness to influence the lives of those who believed in Him.

Priests were granted the charism of discernment, enabling them to sense the truth of any statement unerringly. Thus, when a miscreant was questioned regarding his or her crimes, any male acolyte of the Holy God would surely sense the truth of the matter. As a precaution, Absynthians of all ages were used to monthly counseling sessions with their local Priest in which they would be asked very matter-of-factly about their sexuality. In this way, developing problems could be spotted early and educated against. But in the rare cases when prohibited underage s*x was not nipped in the bud, the truth of what had transpired would be sniffed out and thoroughly revealed by Priestly discernment.

The special powers bestowed by the Holy God on his Priestesses were an even more convincing demonstration of His beneficence towards his chosen people. Female acolytes of the Temple were blessed with the amazing charism of Healing: the ability to lay on hands and immediately make better any ailment or injury that was not certainly fatal. This ability was so profound that, unlike the surrounding countries who worshipped different deities, there were no apothecaries or physicians in Absynthia. Surgeons did a business in setting broken bones and disinfecting and closing and stitching wounds, but all other ailments were cared for by the Priestesses who were enjoined to heal anyone who sought them for treatment. This meant that virtually all citizens of the Kingdom enjoyed healthy lives of nearly a century in average duration before they died natural peaceful deaths.

When a Priest had determined that prohibited underage s*x had taken place, a Priestess was informed and the pair of ecclesiastics escorted the miserable culprits to the public punishment stocks nearest the upper school attended by them. The sinners would be all too aware of what was in store for them, having witnessed previous violators face their consequences each year as was required of all students, ‘pour encourager les autres’. The bell would be rung a dozen times, many more than when the bailiff would announce the chastisement of an adult, signaling that miscreant young people had violated the strongest prohibition in their culture. Even the most jaded of connoisseurs of the piquant gyrations of naughty buttocks undergoing well-deserved chastisement would come running to get front row seats for this particular punishment. But most importantly, the local student body to which the violators belonged would be released from class and carefully shepherded by their teachers to this most serious of lessons.

Once all of their audience was in place, the unhappy couple would have their sins announced, and then suffer the mortifying fate of being stripped naked by the Priest and Priestess in front of the entire assembly. Then they would be led to the paired stocks. There the top halves would be raised while the miscreants placed their necks and wrists in the padded slots, after which the upper stock would be lowered and locked in place. Then their ankles would be guided to the shackles bolted five feet apart behind each stock, where the sinners’ final position for the next agonizing hour would be secured as their lower limbs were inescapably imprisoned in a wide straddle. The fate of the lovely youthful naked bodies was now truly sealed now bent at the waist at a right angle with buttocks delicately parted and the offending organs clearly visible to their entire audience.

Special paddles were employed by the ecclesiastic pair for this solemn ceremony. It was believed that this most serious of underage violations of the Holy God’s law must be addressed more severely than the daily infractions students were quite accustomed to being spanked for. Thus, larger and heavier paddles made of the hardest wood and pierced by a hundred holes were employed, delivering a far more painful impression on these most extremely naughty buttocks than any other implement they would have felt. The Priestess would wield one paddle with her dominant hand standing to the miscreant’s left, her usually larger and stronger colleague using his off hand standing on the other side of their target. This would ensure a relatively even punishment of the bottom in question.

These special punishments were delivered in units of a hundred simultaneous spanks to both of the sinner’s bottom cheeks. The paddles were swung full force, much harder than most parental or classroom spankings. So the miserable culprit’s quivering and clenching backside would be a dark red shading into the purpling of outright bruises by the end of each dose. Once a century of spanks had been delivered, the demonstration of the Holy God’s tangible approval of the proceedings would take place. The Priestess would lay her left hand on the frighteningly battered bottom she had just participated in tormenting, and a glow of sacred light would surround it as it was healed and restored to its pristine state. She would openly pray, “By healing this miscreant, you will be confirming your approval of this chastisement.” And then the entire process would be repeated until a full thousand spanks had been delivered. After the last dose, no healing was done, and the bruised, quivering buttocks were left on display until dark, when the Priest and Priestess released their culprits at last.

Those who violated the Prohibition would live with these effects, as well as a month’s penal confinement in a moral and ethical re-education school in which their quivering bottom cheeks would receive daily morning ‘refreshers’ almost as enthusiastic as their original penalty. And as an additional humiliation, every afternoon of that month both offenders would be taken to each of the other upper schools in the Kingdom in addition to their own, where they would explain what they had done and what had happened to them before receiving another less fearsome regular spanking in front of each student body. By the end of this penance, every young person in the kingdom would have seen this graphic demonstration of the consequences of not controlling their libido until they were of age to do so. As a result, the s****l molestation of Absynthians not yet of age was quite rare in the Kingdom.