The Punished Princess

Chapter Two-1

Chapter Two

Public and Private Punishments

In fact, the local culture of Absynthia extolled the virtue of the application of painful attention to naked buttocks in many more circumstances. In the center of each town or neighborhood (in larger cities) and of many businesses (as well as the upper schools, as recounted above) was a carefully constructed stone dais. Atop of this was installed a wooden stock in which miscreants would face the consequences of their violations of local ordinances. Once a magistrate had ruled that punishment was in order, the offending party would be escorted to the dais and have their neck and wrists placed in the stocks and secured for the duration of their prescribed dose of chastisement. The bailiff, who always seemed to be quite enjoying his job, would then pin up the voluminous skirts and petticoats of the usual female subjects, or pull down the pantaloons of much rarer male offenders. He would then ring a bell next to the stocks that summoned the population to enjoy the proceedings. Once the excited crowd had gathered, all would then enjoy the ceremonial lowering of smallclothes to reveal the naked bottom whose travails all were soon to observe.

The magistrate would then arrive, carrying with him the implement he had prescribed for the administration of the penance that he deemed the crime warranted. Given his stature in the community, he would be afforded the first chance to wield that device against its helpless targets. The standard dose for the least heinous crimes was an hour in the stocks. Each magistrate well knew that his re-election would depend in part on him not hogging all too much of his punishments, especially of the more attractive miscreants. And so, most wise occupants of that office would allow themselves only a few minutes of time to initiate the spanking of each convict. But those who sought this job tended to be citizens who took particular delight in the gyrations of naughty buttocks at the beginning of their ordeal. Thus, the paddle, or strap, or switch that was prescribed could be counted on to be wielded with particular vigor during this first dose of each spanking.

Magistrates and bailiffs also had culture-wide carte blanche to parlay their official designation as community ‘chastisers of record’ in a more private venue. There often were women who had not found partners but were shy or otherwise unwilling to publicly misbehave and earn an evening in the stocks for their neighbors to enjoy their naked bottoms. Likewise, sometimes wives had husbands who were unable or unwilling to give their partners this particular sort of attention that so many of the women in the Kingdom were conditioned to enjoy. In some cases these chastisements were required in order to achieve the ultimate erotic gratification that the Holy God promised His adherents. In these cases, a discreet word to a bailiff or magistrate could ensure a private consultation in the home of the female in need of such attention. There the woman in question could be bared and bent and punished just as much as she needed, following which there was almost always mutually satisfying s*x between the chastiser and his grateful victim. The men in these roles considered this to be a public service they were duty bound to offer so that no female citizen in the Kingdom need forego having her naked rear end spanked and pleasured if she so desired.

One of the reasons that taxation rates were so low in the kingdom was that for the right for ‘next licks’ after the magistrate in each public punishment, citizens would take part in a lively auction that would entitle them to ply the implement prescribed for each five-minute dose of the usual hour. The bidding was conducted by the bailiff after the miscreant’s bottom had been bared, so that audience members would have a graphic look at the prize they were competing for. And in the case of more desirable subjects, each increment of opportunity to administer the spanking could net many florins for the communal coffers. Of course, the chance to publicly spank the naked bottom of a neighbor was a delightful outlet for all manner of minor grudges. Expert opinion in the kingdom asserted that this escape valve was part of why the crime rate was so low compared to neighboring countries in which this practice was not followed.

Absynthian culture was unabashedly sexist, in that males were accorded dominion over females. Wives were expected to be obedient to their husbands, and it was well understood that lapses in this requirement were best dealt with in the culturally prescribed corporal manner. While the details of marital discipline might vary in small ways from household to household, the general pattern was quite similar. Any flouting of male authority would result in immediate punitive action. Since most men found it even more reprehensible to be spoken back to by a wife in public, all felt justified in administering the accepted consequences of such misbehavior publicly as well. It was considered seemly to add the humiliation of being spanked in front of others as an appropriate additional consequence for shrewishness.

Thus, even when the magistrate was not in session, it was not at all unusual to find a suddenly repentant wife being led to the stocks and fastened in place after which her man would ring the bell. Most husbands carried leather paddles hooked to their belts for just such occasions, but if not, there was always a community paddle made of wood hung beside the stocks. The miscreant woman, sometimes continuing to complain or object (and thereby no doubt earning additional spanks) would have her skirts fastened up and tied in place by convenient strings universally sewn onto the back of her bodice for just this purpose. Then down would come her smallclothes, revealing her naked bottom for all to enjoy. Most would, of course, hold their legs primly together at the start, at least feigning a hope to avoid displaying their hidden charms to their neighbors. But once hard leather or wood began colliding with tender buttock flesh, all thoughts of modesty would sail away and the entire enthusiastic crowd could enjoy a quite lascivious show during the course of the ensuing punishment.

Because of the undesirability of this scenario for the majority of wives, they managed to restrain their expressions of rebellion to their own households. And thus, there was a particular piece of furniture that was a part of the trousseau for almost every blushing (soon to be literally, at least in their nether cheeks) bride. It was termed a spanking horse, and its appearance in the gifts at most weddings was an occasion for hoots of enjoyment (mainly from male attendees) as onlookers imagined the recipient’s first trip over the device. Of course, older women celebrants might also feel a certain sense of revelry at the thought of the usually much trimmer posterior of the bride receiving its just desserts arrayed upon the identical piece of furniture over which every older wife would have made frequent painful (but usually ultimately pleasurable) excursions.

The classic Absynthian spanking horse was made out of the excellent local hardwood, usually black oak. It was modeled after a standard saw horse, with sturdy two inch round wooden dowels forming the legs at each end. They were seated at a forty-five degree angle in a four-inch diameter dowel of the same wood, which was always exactly five feet long. All surfaces were finely sanded and stained and polished, so that no splinters would be driven into squirming bodies bent over the device. The horse’s feet were each equipped with four brass screws each to be driven into the wooden flooring of the room in which the device was placed. This was regarded to be necessary since members of the Absynthian race tended to be tall and strong and physically responsive (both generally and erotically). Women receiving marital discipline, even if restrained (as was usually the case since some of them had troubles cooperating with their punishment once it was under way) often bucked and thrashed considerably while taking their painful medicine. Thus, securing the horse to the floor would ensure that every spank would land exactly where aimed.

All spanking horses came equipped with short lengths of soft rope attached to the bottom of each foot as well. These were more often than not used to secure the occupant’s wrists and ankles to the device. This would free her to focus on experiencing her husband’s careful attentions to her bare bottom without the distraction of managing her temptation to resist the proceedings. Men enjoyed debating in the local taverns as to whether it was better for discipline to put their wives in bondage for their punishments, or to require miscreants to restrain themselves under threat of additional doses of spanking. The latter was thought to be a demonstration of a higher degree of male domination, which was universally lauded by both genders as the proper order of things.

Also under lively debate was the location of this key piece of furniture in each man’s household. Traditionalists tended to opt for placing it in the living room of the house right in front of the fireplace. There the wife’s just desserts for failing to properly submit to the will of her lord and master could serve as an example to all family members and guests, or even neighbors who might be invited in to witness the event for their evening’s entertainment. However, a more radical (and to the minds of the traditionalists, dangerously licentious) segment of husbands enjoyed the erotic possibilities of their wife’s well-punished naked bottom bent over the horse. For these spouses, the placement of the horse in a public space could cramp their style if youngsters were present. The coming of age laws meant that there was a strong taboo against exposing offspring to adult genital sexuality.

And in fact, a surprisingly large fraction of wives seemed to find s****l arousal around their culture’s fascination with the spanking of female bottoms. This fact was made all too evident by the moist and swollen state of the organ between their legs during chastisement. That place was flagrantly revealed once their smallclothes were removed and their ankles either held or bound wide apart to expose as much as possible of their buttocks for disciplinary attention. Husbands who found administering their spouse’s necessary discipline to be an erotic condiment would tend to place the family’s spanking horse in the bedroom. There, once punishment had been properly administered, s****l enjoyment could be taken of the conveniently available parts in privacy. Of course, if a family could afford it (which was most often the case in such a wealthy Kingdom); there was no reason not to install a horse in both the bedroom and the parlor. That way the master of the house could choose on the spot which venue would best suit his purposes.

Other traditions existed around public punishments, some of which were designed to deal with more serious private sins. If a woman had been found guilty of s****l infidelity, for example, this was regarded as a particular threat to the community because it undermined her husband’s authority as well as threatening other women’s relationships. Thus, a special penance was deemed appropriate to exact when a husband suspected such a transgression had been committed and his wife admitted her guilt (disputed cases would go before the magistrate for his adjudication, ending in the same circumstance if he confirmed her culpability). In all cases, the offending wife would be brought to the stocks after sundown, and when full darkness had descended. This was symbolic: transgressions committed out of the Holy God’s daylight were to be punished for the entire duration of darkness, so her comeuppance would only end with the following dawn. She would then be stripped and placed in the device, her nude form bent so her breasts would dangle free to make them available for chastisement as well as the rest of her naked body. In these cases, the two rings implanted in the dais certainly would be employed to bind the miscreant’s ankles in a wide straddle, rendering her rear end and inner thighs even more accessible for their impending travails.

Once all these arrangements had been made, the cuckolded husband would light four torches sited around the dais and place upon a table an array of implements he had chosen for his straying spouse’s lesson in the consequences of poor s****l self-control. These would include additional paddles to the simple wooden municipal one always hanging from its hook at one end of the stocks, straps of varying widths, riding crops or switches of different thicknesses, and sometimes various styles of whips. Once the instruments of her impending ordeal were displayed to the penitent wife, she would be blindfolded so that she would not know the identity of the perpetrators of any of the less-than-pleasant outrages about to be visited upon her naked bent and bound body. And finally, after all was set, the offended husband would give a single ring to the punishment bell. This would signal to all within earshot this special opportunity to participate in a particularly piquant ritual of domestic discipline, one that could be quite gratifying in many ways.

If the offended husband so decided, he could offer those who volunteered to assist in his wayward wife’s punishment more than just the chance to inflict a spanking to any part of her bound naked body that they chose. Some spouses felt that the punishment ought to fit the crime, and that a woman whose sin was s****l ought to pay a price for her misdoings in a similar coin. If this option was elected, then in addition to the spanking implements placed on the handy table, a pot of butter would also be left awaiting attendees. This signified that the miscreant’s back passage was made available to any men who chose to enjoy that orifice after they had slaked their appetite for punishing the body made so totally available for them. Of course, the normal channel designed by the Holy God for such purposes was off limits, in order not to promote additional infidelity or further complicate the issue of parentage of any offspring.

The husband’s sovereignty over his wife being so central to Absynthian values, whatever crowd gathered to participate in the chastisement of an unfaithful wench would await her lord and master’s pleasure before accepting his invitation to join in the fun. Some cuckolded men would simply stand back and allow their friends and neighbors carte blanche to gratify themselves as they wished with the naked body of the miscreant. Others would begin by inflicting their own spankings on whatever parts of their mates that they pleased, perhaps even including a good lusty rogering of the available backside as the crowd looked on approvingly. And how the community responded to this opportunity varied quite strongly according to the identity of the wayward wife in question.

Of course, a woman who had been perceived as uppity in any way would be in for a particularly rough time if her neighbors were given this opportunity to have their way with her naked helpless body. As well, even though Absynthians in general were unusually fit and attractive people, every community always had some particularly desirable females. And when one of these happened to stray, the word would spread like wildfire and unusually large crowds would respond to the late night chime of the punishment bell. Then the men would delight in their chance to witness a body they had long lusted after as it writhed in the throes of its well-deserved torment. As well, they were enthused to take their turn in inflicting a good spanking to whichever part they chose (let alone sodomizing its well-chastised back passage if the butter pot had been left out).

But their fellow women who had felt slighted by or less attractive than the straying wife were the ones such beauties had the best reasons to fear should their lack of self-restraint lead them to this unfortunate circumstance. Any wife who had been the object of envy or resentment could expect her most agonizing punishments from her peers. After all, who could know better than another woman how to inflict the most pain and humiliation on a female body? The men were, of course, aware of this fact, and would often start off the proceedings by hanging back to enjoy the show as their wives and girlfriends clustered around the miserable miscreant. Vengeful females would form groups of six or seven, each bringing her favorite paddle or switch, and would parcel out choice bits of the poor shrieking victim. One punisher would take each breast, each buttock, each thigh, and the most fervent often targeted the very organ between her legs that had most enjoyed its owner’s infidelity. For women subjected to this form of punishment could expect their poor vulnerable and flagrantly exposed p*****s to come under particularly withering fire, especially from the females whose husbands might have enjoyed (or even wished to sample) that particular extremely sensitive place.

Once her threatened peers had slaked their thirst for punishing the offender, the men would then queue up to take their own turn at enjoying the now all-too-well-spanked body at their disposal. In general, the males tended more to limit their deportments to the chastisement and ravishment of rear ends, though an erect c**k would frequently gag the cries usually emanating from the victim’s mouth. A particularly desirable miscreant could expect to have her bottom spanked and f****d by every male in the community, and to suck a good fraction of them off during the proceedings. Only then would she be left to spend the rest of her night in the stocks, miserably enduring her aching body’s aftermath of this most severe of adult punishments. Once all the women had their fill of tormenting their blindfolded rival (who would never know who was responsible for what outrage perpetrated on her poor breasts or bottom or thighs or p***y), their men would be taken home to sate their wifely arousal from observing their husbands’ enjoyment of the available backside. The torches that had illuminated the entire proceedings would be quenched, casting the sobbing and throbbing miscreant into darkness.

But then, once all had retired and the naked culprit had been left alone to contemplate her sins for the entire night, another open secret would play out. Males and females who fancied eating a well-spanked p***y would quietly arrive to take their turns kneeling between the abused thighs of the miscreant and licking her to endless orgasms. This could be seen as some kind of comfort in her woe, or as a more subtly sadistic assertion of power to make her exhibit this most private of responses even in the depths of her public humiliation. As well, women who delighted in having their own p*****s eaten would raise their skirts and present that part to the mouth of the miscreant. She would be well-advised to provide good service lest the wooden paddle be taken up again and put back to painful usage. Come the dawn, the miscreant wife would be collected by her husband, and she would be forgiven by both him and their community, all parties satisfied that justice had been served.

The early establishment of proper marital discipline was so important to Absynthian culture that it was ritualized into the marriage ceremonies. There was some dispute about this, as traditionalists preferred for each new bride’s inaugural spanking and subsequent f*****g to take place in privacy. Of course, this ceremony was ideally conducted within earshot of the celebrating revelers who would applaud the now undoubtedly blushing new wife’s cries of pain and eventual pleasure once her husband had enjoyed both punishing her buttocks and plowing her p***y. But more salacious bridegrooms opted to conduct one or both of these marital rituals in full view of the wedding party.

And what red-blooded Absynthian of either gender would not enjoy watching a beautiful bride bent over her own inaugural spanking horse, wrists and ankles splayed and tied. Voluminous wedding skirts would be tossed over her blushing head, ceremonial smallclothes ripped from her bottom, and her lovely young bottom spanked to a bright blushing red. How even more piquant to the crowd around to watch her lusty bridegroom’s sizeable c**k (a standard feature of local males, thought to be a gift of God in honor of his patronage of the race) enjoy her sweet young p***y for their first marital coitus as he f****d her to many orgasms to the delight of all present. Even better (in the minds of the salacious) were those daring husbands who actually stripped their bride before binding her over the horse. That way all present could have no doubt as to every iota of the charms he was now entitled to enjoy at will for the rest of their lives together.