Quitting spanking – and returning

Last Sunday, Bonnie over at My Bottom Smarts asked:

Have you ever decided to give up spanking? If so, for what reasons? Did you expect to walk away forever or did you anticipate a temporary abstinence? Why did you return?

Well, I started my reply, but then got to busy to get it up in time, so I’ve finally finished it, and I’m posting it here.

I’ve known that I was kinky since earliest memory. But when I was about twelve, I renounced everything “weird” about me, because I wanted to stop being a geek, bookworm, and general nerd, and become “popular.” One of the “weird” things I rejected about myself was the sexuality I had always somehow known was “different.” So I decided that I would be straight, vanilla – I started reading romances to give me an idea of how to be “normal” sexually. (I’m not sure that was a very good plan – in a very non-feminist way those books are kinky in their own way!)

Happily, when I was 17, my friends sort of conspired to “out” me as kinky to myself. One friend gave me “Exit to Eden,” for my birthday. Another gave me “Venus in Furs.” And the girl I had my first crush on one day brought in a pair of handcuffs to school … and when she put them on me, I felt so horny I could have popped!

Even so, I fought it a bit. I was worried that if I started getting off on pain, “I’ll forget how to get off on pleasure.” (Don’t ask me where I got that idea! And, happily, it hasn’t been the case. Sometimes when my Master and I have vanilla sex, I’m overwhelmed by how good vanilla can be!)

So it wasn’t until college, after my first reading of Pat Califia’s “Macho Sluts,” (I skipped all my classes, stayed in bed and read and masturbated all day!) that I fully accepted that I was a full-on, no holds barred pervert.

So I spent about 6 years in denial of some form or another. Happily, this didn’t really interfere with too much of my adult life … but if I look back and think that instead of doing risky “mostly-safer-sex” (I was really only concerned about pregnancy – considerations of herpes or genital warts or other STDs just didn’t even enter into it!) I could have just been getting spankings – like in some Blushes story, where an Older Gentleman steps forward to protect, educate, and discipline a young lady, sighhhhh – it does make me wish I’d never sworn off it!

My Master had his own period of renouncing spanking. As a young man, he had built up quite a collection of Janus and Blushes magazines. He’s not here for me to ask him exactly what age he swore off spanking, and threw them all out, but it was before his 30s, I’m pretty sure. You can hear the regret in his voice when he talks about the magazines he simply discarded – some of which he has not been able to replace, in the years since he reclaimed his kinky sexual birthright.

Both he and I thought we were “walking away forever” when we made our choices. And we both returned because we had no choice. I had good friends who forced me to confront my desires, my core-self. He moved to the US and discovered spanking parties and being able to go to dungeons and pay nice ladies to lay across his lap.

And thank the gods of CP that we both allowed ourselves to accept that part of ourselves – or we probably would never have met!

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2 Responses to “Quitting spanking – and returning”

  • Graham Graham says:

    I find it hilarious that your friends outed you to yourself — and at 17! My friends certainly didn’t know what was up… Or maybe I was just more guarded : )

    But it’s interesting that you renounced kinkiness for being tied to weirdness and geekiness. I’ve been reflecting lately on the reasons I felt ashamed of my sexuality, and I think that has a lot to do with it. It was never “I’m ashamed to be turned on by spanking” — hell, people we call vanilla admit to being turned on by it all the time. But it was admitting *how much* I’m turned on by it; the fact that “normal sex” just isn’t as fun to fantasize about, and a full-day of costumed roleplay is what I call a good time. In my mind, spanking was embarrassing like being addicted to Dungeons & Dragons would be, not as a dark sexual deviance. (My apologies to any D&D fans I may have just outraged!)

    My strategy was to assume I’d grow out of it; that didn’t work, so now my strategy is stalking kinky British people. That seems to be going well : )

    Man, thank god your friends were such perceptive teenagers!

  • Paul Paul says:

    Zille, the very thought makes me shudder. :(
    Think how much poorer kinkdom would have been if both you and your Master had kept to your youthful resolves.
    I am so very glad that you both returned to your senses, is such a timely fashion. :D
    Love and warm hugs,
    Paul.

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