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All the recent not-playing has left me with lots of time to read (oh, what a wild life I lead!) and I’ve continued on with my “Heinleins That Don’t Get Enough Attention” list. It seems I’m not the only one to realize what a great book Double Star is:

Whatever your viewpoint on SF, the fact that an award-winning book from a man generally named as one of the genre’s founding fathers (alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke) is so little known amongst otherwise knowledgeable cultural journalists says something about the way the genre has been marginalised by the UK press. Now that I’ve read the book, such ignorance also seems a shame.

The replication in question concerns an egotistical actor who is called in to act as a double for a political leader after the man himself is kidnapped. The actor (The Great Lorenzo) successfully performs a tricky diplomatic mission on Mars and is then called on to encore after encore after it becomes clear that Joe Bonforte – the man he is pretending to be – is unlikely to be able to appear in public again.

So far so simple. The story moves at a sharp pace, helped along by Heinlein’s slick prose and the kind of wry good humour demonstrated when he describes the multi-consonant names (Rrringrill) he has ascribed to his Martians as sounding like “a leaking faucet”.

In common with much of the best SF, it’s not just the scientific ideas that make this book worthy of investigation. History does too. The political concerns and philosophy that Heinlein chooses to project onto his imagined future also provide an intriguing barometer of his times.

The book’s impassioned pleas for understanding and tolerance with regard to Martian culture, for instance, might not make for a subtle allegory, but it is moving given the book’s context in 1950s America. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that a few of those impressionable teenage white males who comprised the books original target audience went on to stand with Martin Luther King on the Washington Mall a few years later.

And, here, finally, is the quote that this whole post is about!

As my father used to say, ‘Larry, you are too durned pretty! If you don’t get off your lazy duff and learn the business, you are going to spend fifteen years as a juvenile, under the mistaken impression that you are an actor – then wind up selling candy in the lobby. “Stupid” and “pretty” are the two worst vices in show business – and you’re both.’

Then he would take off his belt and stimulate my brain. Father was a practical psychologist and believed that warming the glutei maximi with a strap drew excess blood away from a boy’s brain. While the theory may have been shaky, the results justified the method…

The images in this post are from Northern Spanking Institute’s epic space opera “Schoolgirls In Space”, which you should go watch immediately! Heinlein would have entirely approved of it!

I’ve been doing a thorough re-reading of Heinlein’s juveniles and short stories — I usually just re-read the novels, and I realize now I’ve been missing a lot of Heinlein-y goodness, especially spankings! I have lots of good spanking quotes to share here, now, and I’ll start with my favourite!

From, Magic, Inc.
— One of his very few stories that features magic instead of reasonably “hard” science. The witch, old Mrs Jennings, has called up a gnome who has done some quite naughty things. Beyond that however, he is rude to Mrs Jennings — which this powerful witch just won’t take!

He answered sullenly, like an incorrigible boy caught but not repentant, in a language filled with rasping gutturals and sibilants. She listened a while, then cut him off.

“I don’t care who told you to; you’ll account to me! I require this harm repaired — in less time than it takes to tell it!”

He answered back angrily, and she dropped into his language, so that I could no longer follow the meaning. But it was clear that I was concerned in it; he threw me several dirty looks, and finally glared and spat in my direction.

Mrs Jennings reached out and cracked him across the mouth with the back of her hand. He looked at her, killing in his eye, and said something.

“So?” she answered, put out a hand and grabbed him by the nape of the neck and swung him across her lap, face down. She snatched off a shoe and whacked him soundly with it. He let out one yelp, then kept silent, but jerked every time she struck him.

When she was through she stood up, spilling him to the ground. He picked himself up and hurriedly scrambled back into his own circle, where he stood, rubbing himself. Mrs Jennings’s eyes snapped and her voice crackled; there was nothing feeble about her now. “You gnomes are getting above yourselves,” she scolded. “I never heard of such a thing! One more slip on your part and I;\’ll fetch along your people to see you spanked! Get along with you. By the great Tetragrammaton, get hence to the place appointed for you!”

I love it. The minute Heinlein’s not bound by the rigors of science, he uses the rigors of spanking to control the world around him. And hey, what is magic but “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will” — thus, spanking is magic!

In looking for an image to illustrate this post (for some reason, I could not find a picture of a little old lady spanking a gnome — I had to make do with a picture of a 1950s spanking!) I came across the best 1950′s spanking-on-television I have ever seen, down to the line, “And they love me enough to spank me!” Enjoy!

Recently, my friend Haron discovered the spanking references in Heinlein’s Glory Road.

I am happy to see more people discovering Heinlein and his little notes of of kinkiness. I’ve been a huge fan of RAH since I was 17 — and discovering a mainstream author (indeed, a “Grand Master” of science fiction!) writing so openly about spanking helped me more than anything else to come out to myself as kinky.

I’ve been re-reading The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and it seems I’d forgotten just how much spanking was in it!

There is a running flirtation between our protagonist, Richard Ames, and a younger gal named Gretchen, who is barely legal by the standards of her culture (Luna, in the year 2188). It starts with her being this young and continues while she grows up a bit (although she grows up in time/spaces at right angles from Richard, but you have to read the book to understand that!)

It starts out:

“Sir, you paid for the cones … and now, if you don’t let me pay you back, I’ll get that spanking. Because Mama will ask me and I will have to tell her.”

I thought about it. “Gretchen, I have trouble believing that your mother would spank you for something I did.”

“Oh, but she would, sir! She would say that I should have had my money out and ready. And I should have.”

“Does she spank really hard? Bare bottom?”

“Oh my yes! Brutal!”

“An intriguing thought. Your little bottom turning pink, while you cry.”

“I do not cry! Well, not much.”

Later that evening, Gretchen tries to get Richard to take her virginity (by asking “Mr. Richard, would you really want to see my bottom turn all pink? And hear me cry?”). He is “saved” by his wife, although she eventually concludes there is no better idea than for Gretchen to marry them. (Different mores, folks, although I think better ones in many cases!)

Later, when Richard runs across an older — and pregnant Gretchen, he decides he should marry her because she shouldn’t have her first child as a single parent. He uses an interesting method of proposing:

“I want to marry you.”

“You do? Why?” She sounded sad.

Things were too solemn, we needed some skid. “Why do I want to marry you, dear? To paddle your bottom and watch it turn pink.”

Gretchen’s mouth dropped open, then she grinned and dimpled. “That’s ridiculous!”

“IT is, eh? Possibly having a baby doesn’t call for marriage in these parts, but spanking is another matter. If I spank some other man’s wife, he might get annoyed or she might or both. Chancy. Likely to get me talked about. Or worse. If I spank a single girl, she might use it to trap me when I don’t love her and don’t want to marry her but was simply spanking her pour le sport. Better to marry you; you’re used to it, you like it. And you have a solid bottom that can take it. A good thin, too – because I spank hard. Brutal.”

“Oh pooh! Where did you get this silly notion that I like it?” (Why are your areolae so crinkled, dear?) “Hazel, does he really spank hard?”

“I don’t know, dear. I would break his arm and he knows it.”

“See what I’m up against, Gretchen? No innocent little pleasures; I’m underprivileged. Unless you marry me.”

Gretchen doesn’t go for it at that time, but it’s pretty clear from the book that it eventually happens.

I love the idea that these books are in libraries all over the U.S. (and Heinlein was translated into many languages, so really all over the world!) and that girls just like my 17-year-old self may be finding spanking through these novels. (And, as good or better, also being educated and excited about the idea of space travel and the sciences, and having their minds opened to different kinds of societies and ways of loving.)

There’s been memes going around the blogs like the annual winter flu is going around me and all my friends.

None have really excited me that much, but Graham has fixed that! Here is her meme. I’ve caught Graham fever — you can too!

1. Tell us your Kinsey rating! (That is, where you fall, approximately, on the spectrum of sexuality, with zero being “only attracted to members of the opposite sex” and six being “only attracted to members of the same sex.” Follow the link for the full breakdown.)

I’m a “3” but in interesting ways. When it comes to masturbating, most of my fantasies involve a male (or at least masculine) – but in real life, I’m far more comfortable with women. I have some male spanko friends I trust, but they go through a very fine filter. But I’ll make out with or plunk myself over the lap of … well, I shouldn’t say, “most women,” but my social sieve is rather less selective! Or perhaps women are all just “finer”!

2. Spanking / BDSM “type” that suits you best (switch, top, masochist, grand-master-wizard, etc.):

Mostly-bottom-switch. I get the most from receiving the spanking … but sometimes even I must admit that there are times when there is nothing better than warming up someone’s bottom!

3. Favorite blog / site of the moment (kinky/spanking-themed):

I’ll say Pandora, because I’ve been engaging in mutual stalking with her….

4. Favorite non-kinky blog / site of the moment:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/

5. Latest spanking fantasy floating in your head:

My fantasies get more and more extreme … until they reset to a simple one of being put over Daddy’s lap for a spanking. The default reset is non-sexual, but then the sex worms its way in … first Daddy puts a finger in my bottom while lecturing me on my bad behaviour (as Graham says, don’t ask where this stuff comes from!) … and next thing you know, I’ve worked up to being kidnapped by slave traders and “broken in.”

6. Blogger you’d like to spank / be spanked by:

As Graham is responsible for this meme, I think it only fair she pay for it by getting over my lap! But that’s for when we both are actually in spanking-distance of each other!

7. Age when you lost your (consensual, adult) spanking virginity — if this has yet to happen, give us a prediction or goal!

This is hard! I did some “rough sex” and roleplay in senior year of high school, and freshman year of college my open-minded boyfriend spanked me (he wasn’t really into it, but thought leaving red hand-prints was really fun!) and then my first BDSM scene was later, junior year of college. But I can’t say I was spanked by a proper spanko until I met my Master!

8. Favorite literary reference (excluding spanking stories!):

I find Heinlein answers for both spanking and non-spanking!

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

For Heinlein on spanking, SpankingBlog has my favourite spanking scene in Heinlein.

9. Strangest limit:

Cold water. I’d rather boiling pitch be poured on me!

10. Some Random Vanilla Trivia, in the grand tradition of memehood… Like, “what are you listening to right now,” or “what’s your favorite fruit,” or anything similarly banal.

“Leeds United” by Amanda Palmer. And any fruit except kiwi fruit, which I think is icky!

Happy is the me. Today marks the first day of my re-emergence as a real, functioning slave!

There is still a little work left to do for the evil jobby-job, but this weekend I am free to actually enjoy the weekend. Which means getting beaten a lot!
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