Christian Domestic Discipline…On TV
There’s an obscure branch of the spanking community that you’ll stumble on if you spend too much time on the internet, like me. It’s called “Christian Domestic Discipline” and it features spousal spankings (almost always for the wife) in the name of fostering marital harmony. Google it if you like; I am not making this up.
You should know…just for the record…that Christian DD proponents usually claim that these spankings are neither erotic nor sexual; the man in such a relationship typically claims that he does not enjoy administering these spankings and receives no erotic charge from doing so, considering it instead something of an onerous but worthwhile duty. Spend much time reading the forums and kinky websites where erotic spanking enthusiasts hang out, though, and you’ll find these claims treated with friendly derision. Spanking people assume that Christian DD practitioners are, not to put to fine a point on it, fooling themselves — cloaking a bog-standard spanking fetish in worthy-sounding rhetoric, so they don’t have to “own” their fetish, even to themselves.
I give you all that background so that you’ll understand why I found this YouTube clip so entertaining. In it, Australian TV comic John Safran flies to Alabama to interview some Christian DD practitioners and learn about Christian spanking. He brings along pretty actress Kristen Condon so that he’ll have someone to practice his spanking on, and he conducts the interview with that pretension of sincerity that got Steven Colbert his start, but without so much biting mockery. The result is, to my eye, just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on Australian TV (which is helped by the fact that I’ve never seen Australian TV before):
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Thanks to Spanking Flicks for finding this.
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Yeah, and I’m a Christian, and I DON’T want to buy this!! lol
These people are just a little too SERIOUS!! Spankings should be fun, no matter what!!!
Bob.
I loved the fact that the wife was the one with all the spanking tips and knowledge….. topping from the bottom maybe? However I am very concerned about my Dom’s comment on the clip, as he seemed rather taken with the mans terrible shirt :O
Mollyxxx
Welcome to the South, Bacchus! Enjoy your stay!
You know, I must be the only person on this site who thought the Christian couple in the clip were actually kind of sweet. I mean, they let a camera into their home, they must know that most Americans will be mocking them because of their weight, and they were forthright about what makes it work for them (wether we agree with what “making it work” means or not). God bless ’em.
Lee #3, whuh?
Dude #4, I think you assume too much. Nobody here has had an unkind word to say about the couple interviewed in the clip…
Safran rarely fails to disappoint. He convinced the captain of the Australian soccer team to sacrifice a goat on the field they were going to play on, he’s been disciplined by buddhist monks (those guys whack with sticks Hard, and it’s All about punishment and error correction). It seems like (of course the clips were edited to show a narrative) that the wife was into spanking, the husband was happy to or had come to accept playing his part, and Kristen Condon was hilarious the whole way through :) I’m going to keep an eye out for her projects. I never thought I’d find something cool from my country so far from home, ty Bacchus.
Sorry, Bacchus, I’m jet-lagged and not writing very clearly. In my neck of the woods (the south), this is very normal. I know many (MANY) women who consider themselves to be very traditional women who consider their husbands to be put in-charge of them by God.
They obey them usually without question (I remember one conversation when I was an undergrad where one newly married young woman wasn’t allowed to watch her favorite TV show anymore) and expect spankings etc. for disobedience. And none of them talk about it the way we might (bondage, discipline, spanking, eroticism) even though I often wonder about that.
Does that make any more sense?
It sure does, Lee. Thanks!
Anyone wanna play “Six Degrees of Separation” with Miss Condon?
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I find it interesting that Kristen’s former boyfriend was Richard Wolstencroft, who ran several Australian BDSM nightclubs called The Hellfire Club, a cabal which was originally started centuries ago in Britain, and rumored to be attended by Benjamin Franklin who was allowed to go into secret hedonism and wenching areas of the club, to which only the specially invited were allowed (think Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”). The president of the club at the time, was supposed to be the Devil, and the last Earl of Orford, Horatio Walpole, a historian, once said that the members'”practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed…”
It has been said that the original club was closely tied to the Freemasons and was the equivalent in its day of the playrooms at Kink.com’s http://www.theu...r.com
Indeed the Hell Fire Club was founded in 1719 by two prominent Freemasons; the Duke of Wharton and George Lee, the Earl of Litchfield.
Ben Franklin himself was also a Freemason, and served as Grand Master of the Lodge of Nine Sisters. Franklin had a “chamber” named after him in the quarter of a mile long West Wycombe Caves where the Hellfire’s Inner Temple cave was located, some 300 feet below Saint Lawrence’s Church.
Hellfire member William Hogarth painted the face of Hellfire pal the Earl of Sandwich in a halo above the head of Hellfire co-founder House of Parliament member Sir Francis Dashwood, whom he was depicting in a monk’s robe as “Head Friar”, while reading the erotic novel, “Elegantiae Latini Sermonis”.
The modern day sandwich was named after him due to his asking for a slice of meat placed between two pieces of bread, so that he could continue gambling with one hand and wouldn’t soil his cards with grease as he played.
The Earl of Rosse was instrumental behind establishing the Dublin Hell Fire Club, and subsequently became the Grand Master of Ireland’s Freemasons.
Erotic spankings were one of the chief activities enjoyed by Hellfire members of olde…
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