Posts Tagged ‘17th century’
An unusual tune
No doubt this has been seen before but it was new to me. Dopisy V Krajkach (2000) seems to have been a Czech TV drama about the decadence in pre-revolutionary France. The main thrust of the drama, so to speak, seems top be the writing of literature upon the naked bodies of the ladies of the […]
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Tags: 17th century, music, pony girl, spanking
“I like you, but you western men are all too soft.” This was said by a comely Russian blonde in the back of a taxi. Then turning round in her seat to display her ample round jean-clad bottom, she said, “this is a good Russian arse. Only a Russian man knows what to do with […]
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Tags: 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, domostroi, domostroj, domostroy, marital spanking, public spanking, real life spanking, Russian marriage, whipping
The birch and its domestic use
The birch has a long history as an implement of punishment. It times past, before the so-called Age of Reason in the late 17th century, the boundaries between home and the workplace were blurred and so too were the relationships and boundaries of the family. Even into the 20th century in England, employees were sometimes […]
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Tags: 16th century, 1700s, 17th century, 1800s, 18th century, 1900s, 19th century, 20th century, adult daughters, birching, can't sit down, corporal punishment, daughters, domestic discipline, Edwardian, governess, humiliation, public humiliation, spanking, spanking adult daughters, Tudor, Victorian
