The story behind a Janus photo shoot

The beauty of the web is the way in which all sorts of things suddenly appear when you least expect them. Take these photos, part of a photo shoot for an edition of Janus which you can see here. Coming across these photos from the early 1980s on Richard Windsor's blog reminded me of the story behind the shoot, and what a story it is.

Many of the spanking magazines of the time faked their spankings, but not Janus. The model in this shoot had worked for Roué and asked its editor what he thought of the offer that Janus had made to her for a shoot? The girl had pound signs in her eyes, but the editor reminded her that the discipline would be real so she needed to be careful as she had never even been spanked by her father growing up.

The girl ignored the advice and did the shoot. By all accounts she became very distressed on more than one occasion as you can see in the photo below:

However, incidents like that were just added to the plot to increase the reader's delight.

Do you want to know the really charming bit about this story? To pay the girls their enormous fees, Janus used to allow selected visitors to pay to watch the shoots. On this occasion someone overdid it and it wasn't just mates who were on set but mates of mates. And mates of their mates. The girl became seriously intimidated by the heavy atmosphere, but the guys were added to the storyline as well. Someone came up with the idea of standing her on a landing and then letting all the men walk down  the stairs past her, feasting their eyes on her discomfort...

Say what you like about their methods, the Janus crew captured a very powerful set of photos that day.