Guest Posting: Early Janus Days

The following came as an e-mail from Leslie, and I reproduce it in full as a guest posting. If you have a good memory to share with us, then please sent it to strictuncle@gmail.com.

Not sure why I have come late to your blog but maybe I am blinded by the sheer volume of material on the t'internet. Not all good it has to be said.

 However your blog has lightened my day by reminding me that there are people out there who remember the days when our appetite was only fed monthly by way of carefully purchased magazines from a quiet backstreet newsagent!

Your historical input, though aimed at informing the youngsters (under 50!)....has given me a good smile or two.

Being a little older than yourself, I have been 'at it' since about 1969 and can put some further detail to the pre-Janus (as many know it) days. Things started off in about '72 with an A6 photo booklet called "Search" which catered for three distinct fetishes, Rubber, Leather and CP.

 A spin off in the same format called "Mentor" appeared which as you indicated only ran for a few issues, still covering the three fetish topics and running in parallel with "Search". This was still being produced in the A6 format before the name changed over to "Janus" again still in the small format. Soon Janus produced three "specials" in the summer of '73 which catered for the three fetish main interests, however the spanking edition outsold the other two several times over. Thereafter Janus was about one single topic and one topic only.

In 1974 Janus introduced a larger format (the same size as the three specials) for the magazine approx A5 or just a little larger. It's content was a mixture of photo's, stories and most importantly the "readers letters" section which I believe fascinated an entire generation of readers, in fact it drew in those who had seen those spanking letters to Penthouse magazine back in 1967. A further three spanking specials were produced, bringing the reader additional and perhaps a more highly tuned version of the monthly output. In the late 70's the format was changed to the final A4 style which remained until its recent demise. All copies were identified by Volume and Number, until a re-vamp saw the system re-start at Number One. Until that point I was the owner of every single copy of these magazines that had been produced, as a personal collection, including all the "specials". At this time I had split somewhat acrimoniously from my long time girlfriend, a well spanked and caned girlfriend she had been too. I was threatened with being "outed" and so to protect my professional life I somewhat mistakenly parted company with this collection, for next to nothing (no E-bay in those days).

 Once things had settled, I recommenced my collection starting with the larger format versions which were re-numbered to start at "One". I still have all these magazines, together with the notable additions of "Roue" and "Blushes" and their spin-offs. I noted your views about how the printed article finally gave way to the internet but there was also a secondary element.

We started to see the the world change, whereby some fetishes were being squeezed by the onset of the sort of the sort of sexual fascism that is present today. The written content was changed to reflect only the consensual and to all but eliminate any reference to childhood or youth. One look at a 1970's Janus would have many of today's twittering classes go running for the hills! The changes started to make the magazines look sanitised and bland just like the US influenced 70's mags like Corporal and Sting (later to be a sister product to Janus for a while). However, much of the content of the earlier magazines is unlikely to be found due to the moving conveyor belt of acceptability, as we all swerve down the route of officially trashing the 20th Century and all it gave us, having fought long legal battles to overcome censorship. (God help DLT). I wonder how much will end up in the "secret" section of the British Library... Perhaps all of the Janus "members only" paper pamphlets produced in the '80s along with the Eric Wildman pamphlets from the early fifties.

Your blog has indicated where some of the earlier material can now be found, scanned in, for internet users to view. Although "Uncle Peter's" site seems to have vanished, some Blushes stories can be found under Mr Whacker.

Please feel free to cut and paste any of this information and comment to your blog. Time passes very quickly and one wonders just what I am to do with my large quantity of printed material from times gone by! Regards Leslie

Peter Hooper, Disciplinarian, 1928-2012

 

Peter Hooper has died from lung cancer at the age of 84. He was one of the more famous disciplinarians, noted for his portrayals of strict headmasters who are forced to unleash a dose of corporal punishment to the recalcitrant.

In real life Peter was as socially conservative as he appeared on the small screen and was a strong believer in the smack of firm government. Born in Manchester in 1928 he entered the Royal Navy just after the Second World War, and remained in service until 1960. He then went to work for Sainsbury's in South London, remaining with the firm until his retirement in 1993.

He began attending Kane spanking parties and became known as the man who would volunteer to run the small stall selling magazines at those events. Then he started attending the Moonglow parties and it was following one such pleasurable afternoon in 2005 that he offered his services to the company as an on-screen disciplinarian.

To say that he took to it like a duck to water is putting it mildly: Peter revelled in whatever stern role he was allotted to play and it was noted that many an experienced submissive would swallow hard when she discovered that her bottom was going to be attended to by Peter Hooper:

Peter starred in several Moonglow and Kane videos, but was quite happy to appear in a small company's video, just so long as there was a insolent young madam who needed taking in hand.

Off-screen this lifelong Conservative married twice and is believed to have a daughter who he had not seen in many years. However, little is known about that aspect of his life as Peter was not a man who ever wanted to rake over the cold ashes of the past.

With a drink and cigarette in hand he was genial and avuncular, but give him a cane and a naughty female backside that was in need of attention and he became the headmaster of any schoolgirl's nightmares. It is in that role that he will be long remembered.

Peter Hooper, born Manchester, 28 May 1928. Died in London, 13 December 2012.

A professional submissive reports...

I was chatting the other day to a pro-sub named Belinda, who reported that guys are increasingly booking sessions at 8 o'clock in the morning or even earlier. At that hour I am barely aware that I am still alive, so the chances of me swinging a cane around are about nil I should think and I always assumed that this was the way it is for most people.

What is happening is that chaps tell their wives that they have to go into the office an hour early to catch up on work and the wives believe this tale because who in their right mind would want to partake of hanky-panky when the streets have not thoroughly aired? I found this this information interesting and was inspired to dig a little deeper and I discovered that the other big times for session bookings fall between noon and 2 o'clock, and then in the hour of so after 5 o'clock.

Is it just me or is there something very funny indeed about otherwise henpecked husbands creeping out behind the backs of their awfully wedded wives to whack the backsides of pro-subs before crawling off home like good little sheeple? It makes me long for the days of Colonel Sir Buffton Tuffton who would thrash wife, daughter and secretary with equal abandon and didn't give a tinker's cuss who knew about it.

We live in horrible times.

Janus: the end of it all

To everything there is a season, a time to be born and a time to die... As you can see from the photos that illustrate this posting, for Janus it is the time to die.

The outfit had a good run and when the magazine was edited by Alan van Ocker it led the field, partly because there was not much in the way of competition, but also because the owner, having picked the right man for the job, then left him to run the little gold mine as he saw fit. Sadly, the death of van Ocker at the end of the 1970s marked the beginning of the slow decline of the Janus behemoth.

Like many a tired empire before it, Janus carried on losing a bit here and there to competitors, until eventually the internet put the outfit into its death spiral. It managed to keep going because of the shop and the company's willingness to sell pirated copies of everyone else's videos. On my trips back to the UK I would always go into the Janus shop and see which Moonglow videos were being pirated that year - it was truly one of the highlights of my England trips.

I remember in about 2005 asking one of the Chuckle Brothers who worked behind the counter if they ever planned to put their back catalogue on-line? I was amazed to learn that Janus did not keep its catalogue and nobody actually knew what had happened to the old photos, artwork and stories. Probably for this reason the new Janus website is reduced to offering overpriced PDF scans of the magazine in the hope of pulling in some cash from the nostalgia brigade.

Certainly looking at the website with its broken links and content that would have been cutting edge twenty years ago, but now appears sad and lifeless, I think of the final spin of the roulette wheel on a table that nobody is playing on anymore. The words of  Shelley seem appropriate:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Term Ends

I was a handsome devil back in 1995, wasn't I? I doubt if the four girls that I spanked and caned on that far-off day really had the inclination to consider my finer points since they were too busy trying to save their backsides from the blistering that I administered to each and every one of them.You can read the full story behind the shoot at this link, so let me just give you a brief summary now:

First up was Alison who presented her Scouse rump for my tender mercies and admitted ruefully afterwards that whatever doubts she had entertained about my ability as a disciplinarian had been completely satisfied. Then I dealt with Karen, who turned up for the shoot in a red thong under her school uniform. Obviously I could not let that breach of etiquette go unpunished. Then we had Susan who was making her first and last spanking video. I have often wondered why she chose to retire after making her début with me... Finally there was Julie, a mature woman who played the school secretary who needed to have her buttocks bared for the kiss of the cane.

Over the next four weeks I will present each section as an individual clip, but why waste time when you can download the whole twenty minute epic right now?

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Janus may have problems with its internet address

As we announced recently, the Janus shop in London has closed its doors and the outfit now runs on-line. Alas, someone came up with the idea of registering the internet address as Janusworldwide.com, and Janus Worldwide just happens to be the name of a pretty heavyweight investment bank.

If it comes to a pissing contest between the spankers and the bankers, my guess is that the former will lose out. Better change the address quickly, chaps.

Janus and Gordon Sergeant

The Janus shop in London has sadly closed its doors and the outfit now runs as an on-line enterprise only. Looking at the website there must be some doubt as to how long even that will continue since it looks pretty amateurish, but let's wish them luck.

The site contains a jokey eulogy to Gordon Sergeant, the fictional editor of Janus. The character was dreamed up because the Janus contact magazine needed a name to put on its cover and someone thought of that name.

The Janus magazine was headed by Paul van Ocker until his death in the early 1980s. Shortly before that happened Janus set up a contact magazine called Privilege, which in those days was a duplicated A6 magazine which came out quarterly and was only available on subscription. The half dozen or so pages of each issue were taken up with contact adverts, but the inside front cover always had a message from Gordon Sergeant, as editor. Later when Janus starting running spanking parties this figure was the advertised organiser, and it became a standing joke at every Janus event to see what the latest excuse was to explain his non-attendance.

We can understand why Janus decided to announce his death because it allows them to look forward to their on-line future under his equally mythical nephew, Tarquin. (God know why porn merchants want to pretend that they are all to the the manor born. The only manor this lot ever knew were the dreary suburbs of outer London.) The problem is that the Janus site would have been fine a decade ago, but today it is so far behind the times as to be laughable. To make matters worse the site is still unfinished, with links going nowhere and text that is badly in need of an editor who has English as a first language. An online shop for (sic) purveyors of erotica to consenting adults -  Alan van Ockers would never have allowed such a mangled bastardisation of the tongue.

Still and for all that this is still Janus and we wish them well. It is just that on the basis of when we have seen so far the site will shortly follow Gordon Sergeant into oblivion.

The Story Behind Double Punishment, Part Two

Following the video shoot I grabbed a couple of dozen stills on the set - OK, in the hotel room where we videoed the action - and you can see them by clicking this link.

When it was all over Victoria and I went her to bed as we had the time before before, but this time she was quite happy to spend a lazy afternoon with me after the horizontal jog was over. I remember that I ordered food sent to the room and we sat on the bed, Victoria wrapped in a sheet, and munched tacos. All in all rather a nice way to spend and afternoon, with the video having been shot, my balls having been emptied, lounging around chatting to the model.

It gave me a chance to ask the girl about her views on discipline. Normally I don't bother as I just assume that they are in it for the money, as indeed am I, but as part of that lazy Mexican afternoon I got Victoria to chat about her previous punishments.

As I had already guessed basically what had happened in her family was that father had come home three sheets to the wind after having spent his wages in the cantina and then kicked the living daylights out of the mother if she had asked such obvious questions as what were the tribe going to eat that coming week? Victoria told me rather proudly I thought that her mother had got in the habit of waiting outside the father's workplace until he emerged and then grabbing as much cash of him as she could. A fairly typical tale of life in those United Mexican States in other words. Victoria had married and the saga had continued until her old man took his hook one day and had never returned. She went off to work in a bar to feed herself and her children.

This is why she was so amazed at my offer to her. Not just the large amount of money that I paid her, but the fact that she would emerge from it with a bottom only slightly redder than usual, she was Mexican after all and red is the natural skin colour.

I suppose you are wondering why I didn't shoot any more videos in Mexico, aren't you? The answer is simple - I did other things that were more lucrative and I put off making more videos for so long that eventually the idea was dropped. That said, I am rather pleased with the three videos that I did shoot, and having just reposted them here along with the stories of how they came to be made I hope that you are as well.

The Story Behind Double Punishment, Part One

As Victoria and I were leaving the hotel following the making of Victoria's Spanking I mentioned casually that I planned to shoot another video clip that month and did she know of anyone who might be interested in starring in it? Quick as a flash and in spite of her sorely tried bottom, the good lady announced that actually she quite fancied making another video and when were we going to do it? I gave her my business mobile number and told her to keep in touch, little realising that she would call me every day until I finally agreed to do this second shoot with her.

As we drove to the hotel where the video was to be made I asked the girl if she had enjoyed the previous shoot and she said that she had. Digging a little deeper it emerged that what she really enjoyed was getting the easy money. She had been with me on the previous shoot for a little over two hours and had walked away with fifty quid and a decent lunch. The fact that she also had a sore backside and a well stretched pussy was neither here nor there: Victoria had calculated that the amount of time and effort she had expended was more than compensated for by the money that she had earned. As she proudly told me, she earned more for her time with me than she would expect to make in a week hustling in the bar.

I have to be honest and say that I really felt that I was doing my bit for Anglo-Mexican relations that day! Not that my warm feeling stopped me from leathering her backside to a fiery shade of red as you can see if you watch the video, but I approached my labours that day with a feeling of intense satisfaction as I laid the leather across Victoria's bare bottom.

Continued here.

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.

Keeping it in the spanking family!

The trade for some reason has often attracted family units. I can think of a mother and daughter combination who still operate out of Liverpool and a father and daughter team who were around a few years ago.

That said, I can think of only one husband, wife and daughter outfit and they operated during the golden age of British CP video making. The husband and wife appeared together in such videos as College Classics 5, and the husband then appeared alone in the likes of Conduct Unbecoming.

To the best of my knowledge the daughter never made any videos, but she did work in Janus and other magazines under the name Pippa.

If anybody has any more information about this curious threesome, please leave a comment in the box. In the meantime both College Classics 5 and Conduct Unbecoming are available for immediate download right now.

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The Story Behind Victoria's Spanking, Part Two

Continuing on from part one of this tale, I obviously did not wish to be defeated  in my hunt for Mexican spanking actresses, so I then hit the seedy bars where the ficheras are to be found. Most Mexican cantinas have these girls and their job is to get the men to buy drinks. Every time someone buys the girl a glass she gets a token, a ficha, which she exchanges for cash at the end of the night. These ficheras will hold your hand, and if you pay them extra they will hold any other part of your anatomy that you fancy, and it really was just a matter of finding one who would agree to go across my knee, I figured.

To be honest it was as easy as falling off a log, and I kicked myself for not thinking of that earlier. The first bar I went into I met Victoria and when I explained the deal to her she agreed with alacrity. I think that I paid her $50 for the shoot and I agreed that she would get lunch afterwards at my expense. At first she was dubious because she thought that I planned to give her a kicking or punch her face, but when I explained the deal totally to her she burst into a big grin.

"So, you'll just hit my bottom with your hand?"

"Yes, that's all there is too it. I'll meet you and we'll drive to a hotel. The shoot will take an hour and then we can have lunch. From leaving here to getting back, allow three hours all told," I explained.

Victoria was seriously impressed with this and wanted to do the shoot that day, but I told her that her ropa de puta was not acceptable, so tomorrow could she please wear something that a secretary might use to go to work in?

As you can see in the video she did me proud. I used a tripod and shot the whole spanking from one angle. Then I let Victoria up and changed the camera angle so that the lens was pointing at her face. Back across my knee she went and the facial expressions were then grabbed as my hand cracked across her bottom. The only problem was that there was no air-conditioning in the hotel that I used and it became damned hot under the video lights and I began to wilt as you can tell if you watch the video closely.

Once the video had been shot I took some stills, and the full set of those you can see at this link. I must say I do find the one on the left very agreeable indeed. It's the combination of my handiwork with a glimpse of Victoria's pussy lips that I find so very appealing.

On the subject of pussy, after taking the still I started to pack all my gear away when I turned around I found that Victoria had stripped herself naked and climbed into bed. What can I say? She just automatically expected that for that kind of money I would expect to fuck her as well. I was tempted to tell her to forget it, but I am an Englishman after all and one doesn't want the natives thinking that we are unable to rise to the occasion, so I scrambled into bed with her and slipped her a length.

Rather a good day's work when you come to think about it and all for less than fifty quid all told!

The story behind Victoria's Spanking, Part One

I posted this video in June of last year, but you can never have too much of a good thing, can you? Besides it gives me a chance to tell you the story of how it came to be made in 2003.

There was no market for clips in those days to speak of as everybody bought full length videos. For technical reasons I could not shoot a 50 minute epic,  I just could not find the technicians, the cameraman, lighting and sound fellows, who would be needed for such a shoot. Needless to say I did not have the equipment so that would have to have been hired, all that cost then being lost if the Mexican girls that had been hired decided to stay at home that day. A scenario not unheard of in England and one very common in Mexico.

I thought that maybe a one hour disk would sell so I set out to find the two or three girls who would be needed to make it. The plan was to shoot clips in Spanish and then put them all together into one compilation disk. Since I would just be working with one girl at a time the technical problems would be less as I could operate the camera myself for a short clip. Anyway, full of enthusiasm for the new project I set out to get the ball rolling and that was when the dead hand of Mexican inertia kicked in and  nothing got started.

The main problem that I had was with the putative actresses. I first got in touch with girls in the Mexican scene and quickly realised that the reason why they are in the scene, as opposed to bringing up a platoon of children like 99 percent of Mexican women do, is that they were wealthy. The internet is a wealthy person's toy in Mexico and a few dollars here and there was no big deal to the type of girl who went to Paris to buy her handbags, for instance.

So I hit the agencies where the American porn companies find their models, the girls you see in the  anonymous stock footage. A lot of that is shot in Mexico because the girls are cheaper to hire than they are in the USA, so I figured that if they will spend a day getting fucked for around fifty quid then they would jump at the chance of a spanking for a ton, right? 

Wrong! Every girl I spoke to explained that it was one thing getting her pussy stretched or her bum hole widened for $100 or so a day, but a spanking sounded like hard work to them, and the fee that they angled for was ludicrously high. Besides, as one girl pointed out, she could always hit the bars after work and pick up a tourist if she was short of cash that week, so why bust a gut with me?

It was looking as if my career as a Mexican pornographer was going to end before it had begun.

To be continued.

Marina's Video Spanking

How this spanking video came to be made in late 1997 is a tale worth telling. It wasn't my first ever spanking epic, since I had been involved in video production in the UK, but it was my first Mexican effort and it wasn't even made to sell originally - the videoing was part of a punishment.

As you may have gathered if you have read my previous posts about this girl, Marina is not the easiest of females to keep in line. It is not that she is stupid, because she isn't. There cannot be many English girls who use words like "eclectic" in their everyday speech and when the Moose does it she is speaking her second language.

The problem is that she does things on a whim, without thinking through the consequences of her actions. Thus it came to pass that one fine day the good Moose decided to polish the knob of an American named Mike. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have worried - good libertine that I am I think that a woman should be encouraged to spread herself like margarine, not least because that way she can hardly complain when I stretch out an extra-curricular pussy or two. However on this occasion her antics interfered with our previously arranged plans for the day and up with that I would not put. I mean I didn't mind friend Mike waiting patiently until I had finished but I was damned if I was going to wait for him to shoot his wad, wipe his cock on the curtain and then leave. Anyway there was a blazing row between myself and a certain moose and I decided that the punishment was going to be rather special.

Making a video just struck me as an obvious way to make a punishment that much more special. Marina knew that she was going to pay a trip across my knee, but she had no idea that she would end up as an internet starlet. Neither did I come to that, but more about that later. For the moment I met her on the day of judgement and took her to a hotel. As we walked to the room she looked quizzically at my bag which she had never seen before.

"What are you carrying in there?"

"A video camera."

"Oh - that's nice. Are you going to make a video" She can say the daftest things at times, can this  Moose.

"Yes, I am going to video you having your bare bottom smacked."

"Nooooo!"

"Yes!" I did too, as you can see.

How did the clip end up all over the web? It didn't for a while because back in those dim and distant days there was no market for clips. A punter would buy a VHS tape that ran for about 50 minutes, the bulk of which was padding, and nobody had even thought of selling clips. It's obvious when you think about it because back in those days we were all using dial-up connections and downloading a 50 meg clip would have taken forever. So Marina's Spanking only circulated as a very small file amongst the members of my Yahoo spanking group in Mexico.

With the advent of broadband a better quality version could be finally offered for sale, but I have to admit it is not up to today's standards. Still, it's not a bad little clip and Marina looked very sweet across my knee with her bottom on display. Being a Mexican her bottom is naturally as red as the rest of her, but I am pleased to say that I reddened it a bit more that day!

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Meeting Peter Jones, the London Spank Daddy

This is Peter Jones, otherwise known as the London Spank Daddy. We met up for what turned into an alcohol fuelled business meeting last Friday. I was jet-lagged after having only just flown in the day before from Mexico, but after several pints and a reasonable lunch I was in no pain at all.

We discussed an idea of mine that would see Peter making videos under the Moonglow umbrella, and I must say the idea of bringing the London Spank Daddy and the Britain's premier spanking producers together appeals to me enormously.

Watch this space for more details!

The Beating of Rosie Keller

The  original Rosie Keller was a young French prostitute who was given a damned fine birching by the Marquis de Sade in 1768, and the use of her name in this video classic suggests that not all sleaze-bag porn merchants are illiterate pond life.

The story behind this shoot is good fun. The girl playing the teacher had never used a cane before and was put to work practising in one corner of the set on a cushion. The actress playing Rosie saw this and her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. By all accounts the atmosphere was electric with Rosie becoming more and more nervous as the teacher began to develop an affinity for the cane.

By the time the director called action, both girls were completely lost in their roles. Actually there was not all that much difference in their ages, with Rosie being perhaps a little older than her co-star, but watching the video it is obvious that they dropped naturally into their roles and played them to the hilt.

If you have never seen the Beating of Rosie Keller then it is now available, fully remastered and lightly edited, at my clip store.

Introducing Moonglow Magazine

Moonglow is well known for its spanking videos and soon the name will be on every spanking aficionado's lips when the magazine of that name is published. I can tell you now that it is going to be great, and it will take the world of CP by storm. How do I know? I'm the  Moonglow editor, that's how I know.

What type of magazine is it? Well, first of all it will be on disk. Load the disk into your computer and the Moonglow index page will open to give you the main page. Click on a link to go to the section that you want and when you are finished with that click on the sidebar links to continue navigating. Lots of pages will load in PDF format so that you can print them up. Video will be in high quality WMV format.

What can you expect? All the goodies that you remember from the printed magazines plus some extra treats that only modern technology can provide. In issue one we will report on a real-life spanking case. My report will include scans of newspaper reports of the case which you can either read on-line or print up. There will be an interview with a spanking actress and some clips of her work, plus an audio interview with a member of the public who will recount her first ever spanking.

The video is going to be first rate. We have a spanking classics section with a full CP video from the very early 1980s. However, Moonglow will also have an hour of  new spanking video just for your delight. Trust me when I say that this magazine is what the spanking fans have been waiting far too long for.

How much will it cost? Would you believe £10.00 if purchased directly from us? That's right, two hours of spanking video, plus any number of features, and all for a tenner:

You lucky punters!

Tattooed women in the CP industry

The Americans won't buy British spanking videos that have them unless they are very small and very discrete. The British are more tolerant, but there is a basic dislike of the damned things. In case you are wondering I am talking about tattoos, the skin designs that today's models seem to love, but which everyone else hates.

Quite why they have become so fashionable over the past few years is anyone's guess, but finding a model who doesn't have at least one is next to impossible. So we have to hire them along with their tattoos or not make videos at all.

Is there a solution to this problem? If there is then I can't think of it. Can you?

The end of Janus magazine?

Janus has suspended publication and is unlikely to ever publish a print edition again. The last copy which came out earlier this year lost money and that was the end as far as the publisher was concerned. The outfit may turn out the odd special edition from time to time, but to all intents and purposes, Janus is dead.

This is all a far cry from the 1970s when Janus rode supreme with a monthly print run of at least 10,000 copies. Today the magazine prints about 1,000 and cannot make money on even that small amount. What killed the brand was an inability to move with the times. Photo-stories that seemed so cutting edge thirty years ago now seem staged and artificial. People buy a DVD and watch genuine CP action from any number of producers who are located all over the world. If Janus had moved on-line a decade ago, perhaps by creating a members' site, then today the brand might still reign supreme.

As it is Janus is now merely a memory of what once was and which can never come again.

The Caning Machine Story

Hands up anyone who can remember the Caning Machine. Very good - now do you know the story behind it? Thought not, so sit back while I tell it to you.

The guy in the video created this weird and wonderful contraption which had its first and only outing in the video. The girl on the receiving end was actually an Alitalia air-hostess a who doubled up in CP videos in her spare time.

The machine unleashed its cane across her buttocks causing her to leap around and scream blue murder. She grabbed her clothes and fled the set in a high temper, but was persuaded to return to complete the final scene. If you watch the above clip closely you will see the jump cut at the 45 second mark as that was the point where she did her runner.

Anyway, having calmed her down the girl then left and for reasons that are still unclear decided to go to the police who promptly raided the set where another video was being shot. Everyone was taken off to the nick and as soon as it became totally clear that nothing untoward had actually happened to the Italian girl, every copper in London insisted on seeing her bottom for himself, just to ensure that the evidence was fully documented. Then coppers and crew went off together and had a drink...

Could anyone make shit like this up?