Yet she could not help but cry out, sotte voce as far as she could control herself, at each burning blow. Heroines of genuine Victoriana did not wear singlets and tight denim trousers or schoolgirls short skirts and white cotton knickers.

The magazine was named after the Roman god Janus who has two faces, one looking to the future, and the other to the past. In 1968 Odyssey Press published Summer in the Country his translation of a 19 th century French epistolary novel between two lesbian lovers. Consensual sexual activity happens in Manton’s work but it is secondary to the chastising and assault on the usually unwilling victims. A perceptive member of staff hit on the title ‘Janus’ to signify the Roman god of the hearth and the doorway who looked inwards and outwards. Janus ceased to produce videos as a result of the Video Recordings Act 1984, which required that all videos offered for sale in Britain carry a classification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).This same story frequently appears again in Manton’s work, in Captain de Vane, School for Scandal, Aphrodizzia and is the central theme of Tomboy. They worked in silence: disturbing Sir Charles was inadvisable, on this morning more than on any other. It was the one set in a stable, a schoolgirl is having her breasts kissed by a girl in a riding kit. Set in New Orleans and the American South on the cusp of the Civil War, this is a tale of slavery, and in particular the acquisition of harems of young woman by southern patriarchs. Although I’ve heard of Janus, perhaps the best-known of all spanking magazines I was curious to find out more about that world of spanking magazines.

Working as the magazine’s photographer from 1982 until 2000, Vic Barnes played a major role in turning spanking photography into a creative specialisation. G. Van Okker, about an idea to set a tale about a modern girl of the contemporary era, Elaine Cox, in a Victorian reformatory setting with modern clothing and manners (or lack of them). Examination of the Mantonian extracts quickly give the game away, even if the reader is unfamiliar with Manton’s standard cast of characters. This effectively banned spanking videos, though the magazine continued to advertise them until 1986. It would not have been difficult to have them arrayed in stays and drawers and crinolines and to sprinkle the texts with Victorian language and sexual argot.Our digital videosection includes a wide range of early spanking and caning films for you to savour. Manton takes this historical incident and builds a fantasy around a detailed description of the caning of Elaine Cox in the workhouse. To whip Karen Dearlove’s bottom again in its present state is true severity–but offers you dark excitements. This story is a sequel to Days at Florville and tells the continuing story of Lesley this time as the slave of Anton and Mano.

Manton’s introduction includes a short, and mostly accurate, history of Carrington’s work as a publisher of Victorian and Edwardian pornography. It was a long drawn-out process, writing letters, not like now, where, the Internet makes contact for M/M spanking very easy, check out spankthishookups.

Other than some light creases and fraying on the front and back cover, the binding, photos and all pages are in very good condition. The untidiness of Elizabeth ( Evelyn Simmonds) provokes her aunt (Jane Griffiths) to use hand, belt, and cane on her bottom. Some of works issued had been previously printed by Grove Press, such as The New Ladies Tickler and Altar of Venus, while other issues were new to Grove. The magazine was launched in a 76-page pocket-sized format in 1971 under the title Mentor by Janus Publications of 164 North Gower Street, London.