Spanking Review

English Spankers has for many years been a leader in British Spanking web sites. They were the first to start shooting and editing their material in High Definition video and, because of the long association with Remington Steel, a renowned producer and film maker, their production methods and quality were guaranteed to lead the site where others just could not go. That there have been a number of changes of direction within the site will not please everyone but I look at it from the viewpoint that change, movement and diversity are important factors in keeping a website live and pertinent to today.

What did I not like? Well I have noticed that some of the films I liked to go back to from time to time to watch and re-watch seem to have disappeared, that photo sets are not always relevant to the film, that the content varied between school type scenarios with lovely young girls being well spanked and the more ‘domestic’ or office, home based scenes with more mature but, it must be said, still very attractive ladies. I suppose here I am showing a bias towards my own likes and dislikes.
The webmaster at ES told me that films that do from time to time disappear will come back only re-edited and at a much higher quality. I had forgotten that this site has been running for many years now and the earlier films will have been encoded at lesser codec’s than we find acceptable at the top end today.

One thing you will notice since our mini-review is that the Sound Punishment site has undergone a complete visual makeover. The site now has a clean front page listing the last six updates with the images linking to a film preview page.

The navigation is easy and the number of ‘tour’ pages has been reduced. This, I am told by their web designer, is because extensive monitoring of teh traffic through the site revealed that having a lot of preview pages was unnecessary as the vast majority of visitors never completed the tour.

The video preview page has, at the time of this review, over 30 free clips for the latest films, out of a current total of 91 films in the members-area of the site.

The clips are all high-quality 720×576 resolution and last 30 seconds each. They give a good flavour of the spanking content available to members.

Inside the members area the navigation is simple and effective with a page of thumbnails for navigating the 147 high-quality photo-stories and links to two pages containing the schoolgirl and domestic films.

The image galleries contain images which are all 1000 pixels on the longest side and each gallery has its own extensive thumbnail page. All of the full-size images open in anew window when the thumbnail is clicked so that you do not have to be constantly backpaging to get back to the thumbnails.

A sample of the images are displayed at the end of this post.

The films inside the members area are in two forms. Early content uses RealMedia as the encoding codec whilst the majority of the films, each of about 10-15 minutes in duration, are in Windows media 9 format.

All the films are in 720×576 pixel format consistent with being filmed on a DV format camera rather than an HD camera, but they are none the less in quality for that. The lighting is good and the sound recording quality is above average for this kind of movie. It is just a guess but I think this points to off-camera quality microphones being used as there is no evidence of lens motor or camera handling noise – something that is unavoidable when on-camera mics are used.

The films are somewhat formulaic in format

• Girl/lady does or is accused of doing something wrong
• They are told off for it
• They are punished

This is not a criticism though as all spanking films fit the same format, it just depends on the proportion of each segment that makes up the film. Fortunately Sound Punishment have decided that the first two segments should be minimised and the last, and for us the most important, the punishment maximised. Therefore on average over two thirds of each film is devoted to the placing of hands, paddles, rulers, tawses, plimsolls (gym shoes for our US cousins) straps and canes in close and rapid proximity to a varied selection of bare bottoms. This for our reviewers was a big plus because we see too many films from other sites of 30 minutes duration with only 5 minutes of spanking.

The ladies range from early 20s to mid 50’s and the scenarios include

• Schoolgirl
• Adult schoolgirl roleplay
• Wives
• Secretaries
• Lovers
• Models

and many more.

The acting of the ladies when punished varies from the stoic to almost hysterical weeping and the display of the ladies’ “naughty bits” from full covering to “nurse please pass me the gynoscope” ….

There is something for everyone.

The male leads are good, either a well-known headmaster figure (who owns this site) seen on several other sites to occasional guest spankers which include Mr Stern from English-Spankers. They contribute a good dialogue to the films and the action is filmed to concentrate on the girl and not the spanker.

The cost of membership to this site is $34.95 for 30 days (recurring billing) and $89.95 for 90 days (choosing either recurring or non-recurring billing when you join). At under 40 cents per film this is excellent value for money.

All in all we were very pleased with this site and don’t think you will be disappointed.

Adele Haze is a young woman who is starting to make a great impression on the UK spanking modelling scene for the level of chatisement she can take and for her professionalism.
Adele’s blog states

“I’m Adele Haze. I live in England, but come from Eastern Europe. I’m into CP/spanking, with a heavy preference for role-play and age-play. A while ago I decided that it would be hot to be spanked on camera. So I went out and became a spanking model; it’s been fun so far. I don’t like sex very much – and don’t mix it with spanking, in any case – but I suspect I’d have a hard time convincing folks that a girl who gets her bare bottom smacked on film isn’t a sex worker, so I might as well embrace the label.

I spend more time ploughing away at my degree than perving myself out, so I haven’t yet had a chance to do a lot of shooting, but I’ve done some.”

Rather an understatement we feel.

Her blog has been running since February 2006 and she combines articles on her blossoming spanking career with her insights into the UK spanking scen and events she has attended as well as other spanking related material. The article are illustrated with stills from her movie and website appearances.

Adele has also recently started to review some spanking sites, the latest being SoundPunishment.com, and she shows a keen and knowledgable eye about the material and production values on that site.

Her style is light, insightful and entertaining and well work reading with updates done on almost a daily basis.

We give this blog 90/100

http://www.adelehaze.com/

Bars & Stripes scored 22/50 on our mini-review of the free-site content and design. Fortunately this low initial score does not reflect on the quality of content in the members area.

Entering the members-area you find a clean menu and greetings area with dark-green background and red control buttons. A little too ‘Eddie Stobart’ for me, but effective as a branding exercise nonetheless. You are welcomed as a visiting prison Governor
The menu on the left hand side of the page divides the site into the following areas:

• Navigation
• Home
• Latest News
• Inmates
• Matron
• Updates
• Prison Diaries
• Suggestion Box
• Contact Us
• Prison Area
• Governor’s Office
• Cell Block
• Intake Office
• Solitary
• Sick Bay
• Interview/Visiting
• Prison Grounds
• PT room
• On the Outside
• Governor’s House
• At Large

The first thing that ‘hits’ you at Sound Punishment is the bright red background to the page. Now I know this is popular with lots of spanking sites but I just feel that someone who has put together such a top class site could have done something a little different.

At the top of the page we have a clear menu which allows easy navigation around the site, including access to a spanking personal ads area and a professional-looking helpdesk system. As this page indicates that the site is updated weekly, it may have been better if this were reinforced on the scrolling list of updates which tops the first page of the tour.
Hitting on any of the top three images on the index page will take you to the first tour page, I would maybe have liked something more here, perhaps a video or a larger picture. There is a free video however on the site’s index page and I have to say I was very surprised by the quality. With so many web sites still insisting on giving poor quality video clips in the free area and then trying to tell us that the quality in the members area will be better, I am delighted when someone says, ‘look at this. Its free and its top quality and that’s what you get’.

I had just read the text telling us about the site and learnt that it is run by a husband and wife team and, maybe unfairly, I was expecting to see something a little more, well not quite up to the mark but as I say, a top quality video sample, right on the front page, that gets me interested.

Passing quickly over the rest of the first tour page text, it does go on a bit, we have the scroll down list of past updates, as I said I would have liked to have seen them dated but that is just a small niggle. There are a couple of places to click through to the join page from here so no complaints there, clear and to the point. This page seems to be all about updates so we skip quickly onto the next section of the tour and find six high resolution video clips. These are all around 4meg each so the site is obviously aimed at broadband users and why not I say.