Spanking Review

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.

I must say this reviewer was a little disappointed when going onto Shanelle’s spanking site to see that the lady with one of the most spankable bottoms in the UK has now started to assert her more dominant self, there are however plenty of images and video clips in the free area of the site to wet the appetite and go part of the way towards appeasing my desire to see her spanked one final time for daring to deprive the rest of us of this most spankable of derrières. But. onto the site itself.

First impressions are of a site put together by amateur enthusiasts trying to get a message across and maybe doing too much of everything in the process. The background to the pages is messy, like a bad wallpaper job in your sitting room, this tends to detract from the text and pictures. The menu buttons are again a little obtrusive and just ad to the impression of untidiness, too many ideas not executed as well as they could be.

There is a fast changing animated gif on the first page, I always find these things distracting and in this case doubly so as it leads to a chat, message system heavily populated by adverts for insurance and other money making sites. Yes I know that I should have followed the menu tour button but seeing this flashing picture thing there just distracted me, it may also distract others who are looking to see some great spanking pictures and leave them thinking that it might not be worth the trouble, and that would be a pity.

Going further down the page we find a series of pictures at quite low resolution advertising the latest update, these would have been better placed at the top of the page maybe, as you won’t see them till you have passed below the large menu, extra text and the flashing gif. Going even further down the page we are offered the chance to join a Yahoo group. Now call me old fashioned but I think when someone has taken the trouble to find a particular web site from the thousands on offer, started to explore it and got past the inducements to buy a new ipod or whatever banner is showing in the chat area the last thing you want to do is to send them away from the site to the sad morass that is the motley collection of spanking sites that have not yet been culled by the Yahoo thought police.

Disciplinarian is a site dedicated to schoolgirls in school uniform and the punishments they receive. The site claims to update with quality photos three time a week. This site is part of a portfolio of sites which include Regulation Knickers and other sites.

The free Tour links takes you via 5 pages of on-page images (none of them expandable – only using ‘right-click and save’ can store them on your computer). All the images link directly to the Join Now page. The image quality appears to be good and studio lighting appears to have been used.The movie downloads pages show 24 thumbnails which link to individual sales pages, each with three small images (framegrabs?) and an embedded WMV view of rather small size. You are then invited to buy the film in approximately 10 minute segments at $15 per segment = $45 a film! The film viewer on the page did not work in FireFox browser but worked correctly in Internet Explorer.

The film samples are of mediocre technical quality, 30 seconds in length and non-downloadable, but the spanking and caning action was real and set in both domestic and a realistic school set. Wihout being able to see the full size films I cannot say what the product sold to members would be like, whether the films are downloadable for later viewing or whether only online streaming viewing is possible. If the latter then it is important to be sure that they will work in your browser and that you have a fast enough broadband link.
From what I have read on the site, the Members Area comprises only 100 galleries of schoolgirls in uniform being punished. There is no mention of any videos in the members area. With membership at $29.95 per month and $60.00 for 3 months (with no information as to whether these are recurring or non-recurring billing) this site appears very expensive when compared to others on the market which have extensive video as well as photo libraries for their members.

Planet Bitch is another femdom site from the same production company as Cassie Canes.

Like that site, the non-members area of this site is attractive and has some downloadable free content. The design is similar with good quality graphics but it only has a few downloadable images in the form of 10 medium size pictures of posing dominatrixes, each of which have a heavy central semi-transparent watermark. There are no free movie clips to download and no indication as to whether the site host movies for download.

The site gives no indication as to when it is updated. A calendar of updates would inspire more confidence I think.I would have liked to have seen more images and movies (if they are in the interior) and I think that the watermarking,of what images there were, was somewhat intrusive.

If you like seeing a statuesque young ladies posing as dominatrixes then I think this site will be for you.

The non-members area of the site is just not acceptable in respect of giving the potential customer a true flavour of the internal content. There was just not enough information regarding number of images, movies, updates etc. in the member’s area to enable us to recommend this site. Which is a shame because I suspect that what is inside may be rather good. Unfortunately, without becoming a member. one will never know and, based on this introduction to Planet Bitch, my money will have to stay in my pocket.

Billing is by Verotel (£12.00 for one month). Unusually for a pay site the site owners do not use automatic rebilling.

Cassie Canes is a femdom male sub site starring Cassie, a beautiful but stern young lady. The non-members area of the site is attractive and has some downloadable free content in the form of 8 medium size pictures of severe caning of males, each of which have a heavy central semi-transparent watermark. There is also a single short WMV format movie sample (22 seconds, 1.8 Mb, 640×480 pixels encoded at 696 kb/sec). The technical quality of the movie clip was acceptable but soft and grainy. This is probably due to either too low a lighting level or it was recorded using a domestic video camera.
This movie is watermarked and contains a scene where you see Cassie deliver two extremely heavy strokes with a heavy cane, possibly a dragon, onto the bared and already heavily marked male buttocks. This scene is not for the faint-hearted and if this is the level of punishment depicted in the members-area it may be too much for some audiences, though I suspect the main potential customers of this site will love it!

Cassie is tall, slim, dark haired and very beautiful with legs up to her armpits … and she wealds a cane viciously and accurately onto her target male’s behind.

It appears she will also undertake 1-1 sessions with selected clients, but that is outside the remit of this site!

The site says that it is updated every 3 days, but it does not give any indication of what with, or when, this was last done. A calendar of updates would inspire more confidence I think.

The non-members area of the site is just about acceptable regarding giving the potential customer flavour of the internal content. I would have liked to have seen a few more images and movies and I think that the watermarking of the images was somewhat intrusive.

If you like seeing a statuesque young lady beating the c**p out a man’s buttocks, then I think this site will be for you.

Billing is by ccBill ($28.00 for 30 days) and Verotel (£15.00 for one month). Unusually for a pay site the site owners do not use automatic rebilling.